Here is the next group of countries requested by readers. Click any image for slideshow.
Children of Other Lands, 1954 – England, Sweden, Hungary, Czechoslovakia & Austria
These are so fun!!! Love this book and congrats to Lynn who won the apron!
Hugs and thanks for sharing,
Mickie
Thank you so much..these are darling and would look perfect on a tea towel…smiles..Renee
Thank you for showing the Hungarian children today. The book you have does have very sweet looking pictures. I am enjoying them. Thank you for sharing.
Thank You, Martha, for sharing this lovely cb of children.
And it is so good to see you back posting!
My ancestors are slovak, which when this book was printed would be czech. Thanks!
This is charming but at the same time it cracks me up! Japan, please:).
Hi Martha, how are you? My name is Michelle, I’m 35 years old frim Rhode Island. I wanted to write you and let you know how much I love this blog & your generous imagery sharing. The only thing I feel bad about is to not have found you sooner. I recently found one of my late grandmother’s vintage hand embroidered & painted kitchen/tea-towel set and ever since i have developed this unexplainable feeling of wanting to embroider vintage motifs. I am absolutely in love with this blog, your shared designs & vintage transfers, coloring books, and vintage anything cute gives me this wonderful feeling of excitement, euphoria, and amazing Nostalgia feeling of belonging, & how much I miss my grandma & wonderful memories of my childhood like; making rag dolls with my grandma in her first model Singer mechanical pedalling sewing machine with only 2 stitches (straight & zigzag), of us having cozy tea parties with our new dolls and daily clothing & accessories sewing (a time I had no worries, no cares, just happiness & simple love) My cousins and I with our handmade dolls & fabric/textile scraps clothings using: found buttons, cutout & appliqued motifs, lace scraps here, a pice of tulle there, pockets from upcycled jeans, lots of trims, embellishments, beads & glitter…. We used to feel like real FASHIONISTAS lol…. Everything looked good to us, the more the better, the better, the merrier! A complete adorable mess! I can tell you and anyone reading this comment that: Honest to God, I used to have more fun, child fantasy pleasures of playing & creating Fairytale stories with our immense & festive colors Pricessess rag dolls & wardrobe with my grandma & my cousins on days off from school, or on sick/rainy days Girls only! Lol
Afternoon tea-parties, or sleepovers. I had more fun & fond memories of that time gone by that I hold near & dear to my heart, than any expensive Barbie doll, or expensive toys…. (I still liked them though…lol) Ahhhh, how I miss those innocent days! (I got a little teared eye). Anyway, I’m glad I found you, I’m sad that a little too late than i wish, and I hope all is well with you and your family, pets, & loved ones, on these crazy pandemic covid days. Well, at least we can embroider and/or patchwork applique amazing & glittery face masks to mix & match right????? Jokes apart, Thank you so much! And,
HAPPY HOLIDAYS, 2021!!!!!!