I’m starting early this year, instead of waiting until Thanksgiving to scratch that itch, I thought I’d give myself plenty of time.  Last weekend I spent all Sunday scouring all of the antique stores I could think of looking for vintage photos of Christmases past, and after all day’s effort I only found two images. I swear – where have all the b&w photos gone?? I swear – I remember seeing stacks of them, but now…it’s like someone scoured the shops ahead of me and took every last photo period. !  I was about to lose my mind – I mean, c’mon, really, in the larger scheme of things, yes – vintage photo shopping is rather irrelevant, yea, I get it.  But shit!  I was about to lose my mind.  I had been looking for hours and hours fueled on nothing but caffeine and THIS IDEA of hand making Christmas cards using vintage photos and vintage kids books.   I found three Santa-y related Little Golden Books and then finally…one vintage photo. A gem. It says, Christmas Eve at our house 1958 in pen on the back.  I LOVE their expressions!  Clearly someone is happy and someone is not.  Ouch!  (Since I only found a few vintage photos, I decided to copy them and keep the originals – really, I had this idea that I’d find lots of cool old photos but nooooooo).