Christmas at Our House - Part 2

 

These shelves are great to put a bunch of decorations on!

I keep this house out all year - I like it so it stays out for Christmas!

More Christmas!

More Christmas in the Kitchen

Always have a tart burning or a jar candle!

One of my old light boxes

Carla gave me this Christmas card box - it's so cute!  And anothe old light box to the side.

Hallmark Snoopy - in the basemnt

We love the Charlie Brown gang!

Our little basement tree  - that's three trees this year!

A Ceramic Tree and A Santa Blow Mold!!! Lucky Me!!

I've been wanting a ceramic Christmas tree and now I have one!!   My husband was out Christmas shopping, he called me from Value Village - thought it was a ceramic tree sitting on the floor   - I said " buy it."  Mydaughter Carla and I have been remembering  that someone had but we don't know who....  This one doesn't have a very nice base but I think I'll cover it up with some fabric - the base looks like a crude attempt at ceramics but there's nothing wrong with the tree.  It's mismatched lights - they're different sizes and some are shaped like birds - it's missing about five but nobody will see the back of it.

Yesterday I was at the Salvation Army looking through the kitchen items, I looked to the side and look what I saw... a Santa blow mold -  it was $4 - sold!!!  He's SO cute!!!!

I don't think I've ever seen vintage wrapping paper for sale either - 3 sheets for 10 cents - I think I'll put it in a frame.

I found a few linen items too - usually anything I see is too faded or too ugly - these aren't so bad - a large napkin, tea towel and an apron.  I also picked up a neat set of lights that are pretty cute too!

I guess not many people are cleaning out their cupboards this time of the year - there doesn't seem to be much Pyrex to find these days.  I did get this cute little 4 inch carafe that's missing the lid.  These Glasbake mugs took my eye - they're just in perfect condition.

And - just for a laugh - here's something that is not pretty at all - it was still in the box at Value Village - ready to hit the shelf - I wonder if anybody bought it today???

I'm linking up to Flea Market Finds , Vintage Thingie Thursday,Thrift Share Monday and The Penny Worthy Project  - there's just so many wonderful vintage things to see and read about on these blogs - pay them a  visit.

Some Christmas at Our House - Part 1

I found this old tin at the Salvation Army the other day for 50 cents!

An old candy tin I bought at an antique mall

Love this sign!

This pair is so cute!

I think this belonged to my great aunt - I just had it sent to me, thank goodness Santa made it in one piece!

My husband bought Santa in his long johns a few years ago.

These lights aren't orange - they're red!

A bowl of Christmas fixins'

I'm so glad I bought this bowl!!

Our tree!

I'm linking up to Rednesday at It's A Very Cherry World - you'll find lots of great posts with all kinds of red goodies over there - check it out...

Love these Christmas Songs from 60's Artists!

These are a couple of my very favorite versions of popular Christmas songs - I could listen to them over and over again and I do!!  I couldn't find Dion on YouTube anywhere singing Merry Christmas Baby but at least you can listen to it - check it out here- my daughter's beau downloaded this song on a Christmas CD a few years ago  - I've loved it ever since - so much so that  I bought Dion's Christmas  CD - and that might be the last CD I've ever purchased!!

We'll be tuning in to the David Letterman show again this year to hear the great Darlene Love belt out "Baby Please Come Home" - it's been a Christmas tradition since the 80's -  nobody sings this song better than Darlene Love!!

Still Time for Thrifting

Wouldn't that tray of sweets be nice to have??  That neat old pic came from this vintage Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, I don't have a clue what year it's from but it's a nice book and I only paid 50 cents..  Cookbooks are the best deal, especially when you find a new one like this Taste of Home cookbook, I don't think it was ever used - it was 50 cents too and the novel was only 25 cents.

I bought four bags of buttons which I've started using already!

They had quite a few of these plates at the Salvation Army - with different years and different colors - I had to buy 1958!!  The plate is by Pebbleford and manufactured by Taylor-Smith-Taylor.  It must be a high quality item, it was priced at $1.99.

I bought this bowl because I may never find a Pyrex Dots bowl and this might be the next best thing.  I thought it was an Anchor Hocking bowl but after looking at some comments on Flickr and looking at it closer, I realize now that it's a Hazel Atlas bowl, I've seen pics of similar bowls but they're not frosted like this one.  It's cute adn I only paid $1.

This is a cute little bowl too - there isn't any marking on it at all - it could be used as a cereal bowl - it was only 50 cents too.

It seems like I haven't found any Pyrex in a while, I picked up this 402 Spring Blossom bowl at Value Village, prices seemed to be up this week,  I paid $4.99 - wonder if they raised their prices for Christmas!!  I bought this little carafe too for $2.99.  It's only about 6 inches high.

There's always time for thrifting even when you're Christmas shopping!!!!

Christmas Red

Isn't this red elf shoe cute?   I paid 50 cents for it at a thrift store - it's ceramic, I don't know if it's a handmade one or not, it has W65 and Canada on the side.

I paid $2 for this bag of wooden ornaments - I'm going to put them on a wreath.

When the snow comes to stay, we'll be able to measure it!  I paid $1 for Mr. Snowman.

I bought this postcard on Etsy - it came all the way from Belgium - I love it!

I haven't bought a tin of cookies in years - two things made me buy them - the tin and the name McVitie's sounded so familiar, now I know where I read the name in the past few months - Prince William had McVitie's make the grooms cake for his wedding.  The cookies are made in the UK  and they're quite tasty!

I've never seen tiny little napkins like this before, they're 6 x 6  and made by Hallmark.  I hate to open them - I paid a whopping 25 cents for them.

Do they even make these kind of Christmas tags anymore?  They came in the cardboard box and were made by Regal.  I used to sell from the Regal catalogue when I was twelve - maybe I sold a box like this to someone - way back when..  I've used a couple of them already..

This is about the ugliest ornament I've ever seen - can you imagine hanging that up??  I bought it for the elf - I've since thrown everything but the elf away, he's sitting on my Memory Tree now - I blogged about it here.

This is a true red post - every picture has a speck of red in it.  Check out everything red at Rednesday.  I'm also linking up to Oasis Accents for the first time  - check it out.  And, of course Flea Market Finds - always so many neat things to check out from so many thrifters.

My Tree of Memories

I went out and bought a new little 4 ft tree yesterday - I wanted one for my old ornaments that are mostly Mom and Dad's and also some that belonged to my grandmother - along with some goodies that I've found lately.  I couldn't get a regular green tree - so I came home with this tinsel tree, I wasn't sure of it but it looks pretty nice!

I can feel my eyes welling up just writing about this because I am the only one that has the memories of putting these ornaments on the tree - first I would go across the road to my grandmother and help over there then we put up our tree.  We took out the magnifying glass out to inspect some old Christmas pictures - I can see some of these ornaments - I remember putting them on the tree every year.   My grandparents passed away a while ago, my father four years ago, my mother is locked in a sad state of dementia and I have no brothers or sisters, but I am thankful every day for a  wonderful husband and two great kids!!!!

Old ornaments are such fun - hope you like looking at the pictures...  I used my slightly creepy angel that I found this week for the topper.  And, I used my Mickey Mouse lights that I found at Value Village - they look pretty nice on the tree!  You might notice the silver bells, I remember Dad making those out of egg cartons and he also did the walnut shells - we always had to crack the walnuts carefully, so they'd be good for an ornament!  You can always click on the picture for a closer look..

And here's a picture of me at age 3 - standing beside the tree - which looked pretty sparse - lots of tinsel and icicles but not a whole lot of ornaments.  I guess that's just the way it was back then, all trees looked the same....

I'm linking up with My Place and Yours: The Christmas Party - hosted by Vic - I love all things Christmas, don't you???  And, of course - Vintage Thingy Thursday is a great blog to check out every week.  Now I better think about getting our big tree up and decorated - that'll be for another day....