A truly vintage Christmas decoration classic comes from the Pickle Ornament. For those of you who have not yet heard of it, it is simply a glass ornament that is in the shape of a pickle! It can be either a dill or a gherkin, it comes in various forms. It is not the shape [...]

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I need to clean up some old vintage Pixies. However, they all have at least 2 different colors of felt used to make them, of course it’s all noncolorfast. Is there an easy way to clean them, without having the colors run into each other or doing damage to the felt itself?
about the best you [...]

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any ideas for online stores?
i can spend only like $40 on her.
vintage stuff for her room?
it depends on what era she likes, what she needs, etc. you could try going to thrift stores. there are probably a million online sources of vintage "stuff" if you can think of a specific item , try ebay. in [...]

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Ebay.
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This vintage Aluminum Pom-Pom Christmas Tree is in the original box. It is a 4 foot, 40 branch tree with pom-pom’s at the end of the branches with stand. The sides of the box read; Flameproof and Safe – Tapered Natures Way – Easy to Assemble – With Self-Centering Stand – Fringe [...]

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Pictures that I forgot to put in…oops! Something like this, or similar:
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and possibly a ruffly-warm jacket too? =]Thanks again!
I would love to make an old-fashioned Christmas Gown. Like the ones you see in Barbie: A Christmas Carol (I know weird reference but its basically perfect for what I want) or the American Girl Samantha’s time [...]

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If you are talking about 75 to a hundred years ago, then yes. Folks didn’t buy all this junk that we give and receive. Folks got one of two gifts if they got anything. And, often things were wrapped in plain brown paper that was used several times again, or wrapped in [...]

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Baking cookies and making cocoa for a night of tree trimming and caroling. We put on our warm fuzzy pajamas and sang all the Christmas songs while we enjoyed cocoa and cookies and reminisced on each ornament! Then we would watch some good old Christmas movies, Charlie Brown, Wonderful Life, Rudolph, and pile up [...]

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When I was a kid Christmas was so much more about the spending time with Family and alot of our gifts were from the Heart i remember getting homemade gifts that was truely from the heart . Does anyone else feel this way i want to make this Christmas special for my family any suggestions [...]

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Like your parents and grandparents had, rather than the elaborate materialistic shebang that folks have the rest of the time? If so, what will you be doing differently?
Actually my grown daughters and extended family became more interested in the material items at Christmas and we lost the Christ in Christmas,, the forgiveness, the loving fun [...]

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Which would look better on my double-wide?
For that year round look it’s gotz to be the old style fat Christmas lights on a trailer, looks more Bible Style, if ya know what I mean, ya hear!

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