Primitive Santa Doll + Halloween Fun

Santa Claus is comin’ to town! I just added this new primitive doll to the Old World Primitives Etsy shop – a robed Santa carrying a Christmas stocking. The sweet annie in Santa’s stocking came from Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm in Pennsylvania (I never miss their delightful Harvest Festival).

Santa primitive doll

primitive folk art Santa doll

Santa is SOLD, thank you!

Although I have started making Christmas items already, I am still having fun getting into the Halloween spirit and enjoying the season. Last night I went to the Great Jack-O’-Lantern Blaze in Hudson Valley, NY. It featured over 4,000 individually hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins on display in the form of dinosaurs, pirates, snakes, spiders, mummies, an undersea aquarium, grave angels (my favorite part!) and more. Below are some of the photos that I took at the event that came out well enough to be recognizable (it was dark and spooky! which meant that sadly many of my favorite parts of the display didn’t photograph well).

Great Jack-O'-Lantern Blaze 2008

Great Jack-O'-Lantern Blaze 2008

Great Jack-O'-Lantern Blaze 2008

Great Jack-O'-Lantern Blaze 2008

Great Jack-O'-Lantern Blaze 2008

Great Jack-O'-Lantern Blaze 2008

Victorian Style Santa Ornaments

WSOAPP turned one year old yesterday – Happy Anniversary, WSOAPP! For our anniversary launch I listed a new set of 6 Christmas ornaments in the Old World Primitives Etsy shop. The ornaments are made of Victorian paper scrap, felt, cotton batting, and chenille. They are also available via the Old World Primitives homepage shop.

Victorian style Santa ornaments

I am off to go get a new Santa doll ready for the next WSOAPP shoppe update on October 7th.

New on Etsy Today

I listed a new item in my Old World Primitives Etsy shop last night – a bag of primitive candy cane ornaments. They had sold by this morning, so I have listed them again. 🙂

chenille candy cane ornaments

chenille candy cane ornaments

I was also delighted to find that my newest set of vintage style Halloween ornaments is featured in a new Etsy treasury today – I love little surprises that brighten my day!

etsy treasury

Vintage Style Christmas Folk Art Ornaments

Today’s new creation is a set of 3 vintage style chenille Christmas ornaments. The set includes one of each style pictured below, and they are available now in the Old World Primitives Etsy shop.

chenille Christmas folk art ornaments

Each Christmas ornament is made of chenille plus Victorian Santa and vintage Christmas images printed on card stock.