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Gifts From Your Kitchen
Have some ladies on your Christmas list? Women from 9-99 love bath and body
products and would surely welcome a homemade gift from your kitchen! This recipe
for a peppermint sugar scrub is from one of my favorite blogs, Mommy Musings.
The creator used peppermint, but you can customize your scrub to use your favorite
scent. The selection of essential oils is amazing and you are sure to find something
you like. Sugar scrubs are a wonderful way to exfoliate all that winter skin, leaving it
luxuriously soft and smelling wonderful!
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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, hands down. The stress level is low, the
food focus is high, and being surrounded by family and friends just makes my
heart overflow with thankfulness. One of my favorite times of the day is that
period when dinner is over and we are lingering over the table, enjoying dessert and
coffee and reminiscing about Thanksgivings past. Pecan pie and pumpkin pie are
a given, but I like to throw in a different dessert every year for those who may not
be pie lovers. My mother-in-law, Clarine, always made an Italian Cream cake on
holidays and it was just delicious. I think this will please the non-pie people at your
house, too. Enjoy!
Italian Cream Cake
1 stick butter, softened
½ c. shortening
2 c. sugar
5 eggs, separated
2 c. flour
1 t. baking soda
1 c. buttermilk
1 c. chopped nuts
1 sm. can coconut
1 t. vanilla
Cream butter, shortening and sugar. Add 5 egg yolks and beat. In separate
bowl, mix flour and baking soda. Add buttermilk and mix well. Add flour mixture
to butter mixture and beat. Add coconut, nuts and vanilla. In separate bowl, beat
5 egg whites until stiff. Gently fold egg whites into cake batter. Pour into greased
and floured 9 x 13 pan. Bake at 350 for 60 minutes. Cool completely.
Italian Cream Cake Frosting
8 oz. cream cheese, softened 1 lb. (3 ¾ c.) powdered sugar
¼ c. margarine, softened
Chopped nuts and coconut (optional)
1 t. vanilla
Beat cream cheese and margarine together. Stir in vanilla. Beat in powdered
sugar; add nuts and/or coconut, if desired. Spread on cooled cake.
© Susan Tipsord 2014
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by Robert Reed
For more than a century now the Christmas angel in wax, paper, cloth,
wood, or other materials has decorated the holiday scene.
Once considered merely ornaments or trimmings, their diversity and
enduring background of craftsmanship makes many of them highly collectible today.
Writing of Christmas in the 1870s, Phil Snyder in the Encyclopedia of
Collectibles told of angels made of cotton and wool. Breaking tradition
they were sold in stores rather than made at home.
“Decorated with embossed paper faces and such details as buttons,
powdered glass and gold paper wings, they were often the children’s favorites,” he noted, “probably because they were unbreakable and therefore
were the only tree ornament children were allowed to play with.”
This December these very same angels, made in the Thuringian Mountains of Germany and referred to as Dresdens--the name of a particular
town in the region--are truly treasured.
Wax angels of Christmas became quite popular towards the end of the
19th century. Some were solid wax, but most bore a simple wax covering
over a base of composition or papier-mache.
The majority of waxed angels of the 1890s and early 20th century stood
about four inches tall, but sizes varied up to 14 inches. Generally the larger
angels were more expensive when sold then and are therefore considered the
more valuable today.
“Almost all of them hosted wings of spun glass,” according to Robert
Brenner the author of Christmas Past, “and many times were finished at
the end with a tiny gold paper star to which a thread was attached so that
the wings could be properly posed in the branches of the Christmas tree.”
The effect was that “many children on Christmas morning thought that
indeed the angels of heaven were hovering in their tree.”
Generally tree ornaments for Christmas, including angels, did not come
into their own until the middle of the 19th century. While German glass
blowers are known to have fashioned angel ornaments for limited used
earlier, angles of wax poured over plaster were not widespread in that
country until the middle 1850s.
By the 1880s German manufacturers were exporting both glass-blown
and wax angels to the United States where decorating the Christmas tree
has also become a popular tradition.
In the fall of 1880 a German importer persuaded Frank Woolworth to
purchase $25 worth of various ornaments for his few stores in America.
“In two days they were gone,” Woolworth said later, “and I woke up.” In
ten years Woolworth had expanded to 14 stores and was ordering 200,000
blown-glass ornaments each holiday season.
By the late 1890s mail order: firms like Sears and Roebuck were offering items like an angel surrounded
by tinsel that was actually made in
the United States and promised to be
more durable than “old style German
glass tree ornaments.” The Carl P. Stirn
catalog of 1893 also promoted “wax
angels with spun glass wings, suspended on rubbers,” for 3 8 cents each.
At the height of the Victorian era
angels were offered not only in wax and
glass, but in cotton, wood, straw, china,
and various types of paper.
Back in the Dresden region of Germany skilled craftsmen were using the
advancements of chromolithographic
printing for dazzling turn-of-the-century
embossed cardboard angel ornaments.
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Eventually the Dresden-type angels, as beautiful as they were, were
overshadowed by the more durable cotton ornaments that could be twisted
into shapes, and the even more last porcelains of the early 20th century
that came both from Germany and Japan.
After World War I the Japanese began a prolonged period of producing
angel ornaments mostly in celluloid or porcelain. Many of the very early
Japanese figures had celluloid faces or heads, backed by cotton batting and
stick-framed bodies.
Another significant period of angel ornament production followed in
Japan at the end of World War II. This time made in occupied Japan items
extended from existing porcelain, papier mache and celluloid to include
wood and soft white metal.
Besides the leading industrial countries of the first half of the 20th century, a vast assortment of Christmas angels came from Mexico and other
Central and South American countries starting the late 1940S and continuing through the 1960s. The majority of these had their beginnings with
native folk artists where the angel was already a significant part of their
culture. Often angel figures painted on paper, wood, and earthenware were
exported to other countries for the Christmas holiday season.
Currently the collecting of decorative Christmas ornaments in general
and angels in particular, is highly popular. Books like the previously mentioned Christmas Past, and The Official Price Guide to Holiday Collectibles
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