Victorian Style: DIY Cherub In Clouds Christmas Ornament

Victorian Style: DIY Cherub In Clouds Christmas Ornament

My love of vintage started long ago, but my fascination with old-fashioned Christmases, more specifically, began with my first trip to the Henry Ford’s Holiday Nights! So it’s only natural that my own Christmas tree, with a beautiful selection of European glass ornaments and silver tinsel icicles from Bronner’s, is slowly entering a time warp. But there’s just something special about adding those hand-made touches to your tree, isn’t there?! In particular, this DIY cherub in the clouds ornament! It’s

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DIY Bottle Brush Trees for Vintage Christmas Decorations

DIY Bottle Brush Trees for Vintage Christmas Decorations

You’ll never look at a toilet-bowl brush the same way again! In the 1930s, Addis Brush Company, an American manufacturer of toilet bowl brushes, began dyeing bristles green and assembling them into artificial Christmas trees. These new artificial trees were especially popular in Britain, which had lost many of its trees during WWI. In 2017 Nielsen conducted a survey for the American Christmas Tree Association. Results? Of the about 95 million households in the United States planning to display a

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How to Decorate Your Bedroom for Christmas

How to Decorate Your Bedroom for Christmas

Is your Christmas season full of Go-Go-Go, but you wish it offered a little more Slow-Slow-Slow? We can help! Our Christmas-bedroom decorating ideas will make your bedroom a holiday retreat where you can “sleep in heavenly peace.” We started with a repurposed barn door for our headboard. The red patina of the rustic wood complemented both of our Christmas-bedroom themes: snowmen and the Nativity. You really can’t go wrong with recycled barnwood. We used more of it, along with a couple

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