Vintage Holly Clusters ~ Clip Art

New Year's Day Gathering at Home

Free "Kate Greenaway Inspired" Monthly Printables for the New Year

Happy New Year

"In the business and financial world the end of the old year marks a distinct epoch, and the first of January is the beginning of new accounts and new books. There is a general brushing up, so to speak, and a number of new rules enacted, even if they are never enforced.

There seems to be no reason why there should not be a moral brushing up, as well as a business one. On the first of January, why should not every one take an account of stock? Why not foot up all the good and bad done in the old year, and find out on which side the balance lies? If bad, it is a subject for correction; if good, it is a matter for congratulation.

It is not necessary for one to make the footings public, any more than a business man takes the outside world into his confidence, but a perusal may do a wonderful amount of good. Indeed, it is the only way by which one can learn to avoid a repetition of the errors of the old year.

The first of the new year is called "happy" doubtless on account of the good resolutions which inevitably spring from a contemplation of the past. It is the one day in the year when every right-minded person at least tries to do good, and it is an axiom that to be good is to be happy.

Another reason springs from the time-honored custom of calling and renewing old acquaintances, and thus reviving many happy memories.

Let no boy or girl be laughed out of making good resolutions on New Year's Day. To make a resolution and keep it for a single day is better than to make none at all, and it renders each successive resolution easier to make and keep. But good resolutions may be kept, and then, indeed, the new year will be a happy one.

Resolve, then, on New Year's Day to be something better and nobler than you have been in the old year, to correct some fault or develop some virtue; resolve to make some one's life brighter, or to do good in some way, however humble, and you will find your reward in a happiness equal if not superior to that which you have bestowed."

~ Excerpt from Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Circa. 1891

Victorian Home "Happy New Year" Clip Art, Drawing, Illustration

Edwardian Mother and Daughter Bundled up Beautifully in Winter

 

The Quiet Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott

Victorian Vintage Roses in Yellow and Red

"And the roses--the roses! Rising out of the grass, tangled round the sun-dial, wreathing the tree trunks and hanging from their branches, climbing up the walls and spreading over them with long garlands falling in cascades --they came alive day by day, hour by hour. Fair fresh leaves, and buds--and buds--tiny at first but swelling and working Magic until they burst and uncurled into cups of scent delicately spilling themselves over their brims and filling the garden air."

~ The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Victorian Vintage Antique Roses Clip Art

Set of 6 Vintage Poinsettia Flowers ~ Printable Scrapbook Art

 

The Quiet Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott

vintage poinsettia flowers free clip art

PRINTABLE SCRAPBOOK ART ~ Vintage Poinsettia Flowers by JES

Simply download from the link above and print for your crafting fun.

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Vintage Children with Holly Sprigs ~ Walking Through the Snow

Reuben and the Blizzardby Merle Good 

children winter snow free clip art illustration vintage Victorian 

Crude Rose Vine Frame

"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."

~ James M. Barrie

Winter Church Scene with Holly Cluster

Orange Tree Vintage Illustration ~ Clip Art ~ Scrapbook Page

This clip art would be fun to use with these citrus DIY projects.

vintage orange tree blossom label clip art illustration free

Children Bundled Up in Winter

Drawing by Kate Greenaway

    

Gorgeous Illustration of Victorian Girl in Winter

Winter Blanket

The snow is like a blanket that

God spreads across the land,

Where wheat and oats and barley sleep,

Awaiting God's command.

It covers all the pasture fields,

And hides the grasses brown:

It gives the bare, gray willow tree

A clinging, wooly gown.

It wraps around a fencepost tall,

And covers up its head,

Then drifts along the meadow banks

To tuck the creek in bed.

by Ada L. Wine

Woman in Winter at Desk Label

Victorian Girl in Winter

Reviving Victorian Family Celebrations of Comfort & Joy