I found this quirky Santa on one of my quick runs to Goodwill this week.
He's made out of a folded up magazine - each page precisely folded to make the shape of his body. Then it was painted red and decorated to look like Santa.
I love old craft items like this - people 'back in the day" certainly used what they had on hand to make things.
I love his face, beard and hat. He's certainly "kitsch-y", but he's kind of cool too.
He's headed to the booth tomorrow. I hope someone else likes him too.
My Mom had a set - Mr and Mrs Claus, I hadn't thought of them in a while....
ReplyDeleteI made trees and large ornaments like that to have in my book store window. It has been amazing how many people have stopped in and said I did that as a kid.
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My friends and I made angels, then sold them in the neighborhood. What nice neighbors we had.
ReplyDeleteHow neat! My Grandma Jordan folded her a set of snow men, they were provably throw out long ago. I have most of her christmas decorations! Shes nice enough to let me borrow them for Thamsmass at the Casdablanca- if you go over to my blog and look at the post "Thanksmass 1958!" you can see all of Grandma's goodies!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh! Just the other day I had a memory of being about 8 years old, and making this exact same thing but in a Mrs.Claus version! We did it at school. I wish my mom wouldn't have tossed it out. I suppose it got smooshed over the years.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
Erica :)
They were typically made from Readers Digest.....we were eating at a funky restaurant this weekend and they were decorating with those (theirs was a Christmas tree). I loved telling my kids about making them them when I was a child.
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