O Tannenbaum

New house! New traditions! 

We will have TWO Christmas trees this year! That's right my friends, one tree for the kiddos to decorate, and one "do not touch!" tree that I get to decorate ,)

This is the first time that I have ever been able to put up a tree solely dedicated to all the hand blown glass ornaments I have and I am beyond giddy about it!

I know it may seem (to most) too early in the season to decorate for the holidays, but based off our already full calendar, this weekend was the only free day we had to put up Christmas decorations. 

Six foot tall silver tinsel tree? Rotating christmas tree base? Huge box of vintage Christmas ornaments?

Check, check, and check!

Video of tree rotating: http://youtu.be/cCrXWn_GD54 

Over half the decorations on the tree are my husband's great-grandmother's. Yeah...I know, wowzers! A few still have their paper "Germany" tags on them, dating them to at least pre-1940. 

Others I've looked up online and I haven't really been able to find any info on. If you are reading this and have any knowledge of some of these, please feel free to share. 

There were lots of solid colored bulbs, bells, birds, horns, ballerinas, grape bunches, acorns, walnuts, and pinecones (some cracked and in need of repair too) but these are the ornaments that caught my breath and made my knees buckle when I unwrapped them. 

This fella! This gorgeous octopus is hands-down my favorite. I love that he looks a bit devious too, like he may be up to no good. 

Old fashioned water pump

Seahorse

Ballerina and an alien...? Why not! 

Storks at a water fountain

Harlequin with a very determined expression

Helicopter

Green glass Christmas tree and a silver deer with very delicate antlers above it. 

Pink swordfish 

Gnome in a mushroom

Gorgeous 20" icicle (there are two of those!) and another ballerina

Toadstool, pig, ballerina, and teapot

Dapper penguin

 

Ballerina, alien, mouse or rabbit (I can't tell) and a flocked ball

Creepy (as only vintage can be sometimes) accordion player

And all the gorgeous bulbs!

It takes 2 minutes exactly for the tree to slowly rotate a complete circle. I took a short 1 minute video of it if you'd like to check it out: http://youtu.be/cCrXWn_GD54

Hope this gets you into the holiday spirit! 

Cheers!

~ JenX