Photos: Snowflakes

Snow flake, photo by Igoy

WDD: More snowflakes
Thanks to josephzohn
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Vintage: 60s Christmas Decoration

weetstraw: A Time Life Christmas, 1963
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Vintage Comics: Sing With King

Golden Age Comic Book Stories: Sing With King at Christmas
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Album Covers/Music: Os Gatos

Loronix: "Slow instrumental versions of Bossa Nova standards with Paulo Moura and Meirelles. A very nice second career LP from this surprising group."

Via coisas do arco da velha
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Vintage Fashion: London Fog

Vintage Ads: The Fog
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Vintage: Toys

"Thuringen wooden toys, 19th century"

A Journey Round My Skull: Apes on a Horse and More Toys from the Void
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Illustration: Hess-mas

Today's Inspiration: The Third Day of Hess-mas
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Children's Illustration: Jingle Bells

grain edit: Jingle Bells illustrated by J.P. Miller
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Design: The most popular snowflake in the world

idsgn: The most popular snowflake in the world
Via Coudal Partners
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Christmas Music: Sant-O-Nine

Contrary to their earlier predictions the guys over at Klasch Records managed to find some time and energy to make yet another Christmas compilation. This year they call it Sant-O-Nine. All of us at Martin Klasch hope that you'll enjoy the music and wish you a Merry Merry Christmas! God Jul!

Alternative: download SANT-O-NINE 09.rar at zshare. (Password = the name of this blog without space)

PS) Get it before 31/12/2009 Christmas is over for this year!
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Here are some of the sources of the music on the compilation:

A Christmas Yuleblog
Falalalala.com
Ernie (Not Bert)
Jul igen - Christmas Again
77 Santas
And the cover photo I found at senses working overtime's Flickr.

Thanks you all and Merry Christmas!
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Illustration: Vintage Pipe Smoking and Christmas

A couple of nice pipe smoking vintage men from senses working overtime's Flickr tagged christmas.
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Vintage fashion: Dressed for the Road

Pillpat's (agence eureka) Flickr set: Catalogue Manufrance 1931
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Christmas: Santanauts!

If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats: Santanauts!
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Comics: The End of Assar?

By Ulf Lundkvist

Rumors say that Sweden's largest daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) will cut its popular comic strip Assar after 20 years.

If you are a fan of the comic consider joining the Facebook group Vi som vill ha kvar Assar i DN.
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Art: Terry Haass

Inanna VII, 1961

Adventures in the Print Trade: Terry Haass
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Ephemera: AXA

Larssons Blogg: AXA catalogue of car accessories from 1958.
Not much posted from it yet but Larsson has promised to do so in the future.
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Christmas Music: Klasch Records 2005-2008

Klasch Records sadly informs us that they will not release a new Christmas record this year. There just wasn't enough time and energy. (Edit: Sant-O-Nine!) However they send our readers their best wishes for the Holidays and kindly lets us repost Santaism (2008), Santaphonic (2007), Santology (2006), Santalicious (2005).

Click the individual images to get to the music and to unpack you type the name of this blog (without space).

Get it while you can and happy listening!

Update: Christmas is over for this year!
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Fred vom Jupiter

Book Covers: Dictionnaire de l'Amour

Cover by Marie Mitterand, 1949

Deadlicious' posts with label cover illustrations.
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Ephemera: German Matchbox Labels

Agence eureka: Etiquettes d'allumettes, le ski (Allemagne)
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