I {heart} Christmas

Yeah so this post is a wee bit late. Get over it! I don't have internet access at home while I'm on break and I love posting about Christmas. Maybe one of these days I'll come to grips that it's 2010!



Anyhow, I probably should've showed this before Christmas, but maybe you remember this and do it next year. It's a fun photo trick, anyhow. I learned how to do this way back when I was in photo class but was reminded recently on Color Me Katie here and here.

I am magic, I have turned my tree into hearts!

So how did I do this? Easy. You do have to have a manual camera, though. You cut a heavy piece of paper to fit your lens, then cut a little heart or whatever shape you want in the middle. The heart I cut was only a quarter of an inch big. Set up your tripod, set your camera to manual focus, and adjust until you see hearts (or stars, lol!). Have fun!

Vintage Christmas

I love vintage, and Christmas is no exception. One day I'd like to be all decked out like this:

{Image Rhonna Farrer}

...but I made some strides this year. I found some little bottlebrush trees at Walmart and at some drug stores that have a vintage vibe (and they were like a buck each!). They lived with Mom's things in the wardrobe:

I love love love little cardboard village houses, found a couple this year. They're only a couple bucks each as well, making for an affordable, cute display!

I love my Cracker Barrel Santa:

Dad has had this Santa for a long time, it's cute:

I found an antique place that sold vintage reflectors that go on big Christmas lights, you don't see these much:

I love vintage ornaments, and I loved the box too:

I used them and some vintage bells I found to make a garland over my closet door. The tinsel was from Walmart, I loved the shape!

I also found these sweet little molds, I'll turn them into ornaments one day. I think it'd be sweet to have a vintage kitchen themed tree when I get a kitchen of my own.

And there's new ornaments that look old, gotta love it!

I loved these quilts that I saw at Cracker Barrel, might have to copy them!

Aren't yo-yo's sweet?

When I was up in NY shooting the wedding I killed some time at this HUGE antique mall. Loved it! Couldn't buy everything, but it was fun to look:

Gotta love vintage Christmas linens!

You don't see many vintage tree stands, I liked this one but the $18 price tag was too much:

Aren't all these Santas cute?

And there were some great village houses, so tempting!

I think vintage Christmases are the best!