It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in my shop! I am listing new items daily at eBay - Birdhouse Books on eBay. If you prefer Etsy, I also have a smaller shop there: Birdhouse Books on Etsy.
These vintage cards will all be on eBay by Sunday evening. There are some cute ones featured!
1960's vintage Christmas card featuring little drummer boys and a bold Rum-Pa-Pum-Pum
Older vintage Christmas postcard featuring little girls reading a picture book. The card is trimmed in older (dark) glitter.
Vintage Christmas card with a gel finish -- a hand-tinted photo of a little boy and girl making a snowman.
Adorable English Spring Spaniel puppy dogs with holly trim - early 1900's vintage Christmas postcard.
This 1950's die-cut Christmas card for a child features a little girl holding a stocking full of toys.
This 1920's vintage Christmas card has an illustration of a little girl by Charles Twelvetrees.
This lovely vintage Christmas card is die-cut around the harp and opens up to show a beautiful Victorian angel.
This 1960's vintage Christmas card features Santa Claus and a beagle puppy.
This vintage Christmas card features a little drummer boy - and some friendly birds.
This vintage Christmas card features a Mid-Century door decoration with greenery, pinecones, and bells.
This lovely vintage Christmas card features a stained glass window.
Vintage Christmas card featuring poinsettia flowers, a trumpet, and sheet music
And old fashioned country Christmas is depicted in this vintage card, with farm house, church, and covered bridge.
I hope you enjoyed these vintage cards. I'll be listing lots of Christmas items during the next couple of weeks. Have a wonderful weekend!
Dear Friends, I am on the run this week. It may be this way the next few weeks; I help Momma with her work a lot over the holiday season. This keeps me very busy, helping to list vintage children's books, Christmas cards, and ornaments at her store. (It's Birdhouse Books on eBay, if you want to take a peek.) By the way, I was the one who found the cute dachshund postcard that you see above! I will try to keep in touch each Friday over the holiday season, but some of my posts may be short and sweet. My friends Ginger Rose and Fergus sent me a really cute video last week that I thought you would enjoy, so I'm sharing a Friday smile with you. The little dachshund puppy in this video is playing a game on iPad. I asked Momma to find out what app this was, because it looks like fun. For some reason she doesn't seem to think I should play on her iPad. I'm not sure why! I would love to hear from you, especially with any questions for future Dear Abby posts. Anything related to dogs, life, vintage topics, retro pop culture ... I would love to answer your questions here. Have a great weekend! Love and xoxoxo, Abby
Did you have marbles when you were a child? I did. Even as a little girl, I was always very visually oriented, and I loved the glass marbles with variations of color and design. I remember flicking them around a bit but not really playing games with them as much. I collected them in a jar and just enjoyed how pretty they were. If you played with marbles, what types of games did you play? (A nice link with some info on old fashioned marble games here: LandofMarbles.) I'd love to hear from you in the comments, below.
Try, try again is the lesson Crow teaches beginning readers in this
picture book reader. Crow was all alone. But like all crows, he was very
clever. Using autumn leaves for wings, sticks for the body and a crab
apple for the head, Crow made a friend! But winter winds blew in,
destroying his creation. Undaunted, Crow fashioned another bird friend
out of snow but could not prevent it from melting in the warm spring
sun. Alone again, Crow heard the caw, caw, caw of a real, live bird.
Together they built a nest and by summer, Crow had a family. This warm,
satisfying story, celebrates perseverance and ingenuity.
Crow Made a Friend is an especially lovely picture book for children. It tells the story of Crow, who wants a friend. He tries to make a bird out of twigs, but it blows away. He makes a bird of snow, but it melts. Finally he meets another bird, makes a friend, and then makes a family.
This is a short picture book. It would be wonderful for a story time read aloud (i.e. for a preschool unit on birds), and it also would be a good book for a beginning reader.
The illustrations are vivid and beautiful, and they add much to the story.
I am a former preschool teacher, have a small online children's bookstore, and love children's books. This book is exceptional in both the lovely, uplifting story and the beautiful illustrations. I cannot recommend it highly enough for a home or school library.
About Margaret Peot
Margaret is an artist, writer and costume painter. Margaret has two new books out in 2015, Stencil Craft (F&W) and an early reader picture book, Crow Made a Friend (Holiday House). Margaret’s book Inkblot: Drip, Splat and Squish Your Way to Creativity (Boyds Mills 2011) was awarded a Eureka! Silver Medal for non-fiction children’s books. She is also the author of The Successful Artist’s Career Guide (F&W 2012), Alternative Art Journals (F&W 2012), and Make Your Mark (Chronicle Books, 2004), voted one of Library Journal’s best how-to books of 2004.
An avid believer that art making can be for everyone, Margaret has
presented art workshops with cancer survivors, elders, children, parent
and teen groups, writers, nurses and caregivers, at The Creative Center
at University Settlement’s Creative Aging conferences, and their
Artist-in-Residence Training program, with EngAGE Utah, at Gilda’s Club,
The Huntsman Cancer Institute, Operation Exodus in NYC, and at Miami
University’s Scripps center with Dr. Like Lokon, and Opening Minds
Through Art.
