Victorian Children in their best 

Santa comes down the chimney !

          

  Santa comes down the chimney

As a child, did you really believe that Santa came down the chimney? Most homes had fire or coal furnaces, but not all had a fireplace. So how did Santa get into the house.

Magic !

This is what the story of Santa is all about. Magic, in the mind of a child and some adults, who never quite got their fill of Christmas. 

Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. Hearts are opened to more generous giving and loving. I wish Christmas could last all year. 

Since I feel that I am fully recovered from my lung cancer, I have so many good ideas for you. 

 

  I had a Smokers Cancer.  I never  smoked ! 

 

In High School, I worked in a Bingo Parlor. It was a cloud of smoke inside there.  I worked every Monday for years.Second hand smoke is real. 

Merry Christmas  ! 

Here comes Santa Clause, Here comes Santa Clause.

 

 

I am coming to a town near you.  See you soon !

 Only 129 more days.  

 

 The Legend Of Santa !

This is a nice introduction of Santa.  So Sorry for the advertisement.It's only 30 seconds long.

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                                                      Legend of Santa

I Just Can't Stand it !  
It's only 153 days til Christmas. 

Everyone on Facebook is complaining about all the Halloween and Christmas things in the craft stores and shops.  

I love it all, I can't wait until they start to show their stuff.  It's always fun at my house because, I Have Santa and his friends living here all year round.  It's always a Holiday at my house. 

I just can't wait to post my new Santa postcards that I have found.  Some are so unique.  Just never though Santa could be depicted in so many ways.  
Some may be repeats, because they are always fun to look at. Some are so new to me that I can spend a whole afternoon just looking through them. 

What can I say, " I love Christmas ".  

I love Christmas, all year long. 

Here are a few of the new postcards that I found since last year. 



If you look at them, no, really look at them, you can see so much more. 
 See the animals in Santa's sled. I bet you didn't??   

 
You can pull these off the blog and enlarge them and use for Christmas  crafts. 

 

Ok, this is not a postcard,  but I love it the most. Wait, did I already say that?  Who cares, I love them all. 

This could be pulled off the blog and printed out and put on a cookie.  Trim the cookie to the shape. Glue it on with royal icing and place in cellophane bag with a bow.  What a cute "little" gift for someone.  Show me what you did.  I will be glad to post on the blog. 

 

Happy July 4 th

 

Less then 200 days until Christmas at your house !

It's always Christmas at my house.  Santa lives with us all year long ! 

Just a few past pictures while I am working on my new Santa's and Snowmen.

It is less then 200 days until Christmas is here.  We always say," We will be ready, Next Year".  The only way to do that is to start now.  How?   Easy to start. 

~~ Pull out your cookie recipes. ~~

 Look and see what cookies you will be making.  Buy your sugar, nuts, flour and spices now.  It won't be a  big hit to the budget in the fall or winter.  I buy my raisins when they go on sale and earmark them for Christmas.  I put  all my items on a special shelve, in my pantry. Nuts go in the freezer.  Special nuts don't go on sale very often, so I pick them up when I don't have a big shopping list.  

~~This can be step one on your way to getting done on time. ~~

I have purchased some wonderful Old Molds that I will make Santa's with.  The cutest one is only about 5 inches tall. It shows a Belsnickle running around and grabbing the bad children and putting them into his bag.  This is what Belsnickle did.  Santa was not always, Mr. Nice Guy.  

This is the Santa that was published in Early American Life. Santa had the centerfold.

Happy Summer !  

Cheers

 

Happy Easter

Happy Easter

Where did the Kewpie doll come from?

O’Neill became wealthy and famous through her Kewpies, sentimental little Cupid figures to which the Ladies’ Home Journal, under the editorship of Edward Bok, devoted a full page in December 1909. The Kewpies and their adventures quickly became a national rage, and from drawing them she moved on to marketing a line of Kewpie dolls, patented in 1913. These modernized American Cupids swept the country, and royalties from their sales and from the books Kewpies allowed O’Neill all the leisure she required for painting in her Washington Square studio or in her villa on Capri.

 

I think that the first time I saw the Kewpie was at the Carnival.  Every little girls had them hanging on a cane.  I remember mine being covered in feathers.

 

You can find all kinds of information on the internet about this fascinating women and the life she lived.

 Kewpie dolls

Kewpie or Cupie? No matter how you spell it, they are cute.

Kewpie Dolls

           Kewpie Dolls They sure are cute.

     Such a great American doll.

 

If you want to see more of these cute little elfs, follow my link.  Kewpie Dolls

Baby it's cold outside.