Every Christmas many of us look forward to holiday home
tours. It is a treat to visit homes bursting at the seams with decorating ideas. Often the homeowners have enlisted help in
order to be ready. They
have a deadline and their goal is to be ready for the tour. Though most of us have set a deadline in our
minds for our decorating we do not have the pressure of groups of people
wandering through our homes and gardens that have paid a fee in exchange for
holiday ideas.
Quite a few of us are still trying to finish decorating a
mantle or dining room table with company just a few days away. I have complied a some pictures that require a
few of your favorite things, some greenery, and flowers. For those that collect antique sterling
silver or silver plate you are fortunate to have a items that sparkle with the
season. Remember to always use some form
of liner in your silver when using it to hold flowers or greenery. The decay of green leaves or stems can damage to
silver.
Group collections of wooden boxes, tortoise shell items,
mother of pearl items on mantles with pine branches tucked around them. Copper food molds, pewter chargers, and
antique wooden bowls gathered together in the kitchen need only a bit of
greenery to unify them. I have been collecting copper for years. Copper anything! I have quite a few small copper food molds and miniature items. For years I have used them along with a growing collection of cookie cutters,some new some old, on a garland surrounding a kitchen door. It is a tradition that my grown children still ask about.
I always am asked " Are you doing the garland with copper this year?"
Merry Christmas and Happy Antique Collecting
Red flowers and greenery
Southern Accents
Silver bowls and trays
Southern Accents
Simple window boxes
Martha Stewart
My copper food molds and cookie cutters
More of my garland and copper
My favorite copper molds...found last year in England
Shaped as a Horse foot with shoes
