Decorating With My Treasures

For months I had a general idea of how I wanted to revamp my Christmas decorations this year. Well, life kind of got in the way due to personal obligations and opening my space at Old South in mid-October. But I had already bought some glitzy, new mercury glass type ornaments at 40% off back when most people weren't even thinking about Halloween yet. I had planned a mostly silver and off-white color theme with a little burlap thrown in for good measure. Except for the ornaments I had already bought, my decorating scheme got thrown way off. That was due, in part, to the decorations I scored that I shared with you here. Those treasures altered my mantel ideas and the new mantel plan changed a lot of my other plans, too. I'll share my mantel with you on a later post. But, as promised, I'm showing you a few of the ways I used my other thrift store finds. I took these pretty little ornaments

and just displayed them in a simple square glass container.

I have so many of these beautiful vintage style ornaments!

 

I just filled up a variety of containers with the ornaments.

 

                         

This large metal lantern was the reason I was looking for old ornaments in the first place.  It took a lot of ornaments to fill it up!

 

 

 


I love cloches for displays and the base of this tiny glass cloche was covered with green moss before placing a few of the smaller ornaments inside.

 

 

The silver star tree topper fit into the scheme of one of my trees just perfectly!

 

 I only had a few of these beautiful glass hearts but I love how they look on my mercury glass and gold tree.

 

 

 And the beautiful glass ornament with the angel inside found a perfect home in my kitchen on my antique scale.  A few sprigs of boxwood from my yard and a few floral berries were all it took to finish the look.

 

The brass horn swag was looking pretty hopeless in this before picture

 

but a little fluffing up was all it needed before displaying it on the edge of a large picture frame.

 

This items in this vignette didn't come from the big thrift store find I shared with you earlier, but everything except the star did come from thrift stores.  The tin angel candle holder was only $.50, the faux mercury glass candle holder was $1.00 and the silverplate tray was also a dollar. 

 

 

But the big find was the hand crocheted and starched snowflakes that I found back during the summer.  There are sixty snowflakes that were on "half-price" for only $4.00! 

 

These vintage bulbs sitting on vintage books is one of my very favorite decorations.  I think it may be because the bulbs are the kind we had on my Christmas tree when I was growing up.  And all of the items were thrift store finds.  The container and bulbs came to a grand total of $2.00!

 

 

I'll show you what I did with some of the other thrift shop treasures on my next post.   After I finish shopping and wrapping gifts, planning menus, buying groceries, cooking, etc.  Well, I'm sure you know all about that!  And I can't forget restocking and fluffing my space at Old South.  See ya again soon!

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