Tag: gifts
Tag Description:Making Easter Eggs
Break out the bombazine and horse glue, because it’s time to decorate Easter Eggs, Victorian style! From one of my favorite antique books comes these fine examples of Victorian Easter eggs. Household Elegancies, by Mrs. C. S. Jones and Henry T. Williams was published in 1877 and is full of amazing illustrations and advice on [...]
Easter Gift Ideas to Make
For a unique Easter gift idea, take a page from what the Victorians gave as Easter gifts. Let this article from the Victorian children’s publication, Harper’s Young People, be a source of crafting inspiration. While the article title is a little misleading–I wouldn’t exactly call a flatiron a “toy” and can hardly imagine the look [...]
In Toy Land: Glimpses of a Great Industry
By Sheila, Published in Young England, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys , 1897 ne has to go very far back in the world’s history to arrive at the time when there were absolutely no toys. Indeed, one may feel tolerably certain that as soon as the children arrived, toys—rough, rude things, no doubt, but still [...]
The Distribution of Christmas Gifts
It undoubtedly adds to the pleasure of Christmas present-giving, and especially if there be young folks in the household, to adopt some original mode of presenting the gifts. The following suggestions as to the distribution of Christmas gifts might also be useful in connection with Sunday school or church Christmas festivals, when novelty in presentation [...]
Christmas Tide
Arthur’s Home Magazine, 1868 The long, cold evenings of winter, and the time for merry in-door sports, has come again. The young people can no longer have the croquet out of doors, the little ones can no longer frolic on the pavement or lawn. About this time there begin to be very mysterious looks, and [...]
