Vintage Christmas Monday

I am again participating in Joan's VINTAGE CHRISTMAS MONDAY...if you'd like to see more, hop on over and check out the long list of blogs doing the same; they are on the right hand side of her blog. This has been a lot of fun; I'm so happy that Joan is hosting this.


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Above is a little vignette on an extra chair sitting in the dining room. Christmas snuck up on me this year, and instead of clearing off every shelf and every surface, I made do with some quick decorating. This chair was empty already and saved me the trouble of taking down and stowing away so it got the privilege of holding these vintage skates, the Hans Brinker book and an old Ball canning jar with candle and Christmas baubles tossed on top of some Kosher salt! I added the snowflake and the mitten to give it some color.

Under the tree are a few vintage games or toys I've collected this summer at garage sales, mostly they were a quarter, some a dime. I never decorate the same way twice in a row, and this year a theme seems to have emerged at the farmhouse, and that is "vintage toys"....they're scattered all through the living and dining rooms!

The Spirograph is just like the my own I received one Christmas in the seventies. I'm sure some of you were just as thrilled as I was when you got yours...what fun to spin that pen around with the different "gears" and create all sorts of designs, with FOUR colored pens...and they were ALL mine! WOW! *Ü*

This book was featured in last week's Vintage Christmas Monday. It's sitting on my dining room table, covered in a vintage tablecloth I dug out of a box under a table at a garage sale: I paid a quarter for it. Amazing price for such a treasure!

I came home, cleaned it up and it's a new favorite...just too cute and reminds me of when I was a kid.

And this year, I couldn't pass the spicy gumdrops in a little tiny local grocery....those bring back "vintage" memories for me. Even as a kid I LOVED spicy gumdrops, the little white paper bagful I'd get at the dime store, to me was like a bag full of brightly colored jewels.

First, I'd enjoy the lady behind the counter grabbing the big silver scoop, and I'd watch through the glass showcase as she'd get the ones I'd pointed to. JOY! I'd pop one into my mouth, savor the sugar melting on my tongue, and then bite into it. What a great invention: gumdrops. I wish sometimes that today there weren't so many choices for little kids. These were awesome but I bet very few kids today would taste them!

(Gosh, I really sound old when I say stuff like that! Guess I'm ready to be a grandma, right!?! LOL)

I hope you enjoyed vintage Christmas Monday...and feel free to admit that you like gumdrops, too and Spirographs...or even an Etch-a-Sketch!