I am close to 80 and many of the Santa’s, elves, reindeer are what was available when I was as a child. The little houses are Putz houses. Merry Christmas to you all.
Okay... Only 5 minutes in.... A train track through the whole house? YES!! This is one of the things I would love to have in a maybe-future-house of mine. ❤ Imagine putting tea cups and biscuits on this train and sending it to the living room... 🥹🥹🥹
I agree. Since you are renovating the house anyway, you should DEFINITELY do this. You can find train items from all over the world to make your set. Your future children will LOVE IT!!
I remember putting up shelves and thinking if shelving made one continuous loop around a room, they could support a Christmas train, track and decor for the holiday! 🚂🎄🏡
When I was young, we went to a restaurant, old fashion diner that had a train track that went from the kitchen to the dining area. The train delivered your food to your table. The tables also had mini jute boxes on them. Your choices would go to the larger jute box.
Definitely team colors! My family always had the ones with five colors (red, yellow, green, blue, fuscia) growing up. There's something about the little rainbow of lights, especially in a dark or dim room, that makes the whole place feel so magical and cozy.
Thank you for your videos. It’s hard for me to relax these days (some really hard life stuff going on) and there’s only a couple RUclipsrs I can relax to. You are one of them and it’s been very helpful. Just having a friendly voice in the background or foreground
Shannon, the ornament you showed that was hand blown is from a company in Spokane, Washington. The company. is called "old world christmas."" That is Saint Basil's cathedral in Moscow. That ornament is contemporary and sells for around thirty dollars! I have one! I've been there! This ornament may be discontinued!
It’s actually a Kurt Adler hand blown ornament, it is a “Kremlin’s St. Basil’s Cathedral Russia Ornament by Noble Gems is a beautiful representation of the famous, colorful Cathedral on the Red Square in Russia” so it’s actually worth more than just $30 US it’s just under a $100US.
@dawsie since there are many made by different glass ornament companies and I used to retail these. If the bottom is sparkly, it's Old World. It retailed for around $30. at the time.
The trees are bottle brush trees, and believe it or not a lot of those vintage decorations are worth quite a bit of money even the elves!😉. You could paint the cardinals
I collect hand blown glass ornaments. The one you have the St Basil's Cathedral cost about $60. You hit the jackpot with all the wonderful decorations. I remember some from my childhood. With a little wash and some repairs you have a wonderful collection. Merry Christmas early to you and Phil. I like the Christmas pj's. Nice touch.
What fun. We love the vintage ornaments too. Adore Canelle, as always. My husband was a model train enthusiast. He had an entire room of train layout with tons of buildings and scenery all year round and we always wanted it to go room to room. Never happened! But at Christmas we always had a special Christmas train running around the tree with Department 56 Christmas villages all over the house. Took us weeks to set them up but they were so worth it.
Thank you for saving the Christmas decorations to open with us, just from the intro I have envy! I love vintage and a little odd it’s my favourite aesthetic xx
Team white (and a warm white at that) and NON BLINKING. I grew up with coloured lights and i used to like them but husband hates them and hates lights that flash and I've gotten used to that. So our lights are warm white, steady, and it feels a lot calmer for all that. I do colour with ornaments and stuff.
@@bookllama8158 yeah, they're annoying to me too now after years of not having them. I think initially it was like "COOL" but then after about 5 minutes it just gets really annoying. And... I was at a disco recently. argh! I feel like a grumpy old f*rt mumbling about people these days and 'in mah day' but those lights were awful.
My hubby loves them. I'm not a fan. So we compromise. Only one tree topper can blink on the tree in the family room. The other 4 trees are all solid. Yes Christmas throws up all over my house. I love it.
This was the perfect background to my late night Christmas sewing. Time to go check out the huge video on the second channel. I've been saving it for just this point in the season! Also - team colored lights forever.
Oh my goodness. That gold mischievous elf is so cute. And that hand blown glass is stunning! I just love these attic treasures. Can't wait for Tuesday to see the decorations in use.❤ big hugs to the 3 of you from us! Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄
Apologies if I missed you saying so (possible, reliant on subtitles) but that itty bitty deer/santa/sleigh... I think are for decorating a Christmas cake. They look very similar to the ones my mom had when I was growing up in the 70s/80s and we did our xmas cakes with royal icing (not the roll-out stuff, the stuff you make in a bowl and spread on the cake) and you'd slap the cake with a spatula to get the icing to stand up in peaks to resemble snow. Although maybe that was just me. Anyone else?
My partners family has some of those itty bitty deers too, and they still use them to decorate what they call 'Hertjespudding' (Or 'deer pudding' in English, it's a simple pudding, but it's deer pudding because the deers are put on it😁). And since they were a household with three boys, they started their own tradition to poke the poor deers into the pudding every time it was served with christmas, just for funsies😂. Then they carefully eat around them to save them from the pudding. Afterwards they're gently cleaned and put away for next year. Also, team coloured lights! All our christmas ornaments are different colours as well. We (re)use them every year, and some of them are at least 2 generations old. They get supplemented with the occasional purchase so now our tree is a mix of young and old, pretty and plain weird, traditional and 'out of the box' 😂, and I love it for it💚.
Team WHITE, most of the time, but I've had tree lights of ALL colors! I'm still on the hunt for a good looking silver tree, that will need pink ornaments😂❤! The miniature deer was sweet;) thks for sharing. Hugs to you, Phil & Canale🎉
Yeah , two unboxing videos. I love Christmas. You two are so much fun to watch, whether you’re working hard or playing. I’d love to see your performance one day.
It’s so fun seeing all of the vintage Christmas decorations. Brings back so many memories. Pour birds have lost their colour. How do pinecones hang from a tree
More antiques and the most adorable Canelle doing tricks? Amazing! For lights I'm on both teams and in fact have a tree that does both. It changes as the mood strikes me.
My husband and I are team colored lights with white/silver/gold ornaments or white lights with random colored ornaments, so one usually goes on the tree and the other around door and window frames.
We have 5 dogs, 3 outside and 2 small inside. Our oldest had digestive issues about 3 years ago. In addition to a Tablespoon of pure pumpkin every morning the vet said to give him a Tablespoon (for his 20 lb size) of plain Greek yogurt. He hasn’t had digestive problems since we started that.
I'm team white lights for a tree as it makes the colour balls shine and show their true colours. Love the vintage Christmas balls, and the little steampunk type present. Also the silver centerpiece is awesome.
Your first box of "gifts" are mostly from the 50s and 60s. The little gold knee hugger elf is worth some $$$, so are the red deer. Fun time watching the box empty of their contents.
Multicolored non blinking lights for me. Family likes to go to the light show displays each year. Love Canelle’s tricks for treats. She’s good. Cool to see Xmas history unfold going thru ornaments. Merry Christmas!
I love ALL lights, but especially colored. I have a tree we decorate with both white and colored lights, tinsel garland, and ornaments, and one tree full of nothing but vintage 'novelty' lights.
I love the pearl garland for the tree. They look great if you choose one contrasting colour in baubles. Like blue baubles and the creamy white pearls for example. xx
I bought some Christmas spices and finally understand Cannelle's name. Some of the most ridiculous kitschy ornaments are so desirable. Lots of fun to look at!
As for your light question: it depends one year I decorate in my antique bulbs and things my kids made using colored lights, then the next I decorate with more modern decorations and use white. Those beads I use like garland, they really reflect the lights. That blue bulb cover, I actually have two strings of those old lights that I still use. So much fun seeing all your finds. Thanks for sharing, looking forward to Tuesday's video. Have a wonderful weekend and week!
That was fun! I love vintage Christmas items! My kids bought me a new Christmas tree this year,it has a button you can switch from white lights to colored,so I change it daily,which is actually quite fun.Love the Corgi tricks!
Oh, I love the bottle brush trees! The little deer and Santa are for a Christmas cake!As for lights, I mix both. I have a stand of white and a strand of multicolored ones and they all go on together!
So many memories, left in an attic; there's a book worth writing in that. Glad some of the things will see the light of Christmas again, and bring joy to their old home; if only they could talk. Have always loved Cannelle, but wow, what a good puppers, so adorable doing all the tricks. Will let my daughter know about Finn; one of her dogs has terrible Winter itchies. Have a safe and wonderful holiday.
my daughter likes white lights, I like colored blinking. A Christmas Miracle, they now have colors that can alternate white to colored, stay solid, or blink at different paces. It's magical!
I didn't know how much I needed this! Thank you both ❤ You got to give Cannelle an extra treat for those tricks 🥰 (but only if her little belly can take it - that sponsorship part was fun! 😄 )
As for lights I’ve done white on, colored only, and mixed. My favorite was the childhood fat colored bulbs (also had the “lava lamp”s). My mother-in-law has a HUGE box of colored strung beads you could drown a decent sized tree in. We helped her decorate last weekend.
White lights only. I like a traditional tree with Christmas colors, lots of gold, and homemade looking ornaments. Also I have some small hanging mirrors that I found decades ago.
Such a fun haul! I inherited 3" pierced tin light reflectors from my grandparents. The reflectors are too big for my LED light sets; but I strung each of them on ribbon and hang them on my tree and swags as ornaments.
I love how Canelle is bilingual too! Depending on what you find, if you don't have a lot of ornaments, you can intertwine the red ribbon and pearl strands around the tree before putting in your ornaments.
This was a great video. Love watching you unbox all the old treasures. Looking forward to Tuesdays video! Of course the bonus Cannell footage is always welcome. I could have watched you unbox every box. You guys are excellent company on sleepless nights. Looking forward to seeing how you decorate the house! I'm Team warm, white lights! When my kids were growing up, I had a huge, formal tree in the living room, decorated with white, gold, silver and glass ornaments. I wound a single strand of dull gold lights scattered around the inside of the tree, from top to bottom. Then used tons of warm white lights on the rest of the tree. The effect was stunning. We had a fun tree in the family room with all the colorful, fun ornaments. Needless to say, I went a bit overboard with decorating for Christmas.
We are team colored lights inside on the tree and both colored & white for outdoors. But think both are beautiful. Have a happy holiday! Wonderful new year!
I have one of those tiny ceramic angel bell ornaments! I also have a few of her companions. I think they may have been my mother's when she was a child. She's no longer here to ask. I loved watching the unboxing of the ornaments. Last weekend, a local church was giving away Christmas decorations, and i managed to score a small tree and several fabulous ornaments. Several were homemade. I've had such fun decorating my little tree after 20 years of not having a tree or decorations, or to be really honest, the desire to decorate. Happy Christmas to you!!
As an East German, who knows how decoration looks like in the ore mountains (a region in Germany famous for it’s traditional decoration) I prefer yellowish lights and classic Christmas tree decoration and wooden decoration around the house like nutcrackers, incense figurines (Rachermannl) etc. but Scandinavian is also very beautiful.
White lights and handmade icicle ornaments. I use the gold beads (like your white ones) as garland. Also a Boyd’s Angel Bear as a tree topper. Very simple, Less is more in my book.
Shannon!! I absolutely LOVED your compilation of your last Christmas vlogmas. I watched it all last week in between household chores and my art/sewing projects 😊 You talents with video making add to the enjoyment and excitement of watching you and Phil’s circus life. I especially loved the segment of you doing your warm up exercises in the historic theatre in Denmark where there were about a dozen of you doing different exercises throughout the seating area
That was fun! A couple of the ornaments were really nice and hopefully find a place on your tree. The "drunk Santa" I'd display him just for shits and giggles! Look forward to the 2nd half ... I'm team white lights, only. Grew up in a multi colored lit tree.
Oh! I noticed the cathedral ornament one in another attic video and was so looking forward to seeing it again! It looks like St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow and very similar to the Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood in Saint Petersburg (it was built on the site of tsar Alexander II assassination hence the intense name). But the colours of the domes and overall structure are matched very close to St. Basil's Cathedral. Such an interesting ornament and it found its way to Nova Scotia to be on your tree, so fascinating! (Being a nerd while watching a Christmas video, I'll see myself out now). I do really like Christmas and New Year, I swear it🙃🎄✨ And Cannelle's Princess stocking and she herself is pure joy!
My aunt had lovely decorations from Norway. She had a tree with little red kind of stoppers on the end of the branches. It was lovely. Aunt Anna was the first person I ever knew who had cheese in the shape of fruit that was waxed red or green.
I love the decorations! So many like I grew up with. And the bottle brush trees I use with my small Christmas village and you have so many things that you could use to make one! How fun thank you for the video.
In the 1960s a lot of cheap stuff came from Japan. I remember my cracker jack toys being labeled from Japan. Back in those days you got plastic toys and some of them were pretty cool.
I do both soft white lights but my tree is all colors. So many childhood memories. ❤ I use strands of beads on my tree. I liv 24:20 e in a log home and the colors reflect off the logs....Love them, so warm and cozy. Love your videos❤
Christmas scrunchie may have been a wreath. I know my grandmother had ornaments like that. She also had angels like the bell. I personally like the colourful lights, but admire houses that can do the all white lights and they look awesome.
That crochet candy cane, my mom use to have one when I was young use to hang it up in the window along with an old wire brush (The old huge wire brush ones) She also had a crochet Christmas wreath that hung on the front door. I am team-colored lights, but I also light all blue lights also. My grandma had couple of strings of the original lights that did the lava lamp thing, I also remember the big heavy lights that went on live trees and the original tinsel that was heavy and hung really pretty.
I have white lights on a green tree decorated with gold tinsel, a gold tree skirt, with gold, red, and white ornaments, some of which are old world decorations. I have red bows and cardinals spaced over the tree also. The artifical tree is close to a register, so the tinsel and lighter ornaments move gently. My old cat, Frankenstein, used to pull down some tinsel and push it into a nest shape that he would sleep in under the tree. How I wish that I had taken a picture of that!
I just bought replacement bubble lamps for my tree! The glass bells are gorgeous! They are very retro. The tinsel garland is such a snapshot of mid-century holiday decor. What finds!
We’re team both white and colored lights in my family. The wight lights make the tree bright and glowing, while a few strands of colored lights add the fun. All colored lights make for a tree that is too dark, in my opinion.
Corgi tricks are the level of dopamine I never expected to reach 🤩❤️
LOLLLLL love that!
The "Amen" command was adorable.
I am close to 80 and many of the Santa’s, elves, reindeer are what was available when I was as a child. The little houses are Putz houses. Merry Christmas to you all.
Okay... Only 5 minutes in.... A train track through the whole house? YES!! This is one of the things I would love to have in a maybe-future-house of mine. ❤ Imagine putting tea cups and biscuits on this train and sending it to the living room... 🥹🥹🥹
I agree. Since you are renovating the house anyway, you should DEFINITELY do this. You can find train items from all over the world to make your set. Your future children will LOVE IT!!
I remember putting up shelves and thinking if shelving made one continuous loop around a room, they could support a Christmas train, track and decor for the holiday! 🚂🎄🏡
When I was young, we went to a restaurant, old fashion diner that had a train track that went from the kitchen to the dining area. The train delivered your food to your table. The tables also had mini jute boxes on them. Your choices would go to the larger jute box.
Have you guys watched Wallace and Gromit - The wrong Trousers? If we're on the subject of trains that go through the whole house...
@@sternentigerkatzeI LOVE WALLACE AND GROMMET!
Phil is so lovely. Shannon you are very fortunate. And we're all fortunate to have you both ❤❤
Definitely team colors! My family always had the ones with five colors (red, yellow, green, blue, fuscia) growing up. There's something about the little rainbow of lights, especially in a dark or dim room, that makes the whole place feel so magical and cozy.
Thank you for your videos. It’s hard for me to relax these days (some really hard life stuff going on) and there’s only a couple RUclipsrs I can relax to. You are one of them and it’s been very helpful. Just having a friendly voice in the background or foreground
Thank you, Shannon and Phil. That was so much fun to watch… especially, seeing Cannelle do tricks en Francais… the best❤️ See you on Tuesday❤️❤️❤️
Shannon, the ornament you showed that was hand blown is from a company in Spokane, Washington. The company. is called "old world christmas."" That is Saint Basil's cathedral in Moscow. That ornament is contemporary and sells for around thirty dollars! I have one! I've been there! This ornament may be discontinued!
It’s actually a Kurt Adler hand blown ornament, it is a “Kremlin’s St. Basil’s Cathedral Russia Ornament by Noble Gems is a beautiful representation of the famous, colorful Cathedral on the Red Square in Russia” so it’s actually worth more than just $30 US it’s just under a $100US.
@dawsie since there are many made by different glass ornament companies and I used to retail these. If the bottom is sparkly, it's Old World. It retailed for around $30. at the time.
The trees are bottle brush trees, and believe it or not a lot of those vintage decorations are worth quite a bit of money even the elves!😉. You could paint the cardinals
Free range, organic corgi! Only the best for Shannon and Phil! 😂❤ She's clearly worth it.
I collect hand blown glass ornaments. The one you have the St Basil's Cathedral cost about $60. You hit the jackpot with all the wonderful decorations. I remember some from my childhood. With a little wash and some repairs you have a wonderful collection. Merry Christmas early to you and Phil. I like the Christmas pj's. Nice touch.
Yep I looked it up it’s by Noble Gem Glass part of the Kurt Adler collection. Worth around $80US approximately.
What fun. We love the vintage ornaments too. Adore Canelle, as always. My husband was a model train enthusiast. He had an entire room of train layout with tons of buildings and scenery all year round and we always wanted it to go room to room. Never happened! But at Christmas we always had a special Christmas train running around the tree with Department 56 Christmas villages all over the house. Took us weeks to set them up but they were so worth it.
Thank you for saving the Christmas decorations to open with us, just from the intro I have envy! I love vintage and a little odd it’s my favourite aesthetic xx
Team white (and a warm white at that) and NON BLINKING. I grew up with coloured lights and i used to like them but husband hates them and hates lights that flash and I've gotten used to that. So our lights are warm white, steady, and it feels a lot calmer for all that. I do colour with ornaments and stuff.
I agree. Flashing lights are so annoying to me.
Plus they give some people headaches (me included)
@@dawnmoriarty9347 that too! (actually that's a far better reason *not* to have blinking lights than just mere dislike.)
@@bookllama8158 yeah, they're annoying to me too now after years of not having them. I think initially it was like "COOL" but then after about 5 minutes it just gets really annoying. And... I was at a disco recently. argh! I feel like a grumpy old f*rt mumbling about people these days and 'in mah day' but those lights were awful.
My hubby loves them. I'm not a fan. So we compromise. Only one tree topper can blink on the tree in the family room. The other 4 trees are all solid. Yes Christmas throws up all over my house. I love it.
I love old Christmas decorations
I had tiny trees, sleigh and Santa with a piece of foam and fake snow in a big brandy snifter..makes a cute center piece on a table.
I think the green deer would look very cute with a little pompom tail and some twig Antlers painted gold or covered in glitter
Fantastic idea!
This was the perfect background to my late night Christmas sewing. Time to go check out the huge video on the second channel. I've been saving it for just this point in the season! Also - team colored lights forever.
Wow and entire lifetime of X- mas decor. From 1950’s - 1990’s. Love the Vintage 60’s red reindeers. I would have to spruce them up & rescue them🎨🎄
Oh my goodness. That gold mischievous elf is so cute. And that hand blown glass is stunning! I just love these attic treasures. Can't wait for Tuesday to see the decorations in use.❤ big hugs to the 3 of you from us! Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄
Apologies if I missed you saying so (possible, reliant on subtitles) but that itty bitty deer/santa/sleigh... I think are for decorating a Christmas cake. They look very similar to the ones my mom had when I was growing up in the 70s/80s and we did our xmas cakes with royal icing (not the roll-out stuff, the stuff you make in a bowl and spread on the cake) and you'd slap the cake with a spatula to get the icing to stand up in peaks to resemble snow. Although maybe that was just me. Anyone else?
My Mom used the back of a spoon to get the peaks, she would "spread and lift"💕
@@robine916 Its not just me! I am SOOOO glad... :D thank you for sharing with me! and yes, spread and lift! heh.
@@lizvanwessem2055 🥰
I’ve seen those on other thrifting you tubes and they look like those Reningers fine / bone china
My partners family has some of those itty bitty deers too, and they still use them to decorate what they call 'Hertjespudding' (Or 'deer pudding' in English, it's a simple pudding, but it's deer pudding because the deers are put on it😁). And since they were a household with three boys, they started their own tradition to poke the poor deers into the pudding every time it was served with christmas, just for funsies😂. Then they carefully eat around them to save them from the pudding. Afterwards they're gently cleaned and put away for next year.
Also, team coloured lights! All our christmas ornaments are different colours as well. We (re)use them every year, and some of them are at least 2 generations old. They get supplemented with the occasional purchase so now our tree is a mix of young and old, pretty and plain weird, traditional and 'out of the box' 😂, and I love it for it💚.
We're enjoying your unboxing of your attic treasures. My husband says the Christmas ornament reminds him of Saint Basil Cathedral in Moscow.
Yep, that's the St. Basil's Cathedral
That is a vintage hand blown ornament of St Basil. Your husband has A good eye
Team WHITE, most of the time, but I've had tree lights of ALL colors! I'm still on the hunt for a good looking silver tree, that will need pink ornaments😂❤! The miniature deer was sweet;) thks for sharing. Hugs to you, Phil & Canale🎉
I love using the tins in the kitchen on top of cupboards etc with some greenery
Team white for everything. The bottle trees with decorations look older, the ones now are plain.
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Yeah , two unboxing videos. I love Christmas. You two are so much fun to watch, whether you’re working hard or playing. I’d love to see your performance one day.
Shannon, I love this pic of you. You are so pretty without makeup. Then I remember you with make-up and say , Oh, and with it too. Laurie
It’s so fun seeing all of the vintage Christmas decorations. Brings back so many memories. Pour birds have lost their colour.
How do pinecones hang from a tree
Love all of those older decorations--they have such character! It will be fun to see what you do with them.
More antiques and the most adorable Canelle doing tricks? Amazing! For lights I'm on both teams and in fact have a tree that does both. It changes as the mood strikes me.
Wow, look at all the wonderful stuff you got there. Some real treasures there! Thanks for sharing! Very cool. Can't wait for Tuesday's video.
Very interesting decorations! Thanks for filming it for us.
My husband and I are team colored lights with white/silver/gold ornaments or white lights with random colored ornaments, so one usually goes on the tree and the other around door and window frames.
We have 5 dogs, 3 outside and 2 small inside. Our oldest had digestive issues about 3 years ago. In addition to a Tablespoon of pure pumpkin every morning the vet said to give him a Tablespoon (for his 20 lb size) of plain Greek yogurt. He hasn’t had digestive problems since we started that.
Lol those vintage ornaments are worth money
The Russian one is St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. What a find!
OMG Love all the vintage Christmas !!!
I'm team white lights for a tree as it makes the colour balls shine and show their true colours. Love the vintage Christmas balls, and the little steampunk type present. Also the silver centerpiece is awesome.
Your first box of "gifts" are mostly from the 50s and 60s. The little gold knee hugger elf is worth some $$$, so are the red deer. Fun time watching the box empty of their contents.
Multicolored non blinking lights for me. Family likes to go to the light show displays each year. Love Canelle’s tricks for treats. She’s good. Cool to see Xmas history unfold going thru ornaments. Merry Christmas!
I love ALL lights, but especially colored. I have a tree we decorate with both white and colored lights, tinsel garland, and ornaments, and one tree full of nothing but vintage 'novelty' lights.
The tiny house ornament could be a putz house. You could use some red glitter over the cardinal and spruce the tails up with new feathers!
I love the pearl garland for the tree. They look great if you choose one contrasting colour in baubles. Like blue baubles and the creamy white pearls for example. xx
I always preferred very warm yellow Christmas lights, at night it looked sooo magical
That was fun, I like white lights on my tree, my husband likes colored. See you on Tuesday, Also love Cannelle doing her tricks in French, very cute.
I bought some Christmas spices and finally understand Cannelle's name.
Some of the most ridiculous kitschy ornaments are so desirable. Lots of fun to look at!
As for your light question: it depends one year I decorate in my antique bulbs and things my kids made using colored lights, then the next I decorate with more modern decorations and use white. Those beads I use like garland, they really reflect the lights. That blue bulb cover, I actually have two strings of those old lights that I still use. So much fun seeing all your finds. Thanks for sharing, looking forward to Tuesday's video. Have a wonderful weekend and week!
I really love the candle holders. They were my favorite, I loved the bells for the door too.
That was fun! I love vintage Christmas items! My kids bought me a new Christmas tree this year,it has a button you can switch from white lights to colored,so I change it daily,which is actually quite fun.Love the Corgi tricks!
Oh, I love the bottle brush trees! The little deer and Santa are for a Christmas cake!As for lights, I mix both. I have a stand of white and a strand of multicolored ones and they all go on together!
So many memories, left in an attic; there's a book worth writing in that. Glad some of the things will see the light of Christmas again, and bring joy to their old home; if only they could talk. Have always loved Cannelle, but wow, what a good puppers, so adorable doing all the tricks. Will let my daughter know about Finn; one of her dogs has terrible Winter itchies. Have a safe and wonderful holiday.
my daughter likes white lights, I like colored blinking. A Christmas Miracle, they now have colors that can alternate white to colored, stay solid, or blink at different paces. It's magical!
Those vintage bottle brush trees are very sought after snd loved.
I didn't know how much I needed this! Thank you both ❤ You got to give Cannelle an extra treat for those tricks 🥰 (but only if her little belly can take it - that sponsorship part was fun! 😄 )
As for lights I’ve done white on, colored only, and mixed. My favorite was the childhood fat colored bulbs (also had the “lava lamp”s). My mother-in-law has a HUGE box of colored strung beads you could drown a decent sized tree in. We helped her decorate last weekend.
White lights only. I like a traditional tree with Christmas colors, lots of gold, and homemade looking ornaments. Also I have some small hanging mirrors that I found decades ago.
Such a fun haul! I inherited 3" pierced tin light reflectors from my grandparents. The reflectors are too big for my LED light sets; but I strung each of them on ribbon and hang them on my tree and swags as ornaments.
Oh my gosh she is adorable!!!! So smart!!
My folks have bubble lights on their tree, they are super cool. We also always did beads - never tinsel because of our cats. This was a lot of fun
Such a beautiful picture of Canelle!
The burgundy ribbon around your porch like candy cane maybe with the silver garlands? The bean growing sticks on the porch.
I love how Canelle is bilingual too! Depending on what you find, if you don't have a lot of ornaments, you can intertwine the red ribbon and pearl strands around the tree before putting in your ornaments.
This was a great video. Love watching you unbox all the old treasures. Looking forward to Tuesdays video! Of course the bonus Cannell footage is always welcome. I could have watched you unbox every box. You guys are excellent company on sleepless nights. Looking forward to seeing how you decorate the house!
I'm Team warm, white lights! When my kids were growing up, I had a huge, formal tree in the living room, decorated with white, gold, silver and glass ornaments. I wound a single strand of dull gold lights scattered around the inside of the tree, from top to bottom. Then used tons of warm white lights on the rest of the tree. The effect was stunning. We had a fun tree in the family room with all the colorful, fun ornaments. Needless to say, I went a bit overboard with decorating for Christmas.
The bells are for the door. The pearls are garland, I had some on my tree when my kids were growing up. I don't do a big tree anymore, I'm old af😂
My mom loved it when l mixed white and clour together. Bright and colourful
We are team colored lights inside on the tree and both colored & white for outdoors. But think both are beautiful. Have a happy holiday! Wonderful new year!
Sooo many amazing vintage bits n bobs for crafts!
Oh Darlin, they ARE your ornaments. The pretty box they are in is the house.
I have one of those tiny ceramic angel bell ornaments! I also have a few of her companions. I think they may have been my mother's when she was a child. She's no longer here to ask.
I loved watching the unboxing of the ornaments. Last weekend, a local church was giving away Christmas decorations, and i managed to score a small tree and several fabulous ornaments. Several were homemade. I've had such fun decorating my little tree after 20 years of not having a tree or decorations, or to be really honest, the desire to decorate. Happy Christmas to you!!
As an East German, who knows how decoration looks like in the ore mountains (a region in Germany famous for it’s traditional decoration) I prefer yellowish lights and classic Christmas tree decoration and wooden decoration around the house like nutcrackers, incense figurines (Rachermannl) etc. but Scandinavian is also very beautiful.
❤❤❤love your Christmasie jam jams!! Thanks for sharing your treasures!!
I love the double dose Christmas Cheer with Corgi guest apperances...
White lights and handmade icicle ornaments. I use the gold beads (like your white ones) as garland. Also a Boyd’s Angel Bear as a tree topper. Very simple, Less is more in my book.
Team white. Multicolor feels summer party to me
That christmas present ornament was stunning
Team coloured Christmas lights always.
Shannon!!
I absolutely LOVED your compilation of your last Christmas vlogmas. I watched it all last week in between household chores and my art/sewing projects 😊
You talents with video making add to the enjoyment and excitement of watching you and Phil’s circus life. I especially loved the segment of you doing your warm up exercises in the historic theatre in Denmark where there were about a dozen of you doing different exercises throughout the seating area
OMG I just squeed so loud!!! Amen 💜💜💜💜
Team colored lights for sure! Phil seems like a very nice person. Your shirts match!
Always fun to watch you explore the attic finds.
That was fun! A couple of the ornaments were really nice and hopefully find a place on your tree.
The "drunk Santa" I'd display him just for shits and giggles! Look forward to the 2nd half ...
I'm team white lights, only. Grew up in a multi colored lit tree.
Oh! I noticed the cathedral ornament one in another attic video and was so looking forward to seeing it again! It looks like St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow and very similar to the Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood in Saint Petersburg (it was built on the site of tsar Alexander II assassination hence the intense name). But the colours of the domes and overall structure are matched very close to St. Basil's Cathedral. Such an interesting ornament and it found its way to Nova Scotia to be on your tree, so fascinating! (Being a nerd while watching a Christmas video, I'll see myself out now). I do really like Christmas and New Year, I swear it🙃🎄✨ And Cannelle's Princess stocking and she herself is pure joy!
My aunt had lovely decorations from Norway. She had a tree with little red kind of stoppers on the end of the branches. It was lovely. Aunt Anna was the first person I ever knew who had cheese in the shape of fruit that was waxed red or green.
I love the decorations! So many like I grew up with. And the bottle brush trees I use with my small Christmas village and you have so many things that you could use to make one! How fun thank you for the video.
You're very welcome! 🎄
Coloured lights ✨️ 💛
In the 1960s a lot of cheap stuff came from Japan. I remember my cracker jack toys being labeled from Japan. Back in those days you got plastic toys and some of them were pretty cool.
I do both soft white lights but my tree is all colors. So many childhood memories. ❤ I use strands of beads on my tree. I liv 24:20 e in a log home and the colors reflect off the logs....Love them, so warm and cozy. Love your videos❤
Christmas scrunchie may have been a wreath. I know my grandmother had ornaments like that. She also had angels like the bell. I personally like the colourful lights, but admire houses that can do the all white lights and they look awesome.
Oh my goodness! Corgi Circus tricks!! 🥰
That is such a delightful photo of Canelle, thank you for sharing. I love the various brush trees and hope you find your train.
Colored lights make the tree more interesting to me
"So what shall we do to plug his butt?"
THE SILENCE!!! 😂😂 Both of you like "nooo im not touching that" brilliant 😂
That was so much fun! Everyone dreams of finding tresure and this was a dream come true!
Such fab vintage decorations, that tiny Bambi is just très mignon! 🤣 I love the idea of a train track right through the house! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I love vintage Christmas!! This is a whole lot of wonderfulness!!
I like the sled with ice skates which was in background.
That crochet candy cane, my mom use to have one when I was young use to hang it up in the window along with an old wire brush (The old huge wire brush ones) She also had a crochet Christmas wreath that hung on the front door. I am team-colored lights, but I also light all blue lights also. My grandma had couple of strings of the original lights that did the lava lamp thing, I also remember the big heavy lights that went on live trees and the original tinsel that was heavy and hung really pretty.
You two are absolutely adorable! I'm trying to remember when those decopauged ornaments were popular but I keep thinking either the 50s or the 70s.
I have white lights on a green tree decorated with gold tinsel, a gold tree skirt, with gold, red, and white ornaments, some of which are old world decorations. I have red bows and cardinals spaced over the tree also. The artifical tree is close to a register, so the tinsel and lighter ornaments move gently. My old cat, Frankenstein, used to pull down some tinsel and push it into a nest shape that he would sleep in under the tree. How I wish that I had taken a picture of that!
I just bought replacement bubble lamps for my tree! The glass bells are gorgeous! They are very retro. The tinsel garland is such a snapshot of mid-century holiday decor. What finds!
We’re team both white and colored lights in my family. The wight lights make the tree bright and glowing, while a few strands of colored lights add the fun. All colored lights make for a tree that is too dark, in my opinion.
Wow great haul on Christmas decorations for the whole house.