This was really fun, and I love your mantle! As for us, we decorate a medium sized model sail boat, about (80cm long), my youngest son started that tradition, one year when I was a student and we did not have enough money for a christmas tree, I came home from work and he had decorated the ship with lights and tiny ornaments, and he put a few small wrapped gifts under the "Christmas boat", it was lovely, we have decorated it every year since, and that was almost 30 years ago.
When I was a child our next door neighbor would invite me and my siblings (there are 5 of us) over to her house each year so we could each pick an ornament from her tree to take home. Those special gifts are still some of my favorites. They bring back wonderful memories.
So very cool ! I lost 50 + years of Christmas decor and ornaments 2 years ago in a garage fire. I had to start new so,as a crafter, everything new has my crafty touches . I have made all of the decorations.
Shannon and Phil, it’s so much fun watching you unbox all the Christmas treasures that were left to you. The mantle looks great. Cannelle is still the most adorable, photogenic doggo❤️
I have a large collection of snowmen and I keep them up after Christmas. This year, in my new home, they reside on top of my kitchen cabinets along with a white tinsel garland and white lights. So when I saw that I was like oooooohhhh LOVE IT!
My favorite holiday ornament is a sweet, little elf all dressed in red. She was one of my mum’s first Xmas decorations and is at least 80 years old. When our kids were young we played hide and seek with her all season long. Whoever unpacked her would hide her (she had to be visible). Whoever found her, told her hiding place and hid her again.She’s survived a flood, lots of grubby little fingers, and attacks by Catzilla. She looks a little worse for the wear but always makes my heart happy.
OMG I grew up with that lighted angel!!!😮. It's now in my possession. Sadly, this year I can't decorate. I'm having an early Christmas present in the form of a hip replacement.😂. So I'm living vicariously through your decorating fun
Those wreaths could look really pretty strung one above the other on one of the outside walls (if they're suitable for outside use, of course) My favourite decorations are a set of very old glass baubles that used to go on my grandparents tree when my mother was a kid (so, 1950/60s). My grandmother wanted to throw them out, but I snaffled them and love having them around!
Those enourmous outdoor lights are my favorite. My parents had several strings of the multi colored ones we put on the bushes outside my window. They would make my window glow. Itwas even more magical when it snowed. And because they are warm, it would melt the snow off so when we took them down they were ready for storage with very little clean up.
Ive used garland before on a wall in the shape of a tree. There where a few years i was tight on fund and floor space for a tree but when you have young kids you find alternative ways to make the christmas magic happen
OH MY GOSH!!! The red packages of icicles! Slammed me right back into my youth & carefully placing 2-3 strings at a time all over our tree, trying to keep the coverage even & extreme
@@ShannonMakes If you do unbox all those lights and restring them around filament spools for storage it would be nice to see you do that on video. A Christmas life hack for your viewers! Please!
My grandmother gave me a Christmas tree ornament when I was little, back in the 60s. The tip broke, but as it had a snow pattern on it, I glued a cotton ball to the botton, and I still have and treasure it 60 years later. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone, whatever you celebrate. Its all about family! Love from Minnesota.
Oooh, fun stuff. Another you tuber puts up a wooden ladder, wraps garland around it with lights and baubles for a tree and it's fun. Seems appropriate for a work in progress house! I loved when my kids were little and we baked together. Playing christmas music and filling the house with smells of deliciousness.
I really loved all the decorations. Was pleasantly surprised how well they survived all those years. And they will look stupendous after you put your own magic touch to them.
Gosh! If I lived near you, I'd be knocking on your door asking if I can help you decorate. What fun seeing what was in those boxes. Thanks for sharing and merry Christmas!
My favorite decoration is a stained glass wreath that I inherited when a family friend/widow/adopted grandma passed away. Every year I put it up and it reminds me of her and how family is anyone that you cherish 😊
All the garland and lights are a money saving treasure! It’s wonderful that you appreciate the value of what came with the house. You will become an expert Garland Fluffer, with all that nice heavy garland! The mantel turned out great! Hope things turned out Ok with the leaky roof! 90% of the decorations I use to decorate my house are things I made. I made painted, wood ornaments and tons of other things that I sold at craft shows, for many years. My favorite thing is an 8 inch tall wood snowman, that is building another snowman. There is a sign that says "Making Friends" It’s very cute, but hard to explain. Great video. Corgi content is always appreciated! Can’t wait for the next video
The wooden cranberries! The noise took me right back to Christmas with my mom! ❤ I miss the old large incandescent bulbs. Today’s lights are so blindingly bright I can’t see the ornaments. This was so much fun!
I loved the mantel, simple but colourful. I have a nativity set i have had for 20 years made out of teasels. It includes the stable, the 3 wise men, a camel, a donkey, the shepherds and sheep, Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus. I just love it!
My great grandma ( grandma with the cows) have beaded ornaments that she DIYed herself. Just a FIY we called her that because she would ring a cow bell in the morning and they would come up to her home and she would Milk them.
having grown up with the big screw in lights on the string, you can use them on a tree, but you have to make sure they bulbs have lots of room around them and if you have the big foil reflectors, that helps a lot. If you want to use them outside, please make sure the cord is rated for outdoor use.
For light storage, I tend to coil around my arm, then twist in a figure 8, then plug one end into the other. It keeps them dense and contained. The mouse ornament!! And the plump little bird. The mantle came out so nicely. It'll be so interesting to see where the house is at in a year
We always had the big multicolored ones on our house every year, and as I kid I would get jealous of the new flashy ones neighbors would be getting, now looking at those makes me happy
I love the Nativity Manger my dad made that goes with the camels, kings, shepherds, and the holy family. It's moved with me multiple times and has a place of honor every year.
It was so heartwarming to see you both enjoying unboxing your "new" Christmas decorations after watching you both work so very hard on clearing the attic and adding the missing insulation in your attic. I wish you both a very Happy Christmas Season 🎄
Your house is like a mystery bag; it contains surprises --- some good and some bad, some vintage shiny ornaments, some old yucky garbage. But it is yours to do what you want with all of it. You and your partner are doing a wonderful job in restoring your house to health and happiness. Thank you for all your videos that allow all of us to watch you, learn from you and learn with you. Also thank you for including your sweet doggie girl in your videos, she always brightens my day. Best wishes for a wonderful Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
We love to collect Christmas decorations from all the places we visit on holiday, this makes our Christmas tree a reminder of all the wonderful places we have visited. ❤
I love the use of old decorations! My mom gave me all of the decorations I grew up with and the special ornaments we used to get as a present every year are definitely some of my favourites :)
This is the first year in decades I put up a Christmas Tree. I then made home decorations by learning how to do macrame. It is a year and the coming year that definitely needs some cheer . Merry Christmas Shannon and Phil and your adorable pup. May you have a safe and wonderful work trip to Germany.
🙂You guys are fun and delightful!! I smiled and chuckled through the whole video! What special treasures to find in your beautiful old house. The end results of your Christmas findings are lovely and festive. Thank you for sharing. BTW Shannon, I love both your channels! Continued success. 👏I'll be watching. Love, Glenn's Mrs.🎄
Wow. Your prdecessors took Christmas SERIOUS..... 😊 love the decorations. As I'm from Germany, where we have a very long standing tradition of hand crafted Christmas ornaments, I love the traditional hand made glass ornaments and wooden ornaments. The kind you keep forever and ever.
I cut rectangles of heavy cardboard and wrap my lights around them. I cut two wedges into the cardboard to hold the first bulb and the plug (or USB plug) - stops the lights unwinding.
The best memories of Christmas are when we were short on money and had to make due with what we had. No money for ornaments.. I saved blown out eggs shells and hand painted them with little Scandinavian looking Christmas kids. My family loved them. Best gift I ever came up with. That was decades ago and the receivers all still cherish them. Thet tell me that they are their favorite ornaments and thank me again every year. It was a gift born out of poverty and even so, there was still a necessity to give love ones a gift on Christmas. This is the true spirit of Christmas🎄🎄🎄 Give of yourself and what u have.
This was very fun. I don't have any Christmas traditions or decorations but i love the lights that are put up in homes and businesses around town. I don't have the energy to spare to decorate for any holiday but i can appreciate the beauty from a distance. ❤ Happy holidays!
My mother in law has two of those candle holders table toppers from 3:30. Those CHUNKY colored bulbs that get hot are what I remember from my childhood. Synthetic tree and but lights would be on for 5 hours or more while we were home. I remember laying down on the tree skirt looking up into the underside (inside) of the tree and seeing the lights shine through and peaking glimpses of ornament's. Some years we also had a small train and circular trap that wrapped the tree. A lot of the ornaments were made by my grandmother, starched lace snowflakes and those foam balls covered in patternings of painted pin tips, beads, or that thin colored metal or plastic with a hole to thread through I forget what it’s called…. She also made my stocking by hand before I was born. Spelled my name a little wrong but I still used it and loved it. Sadly I wasn’t allowed to have any of the things she made, no idea what happens to all her hand made decor.
It was fun watching Ur reveal. My favorite collection is of homemade Christmas trees by the woman in my family.. crocheted, quilted, ceramic,, needleworked, macrame. Each one reminds me of the person who made it + the love they shaared with me. Merry Christmas all
Those large Christmas lights C-9 and C-7 size bulbs are great for putting in citrus trees if you have frost in your area. Keep them on all night and the warmth helps protect the trees.
Well watching was a trip down memory lane from the fifty’s as we had those big lights and that 5 candle holder was in our front window I swear it was exactly like that. So many of these decorations were from my past it was total fun watching. May you enjoy them even more than we did. Happy holidays. ❤️❤️❤️
Those big, bright, hot lights are not tree lights! Because they get too hot they are to be used as out door lights to hang on the eves of the house or string in mid-air from the house to a pole or TO a tree, but IN outdoor trees.
Great to have found that many Christmas lights) Last weekend we put up the tree and decorated it with vintage glass ornaments that my paternal grandma gave us. Whole two boxes of stuff dating back to 1950s. There are some really odd ones, like pepper corns, a cucumber, a strawberry, and grapes. Also two cosmonauts, probably made in the year of Yuri Gagarin's flight.
Love your way of decorating aswell as some of your finds, not to mention your joy of finding these things - not to forget the most adorable corgi ever! My favorite amongst the items have to be the strings of wooden berries... Love them, and will make something of the same myself! As it comes tothe lights I clearly prefere warm white ones. My favorite yule decorations at home are my crocheted snowcrystals - using mainly the Victoian patterns and thin yarn. I love my brass candlesticks and hanging star, not to forget the snowbabies (White and golden small creatures mainly prodused some 1905 - 1912 then again showing up around 1922...). I also love to take inside some fresh greenery - not a full tree, but rather just some branches... Happy holidays to the three of you and to those you will be on tour with!
I have a Christmas glittery swag - 2 long garlands of tinsel, red and gold which I run all along the top of my bookshelves. Love it! I like yours too! 😊
In the 70s my grandma was a clerk for an auction company. Occasionally she would bring home random boxes of junk that didn’t sell. I remember a string of really old bubble lights that came from one of those random boxes. They reminded me of lava lamps😂. That was one of my favorite decorations but since my parents only used them for one year, I’m assuming they were unsafe
Fun to watch your video unboxing decorations. For the last few years my favorite ornaments are small( about 2”) glass tree ornaments in spaceships and star shapes that I found second hand
Every year I buy one Christmas ornament for the tree. The collection has grown so much that I now have colour themes. Each year a different combination. This year it is red and gold. Though you have to work over Christmas I wish you both a happy one and a healthy successful new year. Watching you from Sri Lanka.
How fun that would be going through all those decorations! ALOT of those aren't on the market anymore so keep them!Love those two candle displays, the halo around the top is so cool! Id love to find one of those ! Good stuff for sure! And the little Santa's to go over a strand of lights, how cute, even for grown-ups! Love the unboxing of your attic finds!✨🎄✨
Lots of lights! I liked the candle holders from Friday's video too. Thay day before or of Yiule, i go to a local wooded area and snaffle holly, ivy, fir and pine to make my own wreathes and mantel boughs. I try to get a thick log that will burn, even if it's just for a short while, on each night of Yule. The first night i will take last year's decorations out of the understairs cuoboard, where they have been drying for a year, and burn them in our first Yule fire. Candles for days and lots of snuggles on the sofa in front of the fire 😊
That elf is terrifying, lol Love the snowman. So many treasures from across time; it's nice that you have many things that are customizable. Happy Holidays
This was really fun, and I love your mantle! As for us, we decorate a medium sized model sail boat, about (80cm long), my youngest son started that tradition, one year when I was a student and we did not have enough money for a christmas tree, I came home from work and he had decorated the ship with lights and tiny ornaments, and he put a few small wrapped gifts under the "Christmas boat", it was lovely, we have decorated it every year since, and that was almost 30 years ago.
What a wonderful tradition!
I use red nail polish on the exposed white foam under the “berries” that chip. It works really well!
2:18 I actually love the sound of the wooden beads 😊
YESSSSSSS
Me too!
I love that you are giving those adorable decorations a new life instead of tossing them out.
When I was a child our next door neighbor would invite me and my siblings (there are 5 of us) over to her house each year so we could each pick an ornament from her tree to take home. Those special gifts are still some of my favorites. They bring back wonderful memories.
The lights falling out the bottom of the box made my day. Thanks for sharing. some of those take me back to my choldhood😊
So very cool ! I lost 50 + years of Christmas decor and ornaments 2 years ago in a garage fire. I had to start new so,as a crafter, everything new has my crafty touches . I have made all of the decorations.
Shannon and Phil, it’s so much fun watching you unbox all the Christmas treasures that were left to you. The mantle looks great. Cannelle is still the most adorable, photogenic doggo❤️
Loved watching you two unbox all the Christmas treasures! and so nice that you are bringing that house back to life!
The sound of wooden beads reminds me of some very fond childhood memories of making necklaces. I love that sound.
The white and gold snowman could be used all winter.
I have a large collection of snowmen and I keep them up after Christmas. This year, in my new home, they reside on top of my kitchen cabinets along with a white tinsel garland and white lights. So when I saw that I was like oooooohhhh LOVE IT!
My favorite holiday ornament is a sweet, little elf all dressed in red. She was one of my mum’s first Xmas decorations and is at least 80 years old. When our kids were young we played hide and seek with her all season long. Whoever unpacked her would hide her (she had to be visible). Whoever found her, told her hiding place and hid her again.She’s survived a flood, lots of grubby little fingers, and attacks by Catzilla. She looks a little worse for the wear but always makes my heart happy.
OMG I grew up with that lighted angel!!!😮. It's now in my possession. Sadly, this year I can't decorate. I'm having an early Christmas present in the form of a hip replacement.😂. So I'm living vicariously through your decorating fun
Those wreaths could look really pretty strung one above the other on one of the outside walls (if they're suitable for outside use, of course)
My favourite decorations are a set of very old glass baubles that used to go on my grandparents tree when my mother was a kid (so, 1950/60s). My grandmother wanted to throw them out, but I snaffled them and love having them around!
Those enourmous outdoor lights are my favorite. My parents had several strings of the multi colored ones we put on the bushes outside my window. They would make my window glow. Itwas even more magical when it snowed. And because they are warm, it would melt the snow off so when we took them down they were ready for storage with very little clean up.
Its great that you are using those old decorations, making them happy again. Great to see you and Phil bringing out all those decorations.
Ooh. I forgot this was coming. Perfect way to start my first day off work
Most excellent!!!
The decorations sure bring back memories😊
These are your ornaments, you paid hundreds of thousands of $$ for them when you bought the house 😅 these are very expensive ornaments 😮
Ive used garland before on a wall in the shape of a tree. There where a few years i was tight on fund and floor space for a tree but when you have young kids you find alternative ways to make the christmas magic happen
the window candles. so so great
OH MY GOSH!!! The red packages of icicles! Slammed me right back into my youth & carefully placing 2-3 strings at a time all over our tree, trying to keep the coverage even & extreme
Since my husband has been getting into 3d printing, we've been using his old filament spools to wrap light around. It's great!
Oh that's a great idea, we have so many empty spools!!
@@ShannonMakes it makes it super easy to put them up, which is a big bonus.
@@ShannonMakes If you do unbox all those lights and restring them around filament spools for storage it would be nice to see you do that on video. A Christmas life hack for your viewers! Please!
My grandmother gave me a Christmas tree ornament when I was little, back in the 60s. The tip broke, but as it had a snow pattern on it, I glued a cotton ball to the botton, and I still have and treasure it 60 years later. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone, whatever you celebrate. Its all about family! Love from Minnesota.
You two were so cute and cozy in your jammies 😊 I loved seeing all the attic treasures unveiled in time for Christmas!
Oooh, fun stuff. Another you tuber puts up a wooden ladder, wraps garland around it with lights and baubles for a tree and it's fun. Seems appropriate for a work in progress house! I loved when my kids were little and we baked together. Playing christmas music and filling the house with smells of deliciousness.
Fun🎉🎉🎉 loved the wrath on corgi. That would make a great x Mas card
The "garlin on a stick" are swags that go over the top of doors😊
Ornament exchange get togethers are my favorite. Food, fun, friends, and crafty goodness.
I completely forgot about the extra episode, so this is very much a lovely surprise 😅❤
I love the cranberry strand 😊
I really loved all the decorations. Was pleasantly surprised how well they survived all those years. And they will look stupendous after you put your own magic touch to them.
The big box of wreaths and garland was great. The garland on screen looked like heavy well made garland.
We had a sleigh like that and Mom would put all the Christmas cards we received in it!
Gosh! If I lived near you, I'd be knocking on your door asking if I can help you decorate. What fun seeing what was in those boxes. Thanks for sharing and merry Christmas!
My favorite decoration is a stained glass wreath that I inherited when a family friend/widow/adopted grandma passed away. Every year I put it up and it reminds me of her and how family is anyone that you cherish 😊
All the garland and lights are a money saving treasure! It’s wonderful that you appreciate the value of what came with the house. You will become an expert Garland Fluffer, with all that nice heavy garland! The mantel turned out great! Hope things turned out Ok with the leaky roof!
90% of the decorations I use to decorate my house are things I made. I made painted, wood ornaments and tons of other things that I sold at craft shows, for many years. My favorite thing is an 8 inch tall wood snowman, that is building another snowman. There is a sign that says "Making Friends" It’s very cute, but hard to explain.
Great video. Corgi content is always appreciated! Can’t wait for the next video
The wooden cranberries! The noise took me right back to Christmas with my mom! ❤ I miss the old large incandescent bulbs. Today’s lights are so blindingly bright I can’t see the ornaments. This was so much fun!
I loved the mantel, simple but colourful. I have a nativity set i have had for 20 years made out of teasels. It includes the stable, the 3 wise men, a camel, a donkey, the shepherds and sheep, Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus. I just love it!
My great grandma ( grandma with the cows) have beaded ornaments that she DIYed herself. Just a FIY we called her that because she would ring a cow bell in the morning and they would come up to her home and she would Milk them.
having grown up with the big screw in lights on the string, you can use them on a tree, but you have to make sure they bulbs have lots of room around them and if you have the big foil reflectors, that helps a lot. If you want to use them outside, please make sure the cord is rated for outdoor use.
For light storage, I tend to coil around my arm, then twist in a figure 8, then plug one end into the other. It keeps them dense and contained.
The mouse ornament!! And the plump little bird. The mantle came out so nicely. It'll be so interesting to see where the house is at in a year
We always had the big multicolored ones on our house every year, and as I kid I would get jealous of the new flashy ones neighbors would be getting, now looking at those makes me happy
I love the Nativity Manger my dad made that goes with the camels, kings, shepherds, and the holy family. It's moved with me multiple times and has a place of honor every year.
It's Newton's 4th law of physics...no matter how you organize them, they will be tangled!!!!!😂
This is fun and a nice challenge to only use what the house came with. Great opertunity to save money.
It was so heartwarming to see you both enjoying unboxing your "new" Christmas decorations after watching you both work so very hard on clearing the attic and adding the missing insulation in your attic. I wish you both a very Happy Christmas Season 🎄
Your house is like a mystery bag; it contains surprises --- some good and some bad, some vintage shiny ornaments, some old yucky garbage. But it is yours to do what you want with all of it. You and your partner are doing a wonderful job in restoring your house to health and happiness. Thank you for all your videos that allow all of us to watch you, learn from you and learn with you. Also thank you for including your sweet doggie girl in your videos, she always brightens my day. Best wishes for a wonderful Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
We love to collect Christmas decorations from all the places we visit on holiday, this makes our Christmas tree a reminder of all the wonderful places we have visited. ❤
I had that creepy doll in the red dress, my grandmother gave it to me...the memories. The joy you had discovering the treasures is so heartwarming.
I love the use of old decorations! My mom gave me all of the decorations I grew up with and the special ornaments we used to get as a present every year are definitely some of my favourites :)
Thank you for sharing your new to you Christmas goodies 😊
As a vintage reseller, I am just salivating over all your treasures. You’ve got a small fortune in your hands with all these vintage Christmas items!
Hi Shanon!some nice things !sending love to you both An uk ❤️❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
This is the first year in decades I put up a Christmas Tree. I then made home decorations by learning how to do macrame. It is a year and the coming year that definitely needs some cheer . Merry Christmas Shannon and Phil and your adorable pup. May you have a safe and wonderful work trip to Germany.
🙂You guys are fun and delightful!! I smiled and chuckled through the whole video! What special treasures to find in your beautiful old house. The end results of your Christmas findings are lovely and festive. Thank you for sharing. BTW Shannon, I love both your channels! Continued success. 👏I'll be watching. Love, Glenn's Mrs.🎄
Wow. Your prdecessors took Christmas SERIOUS..... 😊 love the decorations. As I'm from Germany, where we have a very long standing tradition of hand crafted Christmas ornaments, I love the traditional hand made glass ornaments and wooden ornaments. The kind you keep forever and ever.
That looks really pretty,love your doggie she’s beautiful,give her a hug from me 💋💋🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️
Loved seeing the vintage ornaments which brought memories back to me. Thanks
I cut rectangles of heavy cardboard and wrap my lights around them. I cut two wedges into the cardboard to hold the first bulb and the plug (or USB plug) - stops the lights unwinding.
The best memories of Christmas are when we were short on money and had to make due with what we had. No money for ornaments.. I saved blown out eggs shells and hand painted them with little Scandinavian looking Christmas kids. My family loved them. Best gift I ever came up with. That was decades ago and the receivers all still cherish them. Thet tell me that they are their favorite ornaments and thank me again every year. It was a gift born out of poverty and even so, there was still a necessity to give love ones a gift on Christmas. This is the true spirit of Christmas🎄🎄🎄 Give of yourself and what u have.
working lights are always a bonus! yeah!
Cute ornaments. I have many beautiful nativity arrangements.
This was very fun. I don't have any Christmas traditions or decorations but i love the lights that are put up in homes and businesses around town. I don't have the energy to spare to decorate for any holiday but i can appreciate the beauty from a distance. ❤ Happy holidays!
My mother in law has two of those candle holders table toppers from 3:30.
Those CHUNKY colored bulbs that get hot are what I remember from my childhood. Synthetic tree and but lights would be on for 5 hours or more while we were home. I remember laying down on the tree skirt looking up into the underside (inside) of the tree and seeing the lights shine through and peaking glimpses of ornament's. Some years we also had a small train and circular trap that wrapped the tree. A lot of the ornaments were made by my grandmother, starched lace snowflakes and those foam balls covered in patternings of painted pin tips, beads, or that thin colored metal or plastic with a hole to thread through I forget what it’s called…. She also made my stocking by hand before I was born. Spelled my name a little wrong but I still used it and loved it. Sadly I wasn’t allowed to have any of the things she made, no idea what happens to all her hand made decor.
It was fun watching Ur reveal. My favorite collection is of homemade Christmas trees by the woman in my family.. crocheted, quilted, ceramic,, needleworked, macrame. Each one reminds me of the person who made it + the love they shaared with me. Merry Christmas all
Love the wooden “cranberry” garland. We would make popcorn and cranberry garlands every Christmas for our tree.
What a difference from last year ! Holidays on the road vs holidays at home. 😊
Those large Christmas lights C-9 and C-7 size bulbs are great for putting in citrus trees if you have frost in your area. Keep them on all night and the warmth helps protect the trees.
I have fond memories of making popcorn strings to put on the tree after Christmas, so we could put it in the yard for the birds and squirrels.
Ooooh I love the little white Snowman.
Well watching was a trip down memory lane from the fifty’s as we had those big lights and that 5 candle holder was in our front window I swear it was exactly like that. So many of these decorations were from my past it was total fun watching. May you enjoy them even more than we did. Happy holidays. ❤️❤️❤️
Those tree lights get so hot they are dangerous...we used to have them..the newer ones are small but put out nice bright light and are cool.
Those big, bright, hot lights are not tree lights! Because they get too hot they are to be used as out door lights to hang on the eves of the house or string in mid-air from the house to a pole or TO a tree, but IN outdoor trees.
I do mine in little balls... one busy year we decorated with them... looked like big colorful snowballs, super fun and easy :)
Those ornaments and light, oh what fun! Have a Merry Christmas.
Great to have found that many Christmas lights)
Last weekend we put up the tree and decorated it with vintage glass ornaments that my paternal grandma gave us. Whole two boxes of stuff dating back to 1950s. There are some really odd ones, like pepper corns, a cucumber, a strawberry, and grapes. Also two cosmonauts, probably made in the year of Yuri Gagarin's flight.
The “garland on a stick” is probably a swag. To go over a doorway, or something like that.
but it's tiny!
@@ShannonMakesover a small window?
@ maybe it was made to go over a painting? I’ve seen some people decorate that way. The old house continues to provide mystery and discussion!!
Love your way of decorating aswell as some of your finds, not to mention your joy of finding these things - not to forget the most adorable corgi ever!
My favorite amongst the items have to be the strings of wooden berries... Love them, and will make something of the same myself!
As it comes tothe lights I clearly prefere warm white ones. My favorite yule decorations at home are my crocheted snowcrystals - using mainly the Victoian patterns and thin yarn. I love my brass candlesticks and hanging star, not to forget the snowbabies (White and golden small creatures mainly prodused some 1905 - 1912 then again showing up around 1922...). I also love to take inside some fresh greenery - not a full tree, but rather just some branches...
Happy holidays to the three of you and to those you will be on tour with!
I have a Christmas glittery swag - 2 long garlands of tinsel, red and gold which I run all along the top of my bookshelves. Love it! I like yours too! 😊
In the 70s my grandma was a clerk for an auction company. Occasionally she would bring home random boxes of junk that didn’t sell. I remember a string of really old bubble lights that came from one of those random boxes. They reminded me of lava lamps😂. That was one of my favorite decorations but since my parents only used them for one year, I’m assuming they were unsafe
Aren't you lucky to find these retro ornaments. The former owner was really into the holidays. Love the lights and garland! Enjoy!
Fun to watch your video unboxing decorations. For the last few years my favorite ornaments are small( about 2”) glass tree ornaments in spaceships and star shapes that I found second hand
Every year I buy one Christmas ornament for the tree. The collection has grown so much that I now have colour themes. Each year a different combination. This year it is red and gold. Though you have to work over Christmas I wish you both a happy one and a healthy successful new year. Watching you from Sri Lanka.
"have a mentally stable week" well now you're just asking too much lol
think of it as wishing rather than asking 🤣
The mantel looks lovely.
This is so fun! I wish I bought a house full of wonderful surprises! ❤❤ Everything you decide to keep will tell the story of your journey!
Love everything! You have quite a talent for staging your home! Merry Christmas to you and Phil.
I love the old dolls 😊
i love the spinning wheel you used on the mantel. so cute!
How fun that would be going through all those decorations! ALOT of those aren't on the market anymore so keep them!Love those two candle displays, the halo around the top is so cool! Id love to find one of those ! Good stuff for sure! And the little Santa's to go over a strand of lights, how cute, even for grown-ups! Love the unboxing of your attic finds!✨🎄✨
I love the Garland, the red beads
I think it's time to start calling them *your* decorations 😄. The corgi wreath and sploot were very cute! 💜
I’m the oddball and I LOVE the cold white and hate warm white lights for most lights. 😅
Me too. I love putting them on the ground outside for the look of snow ⛄️
Lots of lights! I liked the candle holders from Friday's video too.
Thay day before or of Yiule, i go to a local wooded area and snaffle holly, ivy, fir and pine to make my own wreathes and mantel boughs. I try to get a thick log that will burn, even if it's just for a short while, on each night of Yule. The first night i will take last year's decorations out of the understairs cuoboard, where they have been drying for a year, and burn them in our first Yule fire. Candles for days and lots of snuggles on the sofa in front of the fire 😊
Depending on how many wreaths you have many people put them outside on each window.
I have a full sized manakin we decorate every year. It was a stand in for a tree once and now its become tradition.
Very cool Christmas stuff! It was really fun to go through it!
Merry Christmas to the two. No three of you
That elf is terrifying, lol Love the snowman. So many treasures from across time; it's nice that you have many things that are customizable. Happy Holidays
I love the elf ♥️
My background is retail merchandising, I have several smaller trees with different types of decorations and themes