An extensively illustrated site featuring Victorian holiday entertaining, gift giving and decorating ideas and fun from over 100 years ago. Find a plum pudding recipe, Victorian Christmas crafts, Christmas decorations, Christmas ornaments, Christmas tree, and Christmas cards. This is a great place to show today's children how magical Christmas can be.

The First Christmas Card

In 1843 an edition of 1,000 of these Christmas cards was placed on sale in London. They were printed in lithography by Jobbins of Warwick Court, Holborn, London, and hand-colored by a professional "colourer" named Mason.