Santa & Baby Jesus on ebay

                                Santa & Baby Jesus on ebay

I am putting a Santa holding Baby Jesus on ebay tonight.  He has a stern look and the baby is a vintage, sleepy eyes , 4 inch, celluloid  doll.  He is wrapped in gauze and then is  wrapped with a piece of  antique quilt.  It has some red in it and it just blends so nice.  

Santa is a sitting Santa that would be 18 inches tall if he were standing.  He has a faded red, flannel coat that is lined with Christmas green. He has a wide strip of rabbit fur down the front of his jacket.  His jacket can be pulled back a little also.  He has a Christmas vest on that was a never used glass wrap.  It had  lacquered holly leaves that I put on his hat. 

Santa will have a basket on his lap with some holly leaves and a white bottle brush tree.  In his right hand he is going to be hold a sprig of pine tree and 2 vintage mercury glass bulbs.   In his left hand, Santa will have Baby Jesus.  Baby Jesus and the basket are able to be moved.  Hanging off the basket is a vintage quilt, Christmas stocking.  It has a flat back doll and 2 candy canes in it.  

Santa has a clay face, boots & gloved hands.  His hood is trimmed in aged chenille.  His boots trimmed in aged cotton batting.  He has a leather belt holding his coat closed.  He has on his coat a magic key to your house,.....or your heart, at Christmas time.  It is pinned to his belt.  Also on the pin in a tiny silver bell.  It is quite dirty though.  

Also in his basket, is a piece of WV coal. This is for the naughty children or to leave for someone who has no fire in their hearth.  There are a few of wrapped gifts in the basket also.  

I will post a picture as soon as I get them done.         Bidding is starting out at 9.99.    WOW !! 

Facebook link below.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/DK-Vintage-Holiday/434496043264022

Merry Christmas!    dk

Sneak Peaks

                                             Sneak Peaks

Just a few pictures to give you a sneak peek of what is going to be on DK Vintage Holiday on facebook and then onto ebay.  

They were so much fun making.  I am working on the Santa.  He may be holding baby Jesus.  I am still thinking.  

There are several candy containers.  The heads of the snowmen are definitely  candy containers.  2

 of the standing snowmen are candy containers also.  

Now remember these are not finished.  Just try to guess what they will be.   

One is a Candy Container and the other reminds me of a laughing baby.  

These are both Candy Containers

The Santa may be holding baby Jesus.  Not a snowball head.  

The snowmen heads are definitely Candy Containers tops. 

 

I will be selling Santa's after Christmas since I got such a late start.  It is always a Holiday at my house.  Santa and his friends live at my house all year long. !!   What a fun place to live and create.   

Check back on DK Vintage Holiday on Facebook...  https://www.facebook.com/pages/DK-Vintage-Holiday/434496043264022

Merry Christmas !!    DK

Home Sweet Home

                                 Home Sweet Home

It is so nice to go away but, it is most wonderful to come back home.   the trip to Dc for Thanksgivings was just super.  We ran into hardly no traffic.  Sooo Lucky !!   The beltway, coming out of DC was a mess, but going in it, was smooth sailing.  Everyone was trying to get out to get home or to go someplace else for Thanksgiving.  I hope everyone made it in time.  

My son made the most wonderful Thanksgivings dinner.  Second year in a row and everything was wonderful.  Of course, everything taste better when you don't have to cook it.  

Grand daughter, Miss Katie and I, did some wonderful glitter crafts.  We both love love glitter.  Can't wait to have time to work on my Putz houses.  I am going to restore the one's I have.  

I am going to work on some Santa candy containers for ebay.  I think I have about 4 heads ready to go.  I know they will come out nice.  I just love making my Santa's.  I could spend 15 hours on my workshop and the time passed so quick.  Sometimes I look down and think, is this all I've done?  Everything takes so long and ebay takes about 15 % off me after the shipping is added.  I know, no fair.  Why not before shipping is added?  

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and has started their Christmas shopping.  Usually by Thanksgiving, my shopping was done and mailed out.  Now for the holidays, I make Santa's.    ♥ 

Check out        http://www.ebay.com/itm/200851209619?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649

for a few nice gifts.  You may get something really nice because the Santa's are on an auction.   My snowmen are very reasonable priced for a handcrafted, One Of A Kind.  Ooak

Well,  have to dash and start making some candy containers.  Seems that a lot of people are interested in those right now.   A got a very late start and then got very sick with strep throat.  This knocked me out of commission for several weeks.  But, Next Year, Look Out.   

Take care,  dk

 

Full of Turkey

                                      So Full of Turkey

Why do I do it?  Why do I always have to stuff myself?   Well, it could be that Thanksgiving is the only time all this good stuff gets cooked together. Stuffing, pie, sweet potatoes, and of course the magnificent turkey.   

So maybe I will do it all over again and serve it for Christmas Day.  Oh !  I did not do it all!!  My son cooked.  That is why it tasted so good.  I did not have to cook it at all.  I did make the pies and cranberry salad, that was my mom's recipe.  Oh so good.  Yum.

I did not like cranberries until I was in high school.  Every year I took my Grandmother to a special dinner to honor St. Anne.  She was the Grandmother of Jesus.  Every year we drove to Steubenville, Ohio, which was only across the bridge, to go to St. John's Catholic Church, where we attended the service.

After the service we then attended a dinner, which was a turkey dinner.  So, that is where Gram insisted I try the the cranberries.  On My !!  I was in Love!!  Now we have cranberries anytime of the year at my house.
so if you encourage your kids to try different things, you should also try.

My son also encourages us to try oysters, clams and mussels. Those are something I will never eat again.  It was not instant love like the cranberries were.

My grand daughter and I are going to make Christmas decorations for her littlest pet shop doll house. She is the most important item  right now.  So, signing off.

 PS  I even named a snow doll after her.  Miss Katie.

dk

   

   

Thanksgiving

                          Happy Thanksgiving 

I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving Day.  I just can't wait to have some pumpkin pie and cranberries & turkey.  Yum !!

Thanksgiving

                             Thanksgiving

I have so many things to be thankful for.   ♥

My husband is number one on the list.  We have been married for 45 years.  Wow !  How could 

he put up with me for that long.   I guess he did because I put up with him that long also.  

 I worked on a few things for ebay today.  I had such a bad sinus headache that I could 

not concentrate on anything.  I even came home from work early because I got so bad.

 So, I set it aside and finished something for my Grand Daughter. 

 Her birthday was on the 18 and I just can't wait to give it to her.  I wish I could show you but, it 

is a secret thing that I will be making for Easter and next Fall & Christmas 2013.   It is really cute.  

I hope each and everyone of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.  

dk

 

Not all things come out great. !!

               Not all things come out great.  

Things did not go so well today.  Yesterday was a great day when all 5 of my Snowmen went.  Today I wanted to make some snowman candy boxes.  After they were about 80 % done, I found out the lids were so tight, that I could hardly get them on.  Sooooooo  I had to tear them apart.  The snowman heads had cotton batting party hats.  They came out so cute.  Good thing they were not attached to the lids.  UGH !  That would have been disastrous.   

      What  did come out great was a Snowgirl, Miss Katie.  

She has on a coat made from an antique wool blanket.  She has on a pair of leather, antique opera gloves.  I cut the little fingers off and they fit her perfect.  She is holding a Frozen Charlotte that is over 150 years old,  Not perfect, but beautiful for something that old.  Katie's dress is made from a vintage piece of ruffled sheer fabric.  

At least I have something to show for the day.  Amen......Thank you God !!