1950s
Jell-O Jingle Jells for Christmas (1959)
This cute Jell-O Jingle Jells recipe features bells cut out of Jello (with a cookie cutter) and served with flaked or riced Jello and whipped cream.
This cute Jell-O Jingle Jells recipe features bells cut out of Jello (with a cookie cutter) and served with flaked or riced Jello and whipped cream.
Here’s a look back at some popular vintage Christmas lights, along with several old-fashioned examples from the ’40s, ’50s & ’60s of this kind of warm and wonderful holiday decor.
Remember these retro cups so popular years ago? Colorama, Heller’s vintage “Colorized” aluminum tumblers, were beloved for as being unbreakable, lightweight, inviting to use and smartly designed.
In the midcentury bathrooms of the ’50s, the look of white, stark home decor was quickly disappearing. In its wake was a trend toward colorful designs. Take a look!
Crown Jewel Dessert as a mold, a pie, and a spring-form pan dessert! Also known as Broken Window Glass Cake, this easy dessert fits busy schedules.
Even a white Christmas should have a rainbow, so here’s how to make a vintage holiday dessert: classic Christmas Rainbow Poke Cake!
Five flavors of whipped gelatin form this colorful, spectacular dessert: a rainbow cake – an eye-catching red, pink, orange, green and purple layered dessert recipe!
Want to make natural Easter egg dyes the old-fashioned way? Find out how to use roots, berries, herbs and vegetables to color your eggs for a vintage Easter celebration.
Colorful retro kitchens from the ’60s, when it was an exciting new trend in appliances – an idea that’s been growing ever since the first tame departure from clinical white to pale pastels and subdued browns.
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.
Color is everywhere around you. But nowhere is it more exciting or more important than in your home! Here’s how you can be soothingly subtle or bold and bright, how to get vibrant accents and how to be monochromatic. Ideas to make your whole house sing with color!
Remember that little round toy from the seventies where you pressed on the back with your finger to squish stuff around and it changed colors? They were called Space Fidgits, and you can find out more about ’em here.
Mood rings were incredibly popular pieces of jewelry in the mid-1970s. – call it a colorful fad. So do the rings actually work? What do the mood ring colors mean? Find out here!
What will you find at the end of the rainbow? More smiles than ever. Here’s an easy recipe for a fun and fruity rainbow poke cake you can make with your favorite Jell-o flavors!
Early in the 20th century, there was an interesting development in American home life — people started moving from the city out to the suburban districts and small towns. See some classic All-American suburban houses from that era here!
Bold, rich coloring for houses of the Victorian era The day when nearly every building was painted white, and window blinds green, has passed away.
Here is a junior spectacular for such a world-shattering occasion as a child’s birthday party. Anyone who loves jelly beans (doesn’t everyone?) will love it.
Layers of Jell-O Gelatin form a color spectrum that delights eye as well as palate. Prepare several fruit flavors of jello as will fill your finest crystal bowl or stemmed glasses.
The most important things that make home decorating successful are beauty of color, color in relation to light, color in gradation and masses, appropriateness, and harmony between wall coverings and furnishings.
Lollipop cookie recipe Ingredients 1 cup (2 sticks) Challenge Butter, softened 1-1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar 2 eggs 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2
The harmony of color (1893) From Sherwin-Williams Paint We often hear the remark “There goes a well-dressed lady,” but we do not always think of
Here’s some bright and bold bathroom decor, straight out of the late forties.
America… show your colors! Pick paint as your best color buy When the budget doesn’t allow new furniture or even upholstery for the old sofa,
Easy color cookie recipe with m&m’s! Happiest new cookie idea in years! Only Crisco and m&m’s Plain Chocolate Candies offer you this delicious new cookie. Kids
Now! Terraflex vinyl asbestos in beautiful Terrazzo colors! Terraflex Tile and this new J-M Design Book are all you need to create a beautiful floor
Pastel sugar cookies take just four ingredients — and one dough makes five different flavors. Refrigerate, slice, and bake anytime!
This zesty purple Jell-o poke cake has stripes of flavor from a tangy blackberry gelatin! Not feeling so purple? You can swap in any other flavor of Jello to make this cake recipe all your own.
‘The picture was thrown on the screen, and there was the exact shade of hair and eyes, the true flesh tints it was almost spooky, even a little string of pink beads about my neck, why, there they were just as pink as could be!’
Warm colors are best for living room by Lynn Elson Fashions in color change every year on the home decorating scene, but personal tastes remain
Great powder room ideas begin with Kohler The “All-American” look Colors to cheer about. Oval Farmington lavatory in Antique Red; Flair fittings with white acrylic
Out: Blah colors. In: Bold, exciting colors. Better still, two or three exciting colors mixed together. Mixed, here, in a carpet Lees calls “Bewitching.” Lees has
Say it with a Cookiegram Cake Mate gives you all the tips you need to put your thoughts in icing. Campaign cookies, exam cookies, apology cookies,
Scotch Plastic Tape: It’s like a can of paint on a roll It’s like a can of paint on a roll! The glossy clear color
Malibu Stripe Striking stripes in smashing colors that can change your bedroom into a beauty room. Malibu Stripe is one of our new Decorator Fashions.
Create a whole rainbow of frosty pies! It’s easy — a no-cook, one bowl recipe, and oven ready pie shells from Pet-Ritz. Use your favorite
Maybelline Long-Wearing Nail Color ad (1985) Revlon Nail Enamel (1981) Cutex Nail Blush magazine advertisement (1982) Now Cutex invents Nail Blush. It’s a super-gleamy
Kohler Originals Lavatories in a bold array of flower garden colors. Kohler Endurables There are products designed to wear out. And there is that which
The girl who dresses in one color saves money The monotone girl is well-known. Sometimes she is effective, occasionally monotonous. All depends upon the girl’s
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