i used to collect old girl scout calendars. i have almost all of the calendars from 1952-1968. the pictures in them are just so dang adorable. i just ate a big bowl of samoa cookie ice cream so i thought i’d show you a few of my favorites. it was hard to choose just a few, but of course this one is my #1 favorite…
they’re screen printing their own fabric!
and look how cute it is!
there are alot of pictures of girl scouts with all different kinds of baby animals…
and lots of fun camping pictures, i like this one, singing around the campfire with an accordian and a ukelele.
and all kinds of cooking and crafting and sewing pictures…
what i wouldn’t do to get a piece of this awesome girl scout fabric!
i am speechless! these are so cool.
i earned almost every merit badge possible. i still have my sash! but we never screen printed.
i’m not surprised, i can totally imagine you being a very industrious girl scout! i want to see a picture of you in your uniform!
oh my…that girl scout fabric is amazing!
Samoa cookie ice cream?? I had no idea such happiness existed!
it doesn’t last very long around here! i guess they only sell it around girl scout cookie time. i also saw thin mint ice cream, i haven’t tried that one yet.
That fabric is super hard to find – I’ve been looking for years. We had some curtains with that pattern at the Girl Scout Camp I used to work at and people were always trying to buy them, including me.
I’ve never seen these calendars before and I thought I was a die-hard scout. My friends buy me old G.S. handbooks from thrift stores and some of the descriptions are a hoot!
What a fun post! I love the vintage pictures. And that fabric is great! I love the mom’s old sewing machine.
My aunt was in one of the calendars and on a box of cookies! how funny!
Craaaaaaazy! I blogged a bit about girl scouts today too. I was a girl scout and I knew NOTHING about these calendars! Anywho..I think the calenndars are adorable. But even more important..Samoa ice cream? Death by overeating! Where do I score that?!?! I can’t wait til my cookies get here!
i’m glad you like the pictures! there are so many good ones it was hard to choose.
i got the girl scout cookie ice cream at CVS! i saw it at the supermarket too. it’s made by dreyer’s/edy’s.
brook! which year was your aunt in? i might have it! that’s pretty awesome.
and tamera, i am so jealous that you actually saw that amazing fabric in real life!!
hey hannah! so glad to find you today on etsy. I LOVE your skirts! ah! I’ve always been interested in girlscouts over the years also, and have made many self portraits appropriating generic girl scout images. I always wanted to BE a girl scout as a kid, and I remember pretending I was one in our back yard. I was also fascinated by my mom’s 1950′s gs manual, and well…still am, i guess.
anyway, glad to find you!
I have seen that fabric on ebay! Keep an eye out…
Just spent some fun time perusing your creative blog and became your fan on facebook. I have many fun ric racs and fabrics saved up but don’t follow through any where near as often as you do. You’re a very creative person. I hope you are having as much fun as I think you are. best to you!
FANTASTIC photos! Wow, I love that GS fabric, too. Wonder if there is any around someplace? I was a Brownie and a Girl Scout! And it would have been in the late 60′s early 70′s. I remember those uniforms and how exciting it was to put it on, especially when I started earning badges for the sash! Thanks for the memories!
All you lucky Girl Scouts! I was not allowed. No cookie sale, no sashes or badges. Poor me! It so would have been right up my domestic alley. Glad I could live vicariously through these incredible pics! Glad to find your site, I’ve linked to you!
Ellen
These photos rock and I would do unspeakable acts to get some of that fabric as well for my stash. : ) You are my Friday Featured blogger today. Enjoy your day in the mini- spotlight.
Wow. Took me right back to being a Brownie in the early 60s and learning to embroider. I accidentally sewed my tea towel to my uniform skirt and was so traumatized by having to pick it out that I didn’t embroider anything again for about 20 years.
The ice cream sounds like a good cure for Brownie flashback trauma, though.
Those photos are priceless! I know we think they’re quaint and cute, but I bet lots of girls would love to get together with friends, craft, cuddle fluffy bunnies, and take part in all kinds of innocent activities. Children seem to inhabit such a stressful, noisy world today, we should be providing them with more space to just be kids.
Is that sewing machine a Singer Featherweight? Those are very popular now esp with quilters. Anyone else like to eat the thin mint cookies straight from the freezer?!! Though I was in scouts for several years has anyone ever thought of a scouts program for adults so we can earn (more) badges, eat smores and sell cookies?!!!!!!
Oh these are just too adorable!!! I love that they are making their own curtains!
How adorable. I am still a Guide and I can tell you the kids I take away camping this weekend don’t look anything like that.
I was a die-hard scout. I’m even IN one of those calendars, 1962, I can’t remember the month, (May?) a bunch of us were walking into (or out of?) church in white gloves, I’m the blonde in braids in a Brownie uniform. Highpoint of my young life!! These are great photos, thanks for posting them! (Helplessly addicted to thin mint cookies here!)
I really like girl scouts!
These are so cool. My daughter will love checking this out. She is 6 and is a daisy this year.
Oh my goodness! I was thinking the same thing about this fabric. It is just wonderful!!
I was looking for things to scrapbook my “old” picture in my “old” uniform and stumbled in this wonderful site. Thank you so much! Wish I would have collected and saved more. I am 63. Have most of my badges and pins. I love this. Sherry
I’m actually looking for that fabric right now. My grandparents ran Camp Mintahama in MO for years and they also had curtains like that. My mom made a shirt out of them years ago and I just spotted it in my sister’s colset. hmmm… she is out of town… what does the girl scout law say about taking things from your big sister’s closet?
Thank you for sharing these pictures. They are great!
what amazing photos!!
Oh! These are too fabulous for words! I’m green with envy ….
Thank you for this website. It brings back wonderful memories. My troop loves looking at them too.
the “curtain fabric” is currently on eBay. Someone listed 3 lots (1 yard each) two are still avail. the first one yard of fabric sold for over $60
Great site. Wonderful pictures. Brings back wonderful memories of my scouting days in the south suburbs of chicago. I still have my badges and a few of my uniforms.
Hi! I’m so glad you collect these…I’m actually looking for a girl scout calender picture and it’s black & white and it’s two girls lying in a field looking at some (or maybe just one) mushroom…do you happen to have it?
that mushroom picture sounds cute! all the calendars i have are in color.
Thank you so much for the photos. I found your photos after checking for the current Girl Scout and Boy Scout fabrics. Saw the beautiful Boy Scout fabrics in my quilt shop, and they were stunning. In researching the Girl Scout fabrics, I was extremely disappointed in the wild colored modern flowers, etc. with no sense of tradition as with the Boy Scout fabrics. Would love to have some of the gorgeous fabric shown here.
I sold calendars and cookies through the 60′s. How wonderful that you have old copies. Sure wish I did. Scouting changed a LOT from my scout days to my leader days in the 90′s.
My pins are still in my jewelry box, and my sash (with all my badges) is incorporated into a tee shirt quilt, along with my school “Letter” and the bodice of a prom dress. The blocks are joined with strips from clothing my grandmother made me, including fabric from the dress I wore to my first junior high dance.
Some of you mentioned seeing the fabric being used for curtains at camp. One of my most treasured photos is my best friend and me looking dorky in our camp uniforms at Camp Low Echo in Oregon. Just can’t remember the curtains!!!
Thanks again – did my old scout heart good!!
This is where you can get the fabric
http://www.robertkaufman.com/fabrics/girl_scouts/ags-10618-200/