Vintage Christmas Village- a Walk Through Memory Lane

Hi Friends,

Walking down memory lane of my Christmas Village collection display of years gone by.

Thank you so much for stopping by 'My Little Colorado Cottage'  this week.

I started collecting Ceramic Christmas Houses from Wal-Mart back in 2009.

They came white and wrapped in cellophane ready to paint.

I started with a Hot Rod Parts shop, High School, Pet Shop, and a Tire/Gas Station for a Christmas village

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2013

This year I added a ceramic church to the Christmas village on a shelf above the entry closet

 

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2016

This year I was into sparkly tinsel garland on top of the hutch and arranged the houses into a small cozy town with a train traveling through.

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2020

I decided to split up the house and added more trees.

Here on the Mantel, I was going for a woodsy Christmas with trees and buffalo checked, red berries or deep in the woods Christmas feel

On another shelf I added a few hand carved trucks

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2021

I moved my Christmas village to a longer shelf and added cotton fabric to look like a snowy Christmas Village.

added a new piece - Grocery Store

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2022

This year my thought is bringing in diy vintage looking Putz Christmas houses using paper or light weight cardboard (like cereal boxes)

I've found a few free blueprints to add some Putz houses

LINK>>>> The Pink Tree You-Tube

LINK>>>>> Stephanie at Deliberately Creative You-Tube

link>>>> Robin Johnson You-Tube

Please check back next week, I'll be working on getting my Christmas décor out and trying one of the patterns.

Thanks again for checking out my blog, would love to hear what you new craft are you trying this Holiday season.

So until my next post.....

May God Bless You and Your Family this Holiday Season!

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

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