A Whole Lot of Vintage Holiday Here, Part Two

Part two of the holiday decorating today.  The living room was part one and sharing the rest of the craziness today. I always look forward to putting up my white garland between the living and dining rooms. It is covered in vintage glass ornaments.  After the ornaments come down, I use it for New Years and Valentines Day.

My china hutch holds a huge amount and variety of Santa figures...plus my Santa mug collection.

I don't pick up Santa mugs anymore unless they are a style I don't have.  My kids are 23 and almost 25 so it delights me to bring out the Santa photos from when they were young.  I decoupaged copies from vintage holiday cards to decorate the frame.  It holds 15 years of Santa visits.
I just found this Santa this year.  He came without the wreath. I saw a photo of him on Instagram with the wreath and realized I had it in my stash and had found it elsewhere.  Meant to be.He lives in a line of bottlebrush tree on top of a window ledge.
My banister got decorated with white garland to match that in the dining/living room.  It holds my collection of vintage foil candy containers and other vintage bling. The metal duck is the finial on the stairs.  It is an old child's bedpost.
This year I found a second plastic Christmas tree that I use to display my glass bell collection. I never find these trees so I was pretty giddy when I found one at an estate sale.  Two trees...time to find more bells!

On Instagram this year I put together my collection of Crystal Pine trees so I could do a photo in some snow that we got (a rare occurrence with snow).  I decided they had to be displayed somewhere this year, so I popped them onto my dining room table with some vintage deer Gurley candles.

My collection of Christmas list boxes live on my kitchen counter. I just found one more this year...I don't collect doubles.

A little sass on my kitchen windowsill.
I did not set out to collect vintage Salt and Pepper shakers. These were going to be crafted with. When I saw how great they are lined up...they became keepers. And of course there is snowman land in my kitchen.

Two long holiday posts!  Happy Holidays to all!  Happy Day!

 

 

 

Comments

[Tania]

Love all the adorable vintage Christmas!! It cracks me up how you said you never find the plastic Christmas trees then we scroll down and there's like a hundred of them!! LOL! kidding of course and maybe you meant the larger ones :o)

I think my favorite thing is the boxes in the kitchen!!

Tania

[Ree Cee]

Love the collection of visits with Santa pictures - what a great display! You introduced me to the Christmas List Boxes last year and I have yet to find one. Onward with the hunt . . .

Thanks for all your posts this holiday season!!! I know how crazy it can be to get ready for shows AND you decorated full on AND took pictures. Whew! It must be a labor of love - so thanks for all the lovin!

[Erin]

I drool over your archway ornament garland every time I see it! Just found a white garland at Goodwill and would love to try and replicate it over my much smaller archway. If you ever have time, I'd love for you to do a tutorial on it - how you hang the garland, attach the ornaments, etc.

Many thanks for all of your vintage Christmas posts!

[Tina]

I love your plastic Christmas trees, I have a large collection of them also, I have one on top of my piano year-round, I bought it in 2015 (it is a crystal pine) for a quarter and there it sits, I don't have the heart to pack it away. I love how you put the colored bells on your others, I usually put little glow-in-the-dark bells on mine. Tina

[Janice@Curtains In My Tree]

I love all your vintage Christmas items,I was just wondering where in the world do you store it all?
Love those clear plastic trees I haven'r seen those before

Happy New Year

[Yolanda]

It's so fun to look at your collections and displays! Thanks again for posting and have a great new year!

[Susan]

I am finally getting around to some holiday blog hopping. I really enjoyed seeing (read:carefully scrutinizing) your holiday displays. I have never seen the clear Christmas trees! Wonderful display. The Christmas card list boxes are darling. They made me feel the itch to collect - and I'm trying so hard to divest not add. I have mostly stopped blogging when I focus on a creative writing course. It's been great to work on full length fiction after so many years. Angels to you, and a blessed, happy, healthy new year!

[Doreen]

Still so fun to look at your Christmas blog post now! Just gets better every year :-)