"It's the holiday seasonAnd Santa Claus is coming 'round..."
These windows on upper Forest Avenue are quite colorful and seem to be welcoming the holiday season. Besides putting our Christmas lights up in the windows in early December, Mom allowed us to coat the bottom of the windows with aerosol cans of 'fake frost'. I also recall one season where we used some sort of colored plastic paper (oxymoron?) to create a stain glass effect on them. They weren't as elaborate as these, but I bet we had as much fun. Thanks to ideas she gathered from the old Captain Kangaroo show, Mom had what seemed an endless 'treasure house' of art supplies. Good thing, because she had to entice and entertain us for hours each December.
ah, capt kangaroo...our childhoods would have been greatly diminished if not for him.
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ReplyDeleteVery pretty windows. Great memories Birdman. Capt. Kangaroo and frosted windows! Excellent!
ReplyDeleteThe designs are colourful and bright...just the way we should enter the holiday season!
ReplyDeleteI remember those spray cans of frost, we used stencils of snowflakes with it...
ReplyDeleteI love these windows. Those bright colors are just lovely!
ReplyDeleteOh, I remember those "stained glass" decorations. And then later they had the kind where you poured the liquid glass into metal molds and baked them. Pretty nerdy by today's standards but as kids we thought they were superb!
ReplyDeleteGood memories brought on by a fine photo. Thanks for sharing. I too remember fondly Captain Kangaroo on TV. Did you ever watch Miss Frances' Ding Dong School? I used to think I could talk into the remote speaker my Daddy had hooked up to the TV and the placed across the room from it. I figured she could hear me if I could hear her, so I told her what I would like to happen next on the show. Since I had watched often enough to follow the cues, I could say something and often if would happen. I believed in magic!
ReplyDeleteHmmm, you just gave me some great ideas! I've got to start stocking up...school will be out before I know it. These happy windows are so pretty!
ReplyDeleteSo nice to see these colored windows, a beautiful season decoration!
ReplyDeleteHugs and a nice weekend,
Léia
Love these cheery windows - and thanks for reminding me of those snow-frosted windows - we did that, too.
ReplyDeletePretty windows! I haven't seen any like these go up yet.
ReplyDeletethose are pretty! and nothing better than your own imagination to fill the hours!
ReplyDeleteGood old Captain Kangaroo!
ReplyDeleteIsn't is nice how Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas bring back the old memories and what we did. Strange how I can remember those days that are now decades in the past but I can't remember two are three days ago.....now where did I put my keys?
ReplyDeleteSo are these made with the colored plastic sheets, paper or maybe blow-ups of kid drawings? They must really draw the attention of passers by.
ReplyDeleteNow that's color!
ReplyDeleteYou know Birdman, I'm seriously thinking of spraying all my windows with 'fake frost' this year just to try and fool myself into thinking it's not sooooo hot!!
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