Dennison's Bogie Book -- A 1925 Guide for Vintage Decorating and Entertaining at Halloween and Thanksgiving (13th Edition) [Paperback]

Dennison Manufacturing Co. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2009

Originally published in 1925, this Bogie Book features the following ideas with suggestions for planning, decorating and preparing a party that won't soon be forgotten: a lively home Halloween party; card party on October 31; planning refreshments for the party (including menu and beverage ideas); business girl's halloween party; a dinner dance; supper at the club on Halloween; decorations for school hall, club or parish house; Halloween games including the cup of fate, matrimonial race, ghostly fate, witch's cats, blindfolded partners, spinning the web of fate, apple ten pins, ghostly lites and more; a fabulous rhyming interactive ghost story; costume ideas (for plans and instructions for costumes, please see our Dennison Costume books); decorations for harvest time and thanksgiving. Centerpieces, favors and novelties such as a black cat charm, cat score card, witch pencil, cat balloon, ghostly prize, cat bag, witch horn, witch serving cup, cat serving tray, pirate jack horner pie, pumpkin clown serving cup, candy candlesticks, clown candy holder and so many more are all pictured with instructions on how to make. For Thanksgiving and Harvest Time, the book gives how-to's for a pumpkin blossom balloon, harvest place card, corn and pumpkin centerpiece, gobolink serving cup, corn whistle, pumpkin blossom gobolink, turkey napkin holder, horn of plenty and much more. The Dennison Bogie books featured amazingly creative displays of festooned crepe swags and garland, hanging decorations depicting witches, ghosts, scary pumpkins, black cats and other symbols we associate with Halloween as well as a vast array of games and favors. The Bogie Books were a great source for party planning, each year showing different ideas to match the new products being released by Dennison. Sample book pages are shown at the top of this page. ***FOR MORE BOGIE BOOKS, please see our other listings***

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Bramcost Publications (2009)
• ISBN-10: 1936049058
• ISBN-13: 978-1936049059
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,442,561 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars most awesome copy!!, June 7, 2009

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Magpie80 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dennison's Bogie Book -- A 1925 Guide for Vintage Decorating and Entertaining at Halloween and Thanksgiving (13th Edition) (Paperback)

This little reprint is so fabulous! I always searched on ebay for the real thing but the cost was just too high for my wallet and then I found this: the exact same thing, brand new quality, and you don't have to worry about handling it with care because of the age. The print quality is great and the pages are sturdy. What more can you ask for? I will buy all the bogie books bramcost reprints. Bramcost, I love you!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nostalgia Only, August 30, 2009

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Linda W. (Kennesaw, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dennison's Bogie Book -- A 1925 Guide for Vintage Decorating and Entertaining at Halloween and Thanksgiving (13th Edition) (Paperback)

I agree with the first reviewer that this book is beautiful. The only problem is that it is almost impossible to make any of the projects in the book. Crepe paper is difficult if not impossible to find (I bought some online); and I didn't know that PRINTED crepe paper existed. I suppose you could download free graphic patterns to create some of the Halloween icons that are used in most of the crafts, but you're not going to find them just waiting for you at the nearest store.

Sure to warm the hearts of nostalgia buffs, but not for crafters or party planners. But it is BEAUTIFUL! I'm keeping mine just to thumb through the pages.