A Very Kitschy Christmas

Vintage Star Tree Topper Silver Star

2011-12-12T06:05:00.007-08:00

Vintage Star Tree Topper Silver Star, a photo by myvintagewhimsy on Flickr.

vintage tree topper gold kitsch

2011-12-12T06:05:00.005-08:00

vintage tree topper gold kitsch, a photo by myvintagewhimsy on Flickr.

Vintage Flocked Santa Bank

2011-12-12T06:05:00.003-08:00

Vintage Flocked Santa Bank, a photo by myvintagewhimsy on Flickr.

Vintage Tree Topper Silver

2011-12-12T06:05:00.001-08:00

Vintage Tree Topper Silver , a photo by myvintagewhimsy on Flickr.

Vintage Doubl Glo Tinsel Garland

2011-12-02T09:19:00.001-08:00

Vintage Doubl Glo Tinsel Garland, a photo by myvintagewhimsy on Flickr.

Vintage Plastic Diorama Ornaments Kitsch

2011-12-02T09:18:00.001-08:00

Vintage Plastic Diorama Ornaments Kitsch, a photo by myvintagewhimsy on Flickr.

Vintage Satin Ornaments

2011-12-02T09:17:00.003-08:00

Vintage Satin Ornaments, a photo by myvintagewhimsy on Flickr.

Vintage Light Up Angel Tree Topper

2011-12-02T09:17:00.001-08:00

Vintage Light Up Angel Tree Topper, a photo by myvintagewhimsy on Flickr.

Vintage Mesh Stockings

2011-11-29T09:28:00.001-08:00

Vintage Mesh Stockings, a photo by myvintagewhimsy on Flickr.

So retro! I'm sure lots of kids remember receiving these filled with fruit and nuts and cheap plastic toys. I found a whole stack of these while thrifting yesterday!! Wouldn't these be fun to fill with goodies and give to your co-workers or classmates??

Available in my Etsy shop in lots of 5!

Vintage Christmas Figurine Flocked Dress

2011-11-29T09:24:00.001-08:00

Vintage Christmas Figurine Flocked Dress, a photo by myvintagewhimsy on Flickr.

On Etsy!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87408463/vintage-christmas-figurine-girl

Vintage Christmas Cards

2011-11-20T09:10:00.001-08:00

A year ago, I was at a yard sale and the person hosting the sale was selling off some of her great aunt's belongings. One item that I was lucky enough to buy was an entire leather suitcase full of great ephemera -- Christmas cards by the hundreds, birthday cards, valentine cards, letters from WW2, pictures of the aunt at Jazz clubs in DC from the 40s. It was like opening a time capsule!

Last month, I finally tackled the huge task of scanning in the Christmas cards. I'd been wanting to do that since I bought the suitcase but just got around to getting a new scanner and it took me days to get them all scanned. I added them to Flickr but unfortunately, someone decided to 'pin' one onto Pinterest, and someone else (whose blog I actually read and admire) found the card on there and then put it on HER flickr, claiming it as being found on a free image website and giving permission for people to use 'her images' for their own crafting needs. I know it's easy to steal images off of the internet but the whole thing just irritated me, especially when the person hasn't bothered to respond to my inquiries about the card she's putting on her photostream and adding to various groups on Flickr, which I'd already added the card too.

It just put a bad taste in my mouth that someone with so much talent and so many people that read her blog and admire her, would do such a thing. So, having said that, I had to make them private on Flickr but I wanted to share some of my favorite images with you all. I just love the graphics and illustrations, the color combos, the sweet sentiments from 50 and 60 years ago.

Aren't these wonderful? I need to find a way to display some of these over the next few months because they're too beautiful to just leave in the suitcase.

Vintage Christmas: Hooks & Hangers

2011-11-19T14:42:00.001-08:00

Lately, I have become obsessed with vintage packaging. The colors, the graphics, all of it really. I was lucky enough to find lots of vintage ornament hanger boxes this year while thrifting and yard saling.

Ornament hook boxes by companies like Franke, DoubleGlo, Delta. Distributed by companies like Woolworth.

These days, ornament hangers come in crappy see-through plastic packaging, backed in boring cardboard, no cute graphics.

I can just see these cute boxes on display on a shelf, sitting alongside some other fab vintage dimestore goodies. Instead of hoarding all of the boxes I found this year, I figured I'd share with other vintage Christmas enthusiasts. All of these great boxes are available in my Kitschy Christmas shop on Etsy!

Kitschy Angels

2011-11-16T04:36:00.001-08:00

Vintage Japanese Tree Topper $10

Vintage Japanese Musical Angel $12

Vintage Angel Tree Topper Light Up $12

Vintage Angel Decoration Ornament $7

Flocked Santas and Other Kitschy Goodness

2011-11-13T13:22:00.001-08:00

Japanese Santa Package Decoration - Sold

Three Santa Head Picks - $3.50 & available in my shop

Vintage Flocked Santa Pick - $3.50 & available in my shop

New Etsy Shop

2011-11-06T05:13:00.000-08:00

I decided to open a new Etsy shop specifically for my vintage Christmas items. With so many other treasures in my regular Etsy shop, I felt like the vintage Christmas stuff was getting buried and even with having shop sections, a buyer may not know to search that way. So, I opened a new shop and transferred all of my holiday listings over there. Here's the link:

A Very Kitschy Christmas

I have a lot of recently acquired goodies that I will be listing today and throughout the upcoming weeks - vintage craft supplies, decorations, ephemera are among the list!!

And here's another new-to-me favorite ornament I found last week. Like the last blog post, I bought an entire bag of crappy ornaments and junk just to get to this good one!

53 Days til Christmas

2011-11-01T10:32:00.000-07:00