our Christmas house ~

 Finally sharing photos of most of our house decorated for the holidays.  Lots of pictures, so I'll limit my commentary.  

Welcome to our little foyer.....

Some shots from my once-formal-living-room-turned-office....

 

 

 

 The dining room decked out with many vintage Shiny Brites....

Thanks for coming by!

Wishing each of you the happiest of holiday seasons!!

Be merry

and

keep dreaming!

Polly

life is short. eat dessert first.

These are cookies!  Can you believe it?

My in-laws arrived last night to spend the holidays with us, and they brought sweets!  Lots and lots of sweet treats!  These cookies made by my mother-in-law are amazing!   She said she found the recipe and how-to in a magazine a while back and decided to try  it out. 

Aren't they gorgeous?

That's not all.  She brought bin after bin of cookies and sweets......

 

 Welcome to the cookie bar at the Motley Junket house!!

My sign looking down upon the smorgasbord of sweets says it all:

Life is short.  Eat dessert first.

~ keep dreaming ~

Polly

our tree ~

We had family over last night for some Christmas cheer.  My sister-in-law got a great photo of our tree, so I thought I'd share real quick.  I love the effect her camera added to the tree! On a whim, I used vintage cash register tape as my garland.....kinda quirky huh?  

I am planning a "Christmas House tour" post someday this week hopefully so stay tuned!  We had all our carpets cleaned this morning so I am spending this evening putting the house back together.

~ keep dreaming ~

Polly

more booth stuff ~

 I popped into Heritage Square today to add those sweet ornaments I posted about yesterday.  While there, I took some photos of some things that are still available for sale in both booths.

  I still have two accordion fold ornaments left.  I made them with antique french book pages and old anagram letters....

a large vintage hanging honeycomb decoration......it has that perfect vintage patina!

 a vintage sparkly silver Santa ornament........he would look awful cute dressing up a brown paper package!

this handmade angel tree topper......all feathery and glittery

a MASSIVE vintage burlap stocking

a wooden tree covered in antique music pages

Keely has two of these vintage marquis letters in E and C

 

a big bowl full of old old glass balls.....individually priced for sale

fabulous old collapsible wire store shelf.....rusty, crusty cool

bags and bags of vintage light bulbs......I love these filling a jar or bowl.....just $5 per bag

 Keely came across these next two prints that are just sooooo loveable

and our french provincial hutch is filled with all sorts of kitschy Christmas

Thanks for coming by!

~ keep dreaming ~

Polly

little Christmas uniquities ~

I recently came across a few old Christmas ornaments that are quite unique and so very sweet!

 I am just in love with the funky color combination of fuschia, lime green and turquoise on these!

 Definitely handmade.  Imagine the time and patience it took!

This one is a little house shaped from old glass bead garland with a petite lime green glass ball inside.

This poor star is broken with a few pieces missing, but still sweet nonetheless.

5 little bells tied together with old tinsel.......they just don't make tinsel like that anymore!

 this little guy's body is a pine cone.....he's painted in the prettiest tiffany box blue and sprinkled with sparkles

 

and one old milk glass Christmas house light bulb.....not sure that it still works.....probably not as it has string tied to it where someone, at some point in this bulb's life, decided to make it into an ornament

It's the little things that make me smile!

Anything make you smile lately?

P.S.  These are all available for sale and will be in my booth at Heritage Square Antique Mall sometime tomorrow.

~ keep dreaming ~

Polly

my frenchie Christmas tree ~

Still busy decking the halls!

I got my little white tree all trimmed in some of my favorite Christmas treasures to create my favorite frenchie look in the family room.  I tucked the tree into one of my Restoration Hardware canvas hampers and then set about adding some sparkles, shimmer, burlap and lace.

 

Every "frenchie" tree must have an Eiffel Tower or two!

I added three boxes of mercury glass balls that are sooooo pretty when the light bounces off them.

and these dangling crystals cast luminescent rainbows everywhere!

vintage sparkly reindeer and a very old antique mercury glass swirl ornament there to the right....

I found three of these old birdie candy containers last year......lucky find!

Linking up to:

Kathleen's White Wednesday party

and

Michelle's Primp Your Stuff Wednesday party

Thanks for coming by today!  Wishing each of you a little merry merry in your lives!

~ keep dreaming ~

Polly