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Sunday, July 15, 2012

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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Saturday, July 14, 2012

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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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Vintage Bunnies with Eggs Line Drawings

I love these simple little bunny rabbit images! So sweet and so cute.

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Sweet Vintage Greetings and a Blog Button

Such lovely images today!

This image would make a great addition to a Valentine's Day page or make a card for your Valentine!

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And here I have made it into a blog button for you

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Adding an email button to your blog is easy, here's how:

Go to the Blogger Layout and click on Add a Gadget and click on add HTML. Once the box opens copy and paste the code into the box. You can find the code here.

Add your email address where it says: Put your email here (Don't forget to remove the above words from the code.)

Put the link to your image and then take out the words PUT THE DIRECT LINK TO BUTTON IMAGE HERE. You will need to upload your image button to a site like Photobucket and then copy the link location into the above code.

And here is the image without the wording so you can insert your own.

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Let me know how you decide to use these lovely images.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Vintage Valentine

In 1797 a book was published in England titled The Young Man's Valentine Writer which contained romantic and sentimental verses for those who were unable to come up with their own. With the recent reduction in the postal rates publishers began mass producing little cards with verses like those in The Young Man's Valentine Writer and these first Valentines began flying through the mail.

Paper Valentines became so popular by the early 19th century that they started to be assembled in factories. Valentines were often embellished with real lace and ribbon. Paper lace replaced real lace by the mid 19th century.

The US Greeting Card Association estimates that 190 million Valentines are mailed in the United States every year!

This is the cutest vintage Valentine

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Vintage Ellen Clapsaddle Valentine Postcard

How sweet is this vintage Valentine?

Ellen Clapsaddle was the most prolific American commercial artist of postcards and greeting cards of her time.

Born in 1865 in New York state she attended art school on a scholarship and upon graduation supported herself and her mother giving art lessons as well as painting and portrait work that she was commissioned to do for wealthy clients.

At that time Germany was the center of the high end publishing world and she spent several years in Germany refining and perfecting her art working with engravers at the German publishing factories. Upon her return to the United States she formed the Wolf Company and was the first and only female artist of her time to establish her own publishing company with the financial backing of the Wolf brothers. She was the sole artist and designer for the Wolf Company.

The souvenir postcard industry was booming and Ellen and the Wolf brothers were making a lot of money which they invested in the German factories that produced the greeting cards and postcards she was creating. And then World War I came along in 1914. Most of the factories in Germany were leveled as a result of the war as well as all of Ellen's artwork and records. With the destruction of her entire life's work and penniless, Ellen traveled to Germany during this period to see if there was anything left of her work to save.

When she arrived in Germany and realized that her life's work was gone as well as her life savings Ellen wandered the streets and witnessed the horrors of war first hand. Not having heard from Ellen the Wolf brothers borrowed money and traveled to Germany to search for her. When they finally found her wandering the streets she was sick and had suffered a mental breakdown. Her health and spirit were totally broken. She was 59 years old.

The Wolf brothers brought her back to the United States and took care of her for the rest of their lives.

Her work is highly collectible and is easily recognizable because of her unique style. I have posted several of her works here because I just adore her work but never knew her tragic story. She gave the world such sweetness and beauty I felt compelled to tell you her story. Thank you Ellen! Your art made the world a better place.

This sweet little Ellen Clapsaddle Valentine

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Here is the back of the card with the original stamp

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Happy New Year

Wishing you and yours a wonderful and joyous new year! And as Mr. Spock would say, "Live long and prosper!"

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Vintage Christmas Card

A vintage Christmas greeting for you

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

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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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Vintage French Christmas Chocolate Label

I have a lovely vintage Christmas chocolate label for you today

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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