@@willizaback9800 did you know there are frost proof berries? To check just squeeze them. If they feel rubbery they won’t crack in the cold. Pretty cool.
This was really fun, and I love your mantle! As for us, we decorate a medium sized model sail boat, about (80cm long), my youngest son started that tradition, one year when I was a student and we did not have enough money for a christmas tree, I came home from work and he had decorated the ship with lights and tiny ornaments, and he put a few small wrapped gifts under the "Christmas boat", it was lovely, we have decorated it every year since, and that was almost 30 years ago.
When I was a child our next door neighbor would invite me and my siblings (there are 5 of us) over to her house each year so we could each pick an ornament from her tree to take home. Those special gifts are still some of my favorites. They bring back wonderful memories.
So very cool ! I lost 50 + years of Christmas decor and ornaments 2 years ago in a garage fire. I had to start new so,as a crafter, everything new has my crafty touches . I have made all of the decorations.
I love how confidently Phil just plugs random old things straight into the power with no fear of death or burning the house down 😅🤣 I don't have a favourite Christmas tradition yet since this is my first year officially keeping Christmas! We don't even have a tree but so far the decorations are made up of cute festive tins which double as storage for my various sewing projects 🎄❤️
Shannon and Phil, it’s so much fun watching you unbox all the Christmas treasures that were left to you. The mantle looks great. Cannelle is still the most adorable, photogenic doggo❤️
My grandmother gave me a Christmas tree ornament when I was little, back in the 60s. The tip broke, but as it had a snow pattern on it, I glued a cotton ball to the botton, and I still have and treasure it 60 years later. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone, whatever you celebrate. Its all about family! Love from Minnesota.
I have a large collection of snowmen and I keep them up after Christmas. This year, in my new home, they reside on top of my kitchen cabinets along with a white tinsel garland and white lights. So when I saw that I was like oooooohhhh LOVE IT!
Those wreaths could look really pretty strung one above the other on one of the outside walls (if they're suitable for outside use, of course) My favourite decorations are a set of very old glass baubles that used to go on my grandparents tree when my mother was a kid (so, 1950/60s). My grandmother wanted to throw them out, but I snaffled them and love having them around!
OMG I grew up with that lighted angel!!!😮. It's now in my possession. Sadly, this year I can't decorate. I'm having an early Christmas present in the form of a hip replacement.😂. So I'm living vicariously through your decorating fun
I did too it was my grandmother's angel and now I use it on my small christmas tree. I also have stiraphome ornaments that were hand made by my grandmother.
Oooh, fun stuff. Another you tuber puts up a wooden ladder, wraps garland around it with lights and baubles for a tree and it's fun. Seems appropriate for a work in progress house! I loved when my kids were little and we baked together. Playing christmas music and filling the house with smells of deliciousness.
The best memories of Christmas are when we were short on money and had to make due with what we had. No money for ornaments.. I saved blown out eggs shells and hand painted them with little Scandinavian looking Christmas kids. My family loved them. Best gift I ever came up with. That was decades ago and the receivers all still cherish them. Thet tell me that they are their favorite ornaments and thank me again every year. It was a gift born out of poverty and even so, there was still a necessity to give love ones a gift on Christmas. This is the true spirit of Christmas🎄🎄🎄 Give of yourself and what u have.
Those enourmous outdoor lights are my favorite. My parents had several strings of the multi colored ones we put on the bushes outside my window. They would make my window glow. Itwas even more magical when it snowed. And because they are warm, it would melt the snow off so when we took them down they were ready for storage with very little clean up.
All the garland and lights are a money saving treasure! It’s wonderful that you appreciate the value of what came with the house. You will become an expert Garland Fluffer, with all that nice heavy garland! The mantel turned out great! Hope things turned out Ok with the leaky roof! 90% of the decorations I use to decorate my house are things I made. I made painted, wood ornaments and tons of other things that I sold at craft shows, for many years. My favorite thing is an 8 inch tall wood snowman, that is building another snowman. There is a sign that says "Making Friends" It’s very cute, but hard to explain. Great video. Corgi content is always appreciated! Can’t wait for the next video
I really loved all the decorations. Was pleasantly surprised how well they survived all those years. And they will look stupendous after you put your own magic touch to them.
It was so heartwarming to see you both enjoying unboxing your "new" Christmas decorations after watching you both work so very hard on clearing the attic and adding the missing insulation in your attic. I wish you both a very Happy Christmas Season 🎄
My favorite holiday ornament is a sweet, little elf all dressed in red. She was one of my mum’s first Xmas decorations and is at least 80 years old. When our kids were young we played hide and seek with her all season long. Whoever unpacked her would hide her (she had to be visible). Whoever found her, told her hiding place and hid her again.She’s survived a flood, lots of grubby little fingers, and attacks by Catzilla. She looks a little worse for the wear but always makes my heart happy.
Your house is like a mystery bag; it contains surprises --- some good and some bad, some vintage shiny ornaments, some old yucky garbage. But it is yours to do what you want with all of it. You and your partner are doing a wonderful job in restoring your house to health and happiness. Thank you for all your videos that allow all of us to watch you, learn from you and learn with you. Also thank you for including your sweet doggie girl in your videos, she always brightens my day. Best wishes for a wonderful Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
For light storage, I tend to coil around my arm, then twist in a figure 8, then plug one end into the other. It keeps them dense and contained. The mouse ornament!! And the plump little bird. The mantle came out so nicely. It'll be so interesting to see where the house is at in a year
My favorite decoration is a stained glass wreath that I inherited when a family friend/widow/adopted grandma passed away. Every year I put it up and it reminds me of her and how family is anyone that you cherish 😊
This is the first year in decades I put up a Christmas Tree. I then made home decorations by learning how to do macrame. It is a year and the coming year that definitely needs some cheer . Merry Christmas Shannon and Phil and your adorable pup. May you have a safe and wonderful work trip to Germany.
@@ShannonMakes If you do unbox all those lights and restring them around filament spools for storage it would be nice to see you do that on video. A Christmas life hack for your viewers! Please!
I cut rectangles of heavy cardboard and wrap my lights around them. I cut two wedges into the cardboard to hold the first bulb and the plug (or USB plug) - stops the lights unwinding.
OH MY GOSH!!! The red packages of icicles! Slammed me right back into my youth & carefully placing 2-3 strings at a time all over our tree, trying to keep the coverage even & extreme
Wow. Your prdecessors took Christmas SERIOUS..... 😊 love the decorations. As I'm from Germany, where we have a very long standing tradition of hand crafted Christmas ornaments, I love the traditional hand made glass ornaments and wooden ornaments. The kind you keep forever and ever.
Back in 70's they gave us little flat wooden ornaments to paint. They bring so much joy each year. 50 years later they still compete for space next to my way more expensive ornaments. Thank you for digging through the ornaments and lights, it was a lot of fun to watch.
I wrap mine around comic book boards (which I have for storing quilting fabric) and it actually works! I couldn't believe it the first year I pulled out lights and just easily unwrapped them.
My mom passed away in July and she loved Christmas. One of the things that’s my brothers and I knew we wanted to do to honor her was to make sure that all of her Christmas decorations were loved and used. When I put my tree and ornaments up many of them were hers and I’ve appreciated seeing them mixed with mine.
The wooden cranberries! The noise took me right back to Christmas with my mom! ❤ I miss the old large incandescent bulbs. Today’s lights are so blindingly bright I can’t see the ornaments. This was so much fun!
My favorites from your collection are the golden elf 🧝 and the scandinavian candles 🕯️ with lucite haloes! I made a year round tree, with my 1940s house 🏡 and my all time favorite christmas 🎄 decoration is lights! Your mantle looks divine! ❤✨⭐️💫🌟✨🎄🍒🧑🎄🥰🎅🎄🙏happy holidays!
I just wanted to curl up next to Canelle and take a corgi nap too ❤ We don't really get into Christmas. We live out in the boondocks and nobody ever comes over to hang out, so we dont decorate the house. I don't even have very many good memories of Christmas growing up as a kid. I dont mean to sound like Scrooge here, but it's just not something we get into. One thing i miss about my hoetown back home was the Victorian houses all decorated up beautifully with Christmas lights. Every year there would be a little street fair/festival where people would walk down the street look at the lifhts, enjoys the music and festivities and best of all visiting Mr Scrooge. Omg that guy was so awesome. Idk how long he had been playing scrooge, he had been doing it dorever when i was a kid and was still doing it when my kids were little. Every year he dressed in an old Victorian night shirt complete with cap and have a bed frame set up on his balcony. Evey year we would all scream "Merry Christmas Mr Scrooge!" And right on cue "Christmas! Bah! Humbug!" His Christmas insults had reached an all new level of awesome before we mived. He had gotten a PA system and wore a microphone. You coukd hear him feom a block away. He would occasionally come out front and interact with the crowd. When i was a kid he would always say "Go away. Leave me alone!" In addition to the usual bah humbug. By the time i started taking my kids he would come out and interact with the crowd from his yard even come out into the street. He woukd say things like "Woukd you like Christmas ifnit came out of your backside?" This guy was just a riot. So it was a Christmas tradition to go tell Mr Scrooge merry Christmas and have him yell "Bah! Humbug!" Back at you. 😂😂😂😂😂 Those are the only good memories I have of Christmas. Was going to see the Victorian houses all done up in Christmas lights, enjoying the festivities and best of all Mr Scrooge 😁
This year I made recreations of my favorite ornaments from my maternal grandmother's tree. She made a set in either the 1950s or 60s. They are little angels that can be made with either spun cotton or wood beads for heads. The skirt is a circle of fabric, trimmed with various chenille or tinsel stems, arms are coordinating pipe cleaners that match their heads, and hair out of either curly chenille stems, or yarn. They have Dresden wings.
having grown up with the big screw in lights on the string, you can use them on a tree, but you have to make sure they bulbs have lots of room around them and if you have the big foil reflectors, that helps a lot. If you want to use them outside, please make sure the cord is rated for outdoor use.
We love to collect Christmas decorations from all the places we visit on holiday, this makes our Christmas tree a reminder of all the wonderful places we have visited. ❤
Great finds 🎄🎁🤩👍. I started a Christmas tradition with my daughter - every year from her 1st to her 21st Christmas, my Mother and I bought a special ornament for her - when she opened the gift, she then hung the ornament on our tree🎄. On my daughter's 21st Christmas, I gave her all the ornaments in a special box that had a compartment for each ornament with the year on it. She then had her own special set of ornaments for her own tree one day🎄😃. I am thrilled that she is continuing this tradition with her two children and each year her and I go out and choose an ornament for each child ☺️🎄🎁😍. It's a wonderful tradition that I hope lasts for many generations 🎄🎁☺️
🙂You guys are fun and delightful!! I smiled and chuckled through the whole video! What special treasures to find in your beautiful old house. The end results of your Christmas findings are lovely and festive. Thank you for sharing. BTW Shannon, I love both your channels! Continued success. 👏I'll be watching. Love, Glenn's Mrs.🎄
Gosh! If I lived near you, I'd be knocking on your door asking if I can help you decorate. What fun seeing what was in those boxes. Thanks for sharing and merry Christmas!
After years of untangling lights, dad finally started wrapping them around empty paper towel cardboard and it worked great! So glad that he did all of the wrong ways, so I didn't have to!
So, I should be finishing the decorating at my house and instead I'm sitting here watching you decorate yours. It's a wonderful thing that you saved this fine old house from the wrecking ball, and that your goal is to preserve and restore it. Yes, it has suffered from neglect these past few years, but these Christmas ornaments speak to how well loved the house once was. There was joy in this house. I'm glad that you are keeping and using the ornaments. Just as all the labor you're putting into the house makes it truly yours, I think that making these decorations part of the Christmas traditions you are creating there is a way of honoring the history of the house; of blending its past history with the history of your occupancy. By next Christmas, hopefully, you'll have moved beyond constant crisis intervention and will be working on preservation. It will be such a pleasure to see it fully decked out.
Those large Christmas lights C-9 and C-7 size bulbs are great for putting in citrus trees if you have frost in your area. Keep them on all night and the warmth helps protect the trees.
Ive used garland before on a wall in the shape of a tree. There where a few years i was tight on fund and floor space for a tree but when you have young kids you find alternative ways to make the christmas magic happen
In the 70s my grandma was a clerk for an auction company. Occasionally she would bring home random boxes of junk that didn’t sell. I remember a string of really old bubble lights that came from one of those random boxes. They reminded me of lava lamps😂. That was one of my favorite decorations but since my parents only used them for one year, I’m assuming they were unsafe
I wrap my lights bulb by bulb in a zig zag pattern. Then I wrap the end of the cord around the bundle to keep it all nice and neat. It’s just like they come out of the package. It keeps it nice and neat. And when checking them the following year it makes it easy for you to change burnt out bulbs. 🎄
I had a purebred Corgi and he didn't have any problems with his stomach. He was just allergic to most dog foods and would had to have treatment for ear infections because of it. Once his food was changed that cleared right up. He was a rescue from a hoarding situation, sadly. I trained him as a Service Dog and he was really good at it! I'm so glad that you found a really good solution for Canelle's stomach problems and itching. I'll definitely keep those products in mind when I get another dog. ❤
My favorite holiday tradition is waking up to find that "santa" has taken the stockings that were hung on the wall (no fireplace), filled them to bursting, and nestled it in bed with me while I slept. (That last part is probably made easier by the fact that I sleep like the dead). It never fails to make me happy. My second favorite tradition is Boxing day (which in my house was celebrated as a day of quiet introspection of the past year (or quietly playing with ones gifts). As an adult I am convinced that my mother began this tradition because after Christmas eve and Christmas day with all of us kids (my parents had 10 kids...I am the oldest and my youngest brother is 9 years younger than me 😂) she wanted a day she could sleep in and have peace. To this day boxing day is my favorite day. I don't go anywhere, I do whatever quiet activity I desire, no pressure to clean, socialize, or do anything except eat delicious leftovers and snuggle my pets ❤
A wrapped cardboard homemade cut out Xmas tree with the seasons cards ...even pretty or sentimental ones...also a framed mirror I use as an ornament or tschakes display with lights around...also the battery operated lights in wreaths..no plug needed...I have had some from dollar store for 8 years. Happy Merry Xmas Godspeed Dee
Well watching was a trip down memory lane from the fifty’s as we had those big lights and that 5 candle holder was in our front window I swear it was exactly like that. So many of these decorations were from my past it was total fun watching. May you enjoy them even more than we did. Happy holidays. ❤️❤️❤️
Mrs B here, just found your channel and loved the attic search and cleaning. To refluf the bottle brush trees just immerse in warm water and fluff lightly until like new shake out excess water. They take a while to dry. So nice to restore the vintage finds!
My favourite Christmas tradition might be setting up the nativity scene with the traditional figures gifted by my grandmother (tho i missed it this year because I was too busy), and the moment after the family dinner where my dad takes his guitar out and we all sing my other grandmother's favourite song, which is not even a Christmas song, but it's become *our* Christmas song (and a song about how beautiful the sun is is entirely appropriate for this time of the year anyways, in my opinion. The days are short and we can brighten them with music).
The large strings of lights are for outdoors only. Let the bulbs dangle and not touch the wood because it may start a fire. The next size down are the c7's. They also get real hot and started more house fires at Christmas time because of that. As the trees dried out fires started. The twinkle ones are the next size down and were a way of "not burning down the house. The newest are the LED (now sold) they are a cool bulb and are very versatile in using in decorations. There. Be selective with these lights but enjoy your Christmas
My favorite Christmas decoration is the nativity set that my mother painted. She mixed the paints herself and took great pains to make them special. The three kings are in rich colors. And the Holy family is in workday clothes. The donkey has a faint purple cast to him because she had trouble getting the gray just right. I love every single piece.
Where I live, we don't get much snow but often have freezing nights. The old fashioned Xmas lights have just enough warmth to keep the outdoor plants from freezing and look festive too!
Have you done any searches at your local library to see if there are old newspaper pictures of your house during Christmas? Lots of newspapers would grab pictures of neighbors all decorated and bright. Would be cool to see what they did in the past. :)
This was very fun. I don't have any Christmas traditions or decorations but i love the lights that are put up in homes and businesses around town. I don't have the energy to spare to decorate for any holiday but i can appreciate the beauty from a distance. ❤ Happy holidays!
Great to have found that many Christmas lights) Last weekend we put up the tree and decorated it with vintage glass ornaments that my paternal grandma gave us. Whole two boxes of stuff dating back to 1950s. There are some really odd ones, like pepper corns, a cucumber, a strawberry, and grapes. Also two cosmonauts, probably made in the year of Yuri Gagarin's flight.
My favorite decorations - one year when the grandkids were really little, their parents let them each pick out a Christmas decoration to give me. They range from a blue feathered bird to a blue and purple glass ornament (9 total).
Wow those candles! You should see what Ginger Chic rehab does with those. Unless you become vintage decoration resellers, you will never need to buy decorations again. They’re great thing is that they are unlikely to lose value unless neglected. The house that just keeps giving.
I love the Nativity Manger my dad made that goes with the camels, kings, shepherds, and the holy family. It's moved with me multiple times and has a place of honor every year.
Yay....more Christmas decorations!!! Love all the variety of cool lights and strands. Awww... Corgey in a wreath!!!❤❤ Love all the decorations you put out. Next year will be awesome!!
Ooh! Technology Connections has several videos about lights in general, and holiday lights in specific. He's been trying for years to get the perfect vintage style colored lights.
I loved putting the tinsel on the tree, one piece at a time as child and as a mother. It was also my job to take it off and store it for the next year.My favourite decoration is a brass angel chime. My granny always made sure we had a new one as pieces would get lost. I always had one with my family and gifted my daughter one of her own. The gentle tinkle of the angels spinning by the chimes is sound that I love.
Wow, that box full of Christmas lights... I was so hyped. I love those vintage oval shaped lamp bulb garlands. We don't really have those in France and when I visited the US, I wanted to bring one back home so bad (but I didn't want to take the risk to fry it because of the voltage difference). This attic was definitely full of good surprises 😊 (PS : I really wanted to send you a little parcel of fabrics for your community quilt but I'm so busy with work right know that I never found a minute to work on it and it will arrive too late so I will try another time and I will watch everything that other people sent you).
I used to wrap the lights around my hand, with the female end inside , leaving the male end out to plug in for testing the following year . I tuck the plug under the previous wrap so it doesn’t unravel. I was a commercial Xmas decorator for 15 years.
my favourite holiday tradition is watching all the new christmas romcoms that come out. this year i'm making a big list of them all, reviewing them, ranking them, and making a chart about which tropes they all included.
I use red nail polish on the exposed white foam under the “berries” that chip. It works really well!
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@@willizaback9800 did you know there are frost proof berries? To check just squeeze them. If they feel rubbery they won’t crack in the cold. Pretty cool.
That's a really cool idea!
I love that you are giving those adorable decorations a new life instead of tossing them out.
2:18 I actually love the sound of the wooden beads 😊
YESSSSSSS
Me too!
Same!❤
Wood beads have a real sound. I love quality materials. …says the wool fanatic.
The huge lights were 1960’s outdoor bulbs.
This was really fun, and I love your mantle! As for us, we decorate a medium sized model sail boat, about (80cm long), my youngest son started that tradition, one year when I was a student and we did not have enough money for a christmas tree, I came home from work and he had decorated the ship with lights and tiny ornaments, and he put a few small wrapped gifts under the "Christmas boat", it was lovely, we have decorated it every year since, and that was almost 30 years ago.
What a wonderful tradition!
I love your son.
So fun!
"Out of the mouths of babe's" or from their hands, if they're the more artistic types😂!
That's the life.
When I was a child our next door neighbor would invite me and my siblings (there are 5 of us) over to her house each year so we could each pick an ornament from her tree to take home. Those special gifts are still some of my favorites. They bring back wonderful memories.
thats so cool and cheerful!!
So very cool ! I lost 50 + years of Christmas decor and ornaments 2 years ago in a garage fire. I had to start new so,as a crafter, everything new has my crafty touches . I have made all of the decorations.
I love how confidently Phil just plugs random old things straight into the power with no fear of death or burning the house down 😅🤣
I don't have a favourite Christmas tradition yet since this is my first year officially keeping Christmas! We don't even have a tree but so far the decorations are made up of cute festive tins which double as storage for my various sewing projects 🎄❤️
These are your ornaments, you paid hundreds of thousands of $$ for them when you bought the house 😅 these are very expensive ornaments 😮
The lights falling out the bottom of the box made my day. Thanks for sharing. some of those take me back to my choldhood😊
heheh you're welcome!!
I'm lucky I wasn't drinking my tea when I saw that happen. 🤣 Overall the attic haul worked out pretty well. 🎄
Shannon and Phil, it’s so much fun watching you unbox all the Christmas treasures that were left to you. The mantle looks great. Cannelle is still the most adorable, photogenic doggo❤️
Those paws🥰
The cutest sploot in town!!
My grandmother gave me a Christmas tree ornament when I was little, back in the 60s. The tip broke, but as it had a snow pattern on it, I glued a cotton ball to the botton, and I still have and treasure it 60 years later. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone, whatever you celebrate. Its all about family! Love from Minnesota.
Clever patch job!! ❤️💚❤️💚
The white and gold snowman could be used all winter.
I have a large collection of snowmen and I keep them up after Christmas. This year, in my new home, they reside on top of my kitchen cabinets along with a white tinsel garland and white lights. So when I saw that I was like oooooohhhh LOVE IT!
Those wreaths could look really pretty strung one above the other on one of the outside walls (if they're suitable for outside use, of course)
My favourite decorations are a set of very old glass baubles that used to go on my grandparents tree when my mother was a kid (so, 1950/60s). My grandmother wanted to throw them out, but I snaffled them and love having them around!
Loved watching you two unbox all the Christmas treasures! and so nice that you are bringing that house back to life!
OMG I grew up with that lighted angel!!!😮. It's now in my possession. Sadly, this year I can't decorate. I'm having an early Christmas present in the form of a hip replacement.😂. So I'm living vicariously through your decorating fun
God bless you and your recovery!
I did too it was my grandmother's angel and now I use it on my small christmas tree. I also have stiraphome ornaments that were hand made by my grandmother.
@moniquegroom2353 wishing you a successful surgery and a fast and easy recovery.
Our family as well, and it was either bought at Field's or Woodwards, some old-timey Canadian stores.
Oooh, fun stuff. Another you tuber puts up a wooden ladder, wraps garland around it with lights and baubles for a tree and it's fun. Seems appropriate for a work in progress house! I loved when my kids were little and we baked together. Playing christmas music and filling the house with smells of deliciousness.
The best memories of Christmas are when we were short on money and had to make due with what we had. No money for ornaments.. I saved blown out eggs shells and hand painted them with little Scandinavian looking Christmas kids. My family loved them. Best gift I ever came up with. That was decades ago and the receivers all still cherish them. Thet tell me that they are their favorite ornaments and thank me again every year. It was a gift born out of poverty and even so, there was still a necessity to give love ones a gift on Christmas. This is the true spirit of Christmas🎄🎄🎄 Give of yourself and what u have.
That's so cool!!
Those enourmous outdoor lights are my favorite. My parents had several strings of the multi colored ones we put on the bushes outside my window. They would make my window glow. Itwas even more magical when it snowed. And because they are warm, it would melt the snow off so when we took them down they were ready for storage with very little clean up.
All the garland and lights are a money saving treasure! It’s wonderful that you appreciate the value of what came with the house. You will become an expert Garland Fluffer, with all that nice heavy garland! The mantel turned out great! Hope things turned out Ok with the leaky roof!
90% of the decorations I use to decorate my house are things I made. I made painted, wood ornaments and tons of other things that I sold at craft shows, for many years. My favorite thing is an 8 inch tall wood snowman, that is building another snowman. There is a sign that says "Making Friends" It’s very cute, but hard to explain.
Great video. Corgi content is always appreciated! Can’t wait for the next video
Sounds adorable!!! ❤️💚❤️💚
I really loved all the decorations. Was pleasantly surprised how well they survived all those years. And they will look stupendous after you put your own magic touch to them.
I have fond memories of making popcorn strings to put on the tree after Christmas, so we could put it in the yard for the birds and squirrels.
Aww, nice! Very cute!
Ooh. I forgot this was coming. Perfect way to start my first day off work
Most excellent!!!
You two were so cute and cozy in your jammies 😊 I loved seeing all the attic treasures unveiled in time for Christmas!
the window candles. so so great
Thank you!! ❤️💚❤️💚
It was so heartwarming to see you both enjoying unboxing your "new" Christmas decorations after watching you both work so very hard on clearing the attic and adding the missing insulation in your attic. I wish you both a very Happy Christmas Season 🎄
Thank you!! You too ❤️💚❤️💚
The sound of wooden beads reminds me of some very fond childhood memories of making necklaces. I love that sound.
awwww, nice! I love the sound too!
My favorite holiday ornament is a sweet, little elf all dressed in red. She was one of my mum’s first Xmas decorations and is at least 80 years old. When our kids were young we played hide and seek with her all season long. Whoever unpacked her would hide her (she had to be visible). Whoever found her, told her hiding place and hid her again.She’s survived a flood, lots of grubby little fingers, and attacks by Catzilla. She looks a little worse for the wear but always makes my heart happy.
oh my goodness, what a lovely story!
Your house is like a mystery bag; it contains surprises --- some good and some bad, some vintage shiny ornaments, some old yucky garbage. But it is yours to do what you want with all of it. You and your partner are doing a wonderful job in restoring your house to health and happiness. Thank you for all your videos that allow all of us to watch you, learn from you and learn with you. Also thank you for including your sweet doggie girl in your videos, she always brightens my day. Best wishes for a wonderful Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
As a vintage reseller, I am just salivating over all your treasures. You’ve got a small fortune in your hands with all these vintage Christmas items!
I do enjoy a good vintage find!
For light storage, I tend to coil around my arm, then twist in a figure 8, then plug one end into the other. It keeps them dense and contained.
The mouse ornament!! And the plump little bird. The mantle came out so nicely. It'll be so interesting to see where the house is at in a year
My favorite decoration is a stained glass wreath that I inherited when a family friend/widow/adopted grandma passed away. Every year I put it up and it reminds me of her and how family is anyone that you cherish 😊
oh wow, that sounds stunning!
The decorations sure bring back memories😊
This is the first year in decades I put up a Christmas Tree. I then made home decorations by learning how to do macrame. It is a year and the coming year that definitely needs some cheer . Merry Christmas Shannon and Phil and your adorable pup. May you have a safe and wonderful work trip to Germany.
Thank you! 🤗 To you too! ❤️💚❤️💚
Since my husband has been getting into 3d printing, we've been using his old filament spools to wrap light around. It's great!
Oh that's a great idea, we have so many empty spools!!
@@ShannonMakes it makes it super easy to put them up, which is a big bonus.
@@ShannonMakes If you do unbox all those lights and restring them around filament spools for storage it would be nice to see you do that on video. A Christmas life hack for your viewers! Please!
We had a sleigh like that and Mom would put all the Christmas cards we received in it!
ahhh that's very cute! Great idea!
@@ShannonMakes 💕
I cut rectangles of heavy cardboard and wrap my lights around them. I cut two wedges into the cardboard to hold the first bulb and the plug (or USB plug) - stops the lights unwinding.
OH MY GOSH!!! The red packages of icicles! Slammed me right back into my youth & carefully placing 2-3 strings at a time all over our tree, trying to keep the coverage even & extreme
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Aren't you lucky to find these retro ornaments. The former owner was really into the holidays. Love the lights and garland! Enjoy!
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Wow. Your prdecessors took Christmas SERIOUS..... 😊 love the decorations. As I'm from Germany, where we have a very long standing tradition of hand crafted Christmas ornaments, I love the traditional hand made glass ornaments and wooden ornaments. The kind you keep forever and ever.
"have a mentally stable week" well now you're just asking too much lol
think of it as wishing rather than asking 🤣
Its great that you are using those old decorations, making them happy again. Great to see you and Phil bringing out all those decorations.
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Back in 70's they gave us little flat wooden ornaments to paint. They bring so much joy each year. 50 years later they still compete for space next to my way more expensive ornaments. Thank you for digging through the ornaments and lights, it was a lot of fun to watch.
You're very welcome!
They were so loved and organised. I am sure the house is happy with you bringing it back to life ❤
I completely forgot about the extra episode, so this is very much a lovely surprise 😅❤
Lots of bonus episodes this month!!! You're welcome!
It's Newton's 4th law of physics...no matter how you organize them, they will be tangled!!!!!😂
I wrap mine around comic book boards (which I have for storing quilting fabric) and it actually works! I couldn't believe it the first year I pulled out lights and just easily unwrapped them.
My mom passed away in July and she loved Christmas. One of the things that’s my brothers and I knew we wanted to do to honor her was to make sure that all of her Christmas decorations were loved and used. When I put my tree and ornaments up many of them were hers and I’ve appreciated seeing them mixed with mine.
i love the spinning wheel you used on the mantel. so cute!
Thank you! 🤗
The wooden cranberries! The noise took me right back to Christmas with my mom! ❤ I miss the old large incandescent bulbs. Today’s lights are so blindingly bright I can’t see the ornaments. This was so much fun!
My favorite decoration is your cute little dog. She makes your home look warm, safe, and happy.
omg, so true though!!
My favorites from your collection are the golden elf 🧝 and the scandinavian candles 🕯️ with lucite haloes! I made a year round tree, with my 1940s house 🏡 and my all time favorite christmas 🎄 decoration is lights! Your mantle looks divine! ❤✨⭐️💫🌟✨🎄🍒🧑🎄🥰🎅🎄🙏happy holidays!
Thank you for sharing your new to you Christmas goodies 😊
I just wanted to curl up next to Canelle and take a corgi nap too ❤ We don't really get into Christmas. We live out in the boondocks and nobody ever comes over to hang out, so we dont decorate the house. I don't even have very many good memories of Christmas growing up as a kid. I dont mean to sound like Scrooge here, but it's just not something we get into. One thing i miss about my hoetown back home was the Victorian houses all decorated up beautifully with Christmas lights. Every year there would be a little street fair/festival where people would walk down the street look at the lifhts, enjoys the music and festivities and best of all visiting Mr Scrooge. Omg that guy was so awesome. Idk how long he had been playing scrooge, he had been doing it dorever when i was a kid and was still doing it when my kids were little. Every year he dressed in an old Victorian night shirt complete with cap and have a bed frame set up on his balcony. Evey year we would all scream "Merry Christmas Mr Scrooge!" And right on cue "Christmas! Bah! Humbug!" His Christmas insults had reached an all new level of awesome before we mived. He had gotten a PA system and wore a microphone. You coukd hear him feom a block away. He would occasionally come out front and interact with the crowd. When i was a kid he would always say "Go away. Leave me alone!" In addition to the usual bah humbug. By the time i started taking my kids he would come out and interact with the crowd from his yard even come out into the street. He woukd say things like "Woukd you like Christmas ifnit came out of your backside?" This guy was just a riot. So it was a Christmas tradition to go tell Mr Scrooge merry Christmas and have him yell "Bah! Humbug!" Back at you. 😂😂😂😂😂 Those are the only good memories I have of Christmas. Was going to see the Victorian houses all done up in Christmas lights, enjoying the festivities and best of all Mr Scrooge 😁
This year I made recreations of my favorite ornaments from my maternal grandmother's tree. She made a set in either the 1950s or 60s. They are little angels that can be made with either spun cotton or wood beads for heads. The skirt is a circle of fabric, trimmed with various chenille or tinsel stems, arms are coordinating pipe cleaners that match their heads, and hair out of either curly chenille stems, or yarn. They have Dresden wings.
having grown up with the big screw in lights on the string, you can use them on a tree, but you have to make sure they bulbs have lots of room around them and if you have the big foil reflectors, that helps a lot. If you want to use them outside, please make sure the cord is rated for outdoor use.
Ornament exchange get togethers are my favorite. Food, fun, friends, and crafty goodness.
We love to collect Christmas decorations from all the places we visit on holiday, this makes our Christmas tree a reminder of all the wonderful places we have visited. ❤
Yes, same here!!
I thrifted a vintage cloth advent calendar years ago and my favorite thing is for me and my daughter getting our morning treat each day!
cute!!!
Great finds 🎄🎁🤩👍. I started a Christmas tradition with my daughter - every year from her 1st to her 21st Christmas, my Mother and I bought a special ornament for her - when she opened the gift, she then hung the ornament on our tree🎄. On my daughter's 21st Christmas, I gave her all the ornaments in a special box that had a compartment for each ornament with the year on it. She then had her own special set of ornaments for her own tree one day🎄😃. I am thrilled that she is continuing this tradition with her two children and each year her and I go out and choose an ornament for each child ☺️🎄🎁😍. It's a wonderful tradition that I hope lasts for many generations 🎄🎁☺️
That's such a beautiful family tradition!!
🙂You guys are fun and delightful!! I smiled and chuckled through the whole video! What special treasures to find in your beautiful old house. The end results of your Christmas findings are lovely and festive. Thank you for sharing. BTW Shannon, I love both your channels! Continued success. 👏I'll be watching. Love, Glenn's Mrs.🎄
Hi Shanon!some nice things !sending love to you both An uk ❤️❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I loved the Redwall books so much as a kid.
Brought me back to my childhood with the “big lights”! I could smell the attic while watching ❤️
LOL nice!
Gosh! If I lived near you, I'd be knocking on your door asking if I can help you decorate. What fun seeing what was in those boxes. Thanks for sharing and merry Christmas!
After years of untangling lights, dad finally started wrapping them around empty paper towel cardboard and it worked great! So glad that he did all of the wrong ways, so I didn't have to!
So, I should be finishing the decorating at my house and instead I'm sitting here watching you decorate yours.
It's a wonderful thing that you saved this fine old house from the wrecking ball, and that your goal is to preserve and restore it. Yes, it has suffered from neglect these past few years, but these Christmas ornaments speak to how well loved the house once was. There was joy in this house.
I'm glad that you are keeping and using the ornaments. Just as all the labor you're putting into the house makes it truly yours, I think that making these decorations part of the Christmas traditions you are creating there is a way of honoring the history of the house; of blending its past history with the history of your occupancy. By next Christmas, hopefully, you'll have moved beyond constant crisis intervention and will be working on preservation. It will be such a pleasure to see it fully decked out.
Truly would be lovely if the crisis intervention mode is done by next year 🤞
Those large Christmas lights C-9 and C-7 size bulbs are great for putting in citrus trees if you have frost in your area. Keep them on all night and the warmth helps protect the trees.
I never thought of that!! That's brilliant!
Ive used garland before on a wall in the shape of a tree. There where a few years i was tight on fund and floor space for a tree but when you have young kids you find alternative ways to make the christmas magic happen
In the 70s my grandma was a clerk for an auction company. Occasionally she would bring home random boxes of junk that didn’t sell. I remember a string of really old bubble lights that came from one of those random boxes. They reminded me of lava lamps😂. That was one of my favorite decorations but since my parents only used them for one year, I’m assuming they were unsafe
The big box of wreaths and garland was great. The garland on screen looked like heavy well made garland.
I found it really works great to wrap the Christmas lights around an empty wrapping paper cardboard tube...keeps them untangled 😄🎄
That looks really pretty,love your doggie she’s beautiful,give her a hug from me 💋💋🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️
I wrap my lights bulb by bulb in a zig zag pattern. Then I wrap the end of the cord around the bundle to keep it all nice and neat. It’s just like they come out of the package. It keeps it nice and neat. And when checking them the following year it makes it easy for you to change burnt out bulbs. 🎄
I had a purebred Corgi and he didn't have any problems with his stomach. He was just allergic to most dog foods and would had to have treatment for ear infections because of it. Once his food was changed that cleared right up. He was a rescue from a hoarding situation, sadly. I trained him as a Service Dog and he was really good at it! I'm so glad that you found a really good solution for Canelle's stomach problems and itching. I'll definitely keep those products in mind when I get another dog. ❤
The "garlin on a stick" are swags that go over the top of doors😊
excellent, thank you!
My favorite holiday tradition is waking up to find that "santa" has taken the stockings that were hung on the wall (no fireplace), filled them to bursting, and nestled it in bed with me while I slept. (That last part is probably made easier by the fact that I sleep like the dead). It never fails to make me happy. My second favorite tradition is Boxing day (which in my house was celebrated as a day of quiet introspection of the past year (or quietly playing with ones gifts). As an adult I am convinced that my mother began this tradition because after Christmas eve and Christmas day with all of us kids (my parents had 10 kids...I am the oldest and my youngest brother is 9 years younger than me 😂) she wanted a day she could sleep in and have peace. To this day boxing day is my favorite day. I don't go anywhere, I do whatever quiet activity I desire, no pressure to clean, socialize, or do anything except eat delicious leftovers and snuggle my pets ❤
Now THAT'S a Boxing Day tradition I can get behind!
A wrapped cardboard homemade cut out Xmas tree with the seasons cards ...even pretty or sentimental ones...also a framed mirror I use as an ornament or tschakes display with lights around...also the battery operated lights in wreaths..no plug needed...I have had some from dollar store for 8 years.
Happy Merry Xmas
Godspeed
Dee
Merry Christmas to you too! ❤️💚❤️💚
Well watching was a trip down memory lane from the fifty’s as we had those big lights and that 5 candle holder was in our front window I swear it was exactly like that. So many of these decorations were from my past it was total fun watching. May you enjoy them even more than we did. Happy holidays. ❤️❤️❤️
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Ooooh I love the little white Snowman.
Thank you! ☃️☃️
working lights are always a bonus! yeah!
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Mrs B here, just found your channel and loved the attic search and cleaning. To refluf the bottle brush trees just immerse in warm water and fluff lightly until like new shake out excess water. They take a while to dry. So nice to restore the vintage finds!
That's a great tip, Mrs B! I'm glad you liked the vintage treasure hunt! 🎅
My favourite Christmas tradition might be setting up the nativity scene with the traditional figures gifted by my grandmother (tho i missed it this year because I was too busy), and the moment after the family dinner where my dad takes his guitar out and we all sing my other grandmother's favourite song, which is not even a Christmas song, but it's become *our* Christmas song (and a song about how beautiful the sun is is entirely appropriate for this time of the year anyways, in my opinion. The days are short and we can brighten them with music).
The large strings of lights are for outdoors only. Let the bulbs dangle and not touch the wood because it may start a fire.
The next size down are the c7's. They also get real hot and started more house fires at Christmas time because of that. As the trees dried out fires started. The twinkle ones are the next size down and were a way of "not burning down the house.
The newest are the LED (now sold) they are a cool bulb and are very versatile in using in decorations.
There. Be selective with these lights but enjoy your Christmas
This is fun and a nice challenge to only use what the house came with. Great opertunity to save money.
I am going to need you to make a video when you fix the string of lights. I have several that I refuse to throw out.
My favorite Christmas decoration is the nativity set that my mother painted. She mixed the paints herself and took great pains to make them special. The three kings are in rich colors. And the Holy family is in workday clothes. The donkey has a faint purple cast to him because she had trouble getting the gray just right. I love every single piece.
LOL I love the touch about the purple grey!
Love everything! You have quite a talent for staging your home! Merry Christmas to you and Phil.
Where I live, we don't get much snow but often have freezing nights. The old fashioned Xmas lights have just enough warmth to keep the outdoor plants from freezing and look festive too!
Have you done any searches at your local library to see if there are old newspaper pictures of your house during Christmas? Lots of newspapers would grab pictures of neighbors all decorated and bright. Would be cool to see what they did in the past. :)
Good idea! If only I had the time 🤣😭 Fortunately if they're archived now, they'll still be archived down the road when I have more time to search!
This was very fun. I don't have any Christmas traditions or decorations but i love the lights that are put up in homes and businesses around town. I don't have the energy to spare to decorate for any holiday but i can appreciate the beauty from a distance. ❤ Happy holidays!
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Great to have found that many Christmas lights)
Last weekend we put up the tree and decorated it with vintage glass ornaments that my paternal grandma gave us. Whole two boxes of stuff dating back to 1950s. There are some really odd ones, like pepper corns, a cucumber, a strawberry, and grapes. Also two cosmonauts, probably made in the year of Yuri Gagarin's flight.
Wow those are some unique ornaments!
My favorite decorations - one year when the grandkids were really little, their parents let them each pick out a Christmas decoration to give me. They range from a blue feathered bird to a blue and purple glass ornament (9 total).
Wow those candles! You should see what Ginger Chic rehab does with those. Unless you become vintage decoration resellers, you will never need to buy decorations again. They’re great thing is that they are unlikely to lose value unless neglected. The house that just keeps giving.
I love the Nativity Manger my dad made that goes with the camels, kings, shepherds, and the holy family. It's moved with me multiple times and has a place of honor every year.
Yay....more Christmas decorations!!! Love all the variety of cool lights and strands.
Awww... Corgey in a wreath!!!❤❤
Love all the decorations you put out. Next year will be awesome!!
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Ooh! Technology Connections has several videos about lights in general, and holiday lights in specific. He's been trying for years to get the perfect vintage style colored lights.
The mantel looks lovely.
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I loved putting the tinsel on the tree, one piece at a time as child and as a mother. It was also my job to take it off and store it for the next year.My favourite decoration is a brass angel chime. My granny always made sure we had a new one as pieces would get lost. I always had one with my family and gifted my daughter one of her own. The gentle tinkle of the angels spinning by the chimes is sound that I love.
Wow, that box full of Christmas lights... I was so hyped. I love those vintage oval shaped lamp bulb garlands. We don't really have those in France and when I visited the US, I wanted to bring one back home so bad (but I didn't want to take the risk to fry it because of the voltage difference). This attic was definitely full of good surprises 😊
(PS : I really wanted to send you a little parcel of fabrics for your community quilt but I'm so busy with work right know that I never found a minute to work on it and it will arrive too late so I will try another time and I will watch everything that other people sent you).
I used to wrap the lights around my hand, with the female end inside , leaving the male end out to plug in for testing the following year . I tuck the plug under the previous wrap so it doesn’t unravel. I was a commercial Xmas decorator for 15 years.
my favourite holiday tradition is watching all the new christmas romcoms that come out. this year i'm making a big list of them all, reviewing them, ranking them, and making a chart about which tropes they all included.