I'm dreaming of a White Christmas. White Christmas decor that is.

Can you believe that Christmas is almost here? 

Where did the month go?   Heck, where did the year go? 

Are you ready for Christmas?   I'm not. 

I finally got my Christmas tree up.  But I haven't had the chance to get decent photos of it yet.  So you will have to wait on seeing my tree. 

But I thought I better share the rest of my Christmas decor. 

I decided to go with a "White Christmas" theme this year. 

I live in southern California and it never snows where I live.  So there isn't a snowballs chance in Hades that we will ever have a White Christmas.  I guess I should never say never.  It did snow once a few years back.  But not enough to stick.  But enough to get everyone excited that it was snowing. 

If we want a white Christmas, we either have to drive up to the mountains, go on a trip out of state to where it does snow, or make our own.  So here is my version of a white Christmas:

We will start with my china hutch.  And don't look at the snowflakes that are not sticking to the plates.  Geez!  You'd think that they could cooperate while I'm taking photos.  I guess it is just to warm here in SoCal for the snowflakes to stick.  Ha  ha!

I used a lot of snowflakes and trees in my Christmas decorating this year.  I love these snowflakes from Dollar Tree.  I have like a gazillion of them.  But only used a few.  I was planning on putting them everywhere, just got too lazy.  

I love anything under glass.  I found the mercury glass tree cloche at an antique store in Arizona a few years back.  The small ornament cloche with the snowman came from TJ Maxx a few years back as well.  I love the bottle brush tree in the urn.  That was an accidental pleasure.  I thought the tree would look better higher up, so I plopped it in the urn.  And ta dah! Perfect match.  Plus I didn't want to have to find a spot to store the urn during Christmas.  

More trees and snowflakes.  

I am obsessed with little bottle brush trees under glass this year.  

The silver ball ornaments were a thrift store find last week for 50 cents.  They look fabulous in my ironstone dish (another thrift store find).  

Did you notice the snowflakes in the back?  Another Dollar Tree find.  I just added some sparkly iridescent glitter to them.  

The snowball & ice garland came from Tai Pan Trading a couple of years ago.  

Some more thrift store finds.  The wooden tree was bare when I found it at the thrift store for a quarter.  I painted it white and added some iridescent glitter.  The rhinestone necklace at the beaded wire necklace around the bottom of the cloche came from the thrift store as well.   

Thrift stores are another obsession of mine. I seem to have a lot of them.  Obsessions, not thrift stores.  But then again. 

I still can't buy clothes from the thrift store. At least not for me.  It's a I hate "hand me down" clothing phobia I've had since childhood.  But I love to buy decor stuff and dishes from the thrift store.  

Hubby made the candle holder for me out of a glass light cover we picked up at the thrift store.  He made about 4 of them for me.  

The felt snowflake on the plate came from Tai Pan Trading some time ago.  I added the iridescent glitter to make it sparkly.  

The small mercury glass votive holder came from a cool store in Temecula called the Western Eagle Bargain Store.  You never know what you will find at that store.  

I have an obsession for glitter houses, Putz houses, cardboard houses, or whatever you want to call them.  Surprised that I have another obsession?  

I only used two of them this year.  My white ones.

The bottle brush trees are falling off of my house and church.  Every year I tell myself I need to hot glue them back on.  And every year I don't do it.  As long as no one bumps them, they are fine for another year.  

I have a couple of tiny feather trees under glass.  I picked them up a an antique store a few years ago.  I just need one that is about 1-2 feet tall and I would be happy.  But I'm too cheap to buy a bigger one.  Remember, I'm a dollar store type of girl.   

If you look in the first picture of my hutch you will see I originally had ivory colored domino's in the middle apothecary jar.  I changed them out for these ivory bottle brush trees.  I bleached these ones myself.  I am so proud that I finally did something I have been wanting to do for the last 3 years.  

Anyone that really knows me, knows what an accomplishment that really is.  I tend to not complete projects.  

The snowballs in the other two apothecary jars came from Hobby Lobby this year.  

The glittery snowflakes hanging from the jars are a thrift store find.  

Now we will move on to the shelf in my family room.  

The goldish mercury glass tree in the middle came from Target years ago.  The gold and silver trees on either side are Dollar Tree finds over the past few years. 

Did you notice the gold bead garland?  I found it at the thrift store for a quarter.  I knew I wanted to use more gold in my decor this year.  I guess I am drifting away from my White Christmas theme.  

Here is something white.  I hung more Dollar Tree snowflakes from the willow tree branches that I've had in a bottle on this shelf for a few years now.  

The spiders in my house love these branches.  Great for hanging their webs on.  I kicked the spiders out and opted for hanging snowflakes instead.  

I just love this wire snowflake tree.  I think I found it at TJ Maxx a few years back.  It would be really easy to knock off.  I know I originally had planned on doing so, but the lazy girl in me said "It ain't never going to happen.  So go ahead & buy the darn thing".  So I did.  

I made this paper lollie a couple of years ago.  I just change out the middle part for each season.  

Below the shelf I have an old trunk full of who knows what.  I found an old wood tray last year at the thrift store to sit on top.  It was so hard before to place anything on the trunk because it was so uneven.  The tray makes it easier to decorate.  

I added some mercury glass candle holders, a mercury glass candle that I picked up at Kohls this year and a Christmas cloche under a cloche.  The candles on the holders are FAKE!  I LOVE real candles, just have a greater fear of burning down my house.  So I use fake.  I found this set at the Western Eagle Bargain Store for $3.50 for the set of 3.  It was on one of their half price days.  Fabulous!  And they smell like real vanilla candles.  Even better!

The tin sign in the background says: Wisemen still seek him.  I guess I really should have put it with my nativity, but there wasn't room.  

And speaking of my nativity.  I put it behind my couch this year.  

I did have a bit of green in this display.  I purchased the biggest 3 green bottle brush trees from Grandin Road on clearance about 4-5 years ago.  The smaller two green trees are from this year.  As I was bleaching my bottle brush trees, I loved when a couple of them got this lighter green.  So I took them out of the bleach mixture before they were completely bleached & added them to my forest of green trees. 

The smaller cloche in the front was made from turning over a small glass candle holder I found at the thrift store.  You can find these exact same ones at Dollar Tree.  A dollar is a good price, but when you can get the same thing for 50 cents.  Even better.  Just like Christmas to a cheapskate savvy bargain shopper like me.   

My nativity holds a special place in my heart.  My mom painted & antiqued this set for my Grandma when I was a teenager back in the 70's.  It was all the rage back then to paint ceramic pieces and antique them.  Actually it was the rage to paint everything and antique everything back then.  I think my mom painted and antiqued every piece of furniture we had in our house at the time.  And then stripped off all the paint a few years later when painted furniture was no longer in vogue.  

Guess what girls?  You are going to be stripping off the paint off your painted furniture in a few.  You heard it here first!

I guess I got a little off track.  Back to the subject at hand.  My mom had done a similar nativity set for herself and my Grandma loved it.  So of course my mom made a set for Grandma.  When my Grandma passed away back in the late 80's or early 90's the nativity set went back to my mom.  

Now my mom knew how much I loved both nativities, so she gave me this one that had been my Grandma's for Christmas one year.  It has been one of my most favorite Christmas gifts of all time.  

My nativity brings me much "JOY".  And so does this little cloche.  The white bottle brush trees are from the Dollar Tree.  I love the "Brrr" rocks I added.  I can leave this out all winter.  

Here is the little cabinet in my kitchen.  

I love the "Nutcraker" ballet and all the music. Have you been watching the battle of the Nutcrakers on Ovation? 

  I purchased this swan from Pottery Barn on clearance last year.  Or maybe it was the year before.  This is the first year I've used it in my decor.  It is actually an ornament.  But isn't she "purty" sitting under glass instead of being hidden on the tree?  Such a DIVA!

I'll let you in on another little secret.  I have a swan obsession as well.  It's not as bad of most of my obsessions, but still something I collect.  

This bottle brush tree is also suppose to be an ornament.  I found it at Kohls.  It gets to have it's time in the spotlight for this year.  Next year, who knows.  It may be shipped off to the Christmas tree.    

Another ornament that I found at Kohls this year.  Since I have a gazillion ornaments, I have to find other places for them, other than the tree.  This "JOY" one found a spot hanging from the apothecary jar.   This would be another ornament that would be easy to knock off.    

Well I hope you have enjoyed my White Christmas decor this year.  I really enjoyed using white, cream, gold and silver in my decor this year.  And I still managed to have a vintage feel.  You know how I'm obsessed with anything that looks or feels vintage.  I seem to gravitate to a vintage Christmas look. 

It seems like each year that I get older, the less I decorate.  I only decorated my family room and part of my kitchen.   

Maybe age has nothing to do with it.  And maybe it has everything to do with the fact that I'm lazy and a procrastinator.  Can you imagine what I could do if I weren't?  Maybe in my next life I'll get to find out.  

In case I don't post again before Christmas (I do plan on posting about my tree, but in case I procrastinate it) I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!  

Or if you prefer, Happy Holidays!  Heaven knows, I don't want to offend anyone. 

And in case you missed my Snowflakes and Silver Trees vintage style mantel, you can check it out here.  

Merry Christmas everyone!

All my Christmas decor in one post

Since Christmas is fast approaching, I thought I better post all my Christmas decor in one post. So I am warning you in advance, lots of photos to follow.

All of the following decor is in my family room/kitchen. I still haven't decorated my living room yet. But I am not doing much in there. So hopefully I'll get it done this week.

We will start off with my fireplace mantel.

I've already shared my mantel with you in two different posts. If you missed them you can see more here and here.

I like the tweaked version the best.




Next is the table behind my sofa. This is where I decided to show off my nativity this year.

I picked up the brown paper shred filler at Dollar Tree. My husband loves how it looks with the addition of the filler.

This nativity means a lot to me. My mom painted it as a gift for my Grandmother many years ago. When my grandmother passed away, the nativity was gifted to me. So it has a lot of good memories attached to it.

I changed out the pictures in the frame that hangs above. I decided to go with vintage angel prints. Luckily I've picked up some CD's off of eBay over the years that have tons of vintage images. If you are not so lucky, you can usually find great vintage royalty free images over at The Graphics Fairy.

Here is a shot at night.

This cabinet sits at the end of my kitchen cabinets. I posted about this area already as well. But I have since tweaked it since originally posting about it.

I added another pine cone to this cloche and a blue mercury glass acorn I picked up at Walmart while on vacation.

I also added this sweet little angel bell I picked up at an antique store in Phoenix on vacation for $1.00. She was just too sweet to pass up. Plus I loved her color. I also added some prisma shred.

Next is my china hutch.

I found a set of vintage Christmas deer salt and pepper shakers while on vacation last week. I've been obsessed with finding some vintage deer since I saw some on a blog (sorry I can't remember whose blog I saw them on that started my obsession). I was sooooo happy I found some while on vacation. I paid $10.00 for the set.

You can see the other deer on the right hand side. I decided to just use some of my plain white dishes this year. I have probably 4 or 5 different sets of Christmas dishes. But decided to go with a white theme this year.

I know I've already shared my apothecary jars and my cloches in the cloche party post. But I did add this Joy ornie to the middle jar since then. I'm always tweaking things.


If you want to see more up close and personal photos of my cloches, you can find the post here.

The vintage angels on the middle shelf are a reminder of my childhood. My mom had a set just like this when I was a kid. So when I found this set at the thrift store last year, I had to buy it. The boy angel is suppose to have a music box inside, but it was broken off. So now he is shorter than the girl. I placed him on a stack of mirrored coasters to make him the right height to kiss the girl.

This is my white trunk. I got the large tray at a thrift store. Makes it so much easier to display things now that the surface is level. I added a bunch of cloches that I already showed you in the cloche party. The Happy Holidays glass block was a gift from a friend a few years back. The little wire Christmas tree with the hanging snowflakes on the right side came from Tai Pan Trading a few weeks back.

I placed a small cloche from an antique store inside a larger cloche.

I did the same thing with this cloche. The smaller snowman cloche/ornie came from TJ Maxx a few weeks back. I placed it on a candlestick to give it some height & surrounded him with his own forest of white bottle brush trees. Then placed everything under a larger glass cloche.

And here is the same area all lit up at night. The cloche on the right in the back sits on a glass block that has an opening. I placed a set of Christmas lights inside to make it glow. The lighted star on the left is actually a tree topper I've had for numerous years. I've never used it on a tree though.

This shelf sits right above the white trunk to it's right. You can read more and see more pics of this area in this post here. I did add some "faux" snow to the shelf since I last posted about it.

I strung some silver glitter letters on some tinsel that I got at Dollar Tree in their wrapping paper & bow section. Hung it across this mirror.

Here is a cloche that didn't make it in my cloche party post. I just got the vintage scene from the thrift store this weekend for $1.00. I did add the snowman and the 2 green bottle brush trees.
But everything else came together. This cloche is sitting on the end table next to my couch.

The little scene came with the elf, the deer and the white bottle brush tree. They were sitting on a bed of cotton batting with angel hair. Remember angel hair? I sure wish you could still get it, or something equally as fabulous. The wooden snowman is actually an ornie that I found at an antique store in Phoenix on vacation. It was $1.00. I already had the green bottle brush trees. And the cheese dome and the white plate.

On the same end table I have a lamp that sits on a big dictionary. I added this double frame with a couple of vintage images from one of my vintage image CD's. I added the vintage pink angel. I found a package of 6 angels (all exactly alike) at the thrift store on Saturday for $1.00. I was totally into finding vintage Christmas stuff while on vacation this past week.

I finally got my tree put up today. Took me most of the afternoon and evening to finish it. I'm happy with how it turned out. I just adore a white & silver tree. I've had it this way for the past few years. I did add a few new things this year.


One of the new things are these glittered stars. They originally came from the Dollar Tree, but they didn't look anything like this. They were actually blue and red and had a cartoon Santa or Snowman painted on them. I spray painted them Heirloom white and they glittered them up with some Martha Stewart crystal tinsel glitter and some ice glitter. I love how they turned out.

See the crystal garland? That is a new addition this year. I picked it up a few years back from Target, but I have never used it until this year. Don't know why, as I love it. I also love this Santa ornament.

This unicorn ornament is my most favorite. I've had it since I was a teenager back in the 70's. I was so into unicorns then. I still am. And see that silver glitter ribbon? It is new this year as well. I picked up a spool of this ribbon at a Goodwill in Phoenix on vacation for $2.99. The spool said the ribbon originally cost $25.00. One spool was enough to go around my tree 4 times. They actually had 3 spools of this ribbon, but I only bought one. Now I am wishing I would have gotten at least one more. Oh well.

Here is my coffee table vignette. The silver deer and sleigh came from Bombay Co store a few years back. It was a clearance item as one of the deer's antlers was broken. Hubby tried welding it back on. Not one of his finer jobs. But at least it has held. I filled the sleigh with small silver and mercury glass ornaments.

I added some of my new silver glitter ribbon around the two candles to give them some bling. The larger mercury glass candle holder came from Target on clearance last year. The shorter silver candle holder was a thrift store find.

This is my TV armoire. I got the believe sign on clearance last year (I think from Target). I did just add some crystal tinsel glitter to it. The blue garland came from Walmart this year.

On top I have a set of 3 twig deer. Last year I saw the ones that Pottery Barn was selling & knew I had to have them. I found mine from ABC Distributing last year for $5.00 for the set of 3.

I just found the twig sleigh at Kohl's this year. I got mine while on vacation using my Kohl's cash.

I hung some Dollar Tree snowflakes to my branches.

And finally we have my kitchen. At least one section of my kitchen. The peace sign came from Tom's Farms a couple of years ago. I love how the silver glitter has tarnished.

My new Christmas collection is Santa mugs. Most of mine came from the thrift store. I did find 2 small (mini) mugs at two different antique stores in Phoenix. The small one on the right above is one of those finds. It cost me $1.00.

The plates came from Dollar Tree last year. And the snowflake came from Kohl's last year. I just glitterfied it as well with crystal tinsel glitter.

In my plate rack I have 3 thrift store ironstone plates. I taped to each a paper plate that came from Target. I had planned on adding letters to each to spell out JOY. But haven't had the time yet.

This little elf I found at a Savers thrift store while on vacation in Phoenix. I paid $2.00 for him. Thought he was adorable. The mug came from Joann Fabrics a couple of years ago. The vintage candy canes came from an antique store last Christmas.

Here is the other mini Santa mug I got while on vacation. I did pay $3.00 for this one. This is another cloche that I didn't get done in time to share for the cloche party. The little Christmas girl bell came from the thrift store last year. I paid a dollar for her.

The two egg nog cups and the Santa bell where vacation finds as well. I found the cups at 2 different antique stores. I paid $2.50 for one and $3.00 for the other. The Santa was $1.00. I placed him under a cloche that I made from a vintage light cover.


I placed these vintage looking ornaments in one of my glass jars. I got them from a Goodwill in Phoenix for 99 cents. I don't think they are actually vintage, just made to look like it. But that works for me.


Whew! That was a lot to look at. If you made it to the end, I have to give you props. You are a serious decor blogger.

Now I better finish up & get to bed. It's almost 1:30am here in SoCal and I have to get up early to go back to work. My vacation is officially over. Boo hoo.



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