Bringing together various childhood hobbies

Found this Nancy Drew Fabric! via Craft.  Any other Nancy Drew lovers out there? Hardy Boys? Bobbsey Twins? Boxcar Children? Cherry Ames? Anyone?

I should start collecting now for Biscuit. 

Oh, maybe I already did...

And in a related story: when I was in sixth grade or so, me and my friends Katie and Keri started a club called the Just Have Fun Club. We had a theme song. And hats. And nicknames. Sounds fun, huh? Mostly we just played on top of the grape arbor in my backyard where we could look into Keri's backyard. And I guess we just had fun.

But one weekend we had a fundraiser where we sold our old stuff at the local swapmeet. At the time I was just coming off a major Nancy Drew phase and I had a TON of the yellow, hardcover editions.  Probably almost all of the books that were out at the time.  And I took them all to the swapmeet and sold them for a quarter each. 

I realized my mistake pretty quickly when I sold them all at once to the first buyer of the morning.  And later saw them for sale at his booth for fifty cents each. And by the end of the day the whole lot was at booth number three for seventy five cents each.  At the time I was sad about lost profits. Now I'm sort of sad to not have the books (since I had to pay like $3 for this one Nancy Drew).  Oh well, there were plenty of heavy boxes full of books to move when we moved to this house in 2005. And, despite missed profits, we still made enough at the fundraiser to take the Just Have Fun Club membership out to a very fancy lunch at Red Robin complete with Oreo Cookie Mocktails. 

So anyway, I think I may need some of the fabric.

Comments

[Darlene]

I didn't read Nancy Drew, but I have all of the Trixie Belden books. I got them out for my boys to read and they thought they were boring. Of course they brought a book home from the library called "Captain Underpants". I am not really into book banning but they sure are gross. I have gently persuaded them to make different reading choices. They have discover the Magic Treehouse books and get so involved with them. I love walking into my family room and see my boys with their noses buried in books!