All things old and new to enhance your home and holidays
An easy and inexpensive way to decorate your urns or planters for the holidays is to use greenery and lighted grapevine balls. Here, we used a 25′ bundle of inexpensive white pine roping, cut into four sections and placed each in the urns. We took large 10″ grapevine balls and wrapped each with a set…
Victorian Christmases were truly handmade and full of bustle. Specialty Christmas shops didn’t exist. Acres of malls from which to buy presents were unknown. Through Victorian ingenuity and hard work that brought the family together for every task, the holiday celebration was equally resplendent with joy and beauty. Outside, the air is cold and crisp,…
One of the best gifts you can give for the holidays is something you make yourself. We always make extra sweets and wrap them up to give as holiday gifts. Last year we presented this whole tray as a single gift.
Don’t just make your holiday village displays on shelves, platforms or under your tree… use your dinging room table. A small village display makes and excellent lit and lively centerpiece for holiday entertaining. Here we used Department 56’s Dickens’ Village The Original Shops of Dickens Village. You will have to sacrifice a tablecloth for this…
The Department 56 Dickens’ Village Signature series is displayed on the fireplace with a festive garland and wreath. There is plenty of “snow” to bring the winter time feeling inside.
You don’t need a huge span of space to create village displays. You can display houses in baskets, dressers, buffets… literally anywhere. Here we make use of several different things to makes miniature village displays for the holidays.
You can’t imagine how addicting working with beads and other minute items can be unless you’ve actually tried it! Beading is an obsession from the moment you pick up the first bead and the first pin. Here are some of the ornaments we’ve made over the years. Some are from kits, others are our own…