If history teaches us anything, it's that Christmas traditions have evolved over the centuries. Even though the magic of our modern Santa has its roots in the 4th-century saint Greek Bishop of Myra (Nikolaos of Myra, or, Saint Nicholas), it wasn't until years later that the READ MORE »
In 2016, Judi designed a group of pieces that were inspired by forecasted fashion trends that were obviously drawing from the colonial era. We had full intention of giving these designs to one of our favorite dealers, but, we felt that the pieces were too good to let go of. With READ MORE »
With summer officially here, it's great to start looking towards the great outdoors for inspiration. And, because we are located in a rural farm town, we always love to see what animals are out and about during the warmer days. To celebrate, we've put several READ MORE »
Ever since first creating our modern website, the focus has been on the collector first and shopping second. Since 1984, Judi Vaillancourt has designed nearly 3,000 chalkware Santas and we have used our website as a resource, a digital library if you will, to document READ MORE »
We were pleased to welcome over 100 collectors, both first- and long-timers, to our twenty-second Collector's Weekend. With participants flying from as far west as Washington State and as far south as Texas, collectors came together with one thing in mind: traditions. Starting with the READ MORE »
In 1987, we were pleased to have a Noah's Ark series in our catalog. At that time the ark was created with the utmost detail (even the roof was hand shingled piece by piece) in a traditional folk art theme. This year, after having sold out of monthly READ MORE »
As we get closer to Collector's Weekend, where we welcome collectors from around the country to get full Vaillancourt experience, we're pleased to start showing some of the Vaillancourt Chalkware products that will be available. Last year, we started teasing the annual Painting Workshop Santa—the READ MORE »
Let's celebrate the spring season; it has been a long and cold winter for many of us! As we move past St. Valentine's Day & St. Patrick's Day and the introduction of the 2017 Irish Santa that helped to usher in the green, we're happy to introduce three READ MORE »
