I like to be seasonal with my collections on Pictureboxblue. It will be Christmas soon, so I thought I’d add a collection of vintage reindeer drawings to the site. In the past, I have curated collections of illustrations of animals also associated with Christmas, penguins, and polar bears. I even[Read more]
Besides pine trees, the holy, and the ivy, there are other plants one associates with Christmas. Here I’ve curated some vintage Christmas flower illustrations including poinsettia drawings Poinsettias are probably the most popular of all the Christmas flowers. Over 35 million of them are sold in the US every year.[Read more]
The reason I started this blog is due to my love of vintage maps and natural history images. I used to spend many hours as a child pouring over pictorial encyclopedias. That’s why I have made this DIY butterfly Christmas ornament, to reflect my interest. I chose the vintage butterfly[Read more]
Jenny Nystrom was a Swedish artist born in 1854. She was known as the woman who created the Scandinavian image of Christmas, with her numerous Scandinavian Christmas cards and magazine covers. She gave Sweden the festive image of, Christmas gifts and the Christmas tree. Jenny linked the Swedish version of[Read more]
I’ve already used some of the wonderful vintage images on this site to make some upcycled dictionary Christmas baubles for my tree. When I came across a pile of old spectacles I thought it would be fun to repurpose them into eyeglass ornaments for the tree. Every year I get[Read more]
As a child, I used to love to take things apart to see how they were made. That is probably why I’m fascinated with patent art. Google has a great search engine where you can search for original patents. As it’s coming near to Christmas I thought it would be[Read more]
I have curated a copyright-free collection of wonderful vintage Christmas images to download and use as you want. Whether that is for decorations, crafts or even to make your own Christmas cards. Celebrating Christmas is a relatively modern phenomenon. It’s only since the late 19th century that Christmas became a[Read more]