Every year, I take on new projects for our holiday decor, and this year is no different. I feel the constant need to create new things and new displays! It's so much fun, one of my favorite things to do. I get it from my Grandmother. I remember when I was growing up that she was always rearranging furniture, displays and she was always particularly into decorating for the holidays. She is no longer in the house that I grew up visiting, where my Mom spent many of her own years growing up. I miss that house.
Every year I say I'm going to get everything done many weeks before Christmas day, but I always have some sort of DIY project lying around the house during December. It's just part of the entire holiday outfit for me: making things. It's great therapy.
I had a hairbrained idea come to me a few weeks ago that I wanted to make a HUGE velvet bow to center over this group of pictures. Finding super wide velvet ribbon proved to be much harder than I imagined! I finally found some 12" wide (TWELVE INCH WIDE) ribbon at a place online that sells giant ribbon for Grand Openings. : ) I made the bow today.
And here's our new white tree! Yay! I've been wanting one of these for ages. It was a hard sell for Ethan. He grew up having real green trees. I never did because I lived in a house full of people with allergies (mine were the worst) so we always had fake trees. When I married Ethan, he was having none of that, and we had a real tree up until a few years ago. I began to swear that it was messing with my allergies and the boys' allergies, so he relented to get a fake tree. BUT GREEN. (of course I wanted something white or pink) He finally gave into the fake white one this year. ; )
And dare I say it, but I think he likes it. It's smaller than our last tree and fits in the space better (as the room is small like most of our house!) Isn't that a cool tree skirt? My friend Kari sent it to me last year. It was an estate sale find I think. Wasn't that nice? She has a lot of fun holiday eye candy on her blog, so check it out.
This room is super tricky to photograph and it's very dark. It is a total juggling act getting any decent photos. There are different light sources coming from everywhere, so the wall color goes from looking blue, to violet to green depending on what corner you're photographing. There's natural light coming in through the windows and different lamps turned on. It's nuts. But without the lamps it would be a cave, so I have to keep those on. Needless to say, I dream of high ceilings and big windows in our next home. The actual wall color is a light, baby-grayish blue. I'm not 100% fond of it, but I justify it by saying that it looks like a powder blue from the 50's, so it's "very Mid-Century"... ha.ha.
This room is our favorite room during the holidays.. we call it the Christmas Room because most of our decorations (and all 3 of our trees!) are in it. We watch Christmas movies on the big screen TV and listen to records as well.
I'll have more pics soon, but I have to go tend to my sick child. :*( That time of year.
See more *55 Days of Vintage Christmas* posts here.
