dd05: a celebration of vintage ornaments

it's no secret that i love vintage... ummmmmmm... EVERYTHING! :) so i seriously doubt it will shock anyone to discover that i have a particularly treasured collection of vintage christmas ornaments. it began with a few that we were given after jeff's grandfather died, got a bit bigger when my mom's friend betty downsized and was looking for a good home for the ones her mother had amassed, and has been occasionally added to from various thrift shops and rummage sales. this october i hit the jackpot at a local sale, where i found more ornaments (some of which were in their gorgeous 1940's boxes!) and the loveliest little santa-bedecked box of hooks. what made it even better was that i got to meet the lovely seniors who attend the church at which the sale was held; i think they were secretly convinced i was slightly nuts to be sooooo very excited by these "old and damaged" baubles, when i could get some nicer, newer, fancier ones at the nearby mall, but they were much too polite to say so, lol!

(vintage: page from an ideals magazine, cut to fit and backed with a clear inkjet transparency to make it more durable; patterned paper on reverse of other page: my mind's eye; puffy sticker from the dollar store; rub-on alphas and numerals: making memories; adhesives: staples brand gluetape runner, xyron, sewing machine)

since i have a bunch of ornaments from various sources, i thought it would be fun to document all of them this year. because many of them are still packed in boxes awaiting the arrival of our tree, i needed to do this in an open-ended way, so i made a little pocket to hold the photos i've already taken, but it's big enough to add more later in the month.

the base of this is a page from an old ideals christmas magazine, the pocket is an off-cut of transparency (oh hambly, how i MISS THEE!!!) and the rest are miscellaneous rub-ons and stickers from my stash!