Victorian Christmas - How to Have an Old-Fashioned, Vintage Christmas This Year!
by
Gail47
Christmas Memories: Gifts, Activities, Fads, and Fancies, 1920s-1960s
Writing from the perspective of those who lived during those vintage era times, she gathered the gifts, fads, and activities that made each year unique during the holiday season. Readers will be drawn into the nostalgia as Susan shares thoughts and memories from magazines, diaries, and letters of the era.
The illustrations alone will keep you enthralled as you relive, if only in spirit, the bygone vintage Christmas eras from which they were taken - period catalog ads, Christmas cards, and photographs from the decades between the 1920s through the 1960s. Step back in time and enjoy a life that was very different than the one we live today.
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Have you ever considered a Victorian Christmas?
What is your favorite Christmas style?
Many people enjoy planning and decorating for a vintage Christmas while others like to keep everything modern and up-to-the minute with what is going on in the world. There are as many decorating styles as there is families who decorate their homes. What are your decorating plans this season?
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poutine
Dec 19, 2011 @ 9:13 am | delete
- Never considered it before.
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Gail47
Dec 21, 2011 @ 1:59 pm | delete
- I hope you give it a try. Changing up the holidays every once in a while is kind of fun, but I always go back to the old standard.
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Lifeboost
Nov 7, 2011 @ 3:31 pm | delete
- I would love to have a Victorian Christmas one year! I hadn't thought of it before reading this, but I think it would be magical! Hmm... time for a round-table with the family for planning.... :)
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Gail47
Nov 7, 2011 @ 4:37 pm | delete
- A Victorian Christmas seems to romantic to me. I would also love to have one, but rarely take the time. Maybe someday...
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CeruttiTesi
Dec 29, 2010 @ 2:37 pm | delete
- This lens is like a very beautiful fairytale! Thank you!
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Gail47
Jun 22, 2011 @ 11:24 am | delete
- What a wonderful compliment - thank you! Hadn't visited this lens since Christmas so missed your beautiful comment.
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hlkljgk Dec 6, 2010 @ 10:47 am | delete
- love the postcards :)
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Gail47
Dec 7, 2010 @ 8:31 am | delete
- Thank you - so do I!
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Squidoolinepro
Dec 3, 2010 @ 9:19 am | delete
- I guess I'm an oddball, lol. I almost always do the Victorian vintage Christmas theme rather than the 'in style now' theme. It's just so pretty and peaceful to me. This year I'm going with gold...not tacky gold but more of glimmer of gold style.
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Gail47
Dec 3, 2010 @ 2:59 pm | delete
- I love the vintage Victorian - showing my age I guess. Thanks for stopping by!
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Marelisa Nov 16, 2010 @ 9:37 pm | delete
- The "Christmas Memories" book at the very top of this lens looks spectacular (I stopped by Amazon to have a look). I'm one of those "vintage Christmas" people, though I add modern details, such as a dancing Santa at the foot of the tree.
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Gail47
Nov 17, 2010 @ 6:28 am | delete
- This book is pretty cool - I love looking through books like this and picking up ideas. Over the years we have had vintage Christmas decorations and modern, and most of the time mixed the two. Thanks for stopping by!
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