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Dennison's Bogie Book -- A 1917 Guide for Vintage Decorating and Entertaining at Halloween and Thanksgiving  
by Dennison Mfg Co.

{softcover, 37 pages, 5.5x8.5, 2012, ISBN: 1936049627}

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Originally published in 1917, this Bogie Book features the following ideas and suggestions for planning and decorating for vintage Halloween and Thanksgiving celebrations:

- Nostalgic "punkin man" poem
- Halloween games including the throne room, three letter words,
  testing fate, your aim, musical nut hunt, and more
- Many ideas for inexpensive decorations
- Two diningroom decorations
- Pirate brig themed table with menu
- Novelties including Halloween decorated goblets, "fate" cake
  and popcorn "corn-ucopias"
- A handful of Jack Horner ideas
- Fortunes told
- Menu/refreshment ideas 
- Charmed Circle: after dinner, a witch takes over and leads
  party goers in two games, money making made easy and magic in
  number 20
- Gruesome Tale
- Making ballroom ghosts
- Which Witch is Which
- Witch Night Dance
- Dance games including pot luck, wheel of fortune and more
- Pumpkin and bat costume and two childrens costumes (the book
  references patterns no longer in existence for making costumes;
  however, the text instructions and images are clear for 
  recreating the costume).  For plans and instructions for more
  Halloween costumes, please see our Dennison Costume book
  listings.
- Thanksgiving dinner table decorations including ideas
- Thanksgiving after dinner games 

Centerpieces, favors and novelty suggestions and ideas fill this book as well as instructions for mounting crepe paper designs, making fringed crepe, creating ruffled or fluted edges, using crepe tubing, etc., to make each of your projects a success. This book also includes all of the original price lists for the Dennison stock goods -- perfect for the collector of vintage Dennison ephemera.