Vintage Halloween Illustrations

August 15, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

1980’s Halloween Greeting Cards – available in the Etsy shop.

Bartender’s Guide, 1948

July 23, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Vintage Craft Cocktail Guide written by the inventor of the Mai Tai! Perfect gift for the amateur mixologist. This book is available for purchase.

The Birds, 1967

July 17, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Enjoy the vintage illustrations, diagrams and photos of birds in this vintage bird book – published by LIFE in 1967.

Disney Tokyo

July 9, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Photos from a solo trip to Tokyo Disney parks in Chiba Prefecture.

Vintage Cannabis Grow Book

June 28, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Check out this cool vintage find I brought home from a recent visit to Vancouver BC. One of Bill Drake’s seminal works on growing marijuana The Cultivator’s Handbook of Marijuana was self published in paperback / zine format in 1970 (this is a first edition). Definitely has an aura of authenticity and “can do” spirit that marked […]

Mexico City

June 21, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Photos from our most recent visit to Mexico City.

A Piñata for Every Ocassion

May 18, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Vintage Piñata Book illustrations and supplies list. 1966.

Bitterballen

February 26, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Recipes for Bitterballen.

EVERYTHING NOW

February 25, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

How did this happen? It’s already the end of February and I’ve neglected the blog, AGAIN! Once I went ten months without posting, I am embarrassed at the amount of content on here after having the site for over TWO whole years. 2018 I’m going to ramp up my posts with awesome photos and […]

Snout to tail

October 18, 2017.Reading time 1 minute.

We took a butchery class. Recipes for Pork Butt, Belly and tenderloin after a few gruesome photos. Apologies to vegetarian/vegan friends. Portland Culinary workshop in North Portland has hands on culinary classes. Very knowledgeable and qualified teacher/chef instructs on a variety of subjects. Our class size was only three people. I felt really comfortable with […]