I am a big fan, and I treasure pulling out the things that I have inherited from family, as well as new things that M and I have acquired together. Above is a beautiful bird from Caspari, which M gave me as an early gift this year – the tag said – “Enjoy your tree twitter.”
My Mom has a ton of baskets and gave me one. To fill it, I found some pinecones in the woods on our property and lightly applied some glitter to the tips. The broom is a cinnamon-scented broom I got at a local country store. It makes the whole first floor smell of cinnamon, I love it!
M’s aunt knit him this enormous stocking. It is endlessly hilarious to me so I call it the ‘Club foot’ stocking. It stretches as you put stocking loot in it. Very retro-chic…. ahem. Anyway, so we have it on our mantel, then when we go to my family’s home we put it up on their mantel to be filled!
This is dim, but shows the craftsmanship. M was raised Lutheran, and his German family has attended this one church for years. When M was little, he and his grandfather made this church together. Stained glass and all. It actually is a music box. You can take off the top and look inside and the built-to-scale church. It is very sweet and one of few things that links M to his grandfather who died when he was in middle school. It is on a table in our hallway. The other lights are from a garland I wind up our stairs, and some figures that I have been given from my side of the family.
I will do another post of the ‘really old stuff’ later this week! Do you have any special Christmas artifacts from your family?
The homemade stocking is beautiful 🙂
All of my Christmas decor from my family is in storage back in Texas, I'm looking forward to be reunited with it one day, Christmas isn't the same without it.
Your decorations are so beautiful, and I love that they have so much history behind it.
Love the real candles on the tree! Just like the Waltons 🙂