Vintage-y Holiday Goodness, part 6 (and final)

As promised, some more vintage BHG to finish out this series. Thank you so much for all the comment-love on these posts!

This BHG is one of my all-time favorites. Copyright in the groovy year of 1974.

So. Many. Amazing. Trees. in this one – like this crazy thing, built from fabric-covered coat hangers. Yes, Virginia, that is dingle-ball fringe on the branches.

This one is impressive in its scale – compare with the handy small child in the foreground.

And this one has always confounded me. A garden trellis, covered with cowhide and festooned with wooden beads. And a gift-tray. The instructions say to “use a Christmas handkerchief mounted on cardboard as a treetop ornament.”

I love the very name: “Expanded aluminum extravaganza.” We don’t have enough extravaganzas in our lives, methinks.

Now, HERE’s a project: get some 14-gauge expanded metal, cut it into pieces, and then weld a metal pipe to the underside of each one. Make yourself a 3/4″ pipe, welded to a three-leg stand, and then attach the branch pipes to that. Paint the whole thing flat white, and then add several coats of spray flocking. Assemble it, and you have a tree.

That, my friends, is an extravaganza.

We interrupt this crafty mayhem to bring you something I adore – these little gnomes! They’re made on wire, so they’re poseable!

The Wise Men stare into your very soul.

An angel made of kitchen utensils to hang in the . . . you know . . . kitchen.

A tisket, a tasket, how come Santa is a basket?

I have only scratched the surface of this book. But let’s save a bit for next year, shall we?

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