Flickr Favourites: November 23, 2014

{McCall's February 1947 ~ SaltyCotton}  


{Lost ~ Vibeke Sonntag}  


{J.Paul & sons Mannequin Parade 1949 ~ Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums}  


{Hotpoint Customline ad ~ tikitacky}  


{Pink and black from McCall's, December 1952 ~ Page}  


{Ukiah's palace hotel (desaturated) ~ Jane Marie Cleveland}  


{The Redhead in Pink! ~ Lucy Fan}  


{Untitled ~ Kitten Lover}  


{Hedy Lamarr on the cover of Photoplay, May 1944 ~ Silverbluestar}  


{Inside a Pink Poinsettia ~ Janine Russell}  

{All images above are from Flickr. To learn more about a specific image, please click on its title to be taken to its respective Flickr page.}

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A month and two days are all that separate us from Christmas at this point in time. For my dear US friends south of the 49th however, first there is the joyous event that is Thanksgiving this coming Thursday. A day of feasting, family, and football. Here in Canada, we celebrate our Thanksgiving Day in the first half of October (on the second Monday of that month), so we have to wait the aforementioned thirty-two days before we can indulge a scrumptious holiday turkey meal again.

Festive preparations are already underway for many however, as we shop for gifts, mail cards, hang decorations, attend holiday parties and plays, go hunting for a tree, festoon our homes with glowing lights and brace ourselves for the oh-so-long months of winter that lay ahead.

As vibrancy drains from the outside world once more, I'm in the mood for one of my favourite colour pairings, grey and pink (two hues that are often seen in November’s earthy palette), so I shone the spotlight on them with today's selection of Flickr images.

November blew in on an arctic-y wind here in Penticton, with temperatures several degrees below the season norm most days, and as such fall - my absolute favourite season - ended even more quickly this year (effectively, I kid you not, on Halloween night). In turn winter will feel all the more lengthy as a result – because, let's face it, the likelihood of an early spring here in Canada is next to nil.

The same rang true for many across the world and if one thing can be said in favour early snowflakes, icicles, and retreating mercury, its' that a premature winter does really help put you in the mood to welcome and celebrate Christmas and the other fabulous holidays that last few weeks of the year house.

First though, I hope that all of my US friends have a marvelous Thanksgiving this coming week and that we each get at least a week or two more of autumn's serenity (even if its weather has long vanished) to recharge our batteries with before hopping (Santa hat adorned) head first in the Christmas season.

Speaking of which, if you haven't done so already, please don't forget to signup for (and share about) Chronically Vintage's first annual Vintage Secret Santa. There are two more days to do, then I'll begin sending out everyone's gift exchange matches via email (if you haven't received your match by the 30th of November, please let me know). Things are going awesomely on the #vintagesecretsanta front, with about 200 people having signed already.

This is really going to be such a fun, fabulously festive way to further delight in the merriment and generosity of the season for everyone involved and I sincerely appreciate how many of you are taking part in it!

Flickr Favourites: December 9, 2012

 

{Vintage white Xmas shopper girl ~ kittykatdancexox}

{Christmas Ornament ~ BrocadeMoon27}

{Xmas vintage card ~ jancureall}

{White cat in snow ~ Daisyree Bakker}

{Vintage threads stored in glass jars ~ freudianslipsvintage}

{Shadow Box Shrine ~ BrocadeMoon27}

{1950s Pink Royal Typewriter ~ JoeVintage}

{Gloria DeHaven on the cover of Screen Album, Winter 1945 ~ Silverbluestar}

{Pink Deer ~ kittykatdancexox}

{Pink gingerbread house ~ sweetopia*}

{All images above are from Flickr. To learn more about a specific image, please click on its title to be taken to its respective Flickr page.}

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The winter holidays bring with them a certain sense of sweetness that transcends the towering stacks of cookies, steaming mugs of cocoa, and abundance of classic candy canes. Amidst the hustle and bustle, the whirl and thrill of this joyful time of the year, which can often bring frayed nerves and fallen pine needles in spades, the beauty and spirit of the season shines through. It is delicate yet immortally strong, elegant and comforting.

Red and green might be the most iconic Christmas colours these days, but there are times when one feels the pull of December's gentle nature and longs to surround themselves instead with paler hues, say of pink, aqua, and white instead. These colours compliment the kind-hearted nature of Christmas, the tidings of goodwill, and the smiles that flow like warm mulled cider all through the month of December.

Sitting here this morning, sixteen days before the twenty-fifth, a powdery grey sky and skin tickling icy breeze outside my window, it is not so much visions of sugarplums, but instead of confectionary hued holiday decor, cheerful Christmas melodies, and the unmatched sweetness of the season that are dancing through my head. As such, I wanted to share some of these feelings through photos and vintage images with you on this fine December day.

May each moment of this magical month glisten and abound with the sweetness, serenity, and beauty that flow through today's Christmassy Flickr Favourites for every one of us.

Wishing you each a gorgeous Christmas!

✯ Day 359 of Vintage 365 ✯

{Sweetly beautiful, pink vintage and shabby chic Christmas themed images via the following Flickr sources: 1. accordion & violin angels, 2. vintage Christmas, 3. Vintage Christmas, 4. pink christmas tree, 5. Angelina's Christmas in July Card and Tag Swap Sneak Peek #1, 6. vintage flocked pink deer, 7. vintage christmas pink glass ornaments, 8. Vintage Christmas Cards, 9. christmas ornaments, 10. Vintage Pastel Christmas, 11. PINK Vintage Glass Christmas Ornaments, 12. Christmas N Pink 1957, 13. Looking forward to better days to come}

My very dear friends, on this most resplendently special of days, teaming with merriment and great joy, I wish you each a marvelous Christmas filled with every sweet and wonderful thing your heart desires.

May today and the the remainder of the holiday season be as magical and bright as a glimmering star atop a Christmas tree, and may you be blessed by a New Year that grants you great peace, good health, and countless fantastic vintage finds!

Can you feel what I feel?

The holidays, the holidays are right around the bend!* And I for one am already bubbling over with excitement about this fact! How about you, my lovely friends, as the days zip past like snowflakes in the chilly winter November breeze, are you starting to hum Christmas carols, feel the urge to sport more red and green (festive sweaters entirely optional), and jump into the merriment of the season?

It’s a little odd actually, often in the years (such as this one) when I know that I’m going to be having a very low key Christmas on a modest budget, that I find I’m filled most with the holiday spirit.

Perhaps when many of the stresses that come with planning a large scale Christmas celebration, shopping for scads of presents (and often dreading the bills you know will arrive in January for said purchases), attending more functions than you can shake a stick at, and wondering how on earth you’ll find time to bake fifteen different batches of cookies, are removed (or at least lessened), there’s more freedom and time to sit back and soak up the beauty, inherent peace, and simple splendours of the season.

I’m feeling Christmassy at the moment in a way that I haven’t for a few years. It’s a blissful, almost child-like feeling that makes me want to throw a holiday parade, string lights on everything from my cat’s condo to my laptop (being an apartment dweller who’s not allowed to hang or put anything on our deck, any decorative light fantasies I may have need to be played out indoors), and invite everyone in town over for a humble feast of holiday classics.

This week, despite further work being done in our apartment building (bathroom repairs on our floor are slated for later today), I’m feeling like Christmas can’t get here fast enough. Yet at the same time, I’m very grateful for the fact that the holiday season isn’t just a day or two, instead it’s weeks of celebrating, embracing the spirit of Christmas, and finding festive reasons to smile all through November and December.

I’ll soon be mailing out my Christmas cards, decking the halls (and counters, desks, tables – any surface is far game!), and hopefully be able to figure out what to get my husband this year (he’s one of those folks that are rather tricky to shop for, but in a way I quite enjoy the challenge) – just as I know many of you will as well.

To help celebrate this splendid time of the year, most of the posts that I’ll be putting up here over the next few weeks will be holiday season themed in some capacity. I hope to be able to post some favourite Christmas recipes, bring back the vintage holiday gift guide for a second year, and share oodles of great old school vintage images with all of you.




{1. I see stars, 2. Pink Heaven, 3. Deer head, 4. Vintage Holiday , 5. my favorite pink Christmas tree!, 6. Untitled, 7. Blue Christmas, 8. old things, new things, 9. Vintage Christmas Cards, 10. Plunged Into Christmas Contemplation, 11. Pink Bulbs, 12. Vintage Sugared Christmas Bells, 13. A Christmas Cuppa}


On that note, the collection above is a roundup of delightfully fun vintage Christmas images with a gentle, soothing pink theme running through most of them. I hope that these pretty photos help inspire – or further bolster – your own feeling of wintery happiness and holiday cheer! :)


*Sung/said to the tune of "Do you hear what I hear" (my favourite version of which is the one that was eloquently preformed by Bing Crosby).