How can it possibly be time?
Time speeds in circles and here were are wishing warmest holiday wishes again.
I wish you the warmest holiday season ever.
My decor was light and bright this year, with a very bauble tossed effect.
Baubles everywhere.
With a mermaid keeping watch on midnight sugar plum fairies.
My tree, oh my tree.
A very curious specimen this year indeed.
But why?
Welllll…
I used my hat stand 🙂
It just struck my fancy, so that's what I did.
I just love how light and fresh it feels in the dining room.
Instead of stringing lights, I used the places where hats go for candles.
It's a curious little arrangement but it makes me happy.
It might have to stay a tree forever.
I've had it for over 10 years, and wanted to do something as such.
But I always forget.
This was finally the year of the hat stand Christmas tree.
There is one nook in my house that hosts more traditional colors.
I was gifted a large nativity by my parents, so I tucked fresh eucalyptus and berries in from the garden.
So sweet.
The rest of the house is candy colored as can be.
And now, it's time for me to pack.
To get all my gifts in the car.
I'm going on a little road trip on my own, eeks!
Then returning promptly in a couple days for a little get together back at my house.
I'll be running around like a mad woman.
Which, seems to be just the slot destiny wants to keep me in, haha!
Thank you for all the fun this year.
May you have a safe and warm Christmas.
Lots of love!!
Happy Christmas my friends!
Looooove, Vanessa
I’m totally digging that tree! So creative and fun!
Thank you oooodles!!
A very interesting Christmas tree indeed! You could keep it up & decorate it for all the different holidays coming up.
I love your nativity! I have my parent’s nativity from when I was a kid. It’s the first thing I put out! This way, no matter what happens, like getting sick this year, I’m guaranteed that at least my nativity will be out! It’s the most important thing for me to have on display.
I’m sitting & watching the weather for tomorrow. One model says no snow, another 2 inches & another says 7 inches! I guess they’ll know more tomorrow. It depends on how & where the temps. drop. It was sunny (for the first time this month) and 50 today!
Merry Christmas to you & your family!
You are sooo creative! Christmas blessings!!!
Merry Christmas, Curiosa! I LOVE the chalk nativity set…where on earth did you find that?!
Please travel safely and take lots of photos for us!
its very very old, had it for about 15 or more years, got it at a religious
antique store. I may just instagram 😉
MERRY CHRISTMAS, Vanessa!
Have a most beautiful holiday! Thank you for all your WONDERFUL posts! Thank you for the gift of your blog! You have truly been a blessing to me!
Luv ya!
=^.^=
Very pretty tree. I love all your decorating.
Have a safe trip and a wonderful time.
Merry Christmas to you.
Wishing you a blessed and beautiful Christmas.
I LOVE your hatstand treee Merry Christmas!
A Merry & beautiful glitter filled Christmas to you and your family Miss V xxxLaurie
I love love love the tree. When I scrolled down my first thought is where can I get one? I must have a tree like this. Then your reveal. So creative. Now I’m on a new hunt.
As always, your whole house is beautiful. Merry Christmas to you and thank you for sharing.
I love your hatstand tree!! Merry Christmas!
Ooooo your tree is wonderful ! I’m smiling from ear to ear at the very sight ! Creative genus and originality bursting forth in all it’s glory…that’s you !
Have a sweet and peaceful and lovely Christmas filled with love.
You bring joy to our hearts.
xxoo
Beautiful!! Merry Christmas and a Happy New year my dear Vanessa xoxo
Happy Christmas to you and yours Vanessa! Love the hatstand tree! xx
Love the hat stand and the mantle with the color oh so delightful.
Last year I decorated and old circular shop display rack and loved
the effect of sparkly balls there. Every once in the while we just
have shake it up a bit and I love the way you do it.
Happy Christmas to you, too, Vanessa! I love the hatstand tree and all your decorations.
Blessings,
Victoria
Merry Christmas! What a fabulous tree hehe or hat stand, beautiful colours!
Now you have me wanting to find a hat stand. It is gorgeous!
Merry christmas!
How pretty your house looks, Dearest Dear Vanessa! I love non-traditional Christmas decorations and so I really love your hat-stand!! As it turned out, both Mr. V and I had strings of red and green chili pepper lights and I had some little cactus lights. I asked him to decorate the house before we had a guest last weekend and so he did! He put the electric candles in each window, as is traditional here in New England and then he decorated the diningroom with the pepper and cactus lights! I love it and told him it looked like a Christmas Cantina!
I hope that you, Mr. Lovey, Matty and Miles are having a beautiful day!
Sending you hugs from both of us,
Betty
And a beautiful, magical Christmas to you, dear Vanessa! Thank you for bringing joy and inspiration to our world!
Much love…
xoxoxoxoxo,
~ Irina
Happy Christmas Vanessa!
I love it all Ms Vanessa. Hope you and your family have many happy days ahead. Everything looks so new, I love all the sparkle.
Merry Christmas!!! Your tree is lovely! The good things is that you don’t have to sweep up falling nails.
Your Nativity scene is glorious! And how charming and magical to use the hat tree to decorate it! I tend to agree, I think I would leave it up all year too!
My sis and family from Minn. are traveling through Ariz. as I type this, on their way to the backside Mts. of California to see her husband’s aging parents.
How nice for you to have some time to yourself, getting away for a bit.
Have a happy rest of the Holiday Season!
love and hugs,
Miss Teresa
Oh, I LOVE your hat stand as a tree! Love all the curvy lines and open spaces, and your ornaments are so pretty. I hope you had a wonderful celebration.
Hope Your Christmas was a blessed one.Your hat stand tree is gorgeous.I of course, like all Your other followers love Your home decor. style. Vanessa Here’s wishing You a blessed New Year. OX Denise
DeLovely. All of it. All of you. I need to start dreaming again.
**blows kisses**
Deb
Said the ‘Eve’ to the ‘Eve before Eve’ once more:
“It’s the moment by moment, the real before.”
“In peering backwards turn and take a jump”
“Slightly forward moving now, ta-dump.”
There, there is where the ball will drop,
All wishes ignite in the fire dancers pop.
My hat on to such a surprise,
Jingles of bracelets give rise.
Across the rollin winds to you,
Sweet soft dancing shoes, dancing right across the skies into infinite dreams of a New Year Blessing for YOU.
thank you sweet v v for sharing your gracious love and talents with us all xo pinksterita 2G
Many beautiful New Year Wishes Miss Denise!! <3
Deborah!! Always lots of love to thee!! xoxo
Pinksterita!! Mwwwuah!
Miss Linda Diane, happy happy merry days!! May all the days of 2015 bee as magical as they possible can be!! Love, Vanessa
Miss Teresa, belated Christmas wishes, I hope it was glorious!! Love, Vanessa
Exactly, hahahahaa!!! Merriest wishes every day of the year!! <3
Miss Linda, I hope you stayed warm and had a glorious holiday!! Happy New Year, cheers to lots more fun!! <3
Lovely Alia, Merry Chrisssstmas!!!
Thank you lovely Irina!!! Warmest Magical wishes for every single day!! xoxo
Gotta LOOOOVE a Christmas Cantina!! Lots of love your way!!! xoxo
Hat stands unite!! hee heeee!!
Thank you Miss Jenn!!! Happiest!! <3
Thank you Victoria, here’s to lots more dreaming and good things in the new year!! <3
Marilyn, that sounds fabuuuuulous!! Yes certainly do, change it up here and there 😉
Lovely Sarah, helooooooo there xx Happy belated Christmas and a glorious New Year to you!! <3
Mo’a my dear friend!!!! Such warm magical wishes to you now and every day, you are a delight! xoxo
Miss Dixie, lovely kindred spirit!! I hope you had a lovely holiday season and may you have a wonderful beyond words New Year!!
Thank you Janet!! Merriest and happiest every day of the year!! <3
Thank you Sharon!! I always wanted to hang trinkets on it rather than hats 😉 hee hee <3 <3
Laura, hope you had beautiful holidays!! <3 <3
Thank you Miss Kim, it was great, hope yours was also, happiest new year wishes!
Renee, thank you for always being so lovely!! Merriest every day of the year!
Indigo, thank youuuu for saying so. Means the world to me, you can’t imagine!! Lots of love and warmest wishes every day!
Thank you!! Christmas and New Years blessings to you as well <3
Laura Laura, dear Laura, what a fun year we have had!! I hope you had a great Christmas and stayed very warm. I would LOVE to see your nativity!! Here’s to the most fab New Year ever!! Love, Vanessa
Just so incredibly beautiful! How creative to use the hat stand as your tree! Love it all! xo Jen
Catching up on your blog on a quiet Sunday, and I’m commenting on older posts as I read them! (At least I did see and comment on a lot of this on Instagram.) Lovely Christmas post. Everything is so merry and bright. And I LOVE your hatstand tree — brilliant!! Your decor was bauble-liscious!!!! Just supreme. 🙂