Vintage Christmas in July Continues!

So what would Christmas be without Santa?

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And to wrap it up some silver bells, holly and a lovely bow

 

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It's a Vintage Christmas in July! Vintage Christmas Wreaths

I'm seeing Christmas in July everywhere these days so why not here on the blog?  This will be Christmas in July weekend.  So hope you are all ready for Christmas this weekend!

Our first image is a holly wreath.

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And here's a lovely apple, pear, grape and holly wreath with a festive bow!

 

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Vintage Christmas Card

A vintage Christmas greeting for you

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Vintage Christmas Music Song Sheets

For everyone scurrying around making fun and beautiful Christmas decorations today I have three vintage Christmas sheet music pages.  Torn and aged around the edges I am sure you will find some wonderful crafty uses for them.

Send me photos of what you create, I would love to see and share them!

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Vintage French Christmas Chocolate Label

 I have a lovely vintage Christmas chocolate label for you today

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Vintage Holly Wreath

The holly plant contains very high levels of caffeine.  Who knew?  Several species of holly are used to make caffeine rich herbal teas.

Here is a lovely holly wreath

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Not all varieties of holly have the toothed leaves

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Christmas Tree Ornaments

Originally, natural items were used to adorn Christmas trees, i.e., fruit, popcorn and candies in different shapes.  In the early 1800's a German glass blower created some glass garlands for his tree that resembled the strings of popcorn that usually decorated his tree.  His idea quickly caught on with other German glass blowers and Christmas tree ornaments began to be mass produced.

Christmas in the year 1832 young Queen Victoria wrote about her beautiful Christmas tree decorated with lighted ornaments, glass figurines and the presents sitting under it.  Then in 1840 a local British newspaper published a photograph of Queen Victoria's Christmas tree with the glass ornaments from her husband, Prince Albert's, native Germany and Germany began exporting the beautiful glass ornaments throughout Europe.  

It was during a trip to Germany in the 1880's that E.F. Woolworth discovered these glass ornaments and began importing them to the United States and made a fortune doing it.  By 1910 over 1000 Woolworth stores nationwide were selling these imported German glass ornaments.  By 2009 Christmas decorations were second only to gifts in seasonal sales.

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Victorian Santa Claus

December 6th is Saint Nicholas Day.  Saint Nicholas was a Greek and lived in what is now modern day Turkey in the 4th century.  His wealthy parents died when he was a young boy and being devoutly religious since childhood he vowed to do good things with his inheritance and help those in need.  The legend of his secret gift giving grew far and wide and it is believed that the legend of Santa Claus around the globe can be traced back to Saint Nicholas.

Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of Russia and his feast day of December 6th is one of the most important holy days of the year there.

Enjoy these vintage Santa Claus images

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Victorian Christmas Frame

I have a lovely Victorian Christmas frame for you today.  It's full of vintage Santas, messages and florals.

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So many possibilities for this one.  As always, I would love to see what you do with it.

Enjoy!

Free Vintage Clip Art

Merry Christmas Everyone!

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Vintage Christmas Greeting

Merry Christmas Eve!

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So lovely!

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Vintage Christmas Roses Banner

This is such a lovely greeting

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Candy Cane Clip Art

Some great Christmas candy cane clip art

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Cute Doggie Chrsitmas Clip Art

Oh my gosh this is cute!

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This would make a great card or tag for the dog lover on your list.  Let me know what you do with it!

Enjoy!

Free Vintage Clip Art - Christmas Clip Art

Some fun Christmas clip art today

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Snow Globes

Some really cute snow globes today

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Snow globes date back to the early 19th century.  They first appeared at the Paris Universal Expo in 1878 and one year later there were five companies  producing and selling them throughout Europe.  The first snow globe related patent in the US was issued in 1927.

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Free Vintage Clip Art - Beautiful Winter Birds

Beautiful Winter Birds

Here is a lovely cardinal for you.  Isn't he beautiful?

Did you know that the male cardinal often feeds the female during courtship?

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The blue jay is the provincial bird of Prince Edward Island in British Columbia, the mascot of the major league baseball team in Toronto, Canada and is the athletic mascot of Johns Hopkins University.

I love to feed peanuts to the blue jays in my backyard.  They are so much fun to watch.

I hope you enjoy these lovely birds!

Free Vintage Clip Art - Fun Christmas Clip Art

Fun Christmas Clip Art

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Love the fonts used on these!  Have fun with them!

Free Vintage Clip Art - Fun Christmas Clip Art

Some fun Christmas clip art today

I love the font on this one

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I hope you enjoy these!

Free Vintage Clip Art - Lovely Winter Scene and a Fun Puppy

It's not even winter yet on the calendar but some of you have been getting your share of winter weather already.  I hope you are all staying warm and enjoying some indoor time with your family, maybe getting ready for Christmas. 

I fell in love with this image the minute I laid eyes on it.  How beautiful!

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It reminds me of our gorgeous Cascade mountains.  The Cascade Mountain Range begins in British Columbia and goes all the way to northern California.  It is part of the "Ring of Fire" a ring of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean.

Mt. St. Helens is part of the Cascade Mountain range and some of you may remember when it erupted in 1980.  All of the volcanic eruptions in the contiguous United States have been from Cascade volcanoes.   

And now for something completely different!

How about a cute little puppy all ready for Christmas!

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Someone please cut this guy's bangs!

I hope you enjoy these images!