Christmas Ornament Highlights

Hello friends! Hopefully everyone is getting right into the season with the Christmas holidays coming right around the corner. One of my favorite things about Christmas are my old ornaments. My mom has been collecting these ornaments for me for a while, I also have been searching for them high and low! Do you know how hard it is to find shiny brite ornaments from the 50's and 60's that didn't get broken?

 

One of my favorite things about these ornaments is that most of them are hand painted. They are not mass produced like most of the ornaments that you can buy in the stores! To me something that is handcrafted is worth so much more then anything I can buy at walmart! The fact that these ornaments are each unique and one of a kind also helps me with the love! 

The ornament on the left is probably the one i treasure the most on my tree! The reason is look at the unique shape of it! I only have one of these things, and to me it looks like a top. I have searched for other ones in this shape and have never been able to find them!

I hope you enjoyed a sneak peak at the tree, and enjoy the ornaments! 

Christmas Decorations

I hope that everyone out there in blog land had a very merry Christmas, while i took the decorations down over the last few days at least i will have the pictures to remind me of our Christmas. I am very proud of my Shiny Brite Christmas tree, i loved all of the hand painted ornaments that my mom and I had been collecting this year. I just wanted to give you a short preview of the decorations.

These great little things are mercury glass beaded spikes, they were a nice little touch in the tree.

 

 

 

These little snowmen are Hallmark ornaments i have been collecting for my son since he was born. One for each Christmas we have had. There are also the reindeer behind him that we found thrift storing. There is a small reindeer, so we call them ourselves in reindeer form :)

This is a great Vintage Santa my mom picked up for me in a Auction. Its pretty funny that my little sister and best friend think that this guy is quite creepy, and cant stand to be in the same room as him!

This Santa is a great drummer, my mother also picked this up for me in a auction. I just love the rosy little cheeks of the old Santa's

One of my favorite things about Christmas are these Bubble lights, i wish i could get my hands on a few more sets.

This is my son's Christmas tree, red and silver ornaments, with a bunch of Hallmark ones thrown in there. He loves that he gets his own tree.

This is my entry way table, although i need to find a nice sideboard or buffet this table will do for now. I made the glittery noel signs and found the tree printable online.

This set was probably one of my favorite finds this year, its our fat nativity scene! Found it at the local goodwill for only $8. I think it looks great stacked on the old suitcases.

Well just wanted to share our holiday spirit with you guys, i have been off for over a week, and have to return to work on Tuesday... this holiday has been great for me I have spent so much time with family friends and celebrated everything we love.

Happy Hunting

-Goldie

Another Christmas Filled with Memories

I hope that everyone had a very merry Christmas, and hope for a blessed New Year to everyone as well. Christmas day was busy for us, I was very happy to have my grandmother over at my house for the night, so that she could see Robert open his presents on christmas morning. While we were expecting him to wake up and then him come to wake us up, it was 8:30 am and there was no more lying in bed for us so we woke him up.

Santa was very good to him this year, he brought him riding gear and a new dirtbike to practice on. We plan on letting him race in a few different series this year, and get into the competitive spirit.

We did christmas morning in our house, then the inlaws came over and we had a small opening of presents. We ended the day over at my parents house opening presents with my Uncles Daughters, and my parents bought their daughters some very special suprises, in the form of protection. Every year there is a theme in our household, this year it was guns.

My little sister ended up with a lavendar personal protection gun, my older sister got a 9 mm, and I recieved a rifle to go hunting with my dad.

I also recieved some really awesome vintage goodness, a starburst wall clock, a set of amish pyrex nesting cinderella bowls, some vintage playboys and other types of magazines, and a old coffee pot. This year I have been blessed with many things a husband, an amazing family, and some great friendships. I hope everyone else had such an amazing time as we did.

I will post tomorrow showing you my christmas decor, while it is a little bit late, I want to share with you my vintage tree decorations and other things.

Happy Hunting

-Goldie



Wreaths and a Show!

I have been in a very creative mood lately, and have taken my creativity out on several projects. I have been custom making ornament wreaths for people based on their color schemes. Also I have been making Paper Wreaths to put in the booth up at the trading post. Lots of creativity has been put into this. 

 Black and White themed available for purchase for $40.

 Red Green and Gold Themed, available for purchase for $50. This is larger wreath.

 This blue and white one has been sold for a custom order to a dear friend of mine. 

 TCU color themed, not intentionally, this wreath is a large one and is available for purchase for $50. 

 Red and White themed, officially my first wreath available for purchase for $40. Below is a black and white themed wreath that was custom made for a friend.

We also did a vendor fair this past Saturday, I was happy with the set up! It looked great in comparison to others that were there. Just wish we could have walked away with more sales and more people knowing to come stop by the Justin Trading post for some great deals! 

 

We featured several tea cup lamps at this show, they were all marked down available for purchase for $35. These make great gifts for the tea lover in your life. This is the one that got the most attention, mostly from the little girls that were walking around the show. 

 

We had originally taken out shutter shelves for setup, then quickly realized we needed to improvise. We instead used just the shutters for display. I need to find some more shutters like this for other various projects!

 We did feature our wreaths at the show, but no one bought them. We did get a lot of great compliments on them. Especially the purple and gold one which i suddenly realized were the TCU colors. Mostly everything shown at the show was handmade, and made out of items that were otherwise going to go into a landfill. I have a special place in my heart for saving items that would otherwise be destroyed!

 Check out our tree's that are made out of cupcake liners and posterboard! This is a great fun idea and doesnt take a lot of time! 

Happy Hunting, and Happy Holidays 

-Goldie