Vintage Christmas Village – DAY 10 & 11 – free printables

More Shabby Chic Cottages and Snow Cherubs today, and printables for another Christmas Tree, this one with gorgeous vintage lace 😀 You don't have to make a whole village for these to be adorable! Make one set of Christmas Cottage with Snow Cherub, choose your favorite Christmas Tree to match, and display in a cloche…

Vintage Christmas Village – DAY 7, 8 & 9 – free printables

Are you a Shabby Chic Lover? Well, my series of Christmas Cottages have plenty of white and neutral colors, and both handwritten and printed ephemera has been used for several of the sets. These next 3 Cottages and Snow Cherubs would fit nicely into a Shabby Chic Christmas: Cottages and Snow Cherubs of Day 7,…

Vintage Christmas Village – DAY 5 & 6 – free printables

Make some extra Christmas Cottages and fill them with yummy treats, and let your kids bring their teachers as little gifts 🙂 Or use them as sweet hostess gifts for all the parties you undoubtedly will be invited to during the Holiday Season. If your "stuffing" is on the heavier side, you might need to…

Vintage Christmas Village – DAY 2-3-4 – free printables

Did you ask yourself WHY I chose to create 24(25) Christmas Cottages? Well, so they can be used for a Advent/Christmas Countdown Calendar of course! 🙂 Here are Antique Numerals made into a Christmas Countdown for you, just choose your favorite color and print, then attach a number to each Cottage 🙂    Here are…

Vintage Christmas Village – DAY 1 – free printables

I've been busy designing 🙂 🙂 🙂 And I'm finally ready to share my huge vintage Christmas project with you peeps 😀 It is an entire Christmas Village! With 24(25) different cottages & snow cherubs. And an assortment of different Christmas trees, in 3 different sizes 😀 😀 😀 Can you only count 18 cottages…

Cherub Christmas 1873

My personal collection of Cherub ephemera consists mostly of postcards, but I have a few items of other types. Today I'm sharing two cards from my album, of gorgeous Christmas cherubs. One has the year 1873 in the bottom left corner. The backsides are blank, thus I do not know what these were used for.…

Seahorse Christmas Card

I was wondering if I could create something a little bit different for Christmas, and here is my result: Walter Crane's decorative Seahorses redesigned into a Christmas Card 😀 I think it turned out really cute 🙂 Quite alternative for Christmas, but it would fit well for someone into scuba diving, fishing or sailing. I…

St. Nicholas Christmas Ornament – from 1 sheet of paper

I loved Anna's idea on Tuesday, of making the Victorian St. Nicholas book pages into a small ornament! So much so, that I jumped to the task last night, and kept at it way past my bed time... 😛 Here it is, my tiny St. Nicholas Christmas Ornament book, made out of 1 sheet of…

A Visit From St. Nicholas 1864 – 12 Printable Tags

I came across a gorgeous Victorian Christmas book from 1864: "A Visit From St. Nicholas" on Open Library. I believe the first edition of the poem "The Night Before Christmas" by Clement Clarke Moore came out in 1862, so this is one of the very early versions 😀 I hope you will like my redesign,…

Harry Fisher Girls Christmas Tags – Free Printable

Creative crafters are always thinking ahead, usually I'm at least 1 month ahead of my local friends...:-P But you guys know what I mean 😉 Secretly I've been working on Christmas for almost a month already, but I kind of thought we had to finish Halloween before I let the Christmas crafting loose...lol So here's…