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Dennison's Bogie Book -- A 1920 Guide for Vintage Decorating and Entertaining at Halloween and Thanksgiving (8th Edition) 
by Dennison Mfg Co.

{softcover, 33 pages, 5.5x8.5, 2009, ISBN: 1936049236}

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Originally published in 1920, this Bogie Book features the following ideas and suggestions for planning and decorating for vintage Halloween and Thanksgiving celebrations:

- stairway decorations
- spider's parlor
- father time celebrating Halloween
- a story to tell as the hour grows late
- window seat made Halloweeny
- table and Jack Horner pie guarded by wise old owls
- pumpkin favors, including instructions to make a wire frame
  pumpkin to cover in crepe or tissue paper
- house that crepe paper builds
- table decorations made from napkins and crepe paper
- place cards, dance orders, menus, score cards, etc., made from
  cutouts and seals
- old time games and stunts for halloween including: family
  ghosts, T-puzzle, witchery, numbers of mystery, signs of the
  times, Halloween anagrams, talking pumpkin and much more
- Halloween menus
- halls at Halloween
- instructions for making crepe paper caps
- detailed costume making instructions for four costumes (for
  plans and instructions for more Halloween costumes, please see
  our Dennison Costume listings)
- autumn table
- instructions for making a wire horn of plenty for Thanksgiving
- how to mount designs on cardboard

Centerpieces, favors and novelty suggestions and ideas fill this book as well as instructions for working with crepe, wrapping wires, twisting festoons, making fringe, etc., to make each of your projects a success. This book also includes all of the original price lists for the Dennison stock goods (cut-outs, napkins, crepe paper, caps, place cards, gummed silhouettes, etc) -- perfect for the collector of vintage Dennison ephemera.