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Christmas card putz houses
November 11, 2009 – 8:08 pm
Putz houses, also called “glitter houses,” are little houses that make up a Christmas village. Popular from the 1920s on, they can be made from cardboard, card stock, and even old Christmas cards.
I drew the pattern for this house based on the pattern for the Stone Cottage on the Little Glitter House site, which has [...]
a special ornament
December 9, 2007 – 9:21 pm
In the early 40’s, when my mother was a young girl of about eight years of age, her father took her and her siblings to visit his mother at Christmas time. Grandmother’s house was small so she decorated a tree in the yard rather than the house. They didn’t find her at home, but my [...]
