🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄
May this season fill you with love and light. And may you be surrounded by family, friends, laughter and warmth today and always.
Warmest wishes to you all. x
{Rosemary Clooney, 1952 // Pinned HERE}
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🎄 Happy St. Nicholas Day! 🎄
I hope you awoke this morning to find a little surprise or two in your shoe!
{Candy Cane Santa, 1954, scanned from a wrapping paper book // FOUND via The Graphics Fairy}
🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃
May your day be filled with more treats than tricks!
{Image: Yvonne De Carlo aka Lily Munster, c. 1940s}
Hello, October! You’ve arrived so swiftly on the wind that I’m not entirely sure what has happened to September? It has passed in a haze. But, we’re happy that you’re here with all the heady scent of autumn and magic that you bring.
We’re ready for a chance to be still for just a little bit as that was not an opportunity we were given last month. We’re ready for the evenings to draw themselves in sooner. We’re ready to make our first batch of butternut squash soup for the season, with crusty bread to dip into it and a plate of sliced apples and cheese to go alongside.
We’re ready for crisp clear autumn days to hike in the nature reserve with a sprinkling of rainy Sundays thrown in so we can curl up and read books with a cup of tea close at hand. We’re ready for our front porch to be decorated with pumpkins and mums to bring a smattering of colour to grey days.
We’re ready for our annual household festivities to begin in the lead up to Halloween, with decorating and witches’ hats and bowls of candy scattered around. We’re ready to feast on marshmallow popcorn balls while watching some of our favourite old Halloween movies.
We’re ready for all that you bring and the enchantment that you hold, for you are truly the month that walks us into autumn and all of her glory.
{Laurel Goodwin modeling for E.J. Brach & Sons, 1966 Halloween Ad HERE // Pinned HERE}
🍀 Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🍀
May your day be fair and may all the golden luck, rainbows and good wishes be with you today!
{Image: Showing some Irish pride, Helaine Lender holds an oversized shamrock bagel a few days before the St. Patrick’s Day parade in 1967. Lender also got in the spirit of things with a traditional hat and pipe for St. Patty’s Day. (David Mclane/New York Daily News) // Pinned HERE}
🌟 HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🌟
May this New Year lay an abundance of blessings, peace and love upon your door.
{Image: 26th December 1942: Couple kissing under mistletoe during a Christmas party for the Flying Fortress Boys. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) // Pinned HERE}
Hello, November! We’re ready for crisper days; crunchy apples and pumpkin filled pies, cakes and breads. We’re ready for sizzling sausages with caramelised onions and toffee cake, with oodles of whipped cream on Bonfire Night. We’re ready for candlelight filled evenings as the night draws in.
We’re ready for quiet Saturday afternoons, spent reading while a stew simmers on the stove. We’re ready for Vince Guaraldi spinning on the record player while we play scrabble with hot apple cider in hand.
We’re ready for Thanksgiving and gobbling down turkey, stuffing, sweet potato casserole and cranberry sauce. We’re ready for the happiness that Thanksgiving leftovers bring us while feasting on turkey sandwiches and watching old movies.
We’re ready for all that you bring.