Santa obsessed ~

To say I am Santa obsessed is definitely an understatement.  Here are more of my Santas (but not nearly all of them!).

Vintage Santas in the downstairs bath.

How funny.  I have two different Santas that say Yugoslavia 1910, but according to Google, Yugoslavia first came into existence as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on December 1, 1918.  It officially adopted the name Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929.

Living room bucket bench.

I show this every year.  The Russian St. Nicholas my mom made.  I absolutely love him.

My "Chris" tree.  Everything but the tree is from my friend Chris.

A Marketplace find.

Salt glaze Santas.

My favorite blow mold Santa.

Merry Christmas Eve Eve.

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Lauren

Merry Day After ~

 

Another Christmas has quickly come and gone.  It was kind of bittersweet.  My older son, "Billy Vegas", sadly did not make it home.  After a couple of flight delays, the flight was cancelled with no hope of getting on another, except for one he found that cost $5200 one way.  Hopefully I will see him soon.

One more Christmas rug I forgot to share.

Some more of my decorating.  Patriotic decorations on my small landing.  So hard to photograph.

Salt glaze Santas and my choir.

Vintage look ornaments on wire tree.

My "Chris" tree.  Friend Chris gifted me with all the items, all vintage, except for the feather tree which has seen better days.  Not sure what happened to it, but the branches seem to have been scorched.

Thankfully the days are warming a bit and by the end of the week we should see 50*.  It was nasty for a few days but I know other places had it much worse.

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Lauren

I Resisted . . . Until ~

~ I went to the antique mall.  I was being so good.  I had not purchased one Christmas item this year . . . I mean not even a Christmas ball.  That changed the other day . . . sigh.

Two cotton batting Santas (not sure if that's what they are called . . . having a senior moment) and and salt glaze Eldreth Santa dated 1985.

Plastic choir boy from the 50's . . . 

. . . joined fellow choir members.

This vintage Halloween piece was just too sweet to leave behind.

Why does everything take so much longer than you think it should?  I have boxes that need mailing.  I've sporadically worked on them for two days and they still are not ready to ship.  I've also been wrapping gifts for two days and really didn't have many to wrap.  Those are finally done and I am down to needing to buy only 5 more gifts and 2 of them are gift cards 😁

Well, the boxes need attention because they WILL get mailed tomorrow.  I know USPS is behind.  A box I mailed last Monday just made it to Cleveland today according to their tracking info . . . and that's about 30 miles from the starting point.  Holy moley!  

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Lauren

Around the House ~

Usually by now I am in a frenzy to get everything Christmas put away, but this year I have decided to leave it up for a few extra days since I am enjoying it so much.  The house always looks so gloomy when the glow of tree lights is gone.  My decorating is very similar from year to year.  If Christmas is out of your mind until next November or December, you may want to skip this post :)  I am just getting around to sharing  some pictures.

It's official.  I now have a collection of vintage paper mache Santa boots.

I figure if people can post selfies taken in a bathroom, I can share my bathroom tree.  (Doesn't that make you crazy?)

Tree is all vintage Santas and tiny vintage glass bells.

1950's hard plastic Santas.

My collection of choir boys is growing ~ and so is the salt glaze Santa collection.

Snowmen!

My only vintage feather tree with new and vintage glass ornaments.

 Everything patriotic :)  God Bless the USA.

Only Santas on this tree.

A few special gifts.  

Felted wool wreath.

Vintage wind up Santa with key . . . though he doesn't work well he is still cute as can be.

Hand made fired clay Santa. 

Thank you for all the wonderful comments and emails on my Cindy Lou Who post.  They made my day.  Also my last post . . . everyone thought it was a great read and advice we should all heed.

I hope your new year is off to a good start.
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Pug hugs :)
Lauren