Friday, December 28, 2012

A Vintage Christmas

It's been a busy couple of weeks here at Chez QT, so here are a few snapshots of some of my vintage Christmas decorations. (Forgive the dark shots, it was nighttime and my camera is not a good one!)

This is the decoration on the back of my front door. Mercury picks, reflectors, glittered pinecones- all original!


My Christmas blow molds. For some reason I have not been able to find a snowman- yet- but check back next year! The pair of angels I actually bought deadstock from Sines. 


I have a pair of these vintage stockings- aren't they cute?

 I decorate our live tree with only vintage ornaments. 
I love looking at them- I could look at these all day....


These are really huge- that blue one in the lower right is regular size!


I love bubble lights with vintage ornaments!



My aluminum tree- it's only 2 feet tall. I decorate around the bottom with vintage aluminum corsages. The tree topper I just found this year. (See my Pyrex trying to sneak into the picture?)


Some of the ornaments on the aluminum tree. I love these homemade eggshell dioramas. All of these ornaments are vintage miniature size ones.


Some of these balls are really tiny- the one in the center and the one at lower right are only about
 an inch in diameter!


I actually have vintage window candles too- these have red and green bakelite bases with red cardboard tops. 


Hope you had a very vintage Merry Christmas!

8 comments:

  1. Love your kitchen cabinets, you have all glass, lucky!!!! I want cabinets like that!

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  2. My babysitter when I was very little used to have a light-up snowman (I didn't know they were called blow molds...good to know!) that I just LOVED. There was also a house in our neighborhood with one that we would drive by specially just to look at it. I bet they're hard to find because no one wants to give theirs up.

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  3. I love all your decorations, but I especially enjoyed seeing the bells. My grandmother had red ones like them.

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  4. Everything looks great, as usual! I could look at all my vintage ornaments all day too. They just remind me so much of when I was little and my Grandma's tree! I am having a blomold giveaway over at Zootsuitmama...sign up!!

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  5. Sweet vintage Xmas!

    This is just the way I like it. Bright and shiny!

    Thank you for keeping it vintage and a very Happy New Year to you and your family; may the thrifting gods smile upon you in 2013!

    Hugs

    Miss V :)

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  6. Hello Susie QT! Just 'found' you over at Micks (Casablanca). I love vintage too so it will be fun to follow you along your path to vintagedom!! My cupboards are like yours and show off all the not-so-hidden Pyrex.
    Happy New Year and good to meet you.

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  7. You have really lovely vintage ornaments. I think they are getting more precious as time goes on and they get rarer and rarer. And glued into all those vintage ornament wreaths!

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  8. I have 2 boxes of vintage decorations that I aquired.I really enjoy those old decorations.

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