Beyond The Picket Fence

My Christmas Home decor tour got interrupted by my pop-up shop happenings. I am now done with pop-ups for the season, so let's get back to my space. Let's start with the inspiration for my holiday decor, this vintage winter painting.

I love the blues and greens and creams in the snowy scene. The amateur, vintage painting sits on the windowsill next to my Christmas tree.

Below the painting on a music cabinet that belonged to my grandparents, I put a soft blue and tan, plaid cashmere scarf.

On top of the cabinet sits a basket sleigh with a little tree, the clock shadow box I made ten years ago, and a brass JOY candlestick.

In front of the painting sits a 1918 Hans Brinker book with gorgeous color pictures in it. My aunt gave me the book and the cabinet and the rocker next to it this summer when we visited her. 

I added some accessories to my dining room light.  I started with making a French blue velvet chain, hot gluing the loops together.

I glued jute and velvet ribbons to glass balls and pinecones and tied them to the light fixture. A couple pom pom garlands that didn't sell in the shop completed the look. 

I framed a Currier and Ives print from a 1946 book and hung it on the windows.

Our tree is decorated with ribbons and glass balls and various other ornaments.

We put the tree in a different place than where we have had it the past few years. I really like it here and love the visual flow of my cozy Christmas decor along this wall of windows. I still hope to make a few live wreaths to hang on the windows too.