Wrap it up!

Are you taking a quick blog break from a flurry of gift wrapping? Thought you might like to see some very festive vintage wrapping paper from my stash. So, grab an egg nog latte and have a look!





















Do you have a favorite?
Head on over to Colorado Lady for another chapter of Vintage Thingies Thursday.

Merry Christmas to all of One Gal's Trashy Pals!

And the Tradition Continues...

Inspired by the stocking my mom made for me a few decades ago, I made each of my kids a felt stocking when they were babies. Santa and I have such great stuff to put in them this year...can't wait for Christmas morning!

Merry Christmas to you!

Vintage Christmas Vignettes

Cheers! It's the last Vintage Christmas Monday of the year. Our hostess Joan, has a dazzling collection of spun cotton ornaments that will make your heart go pitter patter.
You can see them at Anything Goes Here.

Here at our house, Santa Claus has already come to town...and he landed on our mantel!

A variety of trees and a snowy village on Grandma Millie's cake plate.

Mica houses and Christmas elves.

We had a nativity just like this one when I was growing up. It's a beautiful old set, made in Japan. (There is even a "Japan" stamp on Jesus's bottom!) It's in perfect condition. I found it just after I moved to Portland 15 years ago. It was in a box, on the floor, at the Central Catholic High School Rummage Sale. Price: $5.00. I adore it.

There is a reason this blog is called One Gal's Trash

Remember this pile of junk I rescued from the side of the road? See the fab iron urn to the left of the sad lady?

Well girls, look at it now! All gussied up with pine, holly, and pine cones... A fresh and festive greeting on the porch for our holiday guests!

I was Marie Antoinette in a Previous Life

By popular demand, I'm modeling the "hat" I said I'd wear to my husband's company Christmas party. It might be just a bit understated....

Whaddya think?

Junk by the Side of the Road

To celebrate Vintage Thingies Thursday over at Colorado Lady , I have a little story for you....

So, in order to avoid rush hour traffic the other day, I drove down a street off my usual route. I'm doing about 50, singing Feliz Navidad at the top of my lungs, when I spy a pile of wonderful junk by the side of the road. SCREEEECH! go my brakes. Just as I'm about to jump out of the car to investigate further, a guy sitting in a parked black truck across the street rolls down his window and says: "Did you have a question about that house?" I say: "Well, sort of. Are those things on the curb free to a good home?" He says: "Yeah, we're renovating, that's some stuff we don't want...Take it all!"

So I took some of the clay pots, the metal urn (chipped, but I don't care) and the pretty white lady. She's not old (bar code on the bottom was my first clue), not concrete, not resin. She's heavy and lovely and just needs a little TLC. She looked very sad to have been thrown over. See?

But this piece was my favorite. A fabulously beat-up concrete line of ladies dancing. Why anyone would leave this on the side of the road is just incomprehensible to me.

I love concrete. I love dancing ladies. I love the guy in the black truck.

Find it at Found

Who wants to see my space at Found on Fremont? It's chock full of vintage Christmas junk!