It's open Season

I'm all happy and singing Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer.

Why is that? It's because in mylife I always begin Christmas time on the 28 of October.

I will tell you why. In October we have four birthays: first my nephew, then one of my girls, then mine and in the end, on the 27, it's my uncle's.

So, till his birthday, it's not time for Christmas - well, officially, because I don't tell anyone that in September I'm already strolling in all the shopping sites I can looking for signs of that blessed season.

Anyway, now we arrived at Christmas time !! 🎄

So, what am I doing now?

Besides singing Rudolph on top of my lungs, I will make a list of presents - that I have already some bought since September it's a thing that nobody needs to know. 😄

I will go fetch all the wrapping papers left over from last year - oh joy  - and the ribbons and tags also. 

That way I can begin wrapping the already bought presents, which is an activity that I like so much, while listening on youtube to all the Christmas songs I can find, mainly the more vintage ones.

This one is my favourite for the wrapping activity: 

It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas 

Then I will beging thinking about the food for Christmas, the Eve and the Day. 

I will make a  list of the groceries, the cod, the meat, the potatoes, cabbage and pumpkin for the soups, the flour, sugar and all the trimmings for desserts - lots of them! 😀

(no, I never made these ones but who knows?)

And I will make a list too for the non perishables and non food related, like nice Christmassy napkins and some more little decorations that I can't resist to buy every year. And I say little ones because I think I have enough decorations.

And another thing that I want to do is a good overall cleaning and I will make a list for it too.

What's more? Oh so many things to think and do. I feel like dancing.

Partying at:

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I'll be home for Christmas

 

This is such an interesting advertising. We can learn History in old ads, we can study social and mental History by the way they dress, the houses, what they write, how they think but in this one we see all that and more, we see the end of the World War II. 

It talks about how, for some time, it was advised not to travel but as the war ended, people could see crouds of men in the transports, ships, trains but also in buses going home. And it's here that this Company enters. They advertise how as in this new world they can provide a good service on the return to normality and help bring happiness to each home and family.

And above everything, in that Christmas children would be able to see their parents and wives would be able to see their husbands coming home - the ones that didn't die in the war, that is.

In this Christmas that is coming now, when life is getting harder, for several reasons, around the world, let's hope that every mother can hear their children, and every children can hear their fathers and every woman can hear their husbands saying:

I'll be home for Christmas !

Christmas Adds from the past

 

I do like those adverts from the past decades, mainly until the beginning of the sixties, but even more till the fifties. What glorious times.

But from those adds some I really like are the ones about Christmas.

On  Drinks

Food

Clothes

Other

That's all folks

Those lovely times at Christmas

Christmas time in those delightful days of the past through ads and other images by Roger Wilkerson, Norman Rockwell, Stevan Dohanos and others.

Shopping

Wrapping

Decorating

The Eve and The Day

It happens every year and we expect it everytime.

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Shared at Grace at Home nº448 in Imparting Grace