A Clipboard of Delicious Retro Gelatin

 

clipixBlogging about history and retro ads has made me realize how much I have always loved and been inspired by images. If I don’t have a strong, amazing, funny or weird image to write about, I just don’t feel inspired. I tend to bookmark images I see and want to write about in the future - but as you know, bookmarks tend to show up as a line of text. And even though I’ll read the title and think: oh yeah, Chocolate Mint Gelatin from 1939, I don’t connect with it that well.

 

But now! Oh my goodness, there is Clipix to the rescue - for me and anyone else who loves, needs, collects and gets totally excited by images. I can’t even tell you how much fun I have been having setting up Clipboards on Clipix. Let’s walk through the process - it is super easy, so you can be clipping away in no time. I also want to show you one of my growing collection of Clipboards. The Retro Gelatin board, of course!

 

Just go to the Clipix site and sign up for an account (through FB, Twitter, or your email). Then drag the Clipix icon to your toolbar. Every time you see an image you want to keep, just hit the icon and you can save the image onto the Clipboard of your choice. You can switch images around from clipboard to clipboard too. Multiboards allow you to group clipboards together (I plan to have a retro group and a history group, to start with). You can create new clipboards easily, so if you see something that inspires you to think of a new category, no problem (I have done this about 5 times today already).

Share the images and clipboards 

or not, as you like. You can use Syncboards with friends and family so that you can all 

share an image on your boards. You can post any of the images on Facebook or 

Twitter - I really appreciate this, because I want to update my Facebook page more often. Incidentally, not only have I found tons of new images, I am also discovering lots of 

wonderful sites and blogs. Which is an added benefit I hadn’t even thought of.

You can use Clipix for tons of things besides blogging, of course - you can make vivid shopping lists, for example. How about a clipboard of new restaurants you want to check out, or one of ideas for your next vacation (this would be perfect for comparing, say, a bunch of cabin sites or hotels in a certain area) - or of articles and posts you want to read later. Oh, and recipes. And books you want to read. And of videos. You can even take Clipix along with you as an iPhone App, too - and take photos of stuff you see in the store and add that to your clipboard.

As for me, I am going to be using Clipix for all my vintage ads, other retro images, and New York and Brooklyn history images for my history blog, The Virtual Dime Museum. This is going to make thinking of new posts SO much easier. Because so often I’ve seen an image and wanted to keep track of it but was too lazy to make a link that would just disappear into my bookmarks. No more of that! If you love images and are a visual person like me, you will love Clipix. It is as delicious as a Chocolate 'n' Mint gelatin mold.

 

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A Bright and Airy Home In Melbourne

In 1891 a Mrs. H. P. Wicken wrote the charming guide The Australian Home: A Handbook of Domestic Economy, which is full of recipes and housekeeping tips. The advertisement for Waugh's Baking Powder on your left is from this book, by the way. Among her areas of advice is that of how to look for a home in Australia, and this is what she has to say:

Melbourne, Australia in 1840 [Wikipedia]

There are many things to be considered in choosing a house. We must get one that is convenient to the daily business, large enough for our wants, and, above all, one the rent of which we can afford...[and]  in this hot country we are very glad to have cool and shady rooms, but at the same time rooms into which fresh air and sunshine are not freely admitted soon become unwholesome. The sun is good medicine.


Mrs. Wixken is quite right, of course. When you look for an ideal home, you want the surrounding area to be just right too, and have a nice balance to it. At Manor Lakes estates in Melbourne, you'll find estates on land for sale that will give you both cool shade and a healthy dose of sunshine, too. You can choose among land for sale werribee, land for sale melbourne or even land for sale melbourne west depending on where you want to live. They are all beautifully planned out with schools, shopping, walking and bicycle trails and all kinds of amenities including a future train station to link you to downtown Melbourne. I am sure that Mrs. Wicken would heartily approve.