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Sunday, December 25, 2011

From my Mid2Mod home to yours...



Happy Holidays
Best wishes to you and yours.



My early 1950s Christmas
Boots, hat, guns, piano and dolls.
Who could ask for anything more...non-gender specific?

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Magical, practical Glass Wax

When I was a kid back in the 1950s, one of my favorite things to do was decorate the windows at Christmastime. I was the artistic type, always drawing or coloring or painting on something, and during the holidays, not a pane was left untouched. I remember how excited I was when my mother brought our first package of Christmas stencils home from the grocery store, handed me a sponge and a full can of Glass Wax and turned me loose.

It was like magic to dab the stencil with a spongeful of the thick pink liquid (which dried white) and then pull it away to reveal a beautiful Christmas tree or a jolly Santa. What a brilliant way to entertain children and trick them into polishing all the windows while mom and dad took down the tree when the festivities were over!

(FYI...There's a product available today called Gel-Gloss that works exactly the same way, and I'm sure Hobby Lobby, Jo-Ann's and Michael's are full of holiday stencils...probably already marked down.)


Original Gold Seal Glass Wax
wilderness-survival.net

Christmas stencils
flickr.com - halloween_guy

OMG!!! 34 all new designs!!!
flickr.com - halloween_guy

Stencils at the ready
beruly.com

Ah...art
stoneykins.com