Good morning, my friends, and welcome to the fifth and final entry in our series, MERRY & BRIGHT! I hope you've enjoyed what you've found here so far!
What Are You Reading in 2025?
Have you compiled your list of books you want to read in 2025?
I have some pretty ambitious goals for the year, including one non-fiction and one fiction book per month, and sprinkled in along with that, some seasonal reading, as well. I'll be sharing more on that next week, but for now I wanted to point you to a fun resource to inspire you in your reading;
I probably won't participate in the challenge, because I like more freedom with my reading selections, but I already a book about book stores on my list, The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore.
I also like the idea of a book about Libraries and Librarians, and while not about a librarian, this book, Handwritten Recipes: A Booksellers Collection of Curious and Wonderful Recipes Forgotten Between The Pages, as well as Forgotten Bookmarks: A Booksellers Collection of Odd Things Lost Between The Pages, has been on my Amazon Wish List for probably more than a decade. The author is on Instragram, where he shares pictures of some of his finds. Looking up this author led me to this article, The Fascinating Things People Leave Behind in Library Books, which speaks to two librarians who collect the things they discover in returned books.
Free Printable Christmas Gift Tags
If you've run out of gift tags for your Christmas gifts, I found several free printable options that might work for you, as well.
and of course, loving pine trees as I do, I found these, especially nice!
Christmas Time In A 1950's Diner
Came across another fun playlist on You Tube with quaint pictures of old time diners. The scenes are festive, and so are the songs.
Classic Christmas Movies You May Have Forgotten
If you've been visiting here for awhile, then you know how much I love classic movies, and that is especially true at Christmas. With that, I thought I'd share a few you may have forgotten or even never seen! I've included links where you can watch them for free, when I could find them. In some cases, you may need to make an account, but there is no charge to watch them. Maybe you'll find a new favorite!
Ginger Rogers plays a lonely department-store salesgirl who finds a baby on a doorstep. But everybody seems to think the baby is hers, and before she knows it, the baby reels in a fiancé and potential father-in-law as well.
Providing inspiration for future rom-coms like You've Got Mail, The Shop Around the Corner is about two coworkers who outwardly despise each other but don't realize that the pen pals they each write to and are in love with are … each other. The Christmas scenes in Budapest offer equal parts good cheer and romance.
Monty Woolley plays a New York radio personality Sheridan Whiteside, who visits the home of one of his listeners, the Stanleys, for a publicity stunt. But in a real stunt, he slips on the ice and breaks his hip on the steps of their house. He insists on spending Christmas under their care and causes all manner of mayhem.
Christmas in Connecticut - My all time favorite classic Christmas movie!
Barbara Stanwyck is Elizabeth Lane, a woman who has made a living writing about cooking on her farm with her family in Connecticut — but she can't cook a lick, doesn't have a family of her own, and doesn't live in Connecticut! It becomes a problem when her boss invites himself to her abode for the Christmas season and she has to pull off a massive lie with the help of friends.
Three convicts, including Humphrey Bogart, escape prison and end up hiding in a shop run by a small family. The criminals plan to rob the store — until the family invites them to Christmas dinner and they decide to help the nice family with their financial struggles instead.
- Enjoy
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