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Vintage Inspired Christmas

December 22, 2020 By stylishrevamp Leave a Comment

Today I am going to wrap up my vintage inspired Christmas home tour with a glimpse into the kitchen and sunroom and also share my version of the DIY paper stars that are making their rounds on Instagram. So here we go!

I have several vintage milk glass Christmas bulbs that I place into vintage or decorative bowls throughout the house.

I’m always looking for these when I am out thrift shopping. If I weren’t so afraid of fire, I would love to see them all lit up but I’ll play it safe and enjoy them scattered about the house in decorative bowls.

I had mentioned in my previous post about my moms Putz Christmas village that she would place under the tree. She always created such a magical Christmas village scene. It’s one of my favorite memories of Christmas.

This year a sweet friend sent me 4 Putz Village pieces. It brought me to tears. I placed mine on my tree in the sunroom where the light from the tree lights up the dainty little houses. Love, love, love them!

Last year right before Christmas, I stopped by a thrift shop and they were selling all their Christmas items for $5 a bag. You could stuff an entire bag for $5. I found a box full of antique candle clips, 54 to be exact. I was so excited to use them this year. I found battery operated candles on Amazon that fit the tiny clips perfectly. I added them to the sunroom tree as well as the mantle in the office where we hang our stockings.

We use the same stockings and I love pulling them out year after year.

I decorate a pencil tree in the kitchen and use the same ornaments year after year. Most of them come from our travels and all the handmade ornaments that they boys have made through the years. The construction paper ornaments have mostly faded over time but they are still my most treasured ornaments.

I also add my DIY Christmas sign over the cooktop every year and a few other Christmas touches to make it festive.

My version of the Christmas Trees for Sale sign. I love how my DIY sign turned out. — This is a photo from a few years ago but this is where the sign goes every year. It is usually the first thing I do on December 1st.

Our kitchen table decorated with some candles and greenery.

I don’t know if you scroll Instagram like I do but it seems everyone is making the DIY stars with paper bags and some with paper. I decided to give it a try. It was a quick and simple project. Can you tell I have a lot of extra time on my hands since I haven’t been going anywhere?

I would like to get some pictures of the outside tomorrow or maybe a night time tour. I love when the house is aglow with all the white lights and candles lit. I am hoping to get my youngest to help me with that since he is way more tech savvy them me but not too sure that will happen. So for now, I will say good night and thank you for stopping by my little corner of the world! Merry Christmas!

Night time views of Christmas in the family room

Decking the Halls with Vintage Charm

December 21, 2020 By stylishrevamp Leave a Comment

With everything going on in the world, and this Christmas looking different for everyone, I was excited to decorate for the season. I had to laugh when my husband asked me if I was still planning on getting out all the decorations this year because we wouldn’t be having any out of town guests. I kind of felt like he didn’t even know me… at all! I enjoy every little thing about the Holiday season and this year more than any I feel like we could all use a little more twinkling lights and sparkling joy. A lot of people like to decorate with new items and different themes each year but I like decking the halls with vintage charm, pulling out the old tried and true vintage, it holds all the special memories of Christmas past which I think we are all thinking about and craving right now.

I do have a few new to me items that I was able to add to my collection. I purchased another vintage Santa Blow Mold that I added to the side porch. A dear friend sent me vintage putz houses just like the ones my mom would place under the Christmas tree every year. I added them to our sunroom tree which is where I spend most of my time cuddle up on the couch and watching Hallmark. I also purchased a hand lettered doormat from Foxy Fonts thats adds such charm to our entranceway. Other than that, I pretty much just stick with what I have.

So with all that being said, I think the rest of this post will be mainly pictures with a few comments sprinkled in. I hope you enjoy!

The front door leads us into the foyer with the stairway dressed with garland and red and white ribbon.

Off the foyer, you can see directly into the family room which holds our main tree. It is the only real tree in the house. I failed to mention, we have 7 tress of all shapes and sizes (and my husband actually thought I was going to forego the usual Holiday decorating).

Our family room tree is decorated with homemade and vintage ornaments.

Decking the Halls with Vintage Charm

The vintage chair in the corner of the dining room is reupholstered with a drop cloth and festooned with a gold bell and a wreath surrounded by a vintage basket filled with gifts.

Vintage Christmas tablecloths are nestled in large vintage copper pots in the dining room

Vintage metal figurines on the sideboard create a charming vignette.

A simple centerpiece on the dining room table includes a mini tree on a riser, thrifted candle holders and a thrifted dough bowl filled with greenery and gold bulbs.

Adding a festive wreath to a corner chair in the dining room gives your eye a place to rest when scanning the room.

The Home Office Mantle is adorned with greenery, candles and our stockings.

We use the same stockings and I love pulling them out year after year. They hold so many memories.

I think I’m going to wrap this up here today. So far I’ve covered the foyer, parts of the family room, dining room and home office. Come back tomorrow and I’ll share the sunroom, kitchen and bits of the master bedroom and possibly the outside if I can get some decent pictures.

I hope in this time of chaos that we are going through that the Christmas season brings you peace, hope and happiness.

Until Next Time,

A View of our Christmas Home

December 17, 2018 By stylishrevamp Leave a Comment

Only 8 more day before Christmas is upon us. I finished up my wrapping today which I am so happy to have it done. Every year, I say I am going to wrap as I go but next year I really mean it. I don’t know why I put it off for so long this year. Next up on my to do list is grocery shopping and food prep but not today.

Today, I am continuing my home tour. I am sharing our Christmas kitchen and family room. My kitchen tree is another slim tree and it holds handmade ornaments that the boys made years ago. It is also where I put the ornaments that we picked up on our travels.

Kitchen Christmas Tour

I always place our DIY Christmas Tree sign out first. It kind of kicks off the Holiday season for us. You can see the tutorial here. I also added mini trees to the DIY window wreaths. You can see a bit of the wreath in the photo. It is hard to get a good picture of the windows.

I added some mini Christmas trees and candles to my tray which was a thrift store find.

Another favorite I pull out each year is my husband’s childhood toy truck. I love the little wreath that I added to it last year.

I used a chalk pen to list Santa’s reindeer and added a red pom-pom with a glue dot to complete Rudolph’s name. The Santa going down the chimney and the sled are vintage inspired. They make an appearance every year.

Family Room Christmas Tour

From the kitchen, we will head into the family room. This is the only real tree that we have. I enjoy having a real tree and I don’t find it to be messy at all other than the taking down part. I still think it is totally worth it!

My husband and I still wait until the boys are in bed on Christmas Eve to place the gifts under the tree. Even though two of the three are adults and the third is 15. You are never too old to believe!

I kept the fireplace the same as it was last year. I like the traditional red during the holiday. The yarn tree on the coffee table is new this year. I used the leftover yarn from my braided garland to make this DIY Christmas Tree.

Another DIY Christmas project is the two twig stars I made. I made a large star and a smaller one. The smaller one is on my office tree. I was originally going to put the larger one on my family room tree but it hasn’t made it to the top of the tree yet. Maybe Santa will do it on Christmas Eve!

I picked up this little tree at Homegoods while waiting in line to make a return. Good things can happen while waiting in the checkout line.

This was a Goodwill find several years ago. I just use it to for some of my vintage inspired ornaments.

My Christmas tour will wrap up tomorrow with a quick glimpse into the sitting room in my master bedroom. Thanks for joining me on the tour of our Holiday Home!

Until Next Time,

Christmas in the City Tour

December 23, 2015 By stylishrevamp Leave a Comment

I am continuing my Christmas Home Tour with Christmas in the City. This is our Christmas in the City Village by Department 56 that we set up each year under our tree in the Sunroom. It is such a magical scene. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

We set it up in our Sunroom which is one of the most used rooms in our home. It is a cozy comfortable room that you can see here.

This is something my husband does for me and the Gman. It is a lot of work setting this scene up under the tree. He also adds his Lionel Train around the village. Again, for me it is creating memories for my boys in the story telling about our childhood Christmases. The train was a gift my husband’s father gave him and his brothers for Christmas when they were children.

The other special Christmas tradition we do is decorate our feather trees with our personalized snowmen ornaments.

It is a special way to remember each person in our family from the loved ones that are no longer with us and the new member that we have recently welcomed to the family.

We are getting very excited to celebrate Christmas. Today is the last day of school for my youngest. Tonight we are going to finish our baking and finally tackle the GingerBread House.

Tomorrow I will be sharing a few pictures of our outside decorations.

Until Next Time,

Home Office Christmas Tour

December 22, 2015 By stylishrevamp Leave a Comment

It is a wet and rainy day here…if only the temperature would drop and turn the rain into snow! Well, a girl can dream, can’t she?

I am doing another room tour this afternoon. This is my Home Office Christmas Tour. It may be wet and dreary outside but inside it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

I had previously shared my Christopher Radko Shiny Brite Village in Thrift Shop Thursday last week but I don’t think I mentioned that it is set up in my home office.

I was excited to decorate my IKEA Billy Bookcase for Christmas.

Once I got started, I realized I didn’t want to add a lot to it. I think I have enjoyed it so much since we finished it that I didn’t want to add a lot of clutter with Christmas decorations. I can’t believe that I just said that… “too much clutter from Christmas decorations” from the person that decorates 6 trees each year!

Anyway, I did add a few Christmas accents such as my DIY Believe sign, gold Christmas Trees and a Gold Santa. I also added a wreath that was originally in my kitchen and some silver glitter trees. Harry Frost, our Elf on the Shelf, has made several appearances in the Home Office this year.

We use the same stockings each year and hang them from the fireplace mantel that is in my office.

Even though Santa leaves our gifts under the tree in our family room, we have always hung the stockings in the room that is now my office. I started this tradition when we first moved to this home and the boys were little. The stocking are the last thing we open. When the boys were little, they would sometimes forget about them and remember them later on in the day and it was another added little surprise. Even though they are older, we still hang them in this room.

This year when I pulled the decorations out of storage, I decided to donate some of the decorations I no longer use. I donated three of my older trees. I ended up buying this $32 tree at Michaels. It is a very slim pre-lit tree. I wanted to add some extra decorative berries or branches to fill it out a bit more but the Gman liked it as is …hmmm maybe next year!

Three more days…I wish we still had three more weeks. I love the weeks leading up to Christmas but each year they come and go much too quickly.

Tomorrow, I will be sharing our Christmas in the City Tour.

Until Next Time,

Vintage Inspired Christmas

Decking the Halls with Vintage Charm

Decking the Halls with Vintage Charm

A View of our Christmas Home

Kitchen Christmas Tour

Family Room Christmas Tour

Christmas in the City Tour

Home Office Christmas Tour

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