Everything Vintage: Santa Claus

Vintage Friday

I just love Christmas and I adore images of Santa. Such a jolly, round little fellow! Here are some vintage Christmas images I found...



Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

This is my favourite! I just love the Coca Cola Santa!

Below images via Itkupilli Shop

!!Have a wonderful weekend!!

I'm Dreaming of a Pink Christmas

Daydream: Pink Girly-Girl Christmas

Christmas is near and my house is full of holiday cheer with traditional Christmas decor and traditional carols playing softly in the background (none of this Britney Spears make-up-my-own-xmas-carols-crap!)

However, even though our house is decorated in red, green, gold, and silver, I am much more open to contemporary Christmas decor than I am to contemporary Christmas carols!

For instance, wouldn't it be just darling to have a home decorated in pink for the holidays? Even more, wouldn't it be beautiful in the girly dream home I featured here in all it's pink decor delight? LOL

This was my letter to Santa Claus this year:

Dear Santa,
Please make my boyfriend colour blind for the holidays so he will not notice if the house is decorated from top to bottom in pink.

That's all.

K.

If my wish came true (which it did not, in case you were wondering) this is what I would do:

I would drape my pink door with fuzzy white boas....

I would display pretty pink ornaments on my mantel and drape some more fuzzy white boas...

I would hang pink stockings in anticipation of Santa filling them with sugar plums and pink candy...

I'm dreaming of a PINK Christmas

Just like the ones I used to know

Where the treetops glisten, and children listen

To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I'm dreaming of a PINK Christmas

With every Christmas card I write

May your days be merry and bright

And may all your Christmases be PINK!

All my Christmas trinkets would be pretty and dainty...

I would have pink, glittery bulbs hanging from all my white, crystal chandeliers...

Ornaments would be soft, pink, and feathery...

Where possible, everything would be hung by silky, pink ribbon....

Gifts would be wrapped in pretty pink paper and adorned with pretty pink bows and stars, and bulbs....

I would wish you a Merry Christmas in pink, pink, pink....

I would sit with my fellow girly girls and make pink Christmas crafts while sipping pink champagne and eating pink marshmallowy desserts...

To make the above pink superstar snowflakes:

* Cut small snowflakes from folded paper, using the same technique you learned in grade school.
*Add shimmer with spray glitter and attach a tinsel ornament to the center.
*Hot-glue the snowflakes to purchased silver stars.
*Use one as a tree topper or group them as ornaments to hang on the tree or from a chandelier.

Tell me, what is your Christmas decor style?
What did you ask Santa for this year?

K.

Images via bhg

Vintage Elves

Vintage Friday

There are 21 days until Christmas!

I leave you with 21 Vintage Christmas Elves... who doesn't love elves? They're just such adorable l'il buggers :)

Evil little Hitler elf!

The Coke can isn't particularly vintage!

Snow White's elves work part time for Santa....

Elf that works in the "Naughty List Department"!

My favourite!

CHRISTMAS SPIRIT AWARD!

I plan to wear something similar to this lovely headpiece tomorrow when out shopping for gifts and decorations...

Via Fabulon

Happy Festive Decorating!

K.

Easy DIY Christmas decor

All-Things-Creative Wednesday

Even though it hasn't snowed yet here in Toronto I've started to get in the Christmas spirit by watching Holiday movies and spiking my coffee with Bailey's :)

I'm super excited to get our tree this weekend and start to decorate for the season!

Here are some simple DIY Christmas decor ideas I found and I'm determined to use at least one of them!

And this idea will likely be the winner! We don't have French doors, but living in a house that's been converted into apartments we have a few unnecessary doors still hanging around (pun intended) that could be be fancied up and finally made useful ;)

Simple enough, right?

This idea is really adorable :)

This would be slightly more involved as I don't have artist canvases laying around (i.e. would have to buy them), I like how clean and fresh this looks though.

I like the idea of hanging a wreath over painted or papered canvases

If we get another huge tree again this year I may need every last Christmas bulb - but if some happen to be left over this would certainly be another easy project!


Okay, so this person may have gone a little overboard by gift wrapping their whole kitchen! I think I may try this with the splash wall above my stove though. All you need is double-sided tape and Christmas wrap!

This is cute - Christmas bulb shapes cut from felt and cardboard and then decorated with glitter and hung on a silver beaded chain.

Thoughts on any of the above simple DIY projects?
How do you get yourself in the Christmas spirit each year?

K.

Images via BHG