A Collection of the Best Christmas Holiday Resources
Vintagexmas.com sells antique ornaments and has a good article on spotting fake reproductions when buying antique ornaments. The article covers reputation of the dealer, condition of the ornaments and specific popular antique ornaments that have fake reproductions out in the market. Spotting Fake Christmas Ornament Reproductions
This site has a list of close up photos of vintage Christmas ornaments to view. There are beautiful photos of vintage cotton, glass, Dresden, Heubach/Bisque-Face, and Sebnitz Christmas ornaments. Some of the glass and metal based ornaments are really amazing, check out their photo galleries. Vintage Christmas Ornaments Photo Gallery
This DIY Victorian Christmas ornament idea is an easy one with the use of a hot glue gun, some ribbon or lace, Victorian style pictures cut from old Christmas cards or gift wrap and orange juice lids. Comments about the article include a good idea to use the ornaments as gift tags as well. Step [...]
Vintage Holiday Crafts has free vintage Christmas cards and Christmas graphics you can view and download. The vintage Christmas cards are really wonderful with some beautiful artwork involved in each Christmas card. Vintage Santa Claus Christmas Cards
The Online Victoriana Magazine is devoted to Victorian era design. Here you will find article information from the magazine itself as well as links to sites on numerous topics including decorating a Victorian style Christmas tree, making your own Victorian Christmas cards, historical pictures of Victorian toys, creating authentic Christmas ornaments and much more. Online [...]
Allfreecrafts.com has lots of homemade Christmas ornament patterns to decorate your tree. The sections include Snowman crafts, Angel crafts, Christmas crafts for kids, Santa crafts, Recycled Christmas card crafts and quick and easy tree trims. There are a few vintage crochet style ornaments and Victorian style ornaments you can make from this list of Christmas [...]
Here is a long list of teacher resources for Christmas activities and customs around the world. Helpful for teachers planning lessons on the Christmas season grades K through 12. Topics include Christmas in other countries; Victorian Christmas; Christmas Webcam Central; Christmas Web Hunt and much more: TeachersFirst’s Christmas Resources
