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  1. Happy Thanksgiving! — Boughs of Holly Card Free Download

    It's a time to give thanks…

     Shown more than twice its real size of three by five inches, the Christmas Rose Postcard is a vintage die-cut from the Crèchemnia Collection. 

     A decorated piece of pumpkin pie provides a welcome break from all the Thanskgiving cutting-and-pasting. The house is filled with guests and wonderful Thanksgiving smells, and I'm sitting at the kitchen table, Turkey baster at the ready.

    But also in front of me ...
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  2. Glad tidings: brand new Free and Premium Downloads and a nativity sheet!

    A long hiatus — a 9,000 mile road trip from the Midwest to the West, then East Coast, and back — makes this enthusiast long for his X-acto knife and paper nativity sheets…

     The fold-out Thurible Nativity No. 8 — now a brand-new Premium Download — is among the most beautiful in the Crèchemania collection. 

     "Gloria in Excelsis Deot!" banners in English, French, German, Spanish, Czech, Portuguese, and Greek are included in the Thurible Nativity No. 8 Premium ...
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  3. Christmas in July: a Mistletoe Christmas Diorama for Terri — and you!

    A sunlit 4th of July, a beautiful view, a delicious picnic, wonderful friends — and a Mistletoe Christmas Diorama for Terri…

     Terri Carlson, celebrating the Fourth in red-white-and-blue, with her Mistletoe Diorama. 

     
    Taking time out from the fireworks for Terri's mistletoe shoot — note the creative use, by Craig and David, of a kitchen towel for a scrim to soften the direct sunlight, and the colorful throw acting as a background, courtesy of ...
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  4. Collin, a six-year-old crèche enthusiast, inspires an Advent Cuckoo

    The Schreiber Advent House Calendar paper model — available at the Paper Model Kiosk — is pretty wondeful as it is: heart-decorated windows of a colorful, chimney-topped ginger-bread-like house open to reveal 24 wonderful "hidden" pictures. But we couldn't resist the temptation of adding a dial and a quartz movement to create an Advent Cuckoo Clock for a very special six-year-old crèche enthusiast named Collin…

    The colorful Schreiber paper model "Advent Calendar House" becomes a ...
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  5. An exquisite Nativity window, just one of the treasures of St. Mary's, Remsen, Iowa

    It stands on the village green, a magnificent church towering above the houses that surround it, just like the cathedrals of Europe. But this isn't a quaint town in the Old World, but tiny Remsen, Iowa, where, amidst so much to be thankful for, Luxembourger, French, Alsatian, German, and Irish Catholic Pioneers built St. Mary's in the praise of God…

    Embellishing our video frame are hand-carved wood images from St. Mary's Catholic Church, Remsen, Iowa — (from bottom, left) Meeting ...
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