Share a childhood Christmas picture!

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Thought it would be fun for us to share a childhood Christmas picture to help get us in the spirit!
I'm 3 years old in this picture(1973) & remember almost every gift in the photo!
Please share yours!

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HeeHee! Mom mom always tells me that she felt rich at Christmas because she could find so many fun things for cheap to give us Christmas morning from Santa! We were not rich at all but Christmas morning my mom made me feel like a Very, Very Good Girl!!
Now Share Yours!!!
 
What a cute photo!

My mom has the family photos, I don't have many from my childhood, but I did find a Christmas one:

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Christmas'83 - my cousin (on the left) and I. This is typical - we started playing with the stuff we were given practically underneath the Christmas tree. I got my much-loved doll's house that Christmas :xmasunwrap2: , and that's what I'm playing with in the photo.

My mom made me this doll's house herself. Basically, it was a small piece of Ikea furniture with three shelves, two of which were divided into two rooms each, with a big living room on the middle shelf. My mom decorated the "floors" with different scraps of carpet, the walls with scraps of fabric, and she even painted windows on the back wall and glued "curtains" onto them. And she bought me nice, solid, wooden dolls house furniture for it. It wasn't as fancy as the dolls houses that you could buy ready-made, but I never wanted another one, and I had it for many years.

Karin
 
Karin, how fun! Your mom was very creative! Plus I love your Dorthy Hammel haircut!
Doesn't need to be a childhood photo, I'm sure over the years things get burried... Add a photo of you or with friends from any holiday!!
 
Thanks! At that time, my mom used to cut my hair ;) . I am always astonished at what a nice shade my natural hair color was then - really golden. Can't believe it turned into the mousy shade that I now constantly bury with hair dye...

Here's a pic from Xmas '02:
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I had found this amazing dress about two weeks before Christmas and decided to try the 60s look out - probably the first time I tried "vintage" styling all the way. This was just for the family Christmas party :hysterical: !
Ok, the boots aren't quite correct, but it was too cold outside to wear anything else. This is probably the longest my hair ever was, and I gave it the full works with hot rollers, and I did my eye-makeup according to the step-by-step instructions from a mid-60s Burda magazine! Big eyeliner and shimmery pastel eyeshadow, and I borrowed my mom's vintage earrings with black rhinestones, as I had nothing fitting myself. The handbag is new, but I think it's perfect.

Karin
 
Oh my goodness! You are so pretty and so Hip!Do you still have the dress and fun purse? My mom gave me the Peter pan Page-Boy cut from age 3 to 7. I remember people saying in the grocery store "What cute little boy!" It wasn't her fault... I had a really compulsive desire to take a pair of scissors to my bangs and snip! It was the only cut that would blend in with my compulsion!
 
Later my hair got shorter, and yes, I was sometimes take for a boy too!

Yup, I still have the dress, I have worn it a few times since - it's one of my favourite Salvation Army shop finds. Home-made or made by a seamstress. The lace has been stitched on entirely by hand except on the sides, where it was sewn in with the seams. The dress fits really well and is super-flattering - a real keeper.
I'm keeping the purse too, it's so super. It's from H&M actually - they did a lot of Mod-style looks that winter, all in black and white or red and white. I even bought white retro go-go boots! But the purse was the fabbest piece of that whole collection. That wide black bangle I'm wearing in the photo came from that collection too.

Karin
 
oh, man, I'll have to go dig for some from the 70s...I know I have a few in some home-sewn polyester pants that will really tickle the eyes!
 
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