Now, to be honest--I didn't find this stuff this past weekend. Another weekend, yes, but this weekend I was too busy for junking! Saturday night I had some friends come over to craft and enjoy brownie & peppermint ice cream sundaes, which meant that I spent the entire day finally getting the tree and the rest of the house decorated. It took literally hours and started to feel like work rather than pleasure at about Hour 4, but the upside is that my house looks beautiful and at least I got it all done in one day! Usually, I have the mess and Christmas boxes strewn about for half a week while I decide, a little at a time, where everything will go. This year I had a deadline, so it forced me to make quicker decisions and just get it done!
I do love opening up my boxes and reacquainting myself with all of my pretties, and adding each year's thrifted finds to the mix. I've been hitting the thrifts regularly, searching for treasures! Here are a few things I've found this year:
Lots of pretty, bright ornaments in primary colors.
Lovely pale pinks and aquas too, as well as a vintage green swirly plate.
A bagful of random Christmas stuff that turned out to be much better than it looked on first glance! There's a plastic Shiny Brite nativity, a handful of sugared bells, a few spun heads, a tiny Christmas stocking, a hard plastic angel, and a few yards of really neat colored aluminum garland, which is now residing on my Christmas tree!
Handmade jeweled ornaments, the second such set that I've found. The base is satin ball ornaments, and then somebody used straight pins to affix ribbon, sequins, and pieces of broken costume jewelry to the balls. I found a set like this last year as well, so it must have been a common craft. I'm generally in the "more is better" camp when it comes to vintage Christmas, but even these are over the line for me. So thirty minutes later I had this:
A nice little pile of vintage sequins, pearls and jewels to repurpose in my crafting. It did give me pause to wonder what crafts I've made that will show up in a thrift store in 30 years, that someone might buy and take apart to use for scraps!
Did you do anything fun and festive this weekend?
PS--I'm linking up with
Thrift Share Monday over at Apron Thrift Girl!
What a cheerful collection! Am totally coveting that little plastic nativity. Don't have one with SNOW - love it.
ReplyDeleteI love the teeny stocking - I have several of those and am always happy to find one in the box o' stuff at the thrift. At this point in my collecting, I am thrilled to find teeny things and not so much big stuff anymore.
ReplyDeleteLet's see - we went Christmas shopping, visited a HUGE Chrsitmas shop, decorated the booth for Christmas, laid wreaths at the Nat'l Cemetary, went to a Christmas Parade, watched "Chrsitmas with the Kranks" (My favorite), had a birthday party for my Mom and finished my Christmas cards. No wonder I am tired today!
You have a knack for finding all kinds of neat stuff. I do appreciate your thoughts on wondering where stuff will end up in 30 years...because I wonder the same thing!
ReplyDeleteLove the pile of crafty stuff you pulled from the ornaments. Good work.
Those ornaments are FABULOUS!!!! The colors are brilliant! I don't think the thrift store would know what to do if I donated all of my craft supplies. LOL!!!!
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