. . . . Thanksgiving, the Christmas will be here before you know it. I’m getting a head start and brought in a few holiday decor things to my booth at Stars this week. Then tomorrow I deliver to the ‘Every Husband’s Nightmare’ show in Hillsboro. After that show ends next Saturday, I’ll have even MORE holiday goodies to bring to Stars.
Here’s what I’ve done to start off the season:
I think my decorating theme for this year is ‘simple elegance’. Lots of pretty vintage glass baubles in jars and bowls with mini fairy lights give off a truly magical glow!
It’s almost impossible to truly capture the beauty of the little lights in pictures and in the well lit store; but you get the idea. Some of these arrangements are ‘all inclusive’ pieces, where I have priced the container with the lights and baubles to be sold together as one item. The rest of them are priced individually so you can just buy what you need. If you already have the glass baubles and just need the container to put them in, OR if you have the container and just need a few more glass baubles.
SO many different ways to display these holiday lovelies. Think outside the box and use what you have to place your ornaments in. Or buy something that will serve multiple purposes.
This is actually a cupcake stand! Pretty little boxes with bows always add a festive touch to your decor, and you’ll have a gift box handy if you need one for a last minute gift!
I’m pretty sure that the white metal stand filled with ornaments was intended for this very purpose. But you could also use it at Easter to hold your colored eggs.
Milk glass punch and candy bowls look pretty filled with ornaments too!
You can even fill the dome lid of your cake stand with baubles! It’s a bit of a tricky process and you have to be sure that no one inadvertently takes the lid off ‘to see what will happen’. A mess. A mess will happen. Which is why I didn’t fill the ones in my booth with glass baubles!
I’ve got some awesome vintage crystal snack plates with cups for you holiday entertaining. And some beautiful silver espresso cups and saucers.
There is never a shortage of Milk Glass dishes or vases in my booth! The milk glass vases are really pretty with vintage glass baubles on top of them too!
Always a plentiful supply and variety of stoneware dishes too. Be sure you have all the serving bowls and platters you will need for serving your holiday feast.
I hate to admit it, but my wall space become more of a depository for ‘all the stuff I can’t fit into my big booth’, as opposed to a theme planned vignette. A few bits of fall still available in my wall space.
BEFORE I could start on any new craft projects, I needed to put away some recently accumulated supplies, like this bagfull of tiny spools of thread that I had bought at the craft show. Got down my box of ‘spools and stuff’ to toss this into and spotted some bigger spools I already had. Had recently seen an idea on Pinterest with spools and bottle brush trees , so the ‘light bulb in my head went off!”
I had some big spools, small spools and the tiny new ones. Since they were all ‘neutral tones’ I used my cream colored trees on them. These are the trees that I bought already this bleached looking color.
So it was a pretty quick and easy project! Just a bit of tacky glue on the bottom of each tree, and plop it onto a spool!
I’ve also seen people take whole groups of tress like this and glue them to a vintage silver tray and cover it with fake snow OR pretty vintage glass balls. But I didn’t really have enough trees to use so many of them in one big project.
I also had two of these little jars I got at the thrift store. Looks like maybe they were originally filled with fragrance oil for a reed diffuser set maybe. There is a picture on the INSIDE BACK of the bottle as well as the front. Kinda neat looking. Hard to photograph though!
So I filled these part way with some fake snow and glued a tree on top.
The trees were a perfect fit for the bottle top!
I took pairs of the tiniest trees and bagged them to sell. Tiny things like that have a way of disappearing sometimes, not to mention how difficult it is to put a price tag on something that small! And this is how I displayed the rest of them in my booth at Stars.
I also had a few bigger trees leftover from last year. These are ones that I had bleached, then tea stained and added new star shaped wood bases to.
Just something ‘different’ that you don’t see everywhere!
Put some under little glass cloches.
Displayed some with other things, here and there. Next to a tiny crystal angel here.
And with some jars full of glass balls here. I just LOVE those neutral colors against the aqua background!
I hope you are enjoying the holidays at your house!!
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