Nathan’s plywood Santa, sleigh and reindeer lawn display made from New Old Stock patterns

Oh, how clever our dear readers can be, with their eBay searches. Nathan made a wonderful score with a whole bunch of New Old Stock paper patterns from Douglas Fir Plywood meant to be transformed into holiday lawn art. Which he (or a friend?) did!  In our uploader of readers’ holiday decorating over the weekend he wrote:

Vintage paper patterns from Douglas Fir Plywood promotion. Patterns bought off ebay, created and assembled new. Fresh snow last night in Minnesota 🙂 Nathan Anderson

Nathan also uploaded one of the 4’x 6′ “posters” before it was cut. Even just framing one of these and using it as wall art would be wonderful. 

Of course, this reminds me of Mike’s U-Bild Santa set — patterns for which are still available today. But NOS from the (what?) 1960s? That’s upping the degree of difficulty quite a bit. In fact, I heard from another reader, Jake, who said he found a stash of similar posters made by the Fir Plywood Association. Stuff’s coming out of attics and folks are seeing the value rather than tossing — good to hear!

Above: Two mystery readers also uploaded photos of their wooden lawn ornaments. One was made using U-Bild patterns, the other, I’m not sure.

Thanks for sharing, Nathan — and the snow: picture perfect! I’m very envious of your find — New Old Stock! — I would have bid hard against you for them!