Decorating for the Holidays

[leaette]

nikki: i love your feathered tree and wreath. i see them in stores and i always have to pet them. maybe some day i'll buy one. hahah.

 

[ohairas]

nikki: i love your feathered tree and wreath. i see them in stores and i always have to pet them. maybe some day i'll buy one. hahah.

Thanks! The tree is just a white boa wrapped around a cone.
Nikki

 

[goldwyn girl]

Nikki, I love your trees and especially the cowboy theme. I want a Cowboy Carbine with my christmas money!!

 

[imoldfashioned]

Nikki, I love your trees and especially the cowboy theme. I want a Cowboy Carbine with my christmas money!!

But you'll shoot your eye out!

Thanks for the compliment on the mantle Nikki!

 

[RedHotRidinHood]

Here is my 7 foot aluminium tree.

And my baby tree.

I LOVE the pompom Aluminum trees, and that is a fantastic one! I have a vintage 5 foot one myself, not pompom but that's ok...it says in the directions to NOT use electric lights on the tree itself-to use a color wheel instead. Just be careful!

Missy Pinky-those are 60s era angels. We have similar ones at the store!

dhermann1-those Czech ornies are WONDERFUL....and insanely hard to find in good shape. You are right to treasure them like you do!

Everyone's houses look so wonderful! I wish I could post pictures of our stuff this year but I hate this stupid rental house and we are just going to enjoy things ourselves this year. Silly, but I don't want you all to see this place! lol

ohairas-I love your themed trees! The pinky ones especially.

 

[goldwyn girl]

But you'll shoot your eye out!

Oh you're probably right, but I want one anyway.

Thank you RedHotRidinHood, we have a colour wheel for the big one, but the small tree is new so no trouble with the lights on that one. I have all these bubble lights and no where to put them

 

[RedHotRidinHood]

Oh you're probably right, but I want one anyway.

Thank you RedHotRidinHood, we have a colour wheel for the big one, but the small tree is new so no trouble with the lights on that one. I have all these bubble lights and no where to put them

Oh, I LOVE bubblers....I have a late 40s era set that I put out when I can. They look really cool attached to the edge of a shelf, bubbling away! BTW, if you find any vintage ones that have purple tubes, they are very rare and hard to find. My father is extremely well-educated about vintage Christmas lighting and was very happy when I sent him a purple-tubed light a few years ago!

 

[Decobelle]

That's good to know about the purple. I'm a Bubblehead! I can't resist them. Mine are mostly repro ones. Here's our bubbling tree this year:

My mom just gave me a Santa to go with Frosty!

I used to collect old light sets and anything else I could find here & there from the 30s-40s, but it seems like they have gotten so expensive. This is my favorite one:

I love all your trees ohairas, but especially the patriotic one. I was just reading Bill Sloan's book on Wake Island and was inspired, even though it's kind of last minute, to try to do a small WWII patriotic tree. Maybe there's still a Charlie Brown around on a lot somewhere that I could get!

 

[dhermann1]

Bubblies

I love the bubblies, too. I bought a modern string with 6 bubblers a few years ago, and they basically didn't bubble at all. Very disappointing. The bulb inside never quite got the liquid to the proper boiling point on 3 out of the 6.

 

[ohairas]

The bubblers are so cool. I'm really getting anxious to hit the yard sales this spring and maybe get lucky!
A WWII patriotic tree is a great idea!
Nikki

 

[$ally]

Such pretty displays, everyone!
I have more d?©cor than I could possibly put up. We didn't even do a tree this year. Here are a few items I'm sorting through, although we humbugs didn't decorate this year.

 

[imoldfashioned]

$ally, my grandmother had that elf in your second picture too!

Is that camel a lapel pin?

 

[imoldfashioned]

This is my favorite one:

I can see why Decobelle--great graphics! I wish I could buy wrapping paper with that design on it.

 

[Decobelle]

I can see why Decobelle--great graphics! I wish I could buy wrapping paper with that design on it.

So do I, imoldfashioned!

goldwyn girl, your aluminum trees reminded me that my great-grandparents, who also lived in Las Vegas, had one. I found this picture of it, which must be from the early 70s. Looks like it has lights strung on it - uh oh!

 

[Warden]

In case you are wondering the picture is of my Anderson air raid shelter, all lit up in the back garden for Christmas.

Not sure if this would met with the ARP's warden approval, but he did not have to put up with a 4 year old wanting their house to be turned into a winter wonderland.

Now a lit up Anderson air raid shelter is not the sort of thing you see every day, but it is Christmas and unusual things are common this time of year.

Harry

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I'm sitting here at the computer, faint with hunger. I have done naught but trim my tree all evening, and I ain't finished yet. But I'm 90% done. Here's Paloma wondering what this large object is doing in her living room:

More likely, Paloma is making a list (and checking it twice) of which baubles will be first to come down and become playthings.


Lee

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Here is my 7 foot aluminium tree.

And my baby tree.

Beautiful trees, GG. And that clock is similar to my Welby.

Do you have pictures of the hangings behind the tree? My mother likes them.


Lee

 

[goldwyn girl]

MrNewportCustom, my clock is a Welby too. Here are the gals on the wall and some more decorations.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

MrNewportCustom, my clock is a Welby too. Here are the gals on the wall and some more decorations.

My mother was right, they are Japanese! I couldn't tell. I thought they were manger scene segments.

I like that Christmas card tree, too! What a keen idea. A beautiful tin underneath it, too.

Does your clock work? I need to get mine repaired and derusted. I found it in a gutter. And that ain't no lie!


Thank you,
Lee

 

[goldwyn girl]

Thank you MrNewportCustom. Yes, my clock works I bought it at a store that specialized in mid century. What a find yours was even if it need some help, hope you get it running soon.