**A Festive Focal Point: My Christmas Decorations**

Like BAM like that is gonna be my focal point for Christmas, and Toys in the box is super nostalgic, pull from like the 70s and the 80s. I even pulled out some old shopping carts filled with gifts and toys and wrapping paper and rollerskates - you know, as if you were shopping for them right then and there. I want people to look at it and think "oh wow, that's me included" because I got some of those things like I remember waking up and having that round crayon caddy with a pencil sharpener or crayon sharpener, and being all about the nostalgia.

**DIY Delights**

Many of my DIY projects are actually made from vintage items. For instance, one of my favorites is my love for jewelry trees - you can buy them, but I like to make my own using scrap or broken jewelry. I mean, I would have an entire wall of them if I could, but they're kind of hard to find. This particular tree was found at a flea market, and the one I made myself is actually covered in velvet because, well, everything needs velvet, right? To fill in the empty spots, I added some pom-poms because, why not? Here's a little guy that I made using a planter - it started with just a candle, but then I plugged in this tree and got creative with my glue gun.

**Family Traditions**

I'm a big believer in Christmas bringing out the creativity in people. My mom was super creative, and her love for Christmas is still inspiring me today. She made these weirdo robot things that are definitely one of my favorites. And then there's my beloved reindeer - it's a giant Christmas card 10 measuring tape with spoons for its little face. I think it's because she loved making those little robots when my dad first came into her life.

**Grandma's Gift**

One of my favorite decorations is actually something my grandma made for my mom, specifically for their first Christmas together. It's a beautiful tree skirt that I just can't get enough of. And, of course, I have some ornaments that I made using dollar store beanies - they're painted with faces on them, and the more you look at it, you'll find something new.

**New Arrivals**

This year, I added two new Santas to my collection, one in a hot rod, because who doesn't love a cool Santa? And then there's this little guy that cracked me up - he was found at the flea market and had comments saying that he's my new boyfriend. Okay, maybe not exactly what he intended, but I like him just the same. Last year, I discovered a beautiful vintage aluminum tree with extra branches in an ombre color scheme - it was like getting a two-for-one deal! And let's not forget my black tree, which is covered in beaded sequined ornaments and flashing lights. It's like a mini-Vegas up in here.

**The Pink Tree**

I have to give credit where credit is due - I've been collecting tinsel trees and bottle brush trees for years, but this year, I decided to tone it down (very loosely) by adding some pink to the mix. It's still my favorite color, and I just can't help myself when it comes to decorating in rainbow order. My friend ROYGBIV is always making me laugh with her colorful creations.

**The True Spirit of Christmas**

For me, Christmas isn't just about decorations; it's about creating memories for my family and kids. We joke that I use them as an excuse to make this a winter wonderland, but really, it's all about them. I want them to always remember the magic of this time of year.

**A Special Thanks**

Lastly, I want to thank everyone who's subscribed to handmade for more home tours like this - it means the world to me!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI have a lot of Sammis I'm not gonna lie look I feel like we should have a disclaimer of like going up to my attic like look but there's a lot more like I was selective no it's good I'm a creative content designer a kitchen enthusiast and I tend to go a little bit overkill when I'm decorating for holidays I'm Jennifer Perkins and this is my handmade home in Austin Texas my mom always was an overkill decorator y'all think I go overkill her Christmas like I come by honestly she put me to shame and you know is that one kind of thing when you came downstairs and it was Christmas morning it was just like the rest is just history I was just like how obnoxious can I make Christmas for the rest of my life and so I kind of try to recreate that for my kids it's really just an excuse early it's all just for me I tend to buy a lot more like vintage holiday things than I do new and there's a few things that like I always gravitate towards like I love vintage blow molds that's one I'm never gonna say no to this is one of my favorite blow molds just because he's real weird which makes me really like him like I don't know who thought that was a good idea to make this style Santa but also the neon blow molds because again Frosty's hat was never that color but that's why I like it ceramic angels I really like like the super sixties tacky ones or those like angels that somebody made and they've got like the plastic doll head and like the crazy like blonde kind of wackadoodle hair I don't know what's going on with their hair but that's what makes me love them in their tacky blue eyeshadow I also enjoy I just love those angels like they are so tacky I love them sooth killed Oh another one vintage beaded ornaments like I never say no to because honestly someone spent so much time making that ornament I just feel sad for that person and I'm just like if you gave away Nana's ornaments it's so sad but it's okay because I'm gonna give it a new home a better home so my Christmas is different every year because I have so much stuff right this year I went to this flea market and this woman was selling all these vintage toys like in the box like the original box and I immediately was like BAM like that is gonna be my focal point for Christmas is Toys in the box is super nostalgic pull from like the 70s and the 80s I even pulled in my like Woolworths shopping cart filled with gifts and toys and wrap things and rollerskates you know as if you were shopping for them right then and there I want people to like look at it and me included because I got some of those things like I remember like waking up and having that like round crayon caddy with like pencil sharpener or crayon sharpener and being like oh I like to tug on those heartstrings a lot of the DIY projects I have are actually DIY projects where I use vintage items so like for instance like one of my favorites that I made was I love those like jewelry trees you can buy where people made them out of like scrap or broken jewelry I mean I would have an entire wall of them if I could but they're kind of hard to find so these two I found at a flea market but this one is the one I made myself I used to collect vintage accan amyl flower pens it were super sixties but I never wear them and they're just too cute to like live in a drawer forever and ever I just you know got like a picture frame for the thrift store put some velvet back there because of course it had to be velvet and then I just kind of filled in the empty spots with pom-poms because everything it's better with a pom pom here is a guy that I made so I just you know found this little planter maybe he had a candle in him or something and then just plugged this tree in and started started going at it with my glue gun so he's a little fave I like him a giant big Santa in case I want to dance my mom was like super super creative and you know just like all of us like Christmas brought it out in her extra and she loved making these like weirdo robot things my beloved reindeer that my mom made one of her little robots with his little antlers and spoons for his little face is a clarinet little Christmas card 10 measuring tape pulling his sleigh full of like vintage toys and that guy is like one of my favorites because he's skilled this little tree skirt my grandma made for my mom I think that with her first Christmas with my dad and then there's some ornaments in here too that I made out of dollar store beanies painted these ornaments with the faces on you know like everything else the longer you look at it you'll find something new I want my house to be like the more you look the more you find I have so much crap I love these two Santa's in the hot rods this guy he's extra fun this guy he's a little scary I'm not sure where he came from but I enjoy him I love this this is new to me this year he's kind of like a mobile and then I just got this guy this year at the flea market and he just like cracked me up and like the comments I was getting like because that's your new boyfriend so he kinda is you know even though I've always had artificial trees this is actually only my second gear with a vintage aluminum tree and when I got it the extra exciting part was that it came with extra branches that are kind of ombre colored so it's like I got a two-for-one special this is my black tree which you know black isn't the first color that you think of when you think of Christmas I know you're like black tree like wow this is where I put all my like beaded sequined ornaments the flashing lights like I want it to almost kind of be like it's Vegas up in here literally there's styrofoam balls that have been covered you know some might call them tacky I call them fabulous I got a whole bunch then of course the tree topper I heard a rumor that pink trees are all the rage this year which really doesn't affect me since I have a pink tree up almost every year I tried to tone it down and make it a little traditional I use the term toned it down very loosely here you know a series of tinsel trees and bottle brush trees in you know my friend ROYGBIV order can't stop decorating in rainbow order like I'm not sure ever want to stop I love collecting I love decorating I love all things Kitsch - but at the end of the day really it's just about like my family and my kids and I joke that I use them as an excuse to make this a winter wonderland but really it is for them I want Christmas to be super special wonderful and something they always will remember and how could you forget this you think I put it all out but I did it subscribe to handmade for more home tours just like thisI have a lot of Sammis I'm not gonna lie look I feel like we should have a disclaimer of like going up to my attic like look but there's a lot more like I was selective no it's good I'm a creative content designer a kitchen enthusiast and I tend to go a little bit overkill when I'm decorating for holidays I'm Jennifer Perkins and this is my handmade home in Austin Texas my mom always was an overkill decorator y'all think I go overkill her Christmas like I come by honestly she put me to shame and you know is that one kind of thing when you came downstairs and it was Christmas morning it was just like the rest is just history I was just like how obnoxious can I make Christmas for the rest of my life and so I kind of try to recreate that for my kids it's really just an excuse early it's all just for me I tend to buy a lot more like vintage holiday things than I do new and there's a few things that like I always gravitate towards like I love vintage blow molds that's one I'm never gonna say no to this is one of my favorite blow molds just because he's real weird which makes me really like him like I don't know who thought that was a good idea to make this style Santa but also the neon blow molds because again Frosty's hat was never that color but that's why I like it ceramic angels I really like like the super sixties tacky ones or those like angels that somebody made and they've got like the plastic doll head and like the crazy like blonde kind of wackadoodle hair I don't know what's going on with their hair but that's what makes me love them in their tacky blue eyeshadow I also enjoy I just love those angels like they are so tacky I love them sooth killed Oh another one vintage beaded ornaments like I never say no to because honestly someone spent so much time making that ornament I just feel sad for that person and I'm just like if you gave away Nana's ornaments it's so sad but it's okay because I'm gonna give it a new home a better home so my Christmas is different every year because I have so much stuff right this year I went to this flea market and this woman was selling all these vintage toys like in the box like the original box and I immediately was like BAM like that is gonna be my focal point for Christmas is Toys in the box is super nostalgic pull from like the 70s and the 80s I even pulled in my like Woolworths shopping cart filled with gifts and toys and wrap things and rollerskates you know as if you were shopping for them right then and there I want people to like look at it and me included because I got some of those things like I remember like waking up and having that like round crayon caddy with like pencil sharpener or crayon sharpener and being like oh I like to tug on those heartstrings a lot of the DIY projects I have are actually DIY projects where I use vintage items so like for instance like one of my favorites that I made was I love those like jewelry trees you can buy where people made them out of like scrap or broken jewelry I mean I would have an entire wall of them if I could but they're kind of hard to find so these two I found at a flea market but this one is the one I made myself I used to collect vintage accan amyl flower pens it were super sixties but I never wear them and they're just too cute to like live in a drawer forever and ever I just you know got like a picture frame for the thrift store put some velvet back there because of course it had to be velvet and then I just kind of filled in the empty spots with pom-poms because everything it's better with a pom pom here is a guy that I made so I just you know found this little planter maybe he had a candle in him or something and then just plugged this tree in and started started going at it with my glue gun so he's a little fave I like him a giant big Santa in case I want to dance my mom was like super super creative and you know just like all of us like Christmas brought it out in her extra and she loved making these like weirdo robot things my beloved reindeer that my mom made one of her little robots with his little antlers and spoons for his little face is a clarinet little Christmas card 10 measuring tape pulling his sleigh full of like vintage toys and that guy is like one of my favorites because he's skilled this little tree skirt my grandma made for my mom I think that with her first Christmas with my dad and then there's some ornaments in here too that I made out of dollar store beanies painted these ornaments with the faces on you know like everything else the longer you look at it you'll find something new I want my house to be like the more you look the more you find I have so much crap I love these two Santa's in the hot rods this guy he's extra fun this guy he's a little scary I'm not sure where he came from but I enjoy him I love this this is new to me this year he's kind of like a mobile and then I just got this guy this year at the flea market and he just like cracked me up and like the comments I was getting like because that's your new boyfriend so he kinda is you know even though I've always had artificial trees this is actually only my second gear with a vintage aluminum tree and when I got it the extra exciting part was that it came with extra branches that are kind of ombre colored so it's like I got a two-for-one special this is my black tree which you know black isn't the first color that you think of when you think of Christmas I know you're like black tree like wow this is where I put all my like beaded sequined ornaments the flashing lights like I want it to almost kind of be like it's Vegas up in here literally there's styrofoam balls that have been covered you know some might call them tacky I call them fabulous I got a whole bunch then of course the tree topper I heard a rumor that pink trees are all the rage this year which really doesn't affect me since I have a pink tree up almost every year I tried to tone it down and make it a little traditional I use the term toned it down very loosely here you know a series of tinsel trees and bottle brush trees in you know my friend ROYGBIV order can't stop decorating in rainbow order like I'm not sure ever want to stop I love collecting I love decorating I love all things Kitsch - but at the end of the day really it's just about like my family and my kids and I joke that I use them as an excuse to make this a winter wonderland but really it is for them I want Christmas to be super special wonderful and something they always will remember and how could you forget this you think I put it all out but I did it subscribe to handmade for more home tours just like this\n"