Preppy Pink & Green Christmas Tree With Vintage Shiny-Brite Ornaments
Like, oh my God. This Christmas tree is totally tubular, fer shur. Seriously, it's like a total Betty of a Christmas tree. Those pink and green ornaments are so rad.
Why am I talking like a Valley Girl, straight out of the 1980s?
It might have something to do with the preppy pink-and-green Christmas tree in my dining room. I was a child of the 80s, and the color scheme took me back to my big hair, Valley-speak adolescence!
I've been collecting vintage Shiny-Brite ornaments, including some from my grandmother, and other pink and green decorations so I could give my white Christmas tree a vintage, preppy, girly look for the holidays.
I also tucked in glittery pink and green poinsettia blossoms and strung a beaded green garland through the branches. I used a scrap of moire plaid fabric as a makeshift tree skirt.
The pink-and-green tree inspired me to decorate the rest of the dining room in pastels, using other vintage items, like glittery cardboard houses. You can see the rest of the space on my blog. http://www.attagirlsays.com/2015/12/06/vintage-white-christmas-tree/
And you don't want to miss my Touch of Vintage Christmas Home Tour. There you'll find room-after-room of Christmas decorating inspiration using vintage finds.
Like, you should totally motor over right now to be inspired: http://www.attagirlsays.com/2015/12/07/2015-christmas-home-tour/
Why am I talking like a Valley Girl, straight out of the 1980s?
It might have something to do with the preppy pink-and-green Christmas tree in my dining room. I was a child of the 80s, and the color scheme took me back to my big hair, Valley-speak adolescence!
I've been collecting vintage Shiny-Brite ornaments, including some from my grandmother, and other pink and green decorations so I could give my white Christmas tree a vintage, preppy, girly look for the holidays.
I also tucked in glittery pink and green poinsettia blossoms and strung a beaded green garland through the branches. I used a scrap of moire plaid fabric as a makeshift tree skirt.
The pink-and-green tree inspired me to decorate the rest of the dining room in pastels, using other vintage items, like glittery cardboard houses. You can see the rest of the space on my blog. http://www.attagirlsays.com/2015/12/06/vintage-white-christmas-tree/
And you don't want to miss my Touch of Vintage Christmas Home Tour. There you'll find room-after-room of Christmas decorating inspiration using vintage finds.
Like, you should totally motor over right now to be inspired: http://www.attagirlsays.com/2015/12/07/2015-christmas-home-tour/
Forget traditional Christmas color. This white tree decorated with pink and green vintage Shiny-Brite ornaments is beautiful.
A beautiful pink and green vintage Shiny-Brite ornament shines on a white Christmas tree.
You can find vintage Shiny-Brite ornaments, like this one on my white dining room tree, at yard sales and antique stores. You'll also find vintage-looking Christmas ornaments at big-box retailers, like Target.
Metallic pink poinsettia blossoms add more girly glamour to this preppy pink-and-green Christmas tree.
Another vintage Shiny-Brite Ornament.
If you can't find enough old ornaments, look for vintage-looking ones at your favorite store.
Forget traditional Christmas color. This white tree decorated with pink and green vintage Shiny-Brite ornaments is beautiful.
A little plaid pink-and-green ornaments fits well with the preppy theme. This one is a few years old, from Martha Stewart's holiday line with Kmart.
None of these ornaments are old, but they look it!
The pink bell is broken, but it's very special because it belonged to my grandmother. I had to find a place for it on my pink-and-green Christmas tree.
I used a scrap of pink-and-green moire plaid from a remnant roll as a makeshift tree skirt.
The pink-and-green tree inspired me to decorate the rest of the dining room in pastels, using other vintage items, like these glittery cardboard houses. You can see the rest of the space on my blog.
You won't want to miss my Touch of Vintage Christmas Home Tour. There you'll find room-after-room of Christmas decorating inspiration. http://www.attagirlsays.com/2015/12/07/2015-christmas-home-tour/
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*Barbarajoshevlin. I have the two best daughters-in-law in the world. With my bad health, we have discussed the belongings that are considered to be mine, and not my husband's, particularly. Each dil wants one of the two large ceramic nativity scenes. I gave them a couple of years ago the ornaments I had made for each of us for many years. I have kept the sentimental and travel ornaments. No one wanted the other ornaments when we no longer have a tree--their own trees are loaded like mine. But when I die, there will be boxes of photos, papers, restaurant menus, and knickknacks that would be better trashed rather than gone through. That's why I am slowly culling the stuff myself.
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I have many of my grandmother's and Mother's ornaments too. Always use them on one of my trees. Have bells like your pink one.
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