Despite my best efforts at procrastination, it looks like I actually got everything done that I wanted to before we leave tomorrow to spend Christmas with our families in Utah. Oh, I still have to go to the grocery store, the post office, take around our neighbor gifts, wrap presents, and pack, but I really think I might be able to get it all done without becoming a shrieking banshee and being up all night long. Well, I hope, anyway. Better make this a short post!
The photo at left is a display sitting on my kitchen island. It's a series of three stacked glass cake pedestals, and clustered on it are my 'special' ornaments. These are the very best of my vintage ornaments; the ones that are anything besides just a plain, shiny glass ball. I actually changed it after I took this photo, and the reddish-pink indent ornament on the second tier is now displayed atop an upended glass candlestick that I placed on the top layer to make one more tier. It's probably my favorite ornament, so it gets the place of honor. All of these ornaments came from thrift stores or garage sales over the past couple of years. They've been hard to find, so that is why they are special to me.
I don't know why, but this year I have found almost NO vintage ornaments at all, with the exception of the pink and silver centerpiece and the 2 Shiny Brite boxes from my Thrift Store Extravaganz a couple weeks ago. I don't know if it's just not out there, if I cleaned them all out last year (which I find hard to believe) or if everyone else is just beating me to the good stuff. Oh well, my plastic boxes are about full anyway, and I didn't even get them all out this year because I didn't have a place to put them. Must work on that for next Christmas.
And now, off to turn my TO DO list into a TA DA list!
You funny, funny girl. You take such delight in your treasures! I believe these will mean even more to you as time goes on.
ReplyDeleteWho knows, you may just become a feature story in a Mary Englebreit magazine sometime in the future! What will it be...the vintage glass ornaments, the vintage table cloths and aprons, or the vintage Pyrex?
The more I look at this, the more I am impressed with the photo, itself! The colors are all so bright and brilliant! I looks like something you'd see on the front of a Christmas card!
ReplyDeleteHey Heidi!!! It's Manda from savannah!! Lisa told me you had a blog and gave me the address. I have blog too!! It's allaboutourblob.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteWe've got pictures of our little one too!! We expect our baby's arrival sometime in june!! We find out if it's a boy or girl tomorrow!!
It's cool to be able to keep in contact like this. Hopefully Lisa will have a blog of her own soon. Look for it in about a month or so. HEE HEE
How were you're holidays?
Ho: If I don't see this photo on your Christmas Cards next year, you are in big trouble.
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