Create a Cozy Classic English Cottage for Christmas Using 15 Thrift Store Finds!
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- Опубликовано: 3 дек 2023
- In today’s video I will be incorporating a traditional English Cottage style into my home for Christmas, and I’ll be doing it on a budget-using predominantly thrift store finds! I’ll also be sharing my top tips and tricks for adding the warmth, nostalgia, and irresistible charm of English cottage design into your home.
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I never follow trends, traditional looks don't age. I love the warmth and comfort of your home. Thank you!
It has taken me many years to learn to avoid trends and focus on what I like!
We have a big dog with a long tail, two adult cats, and now two rescue kittens. We put a small kook in an inconspicuous place near the ceiling, or in trim around a window or door. We run fishing line from the cup hook to the top of the tree. Unbreakable ornaments go at the bottom and anything special goes at the top. The cup hook and fishing line insure that the tree can’t actually fall over and have saved us grief for over 20 years of being pet parents! (And 27 years of being people parents!)
Yes! Ivy is perfect❤
Love the ivy on the fireplace
Always did that for the kids. Never knew when that one time would happen.
It just looks so pretty….I do hope that your husband and kids appreciate all that you do and keep it all so clean and tidy….love you. Hugs carolyn from Columbus GA
Ketchup cleans brass too
Only you, The Queen of Decordom, can take us to England so inexpensively! How beautiful all of it looks.♥️
I also love the ivy you included and burnished brass.
It’s a treat to watch you, always. Happy Christmas sweet Friend.
Thank you, Lydia! Happy Christmas to you, too!
Thank you once again for a wonderful awesome video you've given me some more inspiration as I continue add and adjust my design in very room of my house. Have a wonderful blessed Monday and week.
@Softball4life..BellaB😅
As an English cottage owner, for me you have cracked it completely
This is stunning and I love how you always think outside the box. When I see something, i always think what it could become.
Thanks for always giving us so much inspiration ❤
My guess is the candles are for a German Christmas pyramid. The heat from the candles turns a propeller that causes the figures to rotate.
I love what you do ❤. So creative. I’m 80 now and I still love to decorate my home. I so wish I had you to follow on “You Tube” In my younger years. You inspire me so much. A little of my strength and energy has gone. But……I still do more than most 😂
Everything looks absolutely stunning. You nailed the English Country look you were going for. Love the ivy, as well as the lamps and using the little boxes. I have used ketchup on my Revereware copper bottom pans for years and they are 55 yrs. old. Just spread it on and let it sit for awhile, rub it off. One downfall is that the smell of the ketchup will make you crave french fries!!😂 As always, your decorating is fabulous.😊
Your rooms are just beautiful and so thoughtfully 'filled'. Thank you for sharing all of these wonderful ideas.
Enchanting Christmas cottage styling!! Yes on the ivy and Yes on every wonderful touch you did!! Wonderful, just wonderful!🎄🐎🏆💚❤️
Thank you so much, Beth! What about the doily? Never thought I would use one on a table and like it!
Your home looks beautiful with all of your creative decorating.
@@CanterburyCottageYes!!!! On the doilies! I use them at Christmas I don’t use artificial snow🙄 True to the cottage feel? Use the doilies. 🤗💕
The little candles are for revolving chime ornaments. THe heat from the candles hits the 'fan' and the current of the heated air makes the 'fan' revolve, and small chimes are hit.
If YOU like the ivy in the fireplace decoration, then it's all good. I think it looks pretty, too.
Your tabletop decor is so pretty, love the doily. Thanks for sharing.
They’re very similar to the candles my mom kept in the kitchen in case the power went out. The box they came in was labeled “kitchen candles”. As a kid, I thought you couldn’t use them anywhere else in the house!
Thank you, Rose! I know the little revolving ornaments you mean. I would love to find one while thrifting!
Originally the little candles were meant to be clipped on the tree in Finland. I'm a Finn and I grew up with them on our Christmas trees. Beautiful, but frankly, not too safe😅.
Sherry, your home looks so cozy. Everything you did just made it more beautiful!!
Everything you touch transforms into something so unique and beautiful! You find the best treasures! I still admire those beautiful fox hunting bookends on your mantle every time I see them! ❤️
I use ivy and holly in my Christmas decorations, we also love hyacinths in pretty container's for Christmas. Have a wonderful time from 🇬🇧.
Oh, hyacinths! I did’t know that! How did I do explaining traditional English cottage style?
@@CanterburyCottage Very well, tartan is very popular for winter throw's and decorations, and the little bird's on the tree , your tree looked fabulous, and your home would fit in very nicely in England.
Your room is incredibly beautiful and cozy cottage style! I love what you did, with your lovely thrift store finds!! I do love finding something I love and then realize it is more valuable than I thought. But I don't sell it if I love it enough to show it! I love the vintage looking angel and agree with you about taking off the candle cup. Are those the bells you made from medicine bottles and egg crates? They look perfect next to your fireplace. That brass JOY wreath is stunning!!
The entire home is so welcoming and warm, thank you for sharing your personal home and special touches with us! What an inspiration! You are a blessing Sherry!!
I have mobility issues from RA. But your videos have inspired me to decorate my house for Christmas. I watched this one and last year. I had already decided that certain things in my house would be nice with a red velvet bow on them. Garland can’t be put on my mantle because it’s all brick but I’ll be putting it on the fireplace enclosure. Might try to put my very large Fitz and Floyd Christmas bowl on the mantle. I have a 8 inch tall Amish buggy that I’ll place on snow and lots of bottle brush trees. Many years ago I bought a brass reindeer and sleigh at an estate sale for $12. It goes on my coffee table. Its amazing. Over 30 yrs ago I went to the prop sale for Better Homes and Gardens. I purchased 12 ornaments that are natural curtain rings with linen inside them. They have been in many books and several magazines. Our tree ornaments are a reflection of our life. From vacations, pets, activities and people we cherish. There are 3500 lights permanently installed on our 9 foot tree. It’s amazing. My husband got all the Christmas decorations out today so I’ll be working slowly on getting things in place. This is a huge challenge for me. But I’m a grandma now and want my granddaughter to have a very special time with her family.
I love your style. It’s more like mine. I’ll be watching your last video at least 10 times to get all your ideas. Thank you so very much for sharing your experience and ideas with us all!
Your front room looks so warm and charming. You did a great job. It reminds me of a trip I took to the Biltmore estate at Christmastime. Please show us the puppy in your next video.
Have you watched A Biltmore Christmas on Hallmark? It’s so cute.
Just beautiful.....I love each room, but my fav is the plaid room....the Christmas tree is stunning !!!
Barkeeper's friend, the shake powder, and make paste 🎉 my favorite for cleaning brass or any other metal hardware.
I second this
Bartenders Friend is a miracle cleaner!
Good hint! I love Barkeepers Friend. (If a magnet sticks, it's brass-plated. Vigorous scrubbing can remove some of the plated layers.)
Thanks for the tip. I’ll grab a magnet before I scrub on it anymore!
Thanks so much! I will definitely give it a try!
Your decorated rooms look truly like an 😄😄 English cottage!! Very nice work--enjoy it all!
Yes, on the ivy. I remember seeing lots of mentions of the Holly n ivy use at Christmas. The tree you got from Walmart a couple years ago, is my tree but mine is flocked. Aging that brass was the prefect touch. I do love the Fritz n Floyd boxes, but then again I loved everything you used. Gorgeous
You have completely captured old English Christmas. 🌲 Now I want to go back for Christmas
The candles you asked about are used for the larger German Christmas Pyramids that originated in the Erzgebirge mountain region of Germany.
They create heat to turn , (the often nativity themed) ornament that has a whirlygig thing-deal, (technical term) at the top to propel the mechanism 😊
I like the ivy too! And I think holly with red berries is traditional also. (The Holly and The Ivy...isn't that an old English song? Or maybe a pub...)
Melody, I have been trying for years to convince my husband that "whirlygig thing-deal" is an actual technical decorating term... now that he will see it in print, he'll have to bow to my superior knowledge - lol... Katherine
@katherinelarini8514 😄 I also find, that if you pantomime while explaining the whirlygig thing-deal, it makes the concept clearer. It works every time at the hardware store.
@@melodymcdonnell1528 Wow, Melody, you have just made my life so much easier!... I have found that men "see" better than they "hear", so if I include pantomime, it should do the trick!.. I'll never dread the hardware store or the auto repair shop again... thanks!..
@@katherinelarini8514 ❤️
There’s an old English Christmas carol called “The Holly and the Ivy”. Your intuition to use ivy for Christmas was spot on.
Yes to the ivy. I live in an old Georgian vicarage (ex vicarage now), so we concentrate on natural-looking garlands, wreathes etc because that’s what suits the house. We use lots of faux holly and ivy strands, and red berries, to decorate the base garlands.
Sounds lovely! It is hard to find good faux holly, but I do love it, too!
Love your videos, they always bring a smile to my face. Thank you. Yes I love ivy and it's a big part of my decor too. You have done such a wonderful job. I live in a cottage in England that's over 120 years old and you have captured the traditional feel beautifully. I adore your creative flair and unique touches. I use tomato ketchup on my copper/brass. I suppose it's the acid in it that cleans it so well.
You know, Sherry, what I love most about your decorating style is that you love things, unusual things and have a way of making everything fit together cohesively. I have never been a fan of minimalism so I appreciate how you decorate your home. The spirit of Christmas is definitely in your decor. English cottage style is a design that I love (dark academia being my favorite). As for ivy, a resounding YES. I know it's bad for brick but if I could I would have a cottage completely covered in ivy with only the windows peeking through. TYFS.
You find the best treasures when you thrift!!! Everything looks beautiful!!!!!!
Good job. I like your book selection...Called, " Discovering Britain and Ireland" , as near as I could tell. I would add it to my " Complete Scotish Dictionary of Plaids and Tartans" somewhere in my familly room with plaid, animal print upholsery and sheepskin rugs. The bird ornaments look good. And a lot less fragile than my vintage glass bird ornaments. I feel right at home with Ralph Laurenish decor all year round
Your bowl is from the Royal Albert Memory Lane pattern. My mother and all her sisters had the dish sets that you were able to purchase weekly at the grocery store. Both my sister and I each have a set.
My style is definitely English Cottage, with an emphasis on touches from a rose garden versus the Hunt Club theme. My taste is definitely not the trend, so I REALLY appreciated seeing that floral-printed chair!
I love those chairs, and I don’t care if they are in style or not! I think some of the modern chairs I see in stores now are plain and sometimes ugly!
Yes to Ivy everywhere and WOW to all of your gorgeous decor!! So many incredibly beautiful things that my eyes have a hard time resting very long before they see something else! You are so very good at this, Sherry. You give us so much inspiration no matter what season it is! I don’t keep Xmas but watching you decorate is a must for me and I learn so much!❤️
Ha! I love boxes, too! And chairs! And sterling candle sticks! And snuff boxes! And...
Oh...the holly and the ivy..are dancing in a ring...round the berry bright red candles...and the white and shining king! Absolutely the ivy belongs! Super sweet decorations all around your lovely home. Happy holidays everyone.
I was born in a farm cottage. This is a wonderful idea to give that warm cosy English cottage look. Here is the UK many more families use the modern look for Xmas,but I do so hope we do not lose our country style Yule tide look.x
Oh, I think styles will come and go, but English cottage will last the test of time-so cozy and charming!
I really, really love the antique looking angel. I'd find it hard to put away after Christmas. Maybe just move to the bedroom? Not a fan of the large ivy. Looks like grape leaves to me. Doily is charming, sets off each element nicely. I gave away most of my decor, but kept my deer. Will try to incorporate ribbons, not sure yet what color. Didn't think I would care for the tree, but it turned out beautiful. Am going to steal your idea of the branches tied with ribbon. Really improved the fake tree. I want to make some bead garland, maybe with pine cones or jingle bells. Does anyone else miss the softness of the old tree lights? I am all for energy saving, but the brightness of the LED is BRIGHT. The pink and cream colors in the foyer are more my taste, yet the living room evokes a nostalgia. Thanks for sharing and inspiring. I've been looking forward to this all weekend! Enjoy your evening, you definitely earned it. There are some metal cleaners that are mkre environmentally friendly. It comes with a sponge and it's like a jar of dry paste. Can't remember the name but it's for a wide range and it is probably safer to have around. TFS.
Oh Sherry! The "hunt" room is beautiful. Everything is perfect. Yes to the ivy.
Just beautiful Your home has such a calm and welcoming atmosphere, I can just imagine you and a friend, sitting with a cup of tea, and engaging in lively conversation.
Your decorations are stunning as usual. I love your large windows in the front that framed the Christmas tree to perfection and with the added snow, what a bonus.
Thank you so much!😊
I have used ivy for years to decorate at Christmas, It’s the look I liked and could find. I like how my Christmas decorations look different then every one else. I want my home to be unique and represent our likes. I use bunnies with berries, and birds. I have used vintage toys, when my children were young.
Yes to the ivy, yes to the doily
Everything is just gorgeous!
Yes to the ivy👍🏻 The small candles are Christmas candles for putting on the Christmas tree. In Scandinavia we use real candles on our Christmas trees. The language is Finnish, which I can’t read😊
I just love what you do here! I always get ideas and can use what I have most of the time. The ivy in the magnolia wreath looks pretty as well as the staiir garland. Someone was sleeping on those prices for the great items you found! Oh my gosh I have a copper scuttle just like that and I LOVE it!
I love the ivy, the brass, the cute little lamp, and, of course, the birds!
I used to go all out and decorate like this. But I'm 78 now and don't have the energy. I now live in a very small home with my daughter who works and my granddaughter who isn't interested. She hates December as some family tragedies have happened during this month. I tell her that it's also MY birthday month but it doesn't help. And this year? All my Christmas things are in storage. I'm in a Residence Inn ( going on 6 th week!!!) Because we had to had weork done at home. No decorating, no lights...NOTHING! And Im getting depressed. I thought watching you would perk me up. It's just making me miss home more!!!!! Sigh... My first home was like yours: warm, cozy, welcoming. I wish I was still there...with my husband....
The metal angel is my absolute favorite decorative piece! I notice that you and all my interior design peeps are alone while decorating for the holidays. I just love trimming the tree with my hubby while listening to holiday jazz. Maybe you're just appearing alone for the sake of the vlog?
Unfortunately, my hubby has never really enjoyed it, so I let him off the hook a long time ago! I think you’re lucky that your hubby likes to help!
Such a good idea to hang wreaths on louvers! We have double louvered doors on the pantry, and I’ll be hanging wreaths with new bows on them. Thanks for the inspiration! I love ivy wound into garlands for Christmas - there’s an English carol called “The Holly and The Ivy”.
I like the simplicity of the pine koans. Lol
I'm not a huge fan or red for Christmas but today, you changed my mind. The English Room looks so cozy and comfy..I doubt I'd ever want to leave it. Brilliant. Cheers and Happy Holidays from a wandering Brit :-)
I love your decorating style and thrift store finds. You continue to find bargains at Goodwill. They usually charge same as new prices. Thanks for charging your videos. They make my day!
Thank you! I think that my Goodwill may have received Christmas merchandise from other areas because it is packed with decor. I think that may explain the very nice prices.
I love your room!!! And that doily on the little table under the lamp is perfect! I love and use doilies all the time!!!! ❤
I would definitely be caught lounging in the Fox Hunting room!
Definitely yes on the ivy. It brings a different structure to the garland as well as a different green.
Absolutely stunning!❤
Every room looks so serene, but festive! I especially enjoyed seeing the decorated tree. I love it! I had never seen a plaid star tree topper before, but it is perfect for the room. For me, adding red berries to the greenery, was a perfect touch to brighten things up. It was so nice to see the tree against a snowy scene. I moved from upstate NY to central VA, and snow is a rarity. The only time I miss it, is this time of year. Otherwise, not so much! Here, a half inch of snow closes schools. Three inches, and it’s closed for days! My kids grew up in a tiny village, and walked to school. Closings were too rare for their tastes. (I of course still had to travel to and from work!) It was great to see a wintery Christmas tree scene!
My husband and I (retired) moved from western MA to central-ish NC and snow is extremely rare... in our four years here, we have had 1/2" twice and one year we had a whole 1"... I certainly don't miss it, but I would love 6" or more around Christmas time - lol...
Years ago when my twins were little I bought a tiny section of a small white picket fence, maybe 3 feet tall. I put this up in a semi-circle around the tree, not firmly but just so it would stand up. I was more a visual barrier than a physical one - the wee ones could still touch the branches and ornaments. But they couldn't stumble into the tree and knew not to climb it - LOL! By the next year, they were old enough not to knock the whole thing down. Maybe it would work with a dog...
WOW just WOW you really know how to decorate using most of your everyday items. I have to completely take my whole room apart to do Christmas decor. I'm definitely going to start going more simple with my decor.
You put your heart and soul in all you do Sherry , you must have been an awesome teacher!
Christmas is the only time I don’t like to decorate but I look forward to your refresh decorating after the holiday. You’re a “peach” Sherry .Bless you and all the lives you touch🌸
I LOVE the Tartan room, these are my favorite colors but each room holds their own charm. Beautiful!
Sherry, everything looks so warm and cozy. It's a magical feast for the eyes.
I like the ivy in the garland and the doily on the table. "Juhla" is Finnish for "Christmas." It is very common to display short, white candles in a special, multi-cup candle stand, often made of wood. In Sweden, a crown like an advent wreath celebrates St. Lucia.
Yes, it's finnish.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE that floral Painting behind that white cabinet that you said was in the foyer, I think. Of course, as always, your decorating is your own, original and BEAUTIFUL doesn’t say enough for your work. I hope you and those you love have a safe and enjoyable Holiday
Absolutely gorgeous! This room screams me❤ hahaha LOVE IT ALL. Collect brass, copper & nutcrackers and am inspired to get decorating!!!! As always... stunning.
Yay! Thank you! I am so glad that you love this traditional style, too! (And, I thought the room was screaming “Sherry”!😜)
YES! More IVY, please! Remember the carol;, "The Holly and the Ivy"? I love the evergreens on the mantle. I have an antique mantle that I take with me everywhere I move, so I can always have a "FIREPLACE"-- even if it it pretend!
I have a fake fireplace in our bedroom, and I think it looks just as nice as a real one, too!
Sherry...you are so very inspirational!!! I don't thrift much. I really don't need to. My boyfriend's niece gives me her old stuff at the end of the season. (She gets new every year) What I don't use, I give to my eldest daughter. Be safe and GOD BLESS 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I love how you did the garland. Everything looks beautiful and perfect for your plaid room.
Everything is so beautiful and warm, very inviting. I can’t imagine how beautiful your entire home is. I’d love to see the puppy in a video. Yes on the ivy 🎄🎄🎄
Yes! on the ivy. How nice to have something different.
I love it all. The family room with the green and blue is my favorite. Plaid star is a really great look.
Love the touch of ivy in the garland! I think you have to be one of the luckiest thrift haul shoppers on RUclips!! Everything looks wonderful!
Wow you've been busy. It all looks so cosy and festive and the abundance of tartan is stunning. I love what you did you with the angel, and was pleased to see the table mat trees return - they're one of my favourite projects of yours. Poor puppy will have to make do with gazing longingly at your lovely tree, because yes, I can picture much havoc and disarray should he decide to bound about the place 😁🥰
Very cozy and inviting. I could sit in that livingroom and read all day! Love your style. Everything is charming. You knocked it out of the park!!!❤❤❤
Yes on the doily and yes on the ivy ❤ the whole room
*Sherry you Christmas 🎄 Tree and decor 🎍💚🦌 is stunning - but that is NO SURPRISE to me❣️ I L❤️VE the "new" old lamps you brought back from your stash. The red lamp shades, the Fitz and Floyd ceramic boxes, the touches of brass everywhere, along with the 2-toned copper and brass spittoon and the Tartan Plaid Star tree topper are beautiful touches for a cozy, welcoming atmosphere. I personally like 👍🏼 brass the way your vase was BEFORE you aged it, but I like my brass and copper bright and shiny. I use ketchup on copper, and fresh-squeezed lemon 🍋 juice with coarse salt to clean up brass beautifully.😍 You do you, Sherry❣️😜🥰😊😉 You asked about the doily as well as the berries and ivy over the mantle - I L🤍VE the way they all look‼️The berries, ivy, coniferous swag, red ribbons and pinecones are so festive‼️😘 Kudos 👏👏👏 to you for tying the plaid bows to branches from your yard to make picks for a more natural and rustic look to your Christmas 🎄 Tree. And, of course, the birds on your tree were a necessity❣️🥰 I liked your wood box and the mini tree🎍on your hearth and the 4 wreaths in that room❣️ The foyer with hydrangeas, pinks, greens and ecru looks gorgeous 😍 and the angel 😇 looks SO MUCH BETTER as a figurine without the candle cup - good call on that, Sherry❣️👌 Your English Cottage decor is some of the prettiest I have ever seen...thanks for sharing your styling genius with us❣️XOXOXO ❤️💚🎍❄️💙🤍🎄❤️*
Leslie, thank you for the tips on using ketchup, lemon juice and salt. I am going to give them both a try. I actually liked the vase better shiny, too. I think I am going to polish it. It just aged too much (even for me). Thank so much for all of your kind comments!
@@CanterburyCottage *You're welcome, Sherry. 😊 If you want to make it easier to clean small pieces, cut the lemon 🍋 in half, (like you were going to make lemon slices) pour coarse salt all over the lemon half about 1/4th inch thick, put the cut half down on your brass, then squeeze the lemon as you rub the salted lemon half back and forth on the brass. Add salt as needed. You should see your lemon start to look blackened as the tarnish is removed. For a bigger piece like your vase, I would take a small glass bowl or ramekin, put 1/4th to a 1/2 cup of lemon juice in the bowl and add enough coarse salt to make a paste. Take a large piece of an old white t-shirt or flour sack towel, dip it in your lemon juice salt paste and rub over your brass. You'll have a blackened shirt or towel, so make sure it's a rag you don't care about! 😉 I typically rinse when done and then wash my item(s) with Dawn dish soap and towel dry. For the ketchup on copper, I squirt a big blob of ketchup in a glass bowl and paint it on my copper piece(s) with a soft paint brush so I don't have ketchup all over my hands. Then I let it sit for about 30 minutes and take an old white cloth and wipe away an area in a swirling motion to see if the ketchup has been on the piece long enough to clean the copper. If not, another 10 minutes usually does the trick. Then I rinse off any ketchup residue with cool water. Wash with Dawn and towel dry.*
*You'll have to let me know how this works for you. 😊 BTW, these methods won't work if your pieces have a clear sealer, Sherry. If they do, Google how best to remove your clear sealer first, then remove the tarnish as above.*
I was struggling to find motivation to decorate. This inspired me. That plaid room blew me away! Magical. ❤️💕
Not blue balls lol Sherrie kept going 😂😂😂❤
Definitely like the English Cottage look when compared to all those other varieties you showed. I would have never thought that plaid walls would look good. But I am in love with yours!!!! They have a regal look. Beautiful!
Hi Sherry. I find Lemon juice cleanse brass very well. Ivy is a compulsory leaf together with holly at Christmas in my home in Jersey anyway. I also add branches of Bay. As the leaves dry the smell is lovely. I think the glass cloche lamp would make a great place for one of your Christmas vignettes , maybe a skating rink or a snow covered woodland. Though I live in the Channel Islands now I lived for 20 years in the UK. English Cottage Christmas is very me. (I’m Canadian by birth). I liked the aged brass plant pot but I love brass that sparkles in the lights. As always Sherry each of your rooms were beautiful and decorated with such taste. Roll on next week. Thank you & Take care!!
In answer to your questions: The ivy in the garland was pretty and made the garland look fuller. But I think I prefer it without the ivy. I like the aged brass, but prefer the brighter brass. Just personal preference. As for your home: I love an English cottage look and think you did a beautiful job in your home Sherry. The way you styled your side tables, vignettes, everything, was so charming! I have already done most of my Christmas decorating this year, but will be referring to this video for inspiration next year. Thanks so much for showing us how you created your own cozy English cottage.
Your home looks wonderful! Just the kind of place I'd like to sit, enjoy the trees and a fire, with good conversation and some warm mulled cider. ❣❣🎄🎄
I love the little goose with the bow❤
Bowls of unshelled nuts with nutcrackers were part of my. Childhood xmas
Yes to everything you have added or created. I just want to bundle you up and hustle you to my ramshackle old farmhouse and let you do your magic!😂 But your videos are the next best thing!❤️❤️ I hope you continue with the Christmas theme. It’s my favourite time of the year!🎄🎄
I absolutely love everything about this style! And "yes" to the ivy!
I've found that as I decorate my Christmas tree, inevitably little bits of the tree make their way down to the carpet, so I don't put my tree skirt in place until I am finished decorating and have vacuumed the area under and around the tree. So I'm curious why you would put your skirt down before you even started decorating. Such a beautiful room. I like English traditional and seeing the extra Christmas touches and how you did them with thrift store buys is great. Wish I was half as creative! Loved the addition of the ivy, it fits right in with the old English Christmas song "The Holly and the Ivy."
Lovely and so warm and cozy. I love it so much!!
Oh, thank you, Phyllis! 😊
The ivy is gorgeous. The large leaves and the different hues of green were pretty. This is another great video. Happy Christmas tree decorating 🎄💕 everyone.
Thank you, Michelle! Happy Christmas to you, too!
Oh my I still love the angel. She is gorgeous. Truthfully it all looks great as always@
The area with the pink Christmas tree reminds me of looking through the pages of the Victorian Trading Company catalogue.
Everything looks so beautiful. Love your style
In many churches those little white candles are used at the close of the Christmas Eve service. The candles are passed out to attendees, prior to singing the final song, Silent Night. Ushers move down the center aisle lighting the candles of the persons at the beginning of each pew who then light the candle of the person seated next to them and so on down the pew until every one has a lit candle. At the end of the song, the lights are dimmed so the whole auditorium is illuminated by the candle light only.
It's a lovely representation of the "Light of the World."
Hi Sherry , I looked at those candles and I think they are called remembrance candles. In certain churches they offer these to parishioners to light and place on a shelf as a reminder of a loved one that has passed away.
Simply beautiful... every bit of it! You're the best and you make me so pleased that we're both treasure hunters at thrifting. English Cottage decor all the way.
Barkeepers friend is a cleanser that cleans copper and brass. Just be sure to rub gently! Love this look ❤
This is so beautiful! I adore the doily, a soft, feminine touch! Thank you for all you do!
Love the doily. I am a doily thrift shopper
I love everything you used in the plaid room - doilies included. I live in Silicon Valley, CA, and the thrift stores here do not have anything like the wonderful items you find. If I do find something I like, the prices are always too high. Estate sales are my best source for interesting decor. Watching your videos has helped me know when something has potential. Thanks for sharing!
Lovely! So warm and comfortable. Merry Christmas 🎄
Dip half a lemon in salt and scrub your brass or copper leave it sit then rinse it off. I do this to my brass and I've never seen it look so good in my life. Love the Ivy.
Fantastic! Loved the angel statuary. Glad you did not use a candle. I am very envious of your beautiful bay window and fab shutters! We should all have such architectural elements! Merry Christmas to you and your family!!
Oh Sherry, your house is so pretty and warm and inviting. I love all the extra details and touches you've added to every room. So very lovely and so English. ♥️
Aloha, Sherry! This must be the year for "traditional" Christmas decor.🌲☃🎁 Love the way your living room was the perfect place to create the look! Had to chuckle when you said you thought about beginning a collection of angels. Like your love of birds, they too have wings .....😇
Thank you so much! I hadn’t thought of the wing connection! 😄
The tartan star is just everything.
Great video.
Thank you for posting! It's so lovely! Definitely feeling those cottage vibes!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!