I'm back!

Hello, all.  I'm back and new and improved.  While trying to buy the domain name for Holiday Mama, I discovered someone already owned it...the nerve!! So I decided to add a little spice to my name and embrace my Hispanic roots by changing my name to Holiday Mamasita (holidaymamasita.blogspot.com).  My 9 year old daughter, Lizzie, looked horrified when I told of the change, saying, "Mom, 'mamasita' means 'sexy lady'!" (She attends a diverse school where the term 'mamasita' is thrown around the playground.) "Are you trying to say you're a sexy lady?" I told her mamasita literally means, 'little mama', but if the shoe fits.... Anyway, I now own the domain and am for evermore Holiday Mamasita! Sorry for the lapse.

     I am a person in love with the past.  I am fascinated with my ancestry and that of my children, the history of my 97 year old haunted house, antiques and vintage memorabilia.  I collect many things, but the mother load is my collection of Christmas "stuff".

I collect antique or vintage: ornaments, glass bead garland, Currier and Ives prints, plastic light-up Santa's, butter pats that I place in plate hangers and hang on the tree, red transfereware, Christmas trees, post cards, tablecloths, records, molds and so much more.  I love when things have a well-used and well-loved patina and a history.  

  Tradition is also central in my life, and we have many of them in mi familia. (see that easy use of Espanol? I am a Mamasita, after all!)  History, collecting and tradition go hand in hand around here, and I'll be sharing some of mine with you.  I hope you likey.

  -Holiday Mamasita

Me enjoying a tissue restorer