Decorating for the Holidays

[RedHotRidinHood]

I would love to see how other Loungers are decorating for Christmas or any other hoildays you may celebrate! I looked for another thread like this and couldn't find one, so if I simply missed it, Bartenders, please move me.

Here is what my (former) house looked like last year...this is not the full scope of my vintage Christmas collection by any means-this is what I could fit into the house! The tree is way too big for the space but it was free-and this native Oregonian girl is NOT about to turn down a free Grand Fir! My brother worked at a tree lot last year and got it for us.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Your finds and the way you did it all is amazing!

Can I come over for Christmas????????

 

[RedHotRidinHood]

Your finds and the way you did it all is amazing!

Can I come over for Christmas????????

Come on over! I don't live in that house anymore, sadly, but I always manage to make it festive wherever I am. I like "busy".

Ok, now I want to see other houses, dressed up for Christmas or other holidays. I love getting ideas and seeing what other folks have to play with!

 

[Pink Dahlia]

Oh man! I am jealous! That looked beautiful!

I have my grandma's fake tree I put up every year and ornaments my mom collected for me since I was a baby. That's sort of vintage right? I can put pics up after I decorate it if that counts.

 

[RedHotRidinHood]

I love seeing trees like that! Even though I have tons of vintage ornaments, my tree is almost always all the Hallmarks I have accumulated over time from family.
I bet yours looks really cute.

 

[Pina Bridgette]

I love your Christmas treasures! Especially your little houses. I have several packets of glass glitter that have been sitting around the house for years that were intended to make houses and ornaments but somehow it keeps getting put off.

I am not so lucky to have any vintage ornaments either (attrition) and I OD'd so badly on hallmark & radko ornaments a few years back, that I had to put myself on a strict ornament diet. But I saw a few recently that I don't think I can resist.

This year, I am such a slacker, I haven't even put out my tabletop feather tree yet. But I promise to add a picture once I do!

P.

 

[imoldfashioned]

I love those pictures!

I took out all the Christmas decorations on Sunday and it looks like Santa's workshop exploded all over my house. I'm about halfway done decorating--pictures when it's complete (hopefully tonight).

 

[$ally]

Aw, how cute Red!

 

[BeBopBaby]

I have that same tablecloth, Red! I'm not lucky enough to have the matching napkins though.

 

[Pink Dahlia]

Here's my little tree. My grandma had this in her house when I was a little girl. Don't know how long she had it.

Here's a close-up of some of my older ornaments.

The tree star's an oldie too.

 

[KilroyCD]

I've posted this on another thread, but it also belongs here...

I set up some Christmas lights outside, and one of the things I do is put up an old kid's bicycle that is strung with Christmas lights. My neighbours would expect no less from this vintage bike lunatic. Here it is in today's snow:

Here is another shot taken with the flash. You can see it's still snowing...

 

[Pink Dahlia]

^
I love those pics!

 

[$ally]

How dare you make me homesick for snow!

 

[goldwyn girl]

I do love pictures of snow I can look at them all day, but I don't like being in it.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

My tree...

Its simple..but easier to do that way...just the glass balls, which are a mix of old and new...the lights..and the tinsel strands...


and then I have other trees in other rooms...because I am just odd like that, and want it Christmassy in lots of rooms....so in the bedroom is :

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Charming

No, not odd at all! Who sez there can only be one tree and that only in the living room? I even have a tree in my car.
Ashley

 

[$ally]

My neighbor put her tree up before Thanksgiving, as do a lot of people who are having company. I wait until the first day of advent to start putting up decor, take down at epiphany.
When do you all begin?

 

[pennyseranade]

I usually start the weekend after Thanksgiving. We leave it up until the week after New Years (or so...).

 

[sweetfrancaise]

We just put the tree up on Friday, but that's a little early for us. We don't take it down until the weekend after New Year's, or so. Here's a view of some of the decor this year:

 

[scotrace]

So Far. Taken a few minutes ago.