Our colonial ancestors sometimes ate pie for breakfast. I am all in favor of tradition, and if all goes well, I will be eating pie for breakfast in Bouckville Wednesday morning. After that, I'll walk off the calories (well, some of them) by hiking around the grounds and looking for more treasures. Meanwhile, here are some Christmas finds from the last few days. The cardboard streetlight (I plugged it in, just for you) will probably require a redesign of the Putz village. The paper mache snowman will join the rest of the snowman collection. The rest, lovely as it is, will probably find forever homes elsewhere.New old stock icicles that came from a Baltimore department store, I am missing you already. The linen underneath is a table runner.
That's not to say there weren't some Christmas tablecloths to be found.
This one looked familiar. Much as I hate parting with a good Christmas tablecloth, I probably don't need duplicates.
More new old stock (from a different dealer) - gorgeous old Christmas cards, printed in Germany. Bunches of 'em.
Much as I love mid-century, I look at the embossing on these and think I should be collecting from a few decades earlier. They are spectacular.
Another box of ornaments may have been procured.
OK, several may have been procured. But it's not like I'm keeping all of them.
Just some of them.
Between you and Gina's posts... I'm itching to go to Bouckville!
Posted by: Melissa's Antiques | August 13, 2014 at 08:13 AM
What a coincidence! I am having pie for breakfast at this very moment. Thanks for my new justification for this dietary practice!
Posted by: Eddie Mitchell | August 13, 2014 at 09:24 AM
Bouckville is on my bucket list! I saw on Gina's Instagram that it was raining yesterday. Hope you stayed dry. But truth be told, I wouldn't mind getting drenched if the promise of so much vintage Christmas was on the horizon.
~Erica
Posted by: Erica | August 13, 2014 at 11:08 AM
Amazing vintage Christmas! Love that snowman
Posted by: Stacey Johnson | August 13, 2014 at 06:57 PM
Oh my gosh, look at all those indents!! Well done.
Posted by: Kathy | August 14, 2014 at 12:06 AM
That cardboard streetlight is fabulous! The perfect addition to your Putz village.
Posted by: Musings from Kim K. | August 14, 2014 at 06:50 AM
I enjoy your humor so much and get a thrill every time I see you have a new post even though I don't collect much of what you search for (Christmas ornaments aside). I was helping a friend clean out her mother's house and rescued a Gurley pink bunny and an orange witch right before they landed in the dumpster. The witch has been been lit, horrors, but didn't burn for long. Any chance you'd like to give them a home? I'd be happy to mail them to you.
Posted by: Cherie in St Louis | August 16, 2014 at 01:10 PM
I'm going to guess that the icicles were from Hutzler's?
Posted by: veg-o-matic | August 16, 2014 at 02:50 PM