Christmas Decorating at Threadbear HQ

Welcome lovely friends & readers

(Warning : a photo heavy post ahead - you may need a cuppa or a snack, or half the contents of your pantry (!!!) before you're finished) 😉

I have finished my Christmas decorating here at Threadbear HQ. Usually I put the tree up, then fling a few Santa's around & toss the rest of the boxes back in the sleepout. This year - for no apparent reason - I decided to get every single decoration out, repair many of them that needed it, & either display them - or send in a box to the Op Shop.

Sid & I started the tree a couple of weeks ago & then my dear friend Carolyn came for lunch so she helped me to finish it.

Though I have photographed it at night the lights are not really showing up.

              Lets start in my dining room - my vintage Singer Sewing table has a small display of Santa's on it

And my Vintage Typewriter is in another corner . . .

This small cupboard is beside my fireplace with some bits on it -

- including the Mossy Gnomes that I made earlier this year.

The little Christmas Pudding elf is handmade by me - as are the chalk hearts poking out of the plants on my hearth.

I LoVe unpacking the handcrafted items made & gifted from dear friends over the years.

A very tiny bit of Christmas in the kitchen including a fresh batch of citrus potpourri in my vintage scales 💗

Moving in to the lounge area now .  .  .  .

A coffee table Christmas display - Lots of candles & fairy lights everywhere

This was my One Purchase this Christmas - bought while shopping down at Mum's in October with my friend Claire. At her suggestion I added moss to the base & also thread a few more pip berries through it - I especially love it at night time when the fairy lights are turned on.

These old ice skates were a Trade Me purchase about 2 or 3 Christmas's ago - I tossed them in the sleepout wardrobe & never thought any more about them.  Last week I pulled them out, scrubbed them & soaked the filthy laces in them - they came up well.  I had an idea in the virtual Pinterest Board that goes around inside my head of what I wanted to do with them 😊

I found my bag of faux greenery & berries & hot glued some in the tops of the boots but first I filled each boot with wadding so my greenery would not slip down inside. I had initially thought about putting them on a wreath but I didn't have anything large enough so I found this old chicken mesh frame in my sleepout & they fitted on this perfectly. 

    

I was able to affix them using the laces so they are removable at any time - I tied some rusty stars & bells to them & then wound a faux berry strand around the frame.

I'm just so pleased I finally did something with my vintage Ice Skates 💕 

 

Here is the fireplace mantle that I revamped in * this Post * - all decorated for Christmas - I really enjoyed putting this area together.

And a little wooden cart of teddies at the base - these Santa Hats are from when I had my Craft Cottage - I would pop them on all the bears & dolls for sale in the Cottage.

The top of the Fireplace Mantle

More beautiful treasures handmade by special friends 💕

(Sid watched me wrap these parcels up so he knows they are just boxes)

Under the tree is this vintage cart & some old teddies that I found in a bag in the sleepout wardrobe - the parcels are just wrapped up boxes - I can't put gifts under the tree as yet as it's too hard on the little ones who want to open them 😉

A Vintage Feather Tree purchased years ago in Australia

More handmade Santa's - these ones are a few years old now

And finally - after all the Tilda Reindeer I have made for orders over the years - I finally sat down & made myself one!!

This is a lovely pattern in the Tilda Book "Homemade & Happy"  - there are 2 sizes & I have made the larger one.

I was able to find some mossy branches on my very old Plum Tree for his antlers. 

Thank You all So Very Much if you have managed to stay til the end (Phew).  I cannot end this post without giving you a link to my friend Claire's Stunning Christmas Home. If you are on Instagram you can go * Here * to see photos & video's of her home - believe me friends - it is well worth a visit.

Wishing you a wonderful week ahead - be kind to yourselves & to each other,

With much love & friendship to you all,

Love Julie & the furry ones x0x0x0