Moving the TV let's those beautiful windows take pride of place, as they were surely intended to do! (Hope you will think about making that arrangement permanent. )
Many years ago I gave my mum a musical Christmas card. I found it after she passed. Christmas was her favourite time of year, so we get it out every Christmas so she doesn't miss out.
I love the nostalgia of your home, it's so cosy and inviting. My cottage was built in 1501 and comes with all the expected original features, so I usually do the whole cottage in a very traditional Tudor style for Christmas, however this year I decided to do a Brambly Hedge meets Wind in the Willows theme in the Kitchen and it looks so magical that I can't stop going in there and sitting by the fireside pretending I'm Moley. I've never felt more like a child in my entire Adult life as I have these past few days. We have strong historical Pagan ties in my village so we call him Father Christmas here, however we too all wrote a letter to him as children and sent it up the chimney with the flames from the fire. Such blissfully happy memories of a time long past.
I decorate m y house as near as l can to my childhood home. The same at Christmas. I have vintage glass baubles, an angel at the top of the tree and candle lights. My mother had real candles in holder's on the tree, but I've never come across them. My Christmas traditions are putting my daughter's first shoe, from her first Christmas on the tree, along with the Christmas bird she made, her first year in school. I couldn't find them this year at first, l was so distressed, they are priceless treasures and can't be replaced. Luckily, they were the last place l looked. The last thing I put up , is the nativity, l did use the one my daughter made for year's, but she insisted l buy a new one, as she said it was looking too moth eaten. My brother and l made our nativity when l was very young, l still remember that day .We've started a new tradition for us this year. A Christmas pickle on the tree. Another tradition my youngest grandchild insists on when they come here, is pass the parcel. I don't have a TV, l don't watch them, l do have a vintage radio. Merry Christmas everyone, and a peaceful and joyous new year x.
You looked gorgeous in the ivory dress from the photos while mentioning the advent calendar! I enjoy your videos so much. I rarely comment but wanted to this time. I never miss a video. Continued blessings and support. ♥️
I've never had/known a theme in my house, parents, or grandparents. Well other than Christmas. I inherited my grandparents decorations that I grew up putting on the tree. Many probably date back to when my parents where kids. I love them. So many memories
I have vintage family decorations that come out year after year - the peacock and robin with real feathers, that look a bit worse for wear as our cat used to play with them in the 1970s. I also have a couple of glass baubles that my grandfather brought back from Belgium during WW2. So special ❤
Lovely! I never ‘got’ the blue lights you still see around, absolutely horrible and totally non-festive! Cosy for me and my family throughout winter with lots of reds and greens. Unfortunately when my son moved out and my husband and I moved to France, he took the tree and all the decorations which we didn’t know about, which ended up in the skip!! So all the special meaningful tree decorations went into landfill. You can’t get those memories back. Anyway I digress …. Your home looks and feels very cosy and festive. Enjoy and thank you for sharing 😊
Beautiful Christmas tree 🎄 My tree is decorated with vintage baubles which belonged to my grandparents and my parents. It’s full of wonderful memories and I shed a tear for lost loved ones as I decorate my tree. I absolutely love the nostalgia and memories ❤ I have a fairy on my tree, my mother made it when she was a little girl. Thank you for such a wonderful video xx Have a truly vintage Christmas x
so cozy! love this vid! ♥ (I'm slightly worried about your records warping being so close to the fire and all) but other than that, Happy Christmas to you and your Mum!
Every year the kids choose an ornament each :) most are inherited (oldest is a golden Santa that my Nan used to have!) Love the train think will have a look for a similar one :) lovely video x
The Christmas tree can really enjoy the spotlight with the tv to the side ☺️🎄. I can’t wait to see what other festive videos you’ll be releasing. This channel is one of my favourite new channels. It’s cosy, inspiring, informative. Just brilliant ✨
Another great video. Absolutely love how you keep your home traditional. I'm quite similar in that I still put up my late Nan's old decorations and christmas tree every year, some of which date back to the 50s/60s, including 2 sets of vintage pifco fairy lights (yes, I make sure they're electrically safe).
I absolutely love this video and all of your videos!!!! You are such a fantastic human! You inspire me everyday to look at things in a whole new perspective and I absolutely am thankful for that. My daughter , son and I watch your videos and always say what a wonderful friend you would be! We absolutely adore you! ❤
Oh, that is so sweet of you to say, thank you, I would love to be yours and your children's friend. Consider it done! All four of us are now dearest friends! ❤😊
This was so lovely! I love all things vintage especially Christmas 🎄 and I have an older home so it’s so fun to decorate. Thanks for sharing, loved how you hung the cards on the mantle….great idea!
I don't have much from my own childhood (my siblings and I were hard on my parents' stuff!). I have a couple of ornaments and I have bought a few more from vintage shops and I put them on a small white tree on the coffee table. I do still have my mother's original Gene Autrey Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer LP, which I'm sure would not play due to the scratches. But,, I love it for the nostalgia :)
I absolutely love all of your decorations!! My tree is decorated with all of the ornaments I have received as Christmas gifts throughout my life. The most special ones are the Hallmark (store in the US - not sure if it exists in England) godchild ornaments - my godfather got me one every year until I turned 18.
My tree is based off the trees of my 70s/80s childhood with collected ornaments (and trees) that date back to the 50s/60s, colored lights, silver tinsel garland all mixed in with the ornaments of my children now.
Love how you decorated. When I was younger some 68 years ago we would pop popcorn and string it together to make garland. It took some time but it looked amazing on the tree
Oh it looks so cozy!! This year I've opted for an 80s feel with colourful lights on a tree jam packed with baubles, foil decorations on the ceiling and tinsel EVERYWHERE!! 😂😂 I have 1960s dinner set and my dining table will be decorated in green, white and gold to match or go with the colours of the dinner set.
Love the train under the tree! I have my mother’s Lionel train from the 1950s in our attic. Her father worked for the railroad and bought it in Portland Maine and brought it home for her on the train! ❤ I need to get it out and see if it still works.
I love your tree! I particularly like the train track underneath. Reminds me of The Box of Delights which we watched when I was 8years old. It is the 40th anniversary this year!
Our tree always has our passed down, family, traditional victorian decorations. We also add some newer ones that go with them. We also have cards to decorate the ceiling
My grandma gave me some beautiful vintage Christmas ornaments made from clay a couple of years ago. I don’t use them, because they’re so fragile and I really want to keep them safe, but they are lovely and I’m so grateful she gifted these to me! They would always be in her tree when she was young!❤️🎄
Love the train track under the tree! My Nana and grandad always had a wee winter village scene complete with cotton wool snow under their tree. As for our oldest decoration I think it is Mary holding baby Jesus who sits on the top of our tree. She is, I think, over 40 years old. And made from shiny thin plastic. She’s very cool and I have already claimed her for when she is no longer atop our family tree!
Beautiful Hannah. Thanks for the casting lesson. I realised today I do vintage Christmas by default here, just through the inevitable life circumstance of getting older and still having all the decorations that were originally collected by my parents, from the 1940s to 1960s. I have those big bells too. Glorious glass decorations and like you, some treasured newer ones I bought in Scandanavia in the 1990s, where I collected some amazing hand made straw decorations, as well as some traditional little witches. Your cat will probably love playing with the toy trains, if you run them around the circuit, too. Enjoy a wonderful Christmas!
Your creativity is endless and your love for nostalgia moments is so nice to watch as I love the oldie worldy 🩷 It's bitter sweet at times as I miss those not with us no longer, I miss the old times and the more simplistic ways where we had more connection. But equally I think it's so important to keep good ole times in the present and our loved ones traditions going. I don't come from an era of the 1940s but I love it all and learning 🩷 Loved Chatsworth house 🏡
One of my memories of a classic Christmas, is my mother shouting at me to not bump the Christmas tree. As a huge shower of needles fell to the carpet when I did, 🎄🙂
Haven’t had a TV for years now, don’t miss it at all. Got a vintage radio instead. I can watch a mowie on my iPad if I want, but I don’t bother - I go to the cinema if Iwanna see something. House is more peaceful this way.
When we where Children my mom always put up a "Chistmas Village" with us. See on german Chistmas markets you can buy those little cermaic/plastic houses that are hollow inside (like little Bakeries, Schools, Post Office and of course churches). All those buildings are rather traditionell in style like the "Fachwerk" buildings type. So on a cubboard or a windowsil my mom and us Kids would build Our Village and put the bulbs of Chistmas lights inside so they lit up. We the covered the Cord between the houses with cotton as "snow" and add some more decorations like a Miniaturen Chistmas tree, and my little deer, bunny, fox, human figurines that where some what up to scale. It was always such a fun activity and lit up IT Just looks so whimsical in the evenings
Hello and merry Christmas from Atlantic Canada! 👋🏻 I just recently found and subscribed to your lovely channel and was delighted to find this Christmas video in my YT feed. I’m very grateful to have three boxes of my grandmother’s and mother’s glass Christmas balls - dating as far back as the 1930’s and 40’s. I’m fascinated that there are a handful of pink ones and even a purple one! The rest are the classic colours. I love how you and your mum decided on a theme and selected what you needed from your collection.
The oldest decorations I have belonged to my parents. That means they are 70 or 80 years old! They are the classic blown glass mid-century tree decorations once widely available in the US and Canada in the 50s and 60s. I don't have many of them and I don't use them much anymore because it seems even just breathing on them causes them to shatter! And with each loss my heart breaks a little bit 😢 But I did get some of those transparent plastic balls that you can put things into...and last year I carefully placed some of the old decorations into them. I then hung them in the bedroom windows. They were beautiful! However, my stamina for decorating is waning now so not sure if I'll be getting them out this year. But there are plenty of other tree decorations with stories and history, that we will be putting on the tree. For example, our angel, named Flossie, was made by my husband when he was a wee boy. It's made of cardboard, styrofoam, and fluffy stuff that I think was probably used as pillow or quilt stuffing. Flossie has a pipe cleaner halo and holds a song book. Years ago, I poked a hole through her so I could squeeze a tree light through behind the song book to light up her little face ❤ My husband has a job that keeps him super busy this time of year so I do much of the Xmas prep BUT long ago I realized he wasn't getting to participate much so we started a tradition for him -- we get the tree, he gets it into the heavy metal stand (made by his grandfather), I then do the lights, then he decorates the tree 😁 🎄🎅🏼🤶🏻
My tree is a mishmash of different decorations and ones my children have made over the years. Not one is the same. Some would see it as a disastrous mess but to me it’s memories
I like the way you have decorated your house for Christmas! The huge TV really looks out of place, though. We have a small TV which dates back to the 1990s. I suppose your trick of turning your Telly into a huge Christmas card works, but I thought even then it stuck out like a sore thumb. I love your house, as it is so compact and vintage looking. Our house is 110 yrs old, and has, unfortunately, been redecorated by the former owners in 1970s wood pannelled style. We left it as it was, when we bought it, because we haven't the money to restore it to its former glory. At Christmas we like to put up vintage decorations, and we put up a small tree with lights and mini decorations on it. We have allways hung up our Christmas cards like you've done. Also we have some plastic mistletoe that gets hung up over our front entrance. I wish you and your family a very Happy Christmas, and a Happy New Year! ~Janet in Canada
I fortunate enough to have inherited Christmas tree, decorations from my mother and grandmother, Polish and German made glass. I wish I could send you a photo of my tree.
We string cranberries, make salt cookie ornaments, drink eggnog and decorate the tree. We differ themes every year. Traditional, Nightmare before Christmas, Nordic/Scandinavia inspired. We have fun with it!
I feel like making your decorations multipurpose-- like using the woodland creatures on the table as well as on the tree-- is actually very much in the vintage spirit! You living room looks wonderful, like an image on a Christmas card. Might want to keep an eye on your cat and the tinsel. Some of them are utterly determined to eat the stuff!
I'm noticing that tinsel is making a comeback here in the US in designers' homes. I have a 4 ft. flocked tree (flocked because we don't get snow in South Carolina). It has all of my parents' Shiny Brite ornaments from when I was a kid and a nativity and figures of animals and wise men purchased at Woolworths. These items are all I remember from our trees when I was a kid. The only thing I'm missing is a vintage topper. I used to have my parents' bubble lights too, but they'd get too hot and made me nervous. As far as music, I still have their old vinyl Bing Crosby White Christmas album that my Granddaughter can play on her record player (but I also have it on cd). It's the one I always start my Christmas decorating with. I'm 72, so my big tree has 50 years worth of ornaments. I love your home. It reminds me of the apartment I grew up in (600 square feet in an 1895 building).
I have a few cherished Christmas items I bought at Woolworth's in the 1980s, for my first Christmas tree in my first apartment after college. I use the little plastic nativity figures and the flat, gilded cardboard angel ornaments every year.
When my children were born in the ‘80’s my mother bought 2 plastic Father Christmas faces to pin on to the wall. I thought they were horrific and tasteless, but the children loved them, so they were pinned in each alcove by the fire. They are put in the same place every year. They are brittle and the plastic is frail, so I’ll have to think of a way to strengthen them.
Ditch the TV altogether and go for a portable one that was popular in our grandparents day. They rolled it out of the closet/or opened a cabinet in which it lived, to watch a show or two then put it away. Never was it a “shine” in the living room (yes I know, modern flatscreens don’t really come in portable models to sit on a rolling cart or cabinet.).
My nana had that fairy but she wasnt allowed on the top of the tree it had to be a star to celebrate the birth of baby Jesus . She also used to send me and my grancher out to find holly but it had to have berries or she didnt want it
Did you see family photos at Chatsworth house?one of the Cavendish married Adele astaire,fred Astaires sister,they used to dance together,then she married and he carried on and became an actor in the 1940s.😊
I have some vintage glass baubles that were my Nan's but I think she probably got them from a "junk" shop. She was before her time at thrifting for antiques after the war. But I dare not put them on my tree anymore because I have a very energetic and adventurous 2 year old cat. Last year I stocked up on felt, wood and metal decorations. And I can't use tinsel or lammetta because she'll eat it! It's all irrelevant at the moment anyway. I have been experiencing horrible heavy nosebleeds and after 3 stays in hospital in the past month, I have strict instructions not to do anything. No lifting, bending, straining. No blowing or hard sniffing. No hot drinks or hot food. No exercise. No hoovering (a very specific one). So we might have to sit this Christmas out. Seeing specialist on Monday. Hoping for some answers. Or a plan.
Oh Sue bless you. I will keep you in my thoughts that you recieve a positive outcome and get to the bottom of your nosebleeds, that must be awful. You take it easy, I'll be sure to be christmassy enough for the both of us ❤ PS. Our cat eats tinsel too 😂, what is that?
Heya love Your video (As bloody alway. Stop being soo good dam it(Don't) I wasn't brought up with Christmas, the most that happened later growing up was an episode of Doctor Who and later on an episode of Call the Midewife a little bit later I would Watch The dearly departed Late Queen's message, Now I tune into The King's. Some cheaper stuff. Besides it's too hot in Australia for all the lights and stuff although some try ( I get SAD in the summer I long for a nice long cold dark winter) . Anyway thank you for the a little insight as to another way of life. Your videos are very nicley put togeather.
Like the idea that a real tree is not cut down. That comment, of course, would not please the tree growers, but I have not set out to please anyone, nor everyone either.
Does leaving image up on tv leave gjost image? I chose a small wall mount TV out of the way. Stopped putting up trees yrs ago and miss seeing many treasures.when son growing got s new ornament for him every year. Turns out meant more to me than him. Do remember this Christmas will be vintage in 30 yr,is ok to grow tradition.
Youre the best! ❤❤☃️⛄️❄️🎅
Thank you for the idea of setting the TV with a art picture frame. I went at it a different way but got it. Merry Christmas.
Love the old styles ❤
Moving the TV let's those beautiful windows take pride of place, as they were surely intended to do! (Hope you will think about making that arrangement permanent. )
Many years ago I gave my mum a musical Christmas card. I found it after she passed. Christmas was her favourite time of year, so we get it out every Christmas so she doesn't miss out.
I love the nostalgia of your home, it's so cosy and inviting. My cottage was built in 1501 and comes with all the expected original features, so I usually do the whole cottage in a very traditional Tudor style for Christmas, however this year I decided to do a Brambly Hedge meets Wind in the Willows theme in the Kitchen and it looks so magical that I can't stop going in there and sitting by the fireside pretending I'm Moley. I've never felt more like a child in my entire Adult life as I have these past few days. We have strong historical Pagan ties in my village so we call him Father Christmas here, however we too all wrote a letter to him as children and sent it up the chimney with the flames from the fire. Such blissfully happy memories of a time long past.
Lovely!
I love that you showed people how to cast to their tv.
I decorate m y house as near as l can to my childhood home. The same at Christmas. I have vintage glass baubles, an angel at the top of the tree and candle lights. My mother had real candles in holder's on the tree, but I've never come across them. My Christmas traditions are putting my daughter's first shoe, from her first Christmas on the tree, along with the Christmas bird she made, her first year in school. I couldn't find them this year at first, l was so distressed, they are priceless treasures and can't be replaced. Luckily, they were the last place l looked. The last thing I put up , is the nativity, l did use the one my daughter made for year's, but she insisted l buy a new one, as she said it was looking too moth eaten. My brother and l made our nativity when l was very young, l still remember that day .We've started a new tradition for us this year. A Christmas pickle on the tree. Another tradition my youngest grandchild insists on when they come here, is pass the parcel. I don't have a TV, l don't watch them, l do have a vintage radio. Merry Christmas everyone, and a peaceful and joyous new year x.
Love how you’re explaining the casting while I’m watching you on my tv, while casting you from my phone ❤❤
That hornby train is a winner for me. Great Christmas decorations and ideas 👍
You looked gorgeous in the ivory dress from the photos while mentioning the advent calendar! I enjoy your videos so much. I rarely comment but wanted to this time. I never miss a video. Continued blessings and support. ♥️
I've never had/known a theme in my house, parents, or grandparents. Well other than Christmas. I inherited my grandparents decorations that I grew up putting on the tree. Many probably date back to when my parents where kids. I love them. So many memories
LOVE the postcard on TV idea!
I have vintage family decorations that come out year after year - the peacock and robin with real feathers, that look a bit worse for wear as our cat used to play with them in the 1970s. I also have a couple of glass baubles that my grandfather brought back from Belgium during WW2. So special ❤
Lovely! I never ‘got’ the blue lights you still see around, absolutely horrible and totally non-festive! Cosy for me and my family throughout winter with lots of reds and greens. Unfortunately when my son moved out and my husband and I moved to France, he took the tree and all the decorations which we didn’t know about, which ended up in the skip!! So all the special meaningful tree decorations went into landfill. You can’t get those memories back. Anyway I digress …. Your home looks and feels very cosy and festive. Enjoy and thank you for sharing 😊
I have a lot of vintage Christmas decor. My favorite things are the Christmas albums and Santa mugs!
Beautiful Christmas tree 🎄 My tree is decorated with vintage baubles which belonged to my grandparents and my parents. It’s full of wonderful memories and I shed a tear for lost loved ones as I decorate my tree. I absolutely love the nostalgia and memories ❤
I have a fairy on my tree, my mother made it when she was a little girl.
Thank you for such a wonderful video xx Have a truly vintage Christmas x
Love this! Especially the train! ❤
so cozy! love this vid! ♥ (I'm slightly worried about your records warping being so close to the fire and all) but other than that, Happy Christmas to you and your Mum!
Every year the kids choose an ornament each :) most are inherited (oldest is a golden Santa that my Nan used to have!)
Love the train think will have a look for a similar one :) lovely video x
The Christmas tree can really enjoy the spotlight with the tv to the side ☺️🎄. I can’t wait to see what other festive videos you’ll be releasing. This channel is one of my favourite new channels. It’s cosy, inspiring, informative. Just brilliant ✨
Another great video. Absolutely love how you keep your home traditional. I'm quite similar in that I still put up my late Nan's old decorations and christmas tree every year, some of which date back to the 50s/60s, including 2 sets of vintage pifco fairy lights (yes, I make sure they're electrically safe).
I absolutely love this video and all of your videos!!!! You are such a fantastic human! You inspire me everyday to look at things in a whole new perspective and I absolutely am thankful for that. My daughter , son and I watch your videos and always say what a wonderful friend you would be! We absolutely adore you! ❤
Oh, that is so sweet of you to say, thank you, I would love to be yours and your children's friend. Consider it done! All four of us are now dearest friends! ❤😊
This was so lovely! I love all things vintage especially Christmas 🎄 and I have an older home so it’s so fun to decorate. Thanks for sharing, loved how you hung the cards on the mantle….great idea!
I got the Derbyshire magazine for your article.x
I don't have much from my own childhood (my siblings and I were hard on my parents' stuff!). I have a couple of ornaments and I have bought a few more from vintage shops and I put them on a small white tree on the coffee table. I do still have my mother's original Gene Autrey Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer LP, which I'm sure would not play due to the scratches. But,, I love it for the nostalgia :)
What an inspiring video. It’s lovely to hear you talking about sending your letter up the chimney to Father Christmas 🎄🌲
I absolutely love all of your decorations!! My tree is decorated with all of the ornaments I have received as Christmas gifts throughout my life. The most special ones are the Hallmark (store in the US - not sure if it exists in England) godchild ornaments - my godfather got me one every year until I turned 18.
Absolutely fantastic!! glad to see people still put a train under the tree. No christmas tree is complete without one :)
I'm sticking with a woodland Yule theme this year, but the 1 tradition we have is putting up the tree on 2 December. It was my dad's birthday. ❤
You made my heart sing with Christmas joy! Your home is amazing and a true inspiration..thank you.
My tree is based off the trees of my 70s/80s childhood with collected ornaments (and trees) that date back to the 50s/60s, colored lights, silver tinsel garland all mixed in with the ornaments of my children now.
Absolutely love this! ❤The tree and all the decorations look beautifully vintage. Those santa lights are gorgeous.
Another fantastic video ❤❤❤❤
Oh wow looks amazing! Would love to be in that room right now
Love how you decorated. When I was younger some 68 years ago we would pop popcorn and string it together to make garland. It took some time but it looked amazing on the tree
Oh it looks so cozy!! This year I've opted for an 80s feel with colourful lights on a tree jam packed with baubles, foil decorations on the ceiling and tinsel EVERYWHERE!! 😂😂 I have 1960s dinner set and my dining table will be decorated in green, white and gold to match or go with the colours of the dinner set.
LOVE IT ❤️
Love the train under the tree! I have my mother’s Lionel train from the 1950s in our attic. Her father worked for the railroad and bought it in Portland Maine and brought it home for her on the train! ❤ I need to get it out and see if it still works.
I love your tree! I particularly like the train track underneath. Reminds me of The Box of Delights which we watched when I was 8years old. It is the 40th anniversary this year!
Our tree always has our passed down, family, traditional victorian decorations. We also add some newer ones that go with them. We also have cards to decorate the ceiling
My grandma gave me some beautiful vintage Christmas ornaments made from clay a couple of years ago. I don’t use them, because they’re so fragile and I really want to keep them safe, but they are lovely and I’m so grateful she gifted these to me! They would always be in her tree when she was young!❤️🎄
Love the train track under the tree! My Nana and grandad always had a wee winter village scene complete with cotton wool snow under their tree. As for our oldest decoration I think it is Mary holding baby Jesus who sits on the top of our tree. She is, I think, over 40 years old. And made from shiny thin plastic. She’s very cool and I have already claimed her for when she is no longer atop our family tree!
Well done you, a worthy item to claim ❤
Beautiful Hannah. Thanks for the casting lesson. I realised today I do vintage Christmas by default here, just through the inevitable life circumstance of getting older and still having all the decorations that were originally collected by my parents, from the 1940s to 1960s. I have those big bells too. Glorious glass decorations and like you, some treasured newer ones I bought in Scandanavia in the 1990s, where I collected some amazing hand made straw decorations, as well as some traditional little witches. Your cat will probably love playing with the toy trains, if you run them around the circuit, too. Enjoy a wonderful Christmas!
So cosy. ❤
Your creativity is endless and your love for nostalgia moments is so nice to watch as I love the oldie worldy 🩷
It's bitter sweet at times as I miss those not with us no longer, I miss the old times and the more simplistic ways where we had more connection. But equally I think it's so important to keep good ole times in the present and our loved ones traditions going.
I don't come from an era of the 1940s but I love it all and learning 🩷
Loved Chatsworth house 🏡
I have the same fairy . Inherited from my mum 😊
I absolutely love your videos ❤ thank you 😊 🙏 x
One of my memories of a classic Christmas, is my mother shouting at me to not bump the Christmas tree. As a huge shower of needles fell to the carpet when I did, 🎄🙂
Haven’t had a TV for years now, don’t miss it at all. Got a vintage radio instead. I can watch a mowie on my iPad if I want, but I don’t bother - I go to the cinema if Iwanna see something. House is more peaceful this way.
When we where Children my mom always put up a "Chistmas Village" with us. See on german Chistmas markets you can buy those little cermaic/plastic houses that are hollow inside (like little Bakeries, Schools, Post Office and of course churches). All those buildings are rather traditionell in style like the "Fachwerk" buildings type.
So on a cubboard or a windowsil my mom and us Kids would build Our Village and put the bulbs of Chistmas lights inside so they lit up. We the covered the Cord between the houses with cotton as "snow" and add some more decorations like a Miniaturen Chistmas tree, and my little deer, bunny, fox, human figurines that where some what up to scale.
It was always such a fun activity and lit up IT Just looks so whimsical in the evenings
Hello and merry Christmas from Atlantic Canada! 👋🏻 I just recently found and subscribed to your lovely channel and was delighted to find this Christmas video in my YT feed. I’m very grateful to have three boxes of my grandmother’s and mother’s glass Christmas balls - dating as far back as the 1930’s and 40’s. I’m fascinated that there are a handful of pink ones and even a purple one! The rest are the classic colours. I love how you and your mum decided on a theme and selected what you needed from your collection.
The oldest decorations I have belonged to my parents. That means they are 70 or 80 years old!
They are the classic blown glass mid-century tree decorations once widely available in the US and Canada in the 50s and 60s.
I don't have many of them and I don't use them much anymore because it seems even just breathing on them causes them to shatter! And with each loss my heart breaks a little bit 😢
But I did get some of those transparent plastic balls that you can put things into...and last year I carefully placed some of the old decorations into them. I then hung them in the bedroom windows. They were beautiful!
However, my stamina for decorating is waning now so not sure if I'll be getting them out this year.
But there are plenty of other tree decorations with stories and history, that we will be putting on the tree.
For example, our angel, named Flossie, was made by my husband when he was a wee boy. It's made of cardboard, styrofoam, and fluffy stuff that I think was probably used as pillow or quilt stuffing.
Flossie has a pipe cleaner halo and holds a song book. Years ago, I poked a hole through her so I could squeeze a tree light through behind the song book to light up her little face ❤
My husband has a job that keeps him super busy this time of year so I do much of the Xmas prep BUT long ago I realized he wasn't getting to participate much so we started a tradition for him -- we get the tree, he gets it into the heavy metal stand (made by his grandfather), I then do the lights, then he decorates the tree 😁
🎄🎅🏼🤶🏻
I am so going to use these tips to decorate my bedroom! Thank you the video was nostalgic ❤
Very whimsical ❤
Your vintage house is beautifully decorated. I love it! Thank you for sharing your ideas.🎄
My tree is a mishmash of different decorations and ones my children have made over the years. Not one is the same. Some would see it as a disastrous mess but to me it’s memories
Memories indeed 🥰
Priceless treasures x
Thrifting for kids is also so easy. Most of my son's Christmas gifts are from Facebook marketplace and he won't even notice but I've saved hundreds
When in grade school in the 1960’s, in central Missouri, we made those paper chains. Decorated the classic room
I'm loving your videos and they are really getting me into the Christmas spirit!
Thank you so much 🎄❤
Very nice...once again. Thanks.❤
I like the way you have decorated your house for Christmas! The huge TV really looks out of place, though. We have a small TV which dates back to the 1990s. I suppose your trick of turning your Telly into a huge Christmas card works, but I thought even then it stuck out like a sore thumb. I love your house, as it is so compact and vintage looking. Our house is 110 yrs old, and has, unfortunately, been redecorated by the former owners in 1970s wood pannelled style. We left it as it was, when we bought it, because we haven't the money to restore it to its former glory. At Christmas we like to put up vintage decorations, and we put up a small tree with lights and mini decorations on it. We have allways hung up our Christmas cards like you've done. Also we have some plastic mistletoe that gets hung up over our front entrance. I wish you and your family a very Happy Christmas, and a Happy New Year! ~Janet in Canada
Yours is my favorite RUclips channel❣️
I fortunate enough to have inherited Christmas tree, decorations from my mother and grandmother, Polish and German made glass. I wish I could send you a photo of my tree.
We string cranberries, make salt cookie ornaments, drink eggnog and decorate the tree. We differ themes every year. Traditional, Nightmare before Christmas, Nordic/Scandinavia inspired. We have fun with it!
lol Fraser is one of my favorites.
I love this so much Hanah. Thanks for sharing.
I feel like making your decorations multipurpose-- like using the woodland creatures on the table as well as on the tree-- is actually very much in the vintage spirit! You living room looks wonderful, like an image on a Christmas card.
Might want to keep an eye on your cat and the tinsel. Some of them are utterly determined to eat the stuff!
🥨🌟 Your home are very very beautiful 🤩, your style are so beautiful
I love your Santa lights. I’m defo on the look out for some now
On eBay there are some for 35 pounds, slightly younger than mine but still adorably nostalgic ❤
Love all your videos❤
Cosy❤😊
I'm noticing that tinsel is making a comeback here in the US in designers' homes. I have a 4 ft. flocked tree (flocked because we don't get snow in South Carolina). It has all of my parents' Shiny Brite ornaments from when I was a kid and a nativity and figures of animals and wise men purchased at Woolworths. These items are all I remember from our trees when I was a kid. The only thing I'm missing is a vintage topper. I used to have my parents' bubble lights too, but they'd get too hot and made me nervous. As far as music, I still have their old vinyl Bing Crosby White Christmas album that my Granddaughter can play on her record player (but I also have it on cd). It's the one I always start my Christmas decorating with. I'm 72, so my big tree has 50 years worth of ornaments. I love your home. It reminds me of the apartment I grew up in (600 square feet in an 1895 building).
I have a few cherished Christmas items I bought at Woolworth's in the 1980s, for my first Christmas tree in my first apartment after college. I use the little plastic nativity figures and the flat, gilded cardboard angel ornaments every year.
Brilliant
Our's is woodland fairy this year .
Beautiful video. TFS. Xxx
When my children were born in the ‘80’s my mother bought 2 plastic Father Christmas faces to pin on to the wall. I thought they were horrific and tasteless, but the children loved them, so they were pinned in each alcove by the fire. They are put in the same place every year. They are brittle and the plastic is frail, so I’ll have to think of a way to strengthen them.
Ditch the TV altogether and go for a portable one that was popular in our grandparents day. They rolled it out of the closet/or opened a cabinet in which it lived, to watch a show or two then put it away. Never was it a “shine” in the living room (yes I know, modern flatscreens don’t really come in portable models to sit on a rolling cart or cabinet.).
And use that space for a gramma phone….?🤔🤨😉😄
Your decorations for Christmas are so cozy. Love it. ❤
But am I the only one who noticed that the fawn on the picture shown on your TV has five legs?
My nana had that fairy but she wasnt allowed on the top of the tree it had to be a star to celebrate the birth of baby Jesus . She also used to send me and my grancher out to find holly but it had to have berries or she didnt want it
Did you see family photos at Chatsworth house?one of the Cavendish married Adele astaire,fred Astaires sister,they used to dance together,then she married and he carried on and became an actor in the 1940s.😊
I don’t have a smart phone, but I put ambience on tv, through u tube.
I have some vintage glass baubles that were my Nan's but I think she probably got them from a "junk" shop. She was before her time at thrifting for antiques after the war. But I dare not put them on my tree anymore because I have a very energetic and adventurous 2 year old cat. Last year I stocked up on felt, wood and metal decorations. And I can't use tinsel or lammetta because she'll eat it!
It's all irrelevant at the moment anyway. I have been experiencing horrible heavy nosebleeds and after 3 stays in hospital in the past month, I have strict instructions not to do anything. No lifting, bending, straining. No blowing or hard sniffing. No hot drinks or hot food. No exercise. No hoovering (a very specific one). So we might have to sit this Christmas out. Seeing specialist on Monday. Hoping for some answers. Or a plan.
Oh Sue bless you. I will keep you in my thoughts that you recieve a positive outcome and get to the bottom of your nosebleeds, that must be awful. You take it easy, I'll be sure to be christmassy enough for the both of us ❤
PS. Our cat eats tinsel too 😂, what is that?
Ok so we always burned our Santa letters too but I always assumed that, as we were proud yorkshirefolk, we did it to save money on stamps 😅
Heya love Your video (As bloody alway. Stop being soo good dam it(Don't) I wasn't brought up with Christmas, the most that happened later growing up was an episode of Doctor Who and later on an episode of Call the Midewife a little bit later I would Watch The dearly departed Late Queen's message, Now I tune into The King's. Some cheaper stuff. Besides it's too hot in Australia for all the lights and stuff although some try ( I get SAD in the summer I long for a nice long cold dark winter) . Anyway thank you for the a little insight as to another way of life. Your videos are very nicley put togeather.
Such a beautiful tree and that pretty blouse @1:42! Curious to know where you found it.
Like the idea that a real tree is not cut down. That comment, of course, would not please the tree growers, but I have not set out to please anyone, nor everyone either.
HANNAH,i wouldnt put your record player by the fire 😊
Thank goodness someone else mentioned what I was thinking....don't want to warp the records or damage the record player....
Love your channel. Makes me feel so calm. Just a question - im surprised you have blinds and not tradiional net curtains? I love nets! Xxx
Be careful leaving a static picture on your TV. It can damage some types of TV
Does leaving image up on tv leave gjost image? I chose a small wall mount TV out of the way. Stopped putting up trees yrs ago and miss seeing many treasures.when son growing got s new ornament for him every year. Turns out meant more to me than him. Do remember this Christmas will be vintage in 30 yr,is ok to grow tradition.
To looks better their ,I think it looks very 1955,1960
Be careful not to expose the records to heat otherwise they will warp and get ruined
Your voice is getting lost in the room. Could you please consider getting a microphone? It would make the world of difference to your videos😊
Why have you got modern blinds in your granny chic house 🏡