campfire girls...
on a recent trip to one of my favorite haunts, i found this bound book of goodness buried under layers of dust bunnies. the yummy weathered paper was like a tractor beam, sucking me in.
little did i know, that it was going to be a camp fire girls scrapbook. holy awesome deliciousness!
truth be told, i had never even heard of camp fire girls until a few years ago, and i grew up a mediocre girl scout at best.
but flipping through this book conjures up all sorts of wonderful summertime ideas-campfires, bird-watching, story-telling, flower-identification, hiking, handicrafts. you name it.
the symbols and colors are really beautiful too. i could easily design a whole collection of fabric patterns inspired by this book.
health is something not to be taken lightly!
i love the ideals upheld by the camp fire law. words to live by, and certainly lots of areas where i have room to improve. thank goodness the summer is long.
21 comments:
wow. what a great find! I was a camp fire girl for a big chunk of my life (I'm pretty sure I was in it for as long as you can possibly be) so this brings back many memories.
very cool!! what a great thing to find
The things you find! My day "was made pleasanter" by this, it's a treasure! ;)
DREAM FIND.
truly you lead an enchanted life to stubble upon the treasures you do...this is one of my favourite posts to date because it sums up Mrs.Ginny Branch-Stelling so neatly.
A bientot
Wow wow wow. You found something amazing. If only those girls could have imagined what would become of their little book.
The longhand writing on the scrapbook is just so lovely. =)
Your blog is so adorable. So many lovely images. What a great find this is. Thanks for sharing it.
I love those health habits. Those are great. What a find! The handwriting is lovely.
Adorable - I so want a health chart to keep me on track!
DO make a textile pattern of this! I'll save my pennies and buy your biggest bolt.
Just found you through "Apple a Day", and I am in love!
Can't wait to spend the next however many days going back through all of your posts.
How on earth do you make your photos show up that size? Wish I knew how to do it, because it ROCKS.
Stop on by my place if you care to, I'd be happy to see you there!
Cheers,
M
Such a wonderful find, I especially love the little tree people running across the top of the paper. Thanks so much for sharing.
what a crazy find, its weird when you find things so full of interesting stuff, sint it? great post!
Oh, Restore xxx
this is lovely..you found a little treasure
Sorry for the over-exuberance of the double comment, but I spent all day yesterday reading about the last four years of your life, and I'm just now catching my breath.
O most excellent adventure! The collecting - the moving - the friends - more collecting - and the eating of delicious items in fantastic places... and the pictures, which are good enough to eat all by themselves. Well, maybe with a dollop of whipped cream. But still.
And I'm sorry for asking if you were a swinger (although I do hope you got a chuckle out of it at least). After reading a couple of years into it, I finally understood about the Ed/Pete conundrum. You have this funny way of making leading comments and then not explaining them, kind of like giving someone just the punch line of an inside joke... but it all comes out in the wash.
Cheers!
M
P.S. My word verification: "brapsi"
Definition: The next fad illness in the 1800's, just after "dropsy". It was almost the same, but involved gas.
oh the awesome.
what a beautiful set of goals and pursuits. i'm feeling inspired by this genial open-hearted approach to womanly life. what a lovely scrapbook. can we go back in time PLEASE??!
Wow... my heart just skipped a few beats when I saw this. I was a Campfire girl growing up and loved it! Oh how I would love to leaf through that book!
wow, these girls have it right. i love, i miss you.
I also grew up in Camp Fire. Sadly, they seem to by dying out. I can't imagine what it would have been like not to grow up with weekend camping trips and weeks of summer camp.
By my time we didn't get cudos for regular bowels movements, ;-) but I can remember going through archives and laughing the first time i came across that checklist you pictured.
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