Vintage Christmas Tree

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

at least online!

This is the little tree I keep in the garage with a few

favorite ornaments that I've collected.

Some are handmade by me or my children through the years.

• Small cloth American flags that have been dyed with a Rit Dye solution.
• Small folk art stockings hand painted with my folk art designs.
• Antique framed tin type images from the 1800's, I found at a Garage Sale.
• Hand painted red and white ornaments found at a thrift store years ago.
• Red plastic boots from the 60's, I sometimes put small candy canes in them.

19th C. Primitive American Bench

It's been a long time since I've come upon a 

 primitive furniture piece that I just had to have.

But, this week, I not only found one but two.

The 8' long bench has boot jack legs and the

backgammon board card table above it, C. 1900 - 1920.

I love the graphics on the old game boards and

have several of the lighter colored ones.

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This was nerve wracking, watching Handyman Husband 

climbing the old wooden ladder he modified to fit on the stairs.

Whew, almost there!