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Vintage scene christmas ornaments3/21/2023 ![]() Travel back in time this holiday season with these Christmas decorations. "To me, seeing a nutcracker means the holidays have arrived," she says. You'll also find holiday favorites like gingerbread houses and nutcrackers, the latter of which Ree has a particular fondness for. Go ahead and try your hand at rustic Christmas decorating ideas with a sign you can make at home. Make the paper candles to put on your tree, or turn vintage ornaments into a dazzling wreath to liven up your mantel. If you like being crafty, there are a few DIY Christmas decorations that are great weekend projects. Whatever your style, these Christmas decorations are guaranteed to fill your home with that old-fashioned charm. A tinsel-covered Christmas tree, like the one in this 60s scene, is the easiest way to impart vintage style. We've gathered old-timey Christmas tree decorations like tinsel, Shiny Brite ornaments, and Santa mugs. Some of these you'll remember from your own childhood, like hiding the Christmas pickle in the tree or lighting a tabletop ceramic Christmas tree. When it's time to turn inward, make your home decor extra sentimental with some vintage Christmas decorations. Maybe it's the smell of your favorite childhood cookies baking in the oven (Ree Drummond loves her mom's sugar cookies) or all the classic Christmas songs on the radio. ![]() It was fun to put its and bits together into this colorful little scene.Something about the holiday season just feels so nostalgic. ![]() But, my stash is now so big I have plenty to go around. The idea was to have them on hand for my wreaths. I have lots of vintage Christmas odds and ends picked up from estate sales. The snowman is ceramic, from a pair of salt and pepper shakers. Note: I also used Elmer’s regular white glue (rather than hot glue) to adhere various materials, as appropriate. Ummm, I didn’t get the beads on “straight” - I have some ideas on how to do better next time (string them on floral wire to add rigidity before I commit to the glue) - but meanwhile, I’m kind of happy with the imperfection. I glued strings of Shiny Brite style Christmas beads around the edges and covered any ugly hot glue showing with pipe cleaners, glitter and/or sprinkle snow. I arranged the pieces on top to retain some of the text of the ribbon… the history. This is the bottom of the ribbon - it was made by C.M. You could also use little bottlebrush trees, but I have lots of these teardrop shaped ornaments and think that, glued on my their hanger-end with the point up, they make for beautiful colorful shiny Christmas trees on scenes like this - and on putz houses too. I used teardrop-shaped ornaments for the “trees,” which give the piece height. Here’s the bird’s eye view, so that you can see how I massed the items. I think that I learned from Georgia Peachez that you can build little Christmas scenes on - or in - or popping out of - most anything! Of course, my goal is to make as much of it from vintage as possible - I love that patina! It’s a little snowman diorama or assemblage or scene of sorts built on a roll of vintage velvet Christmas ribbon as the base. ![]() Santa’s big day is getting very close and all my decorations are up, but I got an itch to have more fun with my hot glue gun, so I made this fairly easy Kitchmas craft.
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