Vintage Christmas Monday

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The many faces of Christmas at my house:

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!

Sara

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Vintage Tree Trimmings

It is hard to take a good picture when the lights are on but this little angel is from Woolworths.  I work with the elderly and a client in her 90's used to work at the bakery at Woolworths on 5th Avenue in New York.  Wouldn't you love to be able to go back in time to see all the neat Christmas stuff they would have had and for such a good price!  It would also be fun to go to that bakery and have a napoleon or a cream horn.

I like these red ornaments, it seems like they should be called tear drop ornaments because that is how they are shaped but I am only guessing.

 I don't have many ornaments from when I was a kid, just this little elf and the following little snowman globe:

This following is a thrift store find:

This tree topper was a birthday present from my sister, she knows what I like!

This is not a Christmas trimming, just my newest addition to my home and it may not even be vintage but the mother and child reindeer are so cute.  And what a steal at 75 cents for both:

I am in the process of getting my masters and instead of studying for a final last week, I got sucked into a phenomenon:

Goodness gracious, Edward Cullen you may have made me do very poorly on my psychopathology final.  Thanks a lot!  This series makes me remember too vividly what it felt like to be a teenage girl so the experience is bittersweet but the books are very addictive.

Merry Christmas

Sara

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This little Christmas village makes use of several thrift store finds.  A vintage mirror shelf display and the little plastic houses that were meant to be used as Christmas light covers.  I embellished them with lots of glitter which makes everything good in my opinion. Gordon Gekko said "Greed is good." I say "Glitter is good."

I love vintage Christmas cards.  The last few photos are a small selection of cards that I bought from a garage sale that were in a shoe box.  Someone took the cards they received and cut the illustrations on the cover with zigzag sissors and then glued them onto construction paper, also cut with zigzag sissors.  Some are so beautiful. 

My sister likes to frame vintage cards interspersed with family photos:

This vintage chandelier was purchased at one of the best garage sales I have ever been too.  The woman was selling jars of vintage buttons for one dollar! and I only bought one jar.  I could spend money like water at Walmart but couldn't talk myself into buying more than one jar of vintage buttons for a dollar.  It haunts me everyday.  Rather than paying to have the chandelier rewired, I placed candles in the sockets.  It had a different look at Halloween:

Last, my prized possession.  What vintage Christmas lover does not covet aluminum Christmas trees?  I accidently threw the base away many years ago and so each year I have to find creative ways to keep it upright.  One year I planted it in a big container of my loose coins, another year not so rich, it was in a container of rocks and this year, styrofoam balls and an ice cube bucket work quite well.  It is in my guest room.  Like many of you, I have enough trees for each room of my house to be adorned with one. 

Merry Christmas until Next Monday!

Sara

Vintage Christmas

I love the holidays!

This is the old sled my brother, sister and I used as kids.  It makes a great

place to display my shiny brites (Goodwill find) and Santa Claus cookie jar (sans lid, flea market find).  I love this vintage roll of celophane I bought this year from our local Catholic charities thrift store. 

Please ignore the ugly wall paper behind this wreath.  Our house is a fixer upper and I have had my fill of removing old 80's wall paper for the time being.  I made this wreath from what else thrift store finds.  A bag of this cute wooden ornaments set me back about $2.00.

This cute little elf in the sleigh belonged to my mother and now sits proudly on my shelf.

I love this vintage plastic log with the candles that light up, another fab thrift store find.

This is a vintage manger with a tiny nativity scene in front of it.  Both are made out of plastic.

I love this vintage stocking.

Pink, my favorite color!  This tree has fabulous ornaments that I bought at an estate sale in Los Angeles.  Everything was very expensive but I stumbled upon a box marked Buchorn angels for $10.00

The little elf hanging onto the plastic gold mailbox is another great thriftstore find.

My Christmas tree collection.  The one on the far left is a music box that plays Silent Night.

These plastic cookie cutters make great ornaments!

It's the law, all vintage collectors must have at least one set of Santa Claus mugs.

That is my first post!