Favorite Advent Calendars From Our Shop

We love Christmas advent calendars! We choose which styles to stock in February and March and they start arriving right after Easter. Needless to say, we happily have Christmas on our minds all year.

Here are a few of the styles we chose, and they're all listed in our web store.

We have over 100 styles of advent calendars, in many shapes and sizes and this year we've added a wider selection of advent cards, as well.

Victorian Christmas Advent Calendar From Germany

Here's another of our new advent calendars from Germany, rendered in a traditional, lavish Victorian style with highly detailed glittered accents. Children (all all ages!) delight in opening one little window per day in the month of December, leading up to Christmas. These, and over 100 other designs, are available on our website.

Christmas Angels Advent Cards

We were delighted to find these sweet angels and woodland creatures advent cards from Germany to add to our website.

We've got several more designs to choose from.

From vintage cars and trains to angels traveling by stagecoach...

...Each one is as adorable as the next!

Vintage Christmas Photos Part VI: Books on Wheels

In 1949, the city of Los Angeles outfitted 4 large vans with 4,000 books each and sent them into housing developments, shopping centers, parks and schools in low income areas. Each van made twenty-eight 1-3 hour stops a week and between the 4 vans, 250,000 books were checked out per year.

These photographs were taken in 1955 by Joe Friezer, showing the vans fully decorated for Christmas.

Vintage Christmas Photos Part II: Santa Hits a Home Run

Above, these neighborhood girls in 1922 San Francisco all made sure Santa knew they wanted dolls, and he obviously didn't disappoint.


In 1949, this brother and sister posed happily in front of their Christmas tree in their cowboy and cowgirl outfits.


And in 1927, this young man set up a makeshift baseball diamond in the backyard of the San Francisco's Aki Hotel, to break in his new catcher's glove.