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Want some retro-style holiday decor? Find out how to make some vintage Christmas crafts from the ’60s: a burlap wreath, tabletop Christmas trees, a starburst decoration and several more.
Having a retro party for the holidays? Here are the crazy kitschy vintage Christmas party appetizers you will want to serve!
These sweet and buttery butterscotch cut-out sugar cookies have melted butterscotch chips stirred in for a special cut-out cookie flavor. See what fun you can make with these VIP sugar cookies here!
Get colorful classic Christmas cookies for treats like stained glass cookies, Merry Maker cookies, peppermint pinwheels, Christmas bell and tree cookies, ribbon Christmas cookies, pastel pretties & more recipes.
Star cookie tree (edible Christmas tree with star-shaped cookies) Ingredients & supplies Cookie dough Decorating frosting Colored candies Styrofoam [covered with foil on cookie side]
Here’s a cute little vintage Christmas tree craft from 1950. You can cut the tree and decorations out of paper, then and you can use it as a table centerpiece or a mantel decoration, hang it up, or just play with it.
Make some retro ornaments for your Christmas tree with these crafts from the ’60s: they’re fanciful birds and butterflies in inexpensive, easy-to-sew felt.
See some fun-to-eat centerpiece retro decorated Christmas cakes that the kids can help you bake! There’s a wreath, snowman, stocking, tree & Santa Claus.
What a happy, colorful Christmas tree you’ll have this season if it’s gaily trimmed with these old-style wood ornaments you paint yourself!
This fairyland gumdrop Christmas tree is made from gummy candy, toothpicks and a Styrofoam cone. At 24 inches high, it makes a magnificent centerpiece for a Christmas buffet table. Here’s how to make it!
A shrimp Christmas tree appetizer is a scene-stealer and a real buffet beauty, certain to cast a special charm over any holiday party – yet so easy to do! Here’s how.
Trimmed with good-to-eat Oscar Mayer tidbits stuck on with cocktail picks, this Christmas tree with meat ornaments is sure to be the center of attraction at any holiday buffet.
The best Christmas cookies we know – and we know hundreds Christmas cookie recipes: Almond Stars, Jamborees & Wreaths Recipes for Christmas cookies: Christmas Trees
Create a holiday sensation with Duncan Hines & a bowl full of cherries Duncan Hines special moistness and your special touch create a holiday sensation, the
On these Christmas trees, cuddly creatures ride the silver balsam tree along with Santas and toys, all radiantly spotlighted with the gleam of shining ornaments.
Start your holiday decorating now by making dazzling, jewel-like Christmas ornaments shaped like balloons, or enchanting holiday decor to hang in your home!
Make these ornaments in minutes for dazzling centerpieces or decorations. It’s so easy! You simply use straight pins to attach sequins and beads to Styrofoam forms.
Karo Lace Cookies… for holiday giving and eating! Surely the most festive Christmas cookies ever — and deliciously easy to make with Karo. These Karo
Christmas claybake In that magical and ever-quickening flurry of days and weeks before Christmas, when lists are drawn up, gifts cached away, parties and visits
Every home has room for a Christmas tree, even if it’s only the tabletop variety. See the festive joy a small tree Christmas tree can bring to your home!
So pretty, such fun to do! One of the nicest Christmas customs we know is having both young and old make ornaments for the tree!
Get crafty and decorate L’eggs eggs for the holidays – they come in gold, silver, red, blue, green, so you can give brighter Christmas presents.
Your holiday decorations can have a new look 15 Merry Bright Light Set — Constant see-thru brilliance! 20 Tinsel-Lights — Halos of sparkle! 35 Merry
Make your own gay trimmings, advises clever El Paso decorator by Bessie Simpson Remember the days when Christmas trimmings were not to be found in
Here are some crafty Christmas tree ornaments you can sew yourself, using scraps of fabric! There are four different designs using an inexpensive patchwork design.
Remember when Christmas was homemade ornaments and handmade gifts? Maybe this is the year for Christmas past. All it takes is a batch of dough
Holiday bake-fest For years beyond telling, a favorite holiday craft project for parents and children has been making charming tree ornaments and centerpiece figures from
You have probably made the selection of gifts for the family, but the question now clamoring for an answer is, in what way shall they be distributed to make the gift-giving an enjoyable event of the day?
Christmas cutout cookies recipe Hang some of these on the tree. Ingredients 2 cups sifted flour 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon
How to keep the cookie jar filled all through the holidays Swedish Crisps, Gingerbread cookies and Christmas tree cookie recipes Swedish Crisps recipe 1 cup
Hershey’s rich cocoa fudge recipe from the ’70s & ’80s 
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See 130 vintage ’50s house plans used to build millions of mid-century homes that we still live in today 
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