A Victorian Christmas tree was decorated with candles, pine cones, and handmade lace ornaments, crocheted snowflakes, and paper chains. Music was provided by the parlor piano, violin, mandolin, guitar, flute and drum.
Possible gifts might include wheel thrown pottery from a hot kiln, wood sculpture or wood carvings. Quilts, aprons.
Reminiscing enchanting stories, the gathering place was the parlor. Toys might include tops, metal mechanical toys, sparklers of flint, monkey on a stick. They played parlor games and remembered time-honored traditions and looked at memorabilia.
Some traditions become outdated and unwanted. See if others share your same concerns and change traditions. Connect to what matters.
Doctors made late night house calls and received payment in chickens and produce.
Story Idea:
There it was in the store window: the most beautiful Victorian dollhouse in the whole wide world! Inside were the tiny furnishings replicated in exquisite detail, from the sepia portraits of ancesters on the walls down to the burgundy wool oriental-style carpeting on the floors. It was gorgeous, beautiful, and totally unattainable.
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