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

 

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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.