…what a former Holiday Designer might use to decorate her own space…so I took a few shots. As you approach my apartment door, you’ll find this spray, which is new this year:
I’ve incorporated a few of the ‘faux’ leaves I created. Silver, ivory, and champagne-color, with three red jingle bells!
On the inside of the door, I’ve placed a copper and silver spray which I put together in 2007:
Those little things at center are not pine cones, but some sort of seed pod, which I gilded with copper leaf.
I really have no room for a tree, but I do have two large, 36″ wreaths, which I change every few years…next year, I’ll tear them apart, wash them down, and design something new and different!
This is the Blue and Silver, with some large silver leaf-gilded pears and silver balls (from the Dollar Store, no less!).
And…here’s the Red and Green on another wall.
I have several glass vases filled with glass gemstones…this one also contains gilded glass rocks. I added some miniature gold gilded fruit, large partially-gilded seed pods, and a few pine branches I found after the Christmas Tree Lot people shut down.
Here’s the other vase:
Glass gemstones, gilded river rock, and a pear ornament I gilded Christmas Day morning with blue variegated leaf…plus a few small pine branches.
Here’s what the pear ornament really looks like, as I had to ‘play’ to get some color in the image above:
I bought about two and a half-dozen of these six years ago at Renaissance Works for a dollar a piece…some silver/gilded and most gold/gilded! I got tired of the ‘commercial’ gilding, and covered this one with blue variegated leaf. The little leaf at the top has also been painted with a metallic pale, soft light green.
I think I’ve had to make ‘Christmas’ every month of the year in the past…whether it was decorating hotels and restaurants, painting and designing store and mall displays, or designing television commercials (in March!)…it’s normal for me to celebrate with decorations all year ’round (and to be forever vacuuming up little pieces of glitter!)!
Beautiful! You have fab style and thank you soooo much for the bow, it’s exactly what it needed!
So it IS you who’s been commenting occasionally! You’re very welcome, Gaye, and very glad it brought you both some cheer! Merry New Year!
Beautiful. These remind me of my dear mother – she used to make all our Christmas decorations…she would spend hours creating her works of art and decorate the whole house with them, so much better than bought ones! Thank you, I had almost forgotten about them until I saw your lovely photos – and then it all came flooding back..
It has always been my goal as an artist, smacked, that if one, ONLY one…person appreciates my efforts, I have achieved the goal and more! So very happy to hear this…and that you have such comforting memories! Gracious thanks and may it be the Merriest of New Years for you and yours!
It is so lovely to see what you have up for Christmas, a little piece of you. Beautiful, you have some lovely pieces and I love how much thought you put into it all. You are extraordinary.
Blushing a bit here, Leanne…not so much extraordinary as different…and industrious. My goal is to create beauty, in one way or another…and I feel I’ve been successfully doing that for quite a number of years (decades) now. I push myself an awful lot, to take, sometimes, a ‘weird’ idea, then force myself to make it happen…at times, very quickly, but other times, what seems like forever!