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Friday, November 18, 2022

Friday Vintage Thrifting - Christmas Treasures

 Hi Friends,

I'm sharing a few Christmas items I have found in the past couple of weeks while thrifting, at my local community thrift and vintage thrift stores

I did find a couple of vintage treasures....

  • a pair of tapered green candles with a candy cane made by Avon I believe from 1980 - for $1.50 
  • a pair of small winking Santa plastic mugs for $1.00 each I'll be adding to my Santa mug collection
  • a Russ Bernie Co - wooden rocking horse ornament


The Making our own Fun book was $1.00 not vintage but has great vintage looking picture and stories of  "Day's Gone By"


 The Beta Sigma Phi Holiday Cookbook caught my eye with the Christmas Fruitcake recipes.
I'm sure I'll find a few more recipes that my Grandmother used for the Holidays


I have a couple of brass horns in my Christmas décor, but this horn is a little different more like a bugle for $4.00.

When out thrifting, small wreaths of any kind are on my list to pick-up and especially when the wreath have do-dads and this little wreath for $1.50 had berries, miniature wooden spools, pine cones that can be used for other projects. 

I follow Becky at My Little Vintage Home, You-tube channel and she was crafting vintage styled ornaments.
 When I saw the $1.00 bag of red satin thread spun ornaments, I thought I could  embellish these with beads and sequins. maybe?


 I found another wreath with more pine cones and berries for $3.00 
I also picked-up two frosted berry swag-stems $3.00 each. I think I'll be using the berry stems for my Christmas décor on the mantel

 

I will probably be using the pine cones and berries for a project.


The lighted 6ft berry garland I went over my $5 limit, my excuse is I don't think I could have bought the berries or light new for $5.
(I paid $8.00 for the berry garland.)


This fir garland I paid $5.00 it's 8feet long has different texture branches with large pinecones and berries.


I was surprised to find a bag of 12 large long pine cone for $5.00, this type of pine cone tree doesn't grow around here.


Lastly, the red metal lunch box I pick-up last Sunday, I think it will be a nice pop of red for Christmas


I hope this post gave some inspiration to go check out your local thrift store you just never know what unique items you may find.

I'm getting excited to decorate for Christmas, I love decorating with pine cone, greenery and vintage treasures as you can tell, cuz those type of items I brought home this trip. lol

Please check back after Thanksgiving weekend, Ill be decorating for December.

Until the next post.....

May God Bless You and Your Family this Holiday Season,
I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

4 comments:

  1. I love your haul of pinecones, garlands and greenery. I love upcycling that kind of stuff! For several years I have made Santa Claus bodies with red bulbs. 3/4"-ish strip of white fur around the waist, black grosgrain (or satin but it is more slippery) for the belt. A gold or silver paper buckle (punched with scrapbooking punch), then a piece of the ribbon on top of the buckle. Cute, easy. Fast with a glue gun!

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  2. Hi Kathy, Your description of your Santa Claus from Christmas bulbs sounds interesting, what size bulbs. Do you use them as ornaments? Might be a great craft idea to do with the grandkids, one weekend. Thank you so much for your comment. Happy Thanksgiving

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  3. Great for Christmas, can't wait to see how you transform them and Happy Thanksgiving...

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    1. Thank you for your comment.
      I'm hoping to start Christmas decorating this week

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