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My, my how time is flying.  Three more days until Christmas Eve. I haven't been able to take a breather so I'm just sharing some vintage Christmas card images.
I bought a disc of the images from eBay a few years ago.  Way before Etsy became all the rage.  
I use them in a lot of my Christmas decorating and crafts.
Some of them appear to be pretty old.  Overall I'd date them all pre-1970s.
Feel free to download them for your personal use too!

Jeanine
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I can't believe Christmas is just days away.  I am scrambling to wrap presents, plan my Christmas eve menu and attend my boys' class parties.  
Even though I closed my Etsy shop for the holidays on Monday, I've been stealing some time to create some new items that I'll be adding after Christmas.
I found these great vintage religious images and thought they'd make for some pretty tags.
I added some tiny rhinestones and vintage lace, and then distressed the edges.  I'll be adding these to my shop after Christmas.

Jeanine


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What can you do with some leftover bottle brush trees and miniature deer?  If you're like me and already made enough "snow globes" using them, here's another idea.
Mini Xmas peat pots!  I had already painted the pots white and basically forgot about them.  I broke them out over the weekend for this quick project.
I folded some vintage lace over the rims and then tucked in some Poly-Fil to be my "snow."  Then I just added my trees and deer, along with some vintage sheet music scraps.  One also holds a fabric joy tag I did a few weeks ago.
I added some picture hangers to hold my number tags (from Ikea) - 25 of course!  A really sweet and simple Xmas touch for our livingroom.

Jeanine
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Found this cutie on Pinterest.  I printed it onto vintage sheet music and added it to a frame.  I forgot the site it's originally from, but if you search for reindeer silhouette on Pinterest, it should come up. It's free!

And P.S., if you've noticed my posts lately have been short and sweet, it's because I've been having serious computer issues.  Boo!
I did a system restore yesterday and all seems to be okay now - fingers crossed. 

Between my computer and the horrible weather here, I haven't been able to create anything worth blogging about.  I'm going to recharge over the weekend and hopefully have better luck next week.

Jeanine
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Happy White Wednesday!  Just tinkering around with some gift bag ideas.  

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Christmas, of course.  Sharing some random holiday decorations from about the house.
Reindeer pillows from Home Goods.
I love breaking out this plaid quilt every year.  Pillow covers from H&M.
Noel basket with vintage ornaments.
Santa boots on the porch.
Tray filled with shredded sheet music and Dollar store deer.
I'm so mad for plaid!
Ikea metal stars in a tart tin.  
Snowmen!
Vintage typewriter with a homemade flash card and Santa postcard.
Silver and gold mercury glass.
And finally our tree.  Can you figure out how tall my boys are?  I still have to re-arrange and spread out some of their "touches."

Jeanine

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