I’m writing this post in the wee hours of the morning on Christmas day, but by the time you see it, Christmas 2014 will be nearly over. I think of Christmas as a season, not just one date on the calendar, and I’m reflecting on the 2014 season, and even making notes for myself for next year. Every Christmas season seems to rush by too quickly, and I often feel like I didn’t have enough time to enjoy it as {Read More}
Gold and Glittery Christmas Tree
December 24, 2014 by
The wonderful thing about the night before Christmas, is the realization that whatever I have done is all I will get done, because time has run out. That realization makes me relax, and stop stressing about what I did and didn’t do. I have to just lay it aside, and enjoy Christmas day. It wasn’t easy, mind you. There were gifts that didn’t arrive in time, and there were gifts I didn’t get at all, but I’m trying to develop an “all {Read More}
Brown Paper Packages Gift Card Holders
December 23, 2014 by 4 Comments
I really hadn’t intended to share any more Christmas projects, but I bought a few gift cards, and they didn’t come with gift card holders. I decided to whip up a few of my own, and what immediately popped into my mind was, “brown paper packages, tied up in strings“. Of course, these are a few of my favorite things, so I wanted my gift card holders to look like small brown paper packages. It was quick and easy, and looked {Read More}
Vintage Inspiration Party # 170 – Vintage Style Christmas Home Decor!
December 23, 2014 by 6 Comments
Merry Christmas to you all, and welcome back to the Vintage Inspiration Party! Before we get started this week, I want to announce that we have a very special party planned for next week. Since it will be the last VIP party of the year, we are inviting you to share your absolute best, most inspired, favorite Vintage projects of the year. So go dig in your archives to see what you finished this year and link up the best of {Read More}
Back in Black – My Front Door and a Gossip Bench
December 22, 2014 by 13 Comments
Recently, I showed you the makeover I gave the outside of my front door (seen here), and I finally got around to doing the inside of it this week, but the red color I choose for the outside was not going to work for the inside of the door. Do people usually have 2-color doors? I don’t know if that’s the norm, but I have one now! After painting the front side, I learned a few things. First of all, {Read More}
Antique Dressing Table
December 21, 2014 by 13 Comments
Just before Christmas isn’t the best time to splurge on yourself, but I did. It was totally unplanned, and I didn’t even know I wanted it until I saw it, but once I saw it, I couldn’t make myself walk away. I had gone into our local thrift store, specifically looking for wood photo frames,because I had a few Milk & Cream Co. sign orders to make for customers. And there it was. I’m pretty sure I heard it call {Read More}
Adeste Fideles – O Come, All Ye Faithful
December 21, 2014 by 6 Comments
Here is a beautifully aged antique Christmas music page, of the famous Christmas carol, “Adeste Fideles”, which is latin for “O Come All Ye Faithful”. This could be used in so many ways, but I think the prettiest thing to do with it, is just frame it. It came from an early 1920’s antique music magazine, called The Etude {CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE} Merry Christmas!
Christmas Bell Ornaments – 1800’s Antique Advertisement
December 20, 2014 by 6 Comments
Last year I shared the full-size image of these Christmas bell ornaments with you (find it here). I think these would look so cute turned into ornaments with Shrinky Dinks,(Amazon link) or strung as a garland, so I grouped them together as smaller images that can be printed on one page (printable below). I had planned to make a bunch of them as ornaments, but I only got ONE done, before I got sidetracked on another project, and never got back to {Read More}
Chalkboard Kitchen Canisters and Labels – Not a Creature Was Stirring, Not Even a Mouse
December 19, 2014 by 16 Comments
Obviously, it isn’t the night before Christmas yet, because the creatures have been stirring in my pantry, and I’m not happy about it. There’s nothing more frustrating than discovering a mouse has helped himself to foods in your pantry, and they are persistent little critters. We live in an old house that has lots of little nooks and crannies they find their way in through. They don’t come indoors during the summer, but in the winter, they make themselves right at {Read More}
Pine Cones – Nature’s Christmas Decoration
December 18, 2014 by 9 Comments
Those of you who are regulars here, know that I’m a magnet for “junk” and have a workshop and barn overflowing with every type of junk imaginable, that I think I might ever be able to do something with, but there’s something else I’m a magnet for, and that’s pine cones. Pine cones make their way home with me on a regular basis. I can’t walk by pretty pine cones laying on the ground, without picking up at least one or {Read More}
