Is it Christmas yet?

Erika, aka Bio Art Gal, is our host this entire month at Art Journal Journey with her themes plaid, stripes, polka dots, and patterns.  We have lots of choices, so there's every reason to play.  Before we begin, I wanted to share this:

These are saddle shoes and sometimes known as saddle oxfords.  Apparently they were quite popular with men who wore them as golf shoes and teen girls who wore them with bobby socks.  They were quite popular from the 1930s through the 1950s.  Seems this was an American thing, so I was quite surprised when my international friends didn't know what they were.  For some reason, I thought "assumed" it was a universally known shoe.  I apologize for that erroneous assumption.  Now back to our regularly scheduled post.

Is it Christmas yet?

Most know it's a jolly old holiday.

Children bundled in warm outer wear are carrying a Christmas tree home on their sled they chopped down and plan to decorate.  Doesn't that conjure up images of Christmas to you?  It also fits the current theme Boys/ Girls/ Children at Try it on Tuesday.

Perhaps you would prefer to play a board game, like this one called Visit of Santa Claus.  The Visit of Santa Claus board game, which features colorful lithography, is a vintage spin and move race game.

Apparently there are two covers, but each includes a game board, a cardboard spinner, thirty-three "gift" cards you collect, and a wooden game piece.

What could feel more like Christmas than Christmas plaid?

For this journal page, I started with a sheet of 12 X 12 inch (30,48 centimeter) square plaid scrapbook paper that I cut to 8.5 X 11 inch (21,59 X 27,94 centimeter) size.  These images were in my stash and I decided to leave them the sizes they were or I would have needed to print them using black toner or black inkjet ink.

Thanks for joining Bleubeard and me today.  I hope you will join Bleubeard and me at Art Journal Journey and Try it on Tuesday, too.