Vintage Ribbon, and

The fabulous illustration blog drawn has featured a number of scans of old 50s illos---the sort of thing that always make me think of my mother's retro china, or Hanna Barbera's Jetsons---and that's how I think of this candy-cane printed ribbon. To be sure, one can still purchase printed ribbon, but nothing this ug--, I mean this unsophisticated.

retro ribbon and vintage ornaments decorate a snowman motif paper. Dec 2005.

It caught the attention of the younger f2 generation, and happy it had found an appreciative audience, I wrapped a gift for same, matching the garage-sale find to some retro-ish looking snowmen paper. Note that I off-centered the ribbon between the snowmen. The white ribbon just looks old, but actually it's recent---it just had pins attaching it to fresh flowers in its previous life, and the pins rusted. I cut the worst of the stains off. The little red and blue ornaments, hot glued on, are authentically old, though.

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