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Vintage Christmas Decor

December 10, 2019 By Karen Creel

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Do you love chippy and rusty?  Do you think you can’t use your flea market and thrift store treasures at Christmas?  That you have to create that holiday feel with all new traditional Christmas decor?  Well, this year, keep your collections out, and upcycle them to create a funky flea market holiday theme.  Vintage Christmas decor can involve vintage Christmas collectables such as cards, ornaments, or linens.  But, it can also mean using the flea market finds you have gathered over the years and add greenery, ribbon, ornaments, or even a few candy canes to give them that holiday feel.

In my front room I have shelves on one end of the room.  I have a few of my rusty tins I have collected over time on one, and  dressing this shelf for Christmas was as simple as adding a few Christmas greenery picks from Michaels.  Easy Peasy.

Use your collection of vintage tins in your Christmas decor

 

Fill a vintage coffee can with a tree or greenery to create a flea market theme

I have several old coffee tins that I have picked up for just a few dollars over the years.   When I go to estate sales, I always head to the garage or barn first.  These are usually filled with nails, and you get to keep those too!  Filled with a miniature Christmas tree or greenery, they add a little whimsy to your Christmas decorations.  These would be great to hold Christmas treats such as candy canes or ornaments as well.

Fill vintage coffee cans with greenery to create Christmas decor

This red and blue one would look great with shiny red Christmas ornaments.

Place a Christmas wreath on an old gate to create vintage Christmas decor

My color scheme for the bedroom is yellow and sage green.  I found a chippy green table last summer, but it wasn’t until recently that I found the perfect  yellow fence piece to go over it.  Yellow a Christmas color?  It is when you add a wreath to it.  Sitting on that table is a child’s green rocker.  $5 at a junk shop sitting on the front porch in a pile of other stuff.  They were probably going to throw it away, but said $5 when I said I wanted to buy it.  The rockers wouldn’t stay on.  One had broken and a piece was stuck in the hole in the rocker.  I took it home, threw the rockers away, and cut the legs down a little so it would sit level.  Now, it holds an old tin, and a picture of my granddaughter’s at the beach.  I added a little North Pole sign and now it’s Christmas decor!

Vintage Christmas Elf

This little Christmas elf is not vintage.  I bought him at Michael’s a few years ago.  ( with my 50% off coupon of course!)  A child of the 1950’s these elves were popular then and I have collected a few. He sits on the table beside my bed with a Christmas sign welcoming the Holiday in.

Vintage Christmas Elf

 

A friend gave me this old bicycle rim.  It sits on my chest of drawers with an old green basket and this picture of my sweet mom and her older sister.  They were raised during the depression and have their flour sack dresses on.  Both have passed away and I cherish this photo I found in my mom’s belongings.

Add a flea market touch to your Christmas decor using an old bicycle wheel with greenery added

I hope this post has given you a few ideas on using your vintage collections to make this season Merry and Bright, flea market style.

Use your flea market finds to create a vintage Christmas decor theme

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Merry Christmas,

Karen

 

You may also like this post, where I created miniature Christmas gardens using vintage teacups.


Supplies you will need to make a miniature garden in a teacup.

Click here for the DIY to create your own little winter wonderland.

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Gardenchick is a place for gardeners, flea market fanatics, lovers of the farmhouse look, and purveyors of all things rusty!

I’m not sure when my fascination with junk began, but gardening was in my blood from an early age.  I remember my grandmother could throw a few seeds out and have the prettiest flowers.  Sweet peas were rampant beside the front porch.  I can see her now, bent over pulling weeds, and I find myself doing the same thing anytime I’m in the yard.  My dad was raised on a large farm, and even though he moved away, and we always lived in the city, he had a garden.  He had me help him  plant a garden in May before he died in August.  So you can see, gardening just comes naturally to me.

I can’t explain the love of rusty and all things chippy, but I have dug through more barns and sheds than I would like to admit to bring out a rusty wagon or old chicken feeder.

So, I hope you will follow along, and we can learn a few things together.  I’ll be sharing gardening ideas, my flea market finds, and thrifty ways to repurpose.

 

 

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