Old fashioned christmas cards

Cover of an old Christmas photo card

This is simply a collection of my favourite vintage Christmas art. I make no secret of my love for old Christmas cards, adverts and illustrations - but I'm not sure I've ever explained how I take inspiration from them for home decor and outfits. I'll share some inspiration posts over the next few weeks. My

Old-fashioned Christmas

Saint Nick set to visit 5,556 properties a second and use enough wrapping paper to curcle the Earth 60 times

I have always had a fascination for antique postcards ~ any holiday...but the Christmas ones are quite strange indeed. From their morbidity, to the just plain strange! here are a few that have made me say... "....Hmmmm...." I mean, creepy walking root-vegetable men? or how about a kidnapping santa? this one cracks me up - just look at their little legs! a little too much eggnog perhaps? and doesn't a cat-fight outside a tenement window just scream Happy Christmastide? or would you prefer a…