Christmas in the Sixties always stretched my artistic skills. Art was big on Christmas morning and the weeks that followed. For a start ther...

 This was the Xmas card front I made on my Denys Fisher Mist-O-Matic paint toy back in the Sixties. Do you remember this design or Mist-O-Ma...

This is the same as the front cover of the Xmas Card I gave my folks circa 1969 made on my very own Mist-o-Matic toy! Like every ye...

I knew I had a paint set called MIST-O-MATIC! Phew, thought I was dreaming. After a short mooch round my loft I found it! Voila!  I...

Like Mist-O-Matic, this is another painting toy I used to adore called Spiro-Matic!  I will have been around 9 or 10 when I got this ...

As the sparkle of Christmas fades and the decorations are put away for another year, I can't resist one last blast from the Festive pas...