The Chipmunks' Merry Christmas

 

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"The Chipmunks' Merry Christmas" is a vintage Little Golden children's Book from 1959 written by  David Corwin and illustrated by Richard Scarry. Alvin and the Chipmunks was a music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958 and one of earliest of the Alvin and the Chipmunks memorabilias.

The book features wonderful illustrations and anthropomorphic characters of Alvin, Simon and Theodore, and the tiny owl, the music teacher.

The entire book looks great, but I especially like the part where the chipmunks sing their famous song:

Christmas, Christmas time is near,

Time for toys and time for cheer.

We've been good, but we can't last,

Hurry Christmas, Hurry fast.

(the song continues...)

Wow. Such a fun song that you'll enjoy singing all day long!

The book is a masterpiece filled with breathtaking pictures. And, If you are looking for a Christmas title as a gift for the special someone in your life, this will be perfect! Don't be late, order now!

Darling Clementine: Winter Wonders

 

Winter Wonders is the new 2011 Christmas card range by Darling Clementine inspired by beautiful Scandinavian "woodland fauna in a fairy tale land of ice and snow". The set includes four designs and costs $16, available here.

Owl Love You Wedding

It's always great to see someone using owls as the primary theme of the wedding and when the wedding is this beautiful and inspirational, it needs to be featured. Wedding Chicks featured this fabulous Owl Love You wedding ideas on their blog put together by a team of talented people of Electric Blonde Entertainment and Events. 

There are so many wonderful details like owls, stunning feather cakes, cowboy boots, pumpkins mixed into a rustic setting inspired by "a color palette that married fall and winter colors, bridging the gap between the seasons."

Oh, this is my favorite - "For the guestbook, Beet&Path designed five different owls, which I then cut and pasted into a collage on a large canvas. The idea here was that guests would arrive, find a photo of themselves in a box, then cut and paste their face onto the owl of their choice – a fun alternative to the traditional guestbook." Isn't this brilliant!

 

 

The owl feather headpiece and the gorgeous owl ring is to die for! To view more pictures and for info. on all the participants, go here.

Little Owl's Night

Little Owl's Night is a story book by Divya Srinivas the author and illustrator based in Austin, Texas. Her work has appeared in New Yorker magazine, and she has worked for This American Life, They Might Be Giants, Sundance Channel, Sufjan Stevens, and Weird Al Yankovic.  

Little Owl's Night is her first book with delightful illustrations of owl with enormous eyes and other adorable animals. It's a perfect bedtime story book for a unique reading experience with your little one with a simple story and with the message that night is a delightful place.

It's evening in the forest and Little Owl wakes up from his day-long sleep to watch his friends enjoying the night. Hedgehog sniffs for mushrooms, Skunk nibbles at berries, Frog croaks, and Cricket sings. 

A full moon rises and Little Owl can't understand why anyone would want to miss it. Could the daytime be nearly as wonderful? Mama Owl begins to describe it to him, but as the sun comes up, Little Owl falls fast asleep.


With holidays close at hand, this picture book will be a great gift for a book lover. Get it from here.

Free Christmas Giftwrap and Stationery Set

Once again, My Owl Barn has collaborated with Lynn of Jinjerup to create Owlways Christmas giftwrap & stationery set.  This set featuring red Christmas owls on snowy white background consists of wrapping paper, gift tags, note card and even an envelope. And the best part is, all of this is for free!

The set comes in two parts:

1) Owlways Christmas Giftwrap Set

- gift tags x 3 designs

- wrapping paper in letter size x 1 design

Available for download here.

2) Owlways Christmas Stationery Set

- note card x 2 designs

- envelope x 1 design

Available for download here via Jinjerup blog.

PDF file Info:

1) The PDF Files are formatted to letter sized: 11"x 8.5".

2) Open & print PDF files in FREE Adobe Reader software. 

3) Your screen & printer’s printout colors may look slightly different from PDF files.

4) Some photos of the Owlways Christmas set show the gift tag and notecard having slightly scalloped/patterned edges, this patterned/scalloped effect is made by using a craft scissors after cutting out the gifttags or notecard from the printed PDF file. The actual cutting lines/outlines of the gifttag and note card are straight lines.


Update: The link to the Owlways Christmas Giftwrap set has been fixed. Thank you for your patience.

Owl Badges as Stocking Fillers

Sarah Cowan just launched these owl badges in two cool designs - Boombox hipster owl and Tattoo hipster owl, I even like the packaging. Each badge is for less than $5 which makes them a perfect stocking filler at this price. Grab'em now before they are gone!

Birthday + Giveaway: Christmas Ornaments and Necklace

Good Morning, everyone! I hope you all are getting ready for the holidays and after that looking forward to a break to spend some time with our families. But before we get there, in the spirit of the festive season that we can feel in the air and on my birthday (it's my birthday today!) I have an exciting news to share with you. 

Renée Treml has generously offered a set of three ornaments or a necklace to two very lucky winners. The winners can pick if they want a set of ornaments or a necklace, they can even pick out which necklace or which 3 ornaments they want from six lovely designs. If you win, it'll be a perfect gift to give to your loved one or keep it for your self.  So don't wait, enter now!

1. To enter, you must be a follower of My Owl Barn (click here to follow My Owl Barn)

2. Like My Owl Barn on Facebook 

3. Share this giveaway on Facebook

Make sure you leave a comment here letting me know that you are a follower and have liked and shared.

I'll announce the winners on December 10th!

Update: Rose and aurorafedora are our winners this time!

Owl Sugar Cookies

 

 

 

 

These cute owl sugar cookies are made by Lorraine Elliott of Not Quite Nigella. They are so easy to make and require a only a few ingredients and couple of round cutters. Add some fun details like an apron, a high top hat or a pair of eye glasses to make an owl resemble your family member (an apron wearing owl cookies will make a perfect gift for your sister who loves to cook!). Wrap'em up in a box and surprise a loved ones with a homemade treat this holiday!

For the more details and instructions on the recipe go here.

Elisandra aka Sevenstar

Elisandra is a designer based in Berlin, Germany and the owner of an online store Sevenstar. Her new retro-style Christmas card collection is inspired by the animals of the forest and 60s bold color palette are beautiful. The cards can be bought as a set of 20 cards, two of each design from here. I love the owl card with the text "there is Christmas in the air!"  

Happy December + Snowy Owl Wallpaper

 

What better way to start a brand new month than a free desktop wallpaper? This wallpaper reminds me of the cold winter nights and snowy days that are just around the corner. While you are stuck at home, put on some music and grab a cup of tea, this snowy owl will gladly keep you company :) You can download this wallpaper from here for free!