Inside Verse: Christmas Blessings for you and yours!
Back Poem: Once on Christmas
"...We strung the popcorn into long, long ropes to hang upon the tree. But that was only half of it! There were stars to be cut out of kindergarten paper, red and green, and silver, and gold, and walnuts to be wrapped in shiny paper, or painted with gold paint out of the paintbox that I had been given for my birthday. One got the paint into one's fingernails, and it smelled like bananas. And red apples to be polished, because a shiny apple makes a brave show on a tree. And when it was all finished, it was Christmas Eve! We all wore our best clothes. Baby in a little challis dress as blue as her eyes, and Ihad a new pinafore of Swiss lawn that my Aunt Margaret had sent me from England. We waited, breathless, in the front parlor while the candles were lit. Then my mother sat at the upright piano in a rosered cashmere dress and played, and my father sang, in his lovely, pure, gay, tenor voice... and then we all marched in. It is true that we had decorated the tree ourselves, and knew intimately everything on it, but it shown in the dark room like an angel..."
Dorothy Thompson Excerpt from The Little Big Book of Christmas, pub. 1938

All Holiday Cards are 5 x 7”, museum quality and feature 19th c. holiday imagery obtained from old scrapbooks and museum collections. Each card possesses a heartwarming poem upon the backside, and includes ornately die-cut envelopes. 10 cards/ 10 envelopes.

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