A Christmas Tree In Woodland White

When I moved into my historic Victorian house 15 years ago, I put up a 9 foot Christmas tree in the 11 foot tall room, and began my antique ornament collection in earnest.  For fourteen years I have spent hours and hours unwrapping and hanging hundreds  and hundreds of figural, indented and hand painted vintage and antique ornaments.

As you can see this year I was ready for a change.

I am on the verge of redecorating my kitchen, which has been filled with bird cages, so I decided to utilize them all one last time before dragging them off to the antique mall.

Most of them were white already ... The rest converted. I filled them with mercury glass and other spherical ornaments.

Then filled the tree with second hand store and dollar store finds.

I found several of these medallions already made, as shown below,  and just had to add the. Great deer graphic that I found at  Graphics Fairy..

... And that is my tree for this year, Mr. P said he loved it because it went  up so fast ... I have to admit, I liked that part too!, 

Red and White Christmas Tree Decor

Yes, its decorating day at the Festival of Trees, Margaret ... And yes, there really are hundreds of beautiful trees worth hundreds of dollars each lovingly made and donated to Primary Children's Hospital for charity care.  Yes, Margaret, that means the money all goes to help sick children who need the help of good doctors, but whose families don't have enough money to pay for it.  Margaret, did you know that every single  dime raised by this wonderful charity auction goes to charity care, all administrative work is done by volunteers! So Margaret, don't you think that the PCMC's Festival of Trees makes the world a better place? Yes, so do I, that's  why this is my favorite charity.

Above is my favorite part of our red and white Christmas tree that will be on display at the South Town Expo Center from Wednesday through Saturday this week, it's a wonderland of holiday beauty, so worth supporting.  Our tree is number Q11 this year. 

This table was donated by another dealer at Treasures Antique Mall, where I work, Diane Brereton.  I thought its Danish Modern lines were perfect for our Scandinavian design to complete our theme, Grandma Inga Olena's Christmas. thanks Diane.

Lots of happy elves from the We Can service group I belong to, made for a record set up time, of less than 3 hours. Thanks girls!

Festival of Trees Set Up is Today!

I can hardly believe it, the Festival of Trees set up day has come again ... I will be setting up the tree today, with my friends from We Can ... Our space is Q17 if you are local and want to come and see our work. Otherwise you can see these polka dot ornies and the rest of the tree when I post this evening.