Fifty Social Evenings by Annie E. Smiley - First Edition, 1894 Japanese ceramics I pulled this stunning 1940s

I pulled this stunning 1940s Japanese hand painted porcelain vase out of the crumbling barn attic of a man who had served in Japan during WWII—amazingly

but which now I think would make a pretty great vase

I have to stop myself from accumulating too many

This little creation just makes me smile every time I look at it

Fifty Social Evenings by Annie E. Smiley - First Edition, 1894 Japanese ceramics I pulled this stunning 1940sSo much fun! Published by the Central Office of the Epworth League (a Methodist young adult association formed in Cleveland in 1889) Fifty Social Evenings was written to help the league's department of social work in their efforts "to make league socials bright, entertaining and instructive." Happily, the fifty games and themes detailed possess a wonderful weirdness and specificity that makes for great reading and imagining, if not actual execution.