Monday, July 17, 2023

Mystery fruitcake #2

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   So here's another vintage mystery fruitcake recipe, this one apparently from the year following the spice cake one I featured last we...
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Sunday, July 16, 2023

A lovely Christmas poem -- "Going Home"

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  Here is a lovely poem -- "Going Home", by LaVerne P. Larson.  I found it in a Christmas Ideals from 2000, but I believe the poe...
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Saturday, July 15, 2023

Black Friday in July at Dayspring!

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   I decided to check Dayspring to see what deals they might have that would work as Christmas gifts or as part of a family's Christmas ...
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Friday, July 14, 2023

Vintage Betty Crocker Recipes (that make wonderful gifts)

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  Here's another find from the old homestead -- or possibly from a stash of recipe booklets I inherited from my grandmother.  I'm gu...
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Thursday, July 13, 2023

Christmas paper dolls

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  As promised, here's another post about the Paper Doll Review .  This time I'm featuring their Christmas themed paper dolls! Merrie...
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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Christmas in July at Daily Grace Co!

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  Photo from Daily Grace Co .  I love a good sale and I love the Daily Grace Co.  It's one of my favorite resources for Bible study book...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Mystery Fruitcake -- a vintage recipe find

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   I thought I would share one vintage recipe with you, but as it turns out I have two!  This Betty Crocker's Mystery Fruitcake, found o...
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Monday, July 10, 2023

Vintage Holiday Feltcraft

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  Yes, hard as it may be for those of us in a certain age bracket to believe, 1985 is now vintage!  I found this booklet in clearing out the...
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Sunday, July 09, 2023

A nostalgic Christmas poem: "The Buying of Gifts"

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   I've found over time that I tend to really enjoy poems by Grace Noll Crowell.  This is one that I found in the 1957 Christmas Ideals...
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Saturday, July 08, 2023

Holidays at Home

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    I love seeing some of the Christmas fabric featured on Instagram this time of year.  Holidays at Home by Deb Strain for Moda Fabrics i...
Friday, July 07, 2023

A sweet vintage find

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 Today I'm sharing a sweet find from the old family homestead.  These are Wildlife Christmas Stamps from the National Wildlife Federatio...
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Thursday, July 06, 2023

Old-Fashioned Christmas coloring fun

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   I recently came upon a website new to me, Paper Doll Review .  I loved paper dolls as a kid and often made my own using magazine advertis...
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Wednesday, July 05, 2023

A sweet Christmas Cookies cookbook

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   This treasure is one I found somewhere -- a yard sale or book sale, I would guess.  When I came across it again recently, I thought at fi...
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