🍾✨ HAPPY NEW YEAR! ✨🍾
May this New Year lay an abundance of love, light and blessings upon your door. x
{New Year’s Eve Celebration | 1957 | Stan Wayman | Pinned HERE}
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So much has happened in the past 365 days and then again so little. This year has had its challenges and still more to come. But we stand waiting for the New Year, hand in hand and shall face what the future brings together. We walk in faith.
May this coming year hold peace, love and light for us all. Wishing you love as we kiss this past year goodbye and open our arms in greeting to the new one about to dawn.
{Swedish-American actress Ann-Margret dancing among colourful balloons and streamers | 1963 | Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}
And now is the time we continue to make merry on these most sacred of days as we soak up as much as we can from the time that is left in this year before crossing the bridge into the new.
And this New Year is going to bring big adventures and a lot of changes for us. So for now, we’re visiting with loved ones, we’re relishing in the quiet, we’re moving slowly and thoughtfully and drinking in all this year has left to over.
We’re cobbling together sandwiches with leftovers. We’re watching old Christmas movies while working on jigsaw puzzles. We’re going on long walks and drinking in the fresh air only to race home for hot chocolates. We’re dancing in the kitchen and making Christmas cocktails.
We’re taking a breath, as we stand on the cusp of what has been and what has yet to be.
{A Long Winter’s Nap | 1956 | Found | Pinned HERE}
🎄❤️ MERRY CHRISTMAS! ❤️🎄
May your day be Merry and Bright! ✨
{Promotional studio portrait of American actor Shirley Jones standing in front of decorative tinsel and holding an armful of wrapped Christmas presents. | 1955 | Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}
The stockings are hung, the presents are wrapped and we are awaiting the magical sound of sleigh bells in the air…
{Marjorie Lord | The Danny Thomas Show | 1960 | The Everett Collection | Pinned HERE}
Hello, December. We closed November on a flutter and have started you with a whirl! We’re ready for all the anticipation and excitement you bring this month. We’re ready for an evening Christmas light stroll, with hot chocolates in hand. We’re ready for frosty mornings outside, while inside we feast on fresh cinnamon buns and hot coffee in the warmth.
We’re ready to finally finish the Christmas puzzle we’ve been working on since last Christmas. This has been a hazy, dazy, crazy year and the puzzle got moved to one side in the New Year and that was that. But with a good afternoon ahead of us and a bowl of popcorn between us, we know it can be completed.
We’re ready to sit and be, basking in the glow of the Christmas tree, while Dean Martin spins on the record player, crooning out a Christmas carol. We’re ready for the annual school break, so that we can soak up each other’s company.
We’re ready for all that you bring in this most hallowed of seasons. Welcome, December, we’re awaiting you with bells on.
{Vintage East European Matchbox Cover | Found HERE | Pinned HERE}
May this New Year lay an abundance of love, light and blessings upon your door. x
{October 1950: American model Joan Vohs poses for a new year greetings card. | Photo by Keystone/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}
Here we stand on the cusp of a New Year. So much has happened in these past 365 days and also so little. But it’s bittersweet to say goodbye to one year. However, we stand ready and waiting for what this next year has in store.
May this coming year hold beauty for us all. Wishing you love and light as we kiss this past year goodbye and open our arms in greeting to the new one about to dawn.
{Hollywood New Year’s Party | “That’s the Tarzan of that day, Lex Barker, with his wife, actress Arlene Dahl” | 1952 | Pinned HERE}
And now we walk in the hallowed ground of the ”in-between” days. The space between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The merrymaking of Christmas has gone by in a flash and now we move with a a slower pace. Visiting with family and friends, watching Christmas movies by the glow of twinkle lights, cobbling together sandwiches from leftovers, while playing board games and going on long strolls with hot chocolates in hand.
The days are quieter, less hustle and bustle, but oh, so vital to our souls. There is a rhythm and a pace to this space that is all its own.
These days are special, they are our last days of the year as our slow meandering brings us to the bridge we will cross over into a New Year in just a few days. They are a time to be still, to reflect on what has been and to hope for what could be in the future. It is a sacred time, as we wait for what is to come and relish in what has been.
These days hold a magic all of their own, they hold so little and yet, they hold so very much. We must endeavour to drink them in with full hearts as we mindfully move forward before the flame of this year is snuffed out.
{Retro Christmas tree decorations including popcorn strings | 1979 | “Popcorn is probably the most traditionally American decoration because it’s the only indigenous one”, says Mrs. Henry Lochte, production chairman of the annual Christmas tree exhibit at the Cheekwood Fine Arts Center in Nashville, Tennessee | Found HERE | Pinned HERE}
🎄❤️ Merry Christmas! ❤️🎄
May this day fill your heart, home and table with love, light and peace.
{Full-length promotional portrait of American actor Mitzi Gaynor posing as she decorates a Christmas tree with silver tinsel and ornaments. | 1955 | Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}