A Vintage Merry Christmas from Lady Antique Dealer

Lady Antique Dealer and Dear Husbola wish our loyal readers a wonderful Merry
Christmas and all good things for the New Year.   Here's hoping you get something vintage or antique or at least quirky in your Christmas stocking.

We are taking a bit of a  blogging hiatus till the beginning of January to spend time with our friends and family, reflect on the beautiful sacred Christmas season (that runs till January 6 remember the Wise Men!)  To enjoy warm food, and Christmas crackers and clementines, open a present or two and reflect on the importance of the people in our lives--both those we are related to and dear special friends.

Dear Husbola will spend some time tweeking his train layout that he laments is small this year---Even though we cleaned out a large portion of our garden room for it.  It is a magical operation with vintage 1950s and earlier trains and houses and metal figures and it moves and whistles and smokes if you put the special liquid in the old locomotives.

I will leave you for awhile with a favorite quotation of mine from Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe--

"For the New Year, I would wish to have
       strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them:
Love enough to move me to be useful and helpful
        to others;
Faith enough to make real the things of God;
        and hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."