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

By: Sister-Diane

Sister-Diane — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:37:43 +0000

Heh! Seriously! The economics are stunning there. I shudder to think what such a publication would cost today!

By: knittingiris

knittingiris — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:01:45 +0000

Ha! I just picked up a copy of this one from the thrift store a couple of weeks ago and have had it laid out as a coffee table book for friends to browse through, along with a few other vintage holiday crafting books of the same era. I’ve gone through it a few times but still there are a few that you’ve pointed out here that I’ve missed.

The thing that strikes me the most here – beyond the sheer unbelievability of the projects themselves – is just how involved and complicated so many of these projects are as well as the quantities of them. There is enough in just one volume of these to fill a decade worth of crafts for one magazine. How could they have sold enough copies of these books to justify what went in to them?

By: ellen

ellen — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:41:19 +0000

Welding!!!!! Why there’s a homely craft that’s gone out of style! HAHAHAHA!

By: ellen

ellen — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:41:00 +0000

Welding!!!!! Why there’s a homely craft that’s gone out of style! HAHAHAHA!

By: DJ

DJ — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:51:58 +0000

What great projects! I have several BH&G craft magazines from that time and I still go through them at holidays to look for ideas.

By: DJ

DJ — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:51:00 +0000

What great projects! I have several BH&G craft magazines from that time and I still go through them at holidays to look for ideas.

By: Taueret

Taueret — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:48:18 +0000

ha ha ha, I am literally LOL. Cowhide? Come here, Buttercup. This won’t hurt a bit. Thank FSM I have found a use for all my CHRISTMAS HANKIES (what the?). Also… those wise men? the reanimated cutlery “angel”? the BASKET SANTA? Straight from your lips (fingers) to my nightmares.

By: Taueret

Taueret — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:48:00 +0000

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:48:18 +0000

Oh. my. word. Outright guffawing and chortling at the Expanded Aluminum Extravaganza. I want to host a large crafty Christmas party just to blow up poster pictures of this and other crafts to hang on the walls! Or they would be good for one of those “Ugly Christmas Sweater” parties. “Have Yourself a Very Tchotchkes Christmas”. Then those poor neglected old crafts at the thrift stores would have somewhere to go…. Oh the ridiculous ideas. Who knew ugly crafts could spark so much?

I like the mushroom house – do it say how they made it?

And actually, I think the hanger tree has possibilities. Cover in green and bent a bit wonky, they could be great Who-ville Christmas trees. Thanks for all the retro Christmas love! My favorite posts of the season on any blog. :>

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:48:00 +0000

I like the mushroom house – do it say how they made it?

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:50:59 +0000

OMG. I *LOVE* the gnomes and their little toad stools! So cute!

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:50:00 +0000

OMG. I *LOVE* the gnomes and their little toad stools! So cute!

By: BeckyKay

BeckyKay — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:35:31 +0000

Now I understand why I was always so overwhelmed by my mom’s craft books when I was a kid…

LOL!

By: BeckyKay

BeckyKay — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:35:00 +0000

Now I understand why I was always so overwhelmed by my mom’s craft books when I was a kid…

LOL!

By: Bridget B.

Bridget B. — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:13:47 +0000

Ok, so you’re thinking that 80′s crafts were bland, watered down, country-style craftin’ full of gingham and geese. Me, I think everyone needed a break from the LSD-fueled craft insanity of the 70′s, or was recovering from some kind of PTSD – post tinsel stress disorder.

I will not, however, let this stop me from attaching dingle-ball fringe to the inside of my truck once the weather warms.