I started my decorating early this year – I usually wait till Friday after Thanksgiving but this year I started earlier in the week this year.  I had a couple other houses to decorate and wanted to get a head start on mine so I could decide what I was using in my own home and what I could take to use elsewhere.  I never seem to start my decorating the same place – this year I started with my china cupboard and I love how it turned out.  The only thing that would make it better is if it were already painted white!!

I bleached a bunch of bottle brush trees this year and put them all on one shelf of the cupboard and mixed in a few other trees and some favorite little things.

This moose is one of my very favorite things.  I’ve had it for years and he moves around to a new spot each year.  Sometimes he’s the focal point of a vignette and others he graces a larger scene like this one.

I think he is really enjoying his forest home this year.

These little salt cellars made the perfect little holders for miniature ornaments.  With the silver trees as a backdrop they look fun and festive.

An all white nativity fits in well with all the bottle brush trees that have been bleached white.

I’ve had these tiny sheep for years too My lightbulb got some ornaments added to make it look festive.

Ironstone platters, silver trees, a white elf and vintage bells create this vignette.

My shelf in my living room can be quite a challenge to fill up and make it look like I want it to.  I left the large window in the center and added a nativity set, lights, glass and tinsel garland and a white snow flake from Target.  The silver tinsel garland is a new find this year.

To the right of the nativity set is my Grandma’s brandy snuffer filled with vintage white ornaments.

And beside that is a vintage frame with my favorite crown and a couple old clock faces.

And on the left end of the shelf are some more vintage frames and a vintage hat I found at a favorite antique shop this fall.  The mercury glass tree I found at Goodwill last year before Christmas and just outside the frame is a glass cloche filled with more vintage white ornaments.  I’ll share some full shots of my house when I’m all finished with some projects I still hope to get finished before Christmas.  Those projects might or might not include some new slipcovers 🙂

On my vintage restaurant cart another cloche holds vintage silver and gold ornaments.

Above my handsome deer is all blinged out for the holidays!

On my coffee table is the lovely hat box that the hat on my shelf came in.  A silver pick and a vintage gold ornament and a few vintage bowls filled with ornaments and small vintage light bulbs and a deer antler create this vignette.

Small vintage ornaments scattered under a silver tinsel tree.  My daughter thinks it looks like the ornaments fell off the tree.  I just like the look.

Vintage flash card in the back says 3+2=5

This table is just inside our front door in the dining room.

On the other side of our front door – the tall nutcracker was an after-Christmas-find in Kansas last year. I painted him white and covered him with vintage glass glitter.  More photos including what he looked like before coming next week.

These old hangers I recently bought on our trip to Wisconsin.  I love the way they look hanging here detailed with some boxwood, ribbon and a metal tag.

And that’s all for now!  I decorated a friends house last Friday and I go do another one today.  Will share pics and some tips on Christmas decor soon.

Jill

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