Book excerpt: Commemorate a bygone age and immerse yourself in the elegance of the Victorian era with this treasure trove of Christmas ephemera--with 500+ stickers and 50+ activity pages, making it Christmas every day! With A Vintage Victorian Christmas Sticker, Color & Activity Book, you can celebrate the Christmas season with all things Victorian. The wondrous nineteenth century brought us many everyday luxuries that we still enjoy today, including electricity, telephones, photography, movies, and flush toilets. Many more inventions, such as pasteurization, sewing machines, underground trains, bicycles, and X-rays also came into being. But the Victorian era also ushered in many of the favorite Christmas traditions we still hold dear. From the first indoor Christmas trees and the look of Father Christmas to giving presents and sending Christmas cards, the time of Queen Victoria's reign was one of festivities and a growing leisure class. Now you, too, can get into the Christmas spirit and partake in these modern-day leisurely pastimes with this activity book's: Exquisitely ornate holiday-themed stickers from the past. Use them to decorate envelopes, gift wrap, letters, scrapbooks, photo albums, or the whimsical Victorian Christmas crafts you can create from this book. On the backs of the sticker pages are merry quotations from notable Victorians and popular Christmas carols of the time. Christmas cards and easy-to-assemble envelopes. The first Christmas card was sent in 1843 with designs we'd find quite curious today. Create your own by filling in your name and message, coloring in the designs, and adding stickers. Enchanting coloring pages, featuring line-drawn images of Christmas trees, angels, Father Christmas, and snowy scenes. Each full-page design has a meditative pattern on the back that you can color in any way you like, regardless of your artistic abilities. You can even adorn your finished works of art with the stickers. Words games and activities, such as mazes, connect-the-dots, trivia, matching, shadow puppets, and more! Period-specific pastimes, like parlor games and making holiday items such as Christmas crackers, gilded walnuts, pomanders, figgy pudding, and so much more. With beautiful foil accents on the cover, so many pages to look at, so many things to do, and so much Christmas joy to be had in these pages, A Vintage Victorian Christmas Sticker, Color & Activity Book is the perfect book to have on hand when a free moment strikes during the busy holiday season--or whenever the mood is right. Whether you're a sticker lover, scrapbooker, crafter, colorer, puzzler, or general enthusiast of the holiday season, you're sure to find something unique in this nostalgic treasure trove of Christmas!