My Vintage Christmas

December 9, 2009

Welcome to my first Christmas tour this year. Since there are a number of Christmas home tours I am participating in, I decided to break it up a bit. Today, as a part of Rhoda’s Home for the Holiday’s tour, I am going to show you Christmas in my craft room. My craft room is my girly-girl version of the man cave. Here I can throw all caution to the wind and indulge on all things vintage, romantic, feminine, froufrou and glittery. I get my ‘fix’ here you might say, or perhaps I should say this is where I overdose on frills so that I am completely happy to keep the rest of the house ‘clean’ and natural (and keep My Love happy too).

Welkom in mijn kersthuis. Ik zal de komende dagen steeds een beetje laten zien van mijn kerstdecoraties, vandaag beginnen we in mijn eigen domein, mijn knutselzolder. Hier kan ik me lekker uitleven met alllerlei vrouwelijke, romantische frutsels.

The Noel paper banner I made hangs on a really vintage mirror found at my in-laws (where else). The shabby chic vintage mirror is a bit too shabby even for me, especially since someone did a very bad job of trying to fix it. But with lots of stuff hanging on it and in front of it, I think it looks wonderful all the same.

De Noel banner hangt aan een hele oude en zwaar beschadigde spiegel die natuurlijk uit het huis van mijn schoonouders vandaan komt.

I placed the mirror on top of my library cabinet and created a little vignette in front of it. Let’s look at some details.

De spiegel staat op het bibliotheekkastje en ervoor heb ik een kleine vignette gemaakt.

This snowman comes from my in-laws too. Nobody wanted to buy it and I wasn’t very interested either. Until all the Christmas decorations started to pop up all over blogland and I got inspired. It didn’t always look like this (go here to see the before look). I changed it more to my style and altered a little box to show him of a bit more. I am loving his sweet smile now and I hope he will bring us a white Christmas this year.

Deze kerstman zag er eerst anders uit. Ik heb hem aan mijn stijl aangepast en een leuk doosje voor hem gemaakt om op te staan.

The snowman took a little bit of work to make so cute. But this small cloche filled with gold tinsel and small Christmas balls, only took me 20 seconds to make. Very easy, great effect. The sea stars where a summer attempt at glittering them. They didn’t quite turn out the way I wanted them too, but I like them here.

Dit is natuurlijk super simpel, gouden sliertjes en balletjes onder een cloche. Simpel maar wel erg leuk.

This little snowman was made after a tutorial I followed in Artist Class. It was a tutorial by Dawn of the Feathered nest. He too (or should I say she, since my name is on top of him, I’ll explain another time why that is) got a small altered box to sit on.

Dit sneeuwmannetje (waarom hij Marianne heet leg ik later nog wel een keer uit), heb ik gemaakt aan de hand van een tutorial van Dawn in de Artist Class. En natuurlijk kreeg hij ook een mooie troon om op te zitten.

Here is another look at the vignette I am showing off here. The colors are gold, silver and white. I never would have thought that silver and gold go so well together but I am really loving the combination. Let’s take a closer look again, shall we.

This little angel is sitting in a nest of gold tinsel. That idea happened quite by accident. I was looking for a way to make her stand (she is supposed to hang) and came up with a ball of twine to perch her on. And then I had to cover up the twine ball, and so the nest happened as a lucky accident. The attentive observer might have noticed that she is missing a wing. I’ll give her a new set of wings one day, but for now, she’ll just have to stay and sit in her nest.

Dit engeltje (dat zielig genoeg een vleugeltje mist) zit in een nestje van gouddraad. Eigenlijk zit ze in een balletje touw omdat ze anders niet kan staan en dat balletje moest ik natuurlijk verbergen. Heerlijk als zulke leuke combinaties ‘per ongeluk’ ontstaan.

The altered glittered deer is looking at two adorable French children. The deer started his life as a brass and rather plain and ugly one (you can see his before state here). But a little spray paint and some glitter made him sparkle again.

Ook dit hertje dat zo lief naar de kindjes kijkt is zijn leven anders begonnen, maar met wat witte verf en glitter doet hij nu heel leuk mee.

Here is one last look at my Christmas vignette in my craft room. I showed a close up of the home-made ornaments that are hanging on the mirror in my Ornaments party post. And if you want to see some of my early Christmas decorations in my garden you can go here. Oh and of course there is my Ragamuffin wreath too.

Een laatste blik op mijn Kerst hoekje op mijn zolder. De ornamentjes die op de spiegel hangen heb ik al in een vorige post laten zien. En voor nog wat meer kerststemming in Songbird’s nest kun je naar mijn post gaan over de Ragamuffin krans en over de versieringen in mijn tuin. Of terugkomen natuurlijk want er gaat nog meer volgen.

Come back soon for the next episode of my Christmas Home Tours Series. And of course visit Rhoda’s Home for the Holiday’s tour for more beautiful Christmas tours.

Love,

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