Offering a vintage printable digital coloring book from days past! - Little Miss Christmas Coloring Book ! - 30 pages of an ADORABLE Little Miss visiting and helping Santa Claus :). Authentic mid century coloring book repro can be immediately printed for use after purchase. Download will be sent as a PDF as well as JPEG files ( 1 zip folder) and will print out on standard 8.5 x 11" paper. Individual JPEGS allow for easy printing of individual pages of choice. Pages are clean, sharp and crisp. *** MORE retro Christmas coloring books can be found in the shop, here :): https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/PastPaperPrettiesCo?ref=seller-platform-mcnav&search_query=Christmas+Coloring Cute images are also wonderful for scrap booking, framing, stickers, decoupage, fabric transfers, altered art and any other craft needs! Print on heavy card stock for hole-punching and stringing or put on double sided adhesive for sticking! File can be easily cropped, resized and edited to your liking or project needs via your computer settings. Watermarks will not be present on your files. Ideal for personal or commercial use. INSTANT DOWNLOAD - Not a hard copy paper = means no shipping cost to you as well as immediate receival directly after payment clears. By purchasing this digital file, you agree to not resell the same image on Etsy or on other websites as a digital file, or as part of a collection or compilation of images. Files will be sent to the email you have on file on your Etsy account. Enjoy :) *** MORE Christmas Printable Paper Crafts can be found in my shop, here :) : https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/PastPaperPretties?ref=seller-platform-mcnav§ion_id=25874062 ✨ Att. Canadian buyers: all applicable GST/HST is included in the listing price. ✨
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WHAT IS KITSCHMAS?? Recently, you may have noticed that we are hosting our Christmas party, deemed the "Kitschmas Cabin". What is Kitschmas you ask? Let us elaborate! "Kitsch", according to Wikipedia, is; (/ˈkɪtʃ/; loanword from German) is a low-brow style of mass-produced art or design using popular or cultural icons. Kitsch generally includes unsubstantial or gaudy works or decoration, or works that are calculated to have popular appeal. The concept of kitsch is applied to artwork that was a response to the 19th-century art with aesthetics that convey exaggerated sentimentality and melodrama. Hence, kitsch art is closely associated with sentimental art. Kitsch is also related to the concept of camp, because of its humorous, ironic nature. We at the Toronto Vintage society love kitsch! Some people like to think of kitsch as a tacky, and cheap version of an original item, but we like to think of it as the tacky, cheap, over the top, MORE FUN version of an original item! For Example: Generic Lamp Kitschy Lamp So naturally, Kitschmas is the marriage of the traditional "Christmas", and "kitsch"! You probably now understand that when it comes to the Holidays, we love and appreciate all of the fun, and kitschy novelties, decorations, and and traditions that come along with it! It is so much more that just "Tacky" Christmas, it is truly embracing and celebrating the colourful and joyful holiday items of the 1950s and 1960s. Think glitter, colour, and shine! HOME DECOR GREETING CARDS FESTIVE FEAST AND TREATS GIFT ADVERTISEMENTS OUTFITS Now that you've had some visual inspiration, we hope feel a little more inspired to add some vintage kitsch to your Holiday celebrations! Even better - come out and celebrate KITSCHMAS with us in our KITSCHMAS CABIN - Saturday, December 6th at the Cadillac Lounge. Starts at 8pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/322178604653474/ Be sure to get decked out in your finest Holiday Kitsch!
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Looking for some authentic retro holiday decor? Here, find out how to make some vintage Christmas crafts from 1964!
This article appeared in The Collector's Weekly and I decided to share. I have sold many of these thru the years and could usually guess age by looking at them but this now confirms. Thats what I love about Antiques and Collectibles, there is always something to learn. *********************************************** The American “Five and Dime” and the mail-order catalog had grown into national institutions between the 1880′s and World War I, but the truly “Great Golden Age” of the American Dimestore Christmas occurred between the two Great Wars: World Wars I & II. Two names are foremost to be credited with the origins of our American Christmas holiday trappings: The Butler Brothers of Chicago, who in the 1860s invented the concept of the low-priced open display counter from which all “dimestores” sprang; and F.W. Woolworth, who went abroad and provided product encouragement and a vast marketplace – first to the German and then to the Japanese holiday and toy industries, enabling both to bloom and thrive. Prior to WWI, most everything toy and holiday was German. Traveling Europe extensively in the 1890s in search of merchandise for his stores, Woolworth came upon a small glass Christmas ornament cottage industry in the Thuringen Valley region of Germany, sent some home for a trial, and the rest is history. Germany was already famed for cheap and charming toys and cuckoo clocks, but America had not seen the glass Christmas tree ornaments. Demand was instantaneous and insatiable. The words “German” and “Christmas” became synonymous. WWI changed everything. Even several years before America entered the fray, the supply of German goods became unreliable and then totally dried up. Woolworth again set out for foreign shores, but in the opposite direction – this time to Japan, with whom we were not at war. There he did what he had done in Germany some 20 years before. It is fascinating to speculate on the obstacles he surely had to overcome, trying to communicate the kinds of things he wanted to a vastly different culture that had had no idea of Christmas whatsoever. Germany was long steeped in Christmas traditions and had practically invented the Holiday, but to the Japanese it was alien and new. History proves F.W. did it, somehow, but the curious aesthetic nature of so many of the Japanese items from those times remains of never-ending fascination to collectors. In the 1920′s, as inexpensive series lights lit up the average American Christmas tree with blazing color, the middle-class American Christmas came alive with unprecedented electric light and sparkle. Delighted to discover the sheer size of their new marketing opportunities, the Japanese expanded explosively into all holiday product areas and were anxious to sell to anybody. F.W. had no monopoly, and soon Japanese Christmas goods were to be found in every “five-and-dime,” the department stores, and mail-order houses. Thus, the phrase “Made in Japan” came into the American common vocabulary in the “Roaring Twenties,” and German things began to creep back in again during that decade. The Great Depression, for all its strife, was absolutely rich with Christmas – to say nothing of radio, fabulous cars and electric trains and talking motion pictures. If you had a job and money in the 1930s – and 75% of the workforce did – you had an unprecedented cornucopia of wonderful things to choose from. Cardboard Village Houses Arrive: The Prewar Period Sometime around about 1927-28, the ever-innovative Japanese came up with the little cardboard houses – a logical, but brilliant outgrowth of the candy/surprise-box houses they’d been making for some time. Colorful and delightful “eye-candy” on those open counters, they were an immediate sensation, hitting the American Christmas with all the impact that bubble lights enjoyed post-war. There was such an explosion of creative genius and innovation put into these little dimestore notions that it is hard to comprehend! So many different kinds came out in such a short amount of time! Such creative and imaginative – sometimes even bizarre designs and handwork - produced in staggering quantities by virtual slave labor in conditions of abject misery. It was unbelievable what you could buy for a quarter or a dime, so blissfully unaware what great suffering lay behind our delight in bright and inexpensive things. But they have forever made a place in the Christmas memories and traditions of so many American families. And like so many things we’ve loved – we did not begin to appreciate them ’till they were gone …or the untold thousands who produced our dimestore reveries in long days of misery and toil. The End of an Era The period of the truly finest houses was less than ten years. By 1937, war was looming in minds everywhere. The trend was toward the “realistic,” and one sees it in the toys and model trains. Less the whimsical bright fantasies of earlier that decade, they were becoming models, now, and trending ever more toward scale and accurate detail. We had to be “realistic,” now. Put the childish fantasies away and view the dark clouds burgeoning with the clearest kind of eye. Through the War and to the present day, Christmas village houses have continued in some form. They make some really nice ones even now, but it is not the same. The innocence and simplicity of those first Golden Days” when they were bright and newly born can never really be again. Sears Wishbook Catalog 1949 The 1950-1955 Era Houses were made bigger 1955 Sears Wishbook Catalog The COTTON-TOPPERS Some of the largest and nicest pieces of the "Last Hurrah" are the COTTON-TOPPERS. These are definitely postwar, but harken back to some of the sizes and earliest structural features of the prewar - and also especially the figures and cotton-batting roofs which were commonly found on '20's candy-boxes. Some of the churches are remarkably large and resplendent and some are of wholly new design. The huge church rear center is 15" tall! The Cotton-Topper group is very heavy on large churches. I am not sure of the exact year, but it's a big part of that "Last Hurrah" of the mid '50s. Right now I'm betting on 1955. The 1960's: This is where it ends - in the 60's- -like one of those rivers that runs out into the desert , growing thinner and thinner- and finally just disappearing into the sand.......... I guess when you think about it, they didn't fit with Eammes and Danish Modern furniture. "MOD" clothes and all that slick, urbane stuff on TV. They were anything but "cool" as it was thought of then. Also in the 60's you started seeing sets that lit up. Here is the later version. In the mid 60's thru 1970's th Italians came out with their version, not called Alpine Village. The Italian village set shown below is remarkable in that the covers are all light cardboard,the tiny buildings quite interesting and well detailed in and of themselves. But the box says "Genuine Italian Novelty "Lights". Though they do make a cute little town under a small table-top tree. The only problem is that the buildings are so light that the stiffness of the wire makes it difficult to set them level and looking right and have them stay that way.
Welcome to Kitschmasland in a fun and nostalgic look at our infatuation with Christmas holiday decor from the 1950s and through the 1970s. This beautiful revised book covers the gamut of decorations – some whimsical, some beautiful – and a treasure trove of campy kitsch that the author calls "Kitschmas!" Join a magical tour of retro homes decked out for the holidays, and enjoy a variety of festive holiday decorations from our not-too-distant past. Featuring vintage Christmas ornaments, trees, ceramics, and more, over 400 color photos and vintage magazine images are used to illustrate this whimsical journey through some of our favorite decades. This book is a delight for Kitschmas fans, decorators, and the thousands of people devoted to mid-century decor and design.
This year I really wanted to do a modern vintage style Christmas tree so I knew adding a little bit of shiny tinsel was a must!
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I really focused on vintage-inspired Christmas decor throughout our small bungalow, which meant using fun, colored lights and some tinsel.
Last year I shared part of my vintage Christmas card collection with you all, and well, the collection has grown, and I’m here to share more with you! I’ll start by sharing the card we …
This year I really wanted to do a modern vintage style Christmas tree so I knew adding a little bit of shiny tinsel was a must!
A shrimp Christmas tree appetizer is a scene-stealer and a real buffet beauty, certain to cast a special charm over any holiday party - yet so easy to make!
Collect household paper tubes to make these whimsical vintage style candle decorations for Christmas! In this paper craft project I am upcycling tubes from paper...
For more than a century, Vogue has celebrated Christmas with optimism and originality. Robin Muir looks back through the decades at the images that have captured the joy.
Just like Grandma (or Great-Grandma!) used to make.
My mom was looking through some old family photos when she came across this priceless picture of Santa and me. Priceless in many ways----t...
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If you think holidays are weird these days, then you clearly haven't seen these 19th-century Victorian Era Christmas cards that were just as creepy as those times themselves. Bored Panda has gone through an expansive TuckDB Ephemera's vintage Holiday greetings postcard collection to gather some of the most bizarre postcards ever made. From frogs stabbing each other to Krampus (a half-goat, half-daemon) entertaining the ladies in the best Victorian Era fashion manner... Yeah, there isn't a more random way to say 'Merry Christmas' to someone these days, but when you think of it, these seasons greetings actually work as a time machine and reveal the relevant topics of those days.
