Christmas in January

Yesterday, I got these in the mail.....



Can you stand it? I can't!



Dorothy! The Cowardly Lion! The Tin Man! The Scarecrow!

Three little mice!

These!

This!

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When I was growing up, I got to work in the family store. My grandfather owned a clothing store, and for awhile, my grandmother had a little "cove" where she sold fantastic yarns and these kinds of crafts as well as lovely women's ware (women's wear?).

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One of the company's sent these craft samples in 1979. Ever after, they decorated the store's Christmas tree. The tree that I helped to adorn....along with all the other tinsel-y garlands that jazzed up the store each Christmas. (I can still smell the smell of that garland.) ((TALK about glitzy sparkle. Wooo!))

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I just KNEW all those years of working would pay off!!! :)

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Thanks, Aunti Cook!!