Unboxing 50 Years of Forgotten Christmas Decor🎄🤶

[@sophieb.1287]

Okay... Only 5 minutes in.... A train track through the whole house? YES!! This is one of the things I would love to have in a maybe-future-house of mine. ❤ Imagine putting tea cups and biscuits on this train and sending it to the living room... 🥹🥹🥹

[@jlotoo850]

I agree. Since you are renovating the house anyway, you should DEFINITELY do this. You can find train items from all over the world to make your set. Your future children will LOVE IT!!

[@krazedvintagemodel]

I remember putting up shelves and thinking if shelving made one continuous loop around a room, they could support a Christmas train, track and decor for the holiday! 🚂🎄🏡

[@lovealwaysmom]

When I was young, we went to a restaurant, old fashion diner that had a train track that went from the kitchen to the dining area. The train delivered your food to your table. The tables also had mini jute boxes on them. Your choices would go to the larger jute box.

[@sternentigerkatze]

Have you guys watched Wallace and Gromit - The wrong Trousers? If we're on the subject of trains that go through the whole house...

[@damogranheart5521]

​@@sternentigerkatzeI LOVE WALLACE AND GROMMET!

[@phyllisthomas9579]

I am close to 80 and many of the Santa’s, elves, reindeer are what was available when I was as a child. The little houses are Putz houses. Merry Christmas to you all.

[@ace_r_ola]

Corgi tricks are the level of dopamine I never expected to reach 🤩❤️

[@ShannonMakes]

LOLLLLL love that!

[@lisakilmer2667]

The "Amen" command was adorable.

[@carolbulmer8253]

Thank you, Shannon and Phil. That was so much fun to watch… especially, seeing Cannelle do tricks en Francais… the best❤️ See you on Tuesday❤️❤️❤️

[@lizvanwessem2055]

Team white (and a warm white at that) and NON BLINKING. I grew up with coloured lights and i used to like them but husband hates them and hates lights that flash and I've gotten used to that. So our lights are warm white, steady, and it feels a lot calmer for all that. I do colour with ornaments and stuff.

[@bookllama8158]

I agree. Flashing lights are so annoying to me.

[@dawnmoriarty9347]

Plus they give some people headaches (me included)

[@lizvanwessem2055]

@@dawnmoriarty9347 that too! (actually that's a far better reason *not* to have blinking lights than just mere dislike.)

[@lizvanwessem2055]

@@bookllama8158 yeah, they're annoying to me too now after years of not having them. I think initially it was like "COOL" but then after about 5 minutes it just gets really annoying. And... I was at a disco recently. argh! I feel like a grumpy old f*rt mumbling about people these days and 'in mah day' but those lights were awful.

[@karenmetcalf-pugh5]

My hubby loves them. I'm not a fan. So we compromise. Only one tree topper can blink on the tree in the family room. The other 4 trees are all solid. Yes Christmas throws up all over my house. I love it.

[@crinkle2649]

I love old Christmas decorations

[@mariereynolds3582]

Shannon, the ornament you showed that was hand blown is from a company in Spokane, Washington. The company. is called "old world christmas."" That is Saint Basil's cathedral in Moscow. That ornament is contemporary and sells for around thirty dollars! I have one! I've been there! This ornament may be discontinued!

[@lizvanwessem2055]

Apologies if I missed you saying so (possible, reliant on subtitles) but that itty bitty deer/santa/sleigh... I think are for decorating a Christmas cake. They look very similar to the ones my mom had when I was growing up in the 70s/80s and we did our xmas cakes with royal icing (not the roll-out stuff, the stuff you make in a bowl and spread on the cake) and you'd slap the cake with a spatula to get the icing to stand up in peaks to resemble snow. Although maybe that was just me. Anyone else?

[@robine916]

My Mom used the back of a spoon to get the peaks, she would "spread and lift"💕

[@lizvanwessem2055]

@@robine916 Its not just me! I am SOOOO glad... :D thank you for sharing with me! and yes, spread and lift! heh.

[@robine916]

@@lizvanwessem2055 🥰

[@karenmetcalf-pugh5]

I collect hand blown glass ornaments. The one you have the St Basil's Cathedral cost about $60. You hit the jackpot with all the wonderful decorations. I remember some from my childhood. With a little wash and some repairs you have a wonderful collection. Merry Christmas early to you and Phil. I like the Christmas pj's. Nice touch.

[@dianepreston7862]

We're enjoying your unboxing of your attic treasures. My husband says the Christmas ornament reminds him of Saint Basil Cathedral in Moscow.

[@Murky_Heron]

Yep, that's the St. Basil's Cathedral

[@karenmetcalf-pugh5]

That is a vintage hand blown ornament of St Basil. Your husband has A good eye

[@mumstheword8]

Wow, look at all the wonderful stuff you got there. Some real treasures there! Thanks for sharing! Very cool. Can't wait for Tuesday's video.

[@melissaeden1219]

Love all of those older decorations--they have such character! It will be fun to see what you do with them.

[@dottiewi661]

Very interesting decorations! Thanks for filming it for us.

[@PaulaNorthway-cp9jw]

OMG Love all the vintage Christmas !!!

[@julielumsden5184]

It’s so fun seeing all of the vintage Christmas decorations. Brings back so many memories. Pour birds have lost their colour. How do pinecones hang from a tree

[@Toomanydogs7]

I love using the tins in the kitchen on top of cupboards etc with some greenery

[@marieugorek5917]

My husband and I are team colored lights with white/silver/gold ornaments or white lights with random colored ornaments, so one usually goes on the tree and the other around door and window frames.

[@sewwithmsjones1196]

The Russian one is St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. What a find!

[@kellytroy7602]

More antiques and the most adorable Canelle doing tricks? Amazing! For lights I'm on both teams and in fact have a tree that does both. It changes as the mood strikes me.

[@RachelW-a1b]

I'm team white lights for a tree as it makes the colour balls shine and show their true colours. Love the vintage Christmas balls, and the little steampunk type present. Also the silver centerpiece is awesome.

[@cjsmith4780]

my daughter likes white lights, I like colored blinking. A Christmas Miracle, they now have colors that can alternate white to colored, stay solid, or blink at different paces. It's magical!

[@laurieloomis7845]

Shannon, I love this pic of you. You are so pretty without makeup. Then I remember you with make-up and say , Oh, and with it too. Laurie

[@lindaalbano6868]

Lol those vintage ornaments are worth money

[@lyndseybeaumont7301]

I love the pearl garland for the tree. They look great if you choose one contrasting colour in baubles. Like blue baubles and the creamy white pearls for example. xx

[@oddlyozel]

I always preferred very warm yellow Christmas lights, at night it looked sooo magical

[@NOARawle]

Oh, I love the bottle brush trees! The little deer and Santa are for a Christmas cake!As for lights, I mix both. I have a stand of white and a strand of multicolored ones and they all go on together!

[@jeanmullins3284]

❤❤❤love your Christmasie jam jams!! Thanks for sharing your treasures!!

[@conniesmokegearsphotograph4829]

I love vintage Christmas!! This is a whole lot of wonderfulness!!

[@lorettavalmorbida7793]

That was fun, I like white lights on my tree, my husband likes colored. See you on Tuesday, Also love Cannelle doing her tricks in French, very cute.

[@DarkGoddessZusa]

Oh my goodness. That gold mischievous elf is so cute. And that hand blown glass is stunning! I just love these attic treasures. Can't wait for Tuesday to see the decorations in use.❤ big hugs to the 3 of you from us! Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄

[@dottiewi661]

As an East German, who knows how decoration looks like in the ore mountains (a region in Germany famous for it’s traditional decoration) I prefer yellowish lights and classic Christmas tree decoration and wooden decoration around the house like nutcrackers, incense figurines (Rachermannl) etc. but Scandinavian is also very beautiful.

[@gigi3242]

So many memories, left in an attic; there's a book worth writing in that. Glad some of the things will see the light of Christmas again, and bring joy to their old home; if only they could talk. Have always loved Cannelle, but wow, what a good puppers, so adorable doing all the tricks. Will let my daughter know about Finn; one of her dogs has terrible Winter itchies. Have a safe and wonderful holiday.

[@paulaneary7877]

Team colored lights for sure! Phil seems like a very nice person. Your shirts match!

[@Cocoanutty0]

Thank you for your videos. It’s hard for me to relax these days (some really hard life stuff going on) and there’s only a couple KZbinrs I can relax to. You are one of them and it’s been very helpful. Just having a friendly voice in the background or foreground

[@cherylhuot4436]

This was a great video. Love watching you unbox all the old treasures. Looking forward to Tuesdays video! Of course the bonus Cannell footage is always welcome. I could have watched you unbox every box. You guys are excellent company on sleepless nights. Looking forward to seeing how you decorate the house! I'm Team warm, white lights! When my kids were growing up, I had a huge, formal tree in the living room, decorated with white, gold, silver and glass ornaments. I wound a single strand of dull gold lights scattered around the inside of the tree, from top to bottom. Then used tons of warm white lights on the rest of the tree. The effect was stunning. We had a fun tree in the family room with all the colorful, fun ornaments. Needless to say, I went a bit overboard with decorating for Christmas.

[@annrae1597]

I had tiny trees, sleigh and Santa with a piece of foam and fake snow in a big brandy snifter..makes a cute center piece on a table.

[@donnashapleigh4863]

We are team colored lights inside on the tree and both colored & white for outdoors. But think both are beautiful. Have a happy holiday! Wonderful new year!

[@marcisartpage4225]

That was so much fun! Everyone dreams of finding tresure and this was a dream come true!

[@indiabilly]

Thank you for saving the Christmas decorations to open with us, just from the intro I have envy! I love vintage and a little odd it’s my favourite aesthetic xx

[@biblio_mama]

Always fun to watch you explore the attic finds.

[@Schatzie301]

What fun. We love the vintage ornaments too. Adore Canelle, as always. My husband was a model train enthusiast. He had an entire room of train layout with tons of buildings and scenery all year round and we always wanted it to go room to room. Never happened! But at Christmas we always had a special Christmas train running around the tree with Department 56 Christmas villages all over the house. Took us weeks to set them up but they were so worth it.

[@crinkle2649]

The bells are for the door. The pearls are garland, I had some on my tree when my kids were growing up. I don't do a big tree anymore, I'm old af😂

[@bethpederson5219]

I do both soft white lights but my tree is all colors. So many childhood memories. ❤ I use strands of beads on my tree. I liv 24:20 e in a log home and the colors reflect off the logs....Love them, so warm and cozy. Love your videos❤

[@berthagreen1620]

Yeah , two unboxing videos. I love Christmas. You two are so much fun to watch, whether you’re working hard or playing. I’d love to see your performance one day.

[@rhondasweeney7271]

Thank you for the memories from my childhood. I remember my grandparents having a lot of Christmas decorations like you have. The next video may have more. Thank you both for sharing. Plus, the pup!

[@patricia.g1651]

Such a fun haul! I inherited 3" pierced tin light reflectors from my grandparents. The reflectors are too big for my LED light sets; but I strung each of them on ribbon and hang them on my tree and swags as ornaments.

[@pattiwhite9575]

Wow great haul on Christmas decorations for the whole house.

[@CharredFibers]

OMG I just squeed so loud!!! Amen 💜💜💜💜

[@debbiestarrett3523]

I have the same candle holders lol

[@ShannonMakes]

Heyyyy, nice!

[@darian-s5y]

My mom loved it when l mixed white and clour together. Bright and colourful

[@patwyatt7776]

I love the decorations! So many like I grew up with. And the bottle brush trees I use with my small Christmas village and you have so many things that you could use to make one! How fun thank you for the video.

[@ShannonMakes]

You're very welcome! 🎄

[@across2726]

Coloured lights ✨️ 💛

[@briefisbest]

That is such a delightful photo of Canelle, thank you for sharing. I love the various brush trees and hope you find your train.

[@jlotoo850]

Probably put the trellis decoration outside. Also you can put the silver garland outside around the house gutters and hang the pinecones from it, with some string lights on it.

[@zeldaveeblefetzer3475]

I have one of those tiny ceramic angel bell ornaments! I also have a few of her companions. I think they may have been my mother's when she was a child. She's no longer here to ask. I loved watching the unboxing of the ornaments. Last weekend, a local church was giving away Christmas decorations, and i managed to score a small tree and several fabulous ornaments. Several were homemade. I've had such fun decorating my little tree after 20 years of not having a tree or decorations, or to be really honest, the desire to decorate. Happy Christmas to you!!

[@pattimessenger6214]

Oh Darlin, they ARE your ornaments. The pretty box they are in is the house.

[@aquaaurora2747]

As for lights I’ve done white on, colored only, and mixed. My favorite was the childhood fat colored bulbs (also had the “lava lamp”s). My mother-in-law has a HUGE box of colored strung beads you could drown a decent sized tree in. We helped her decorate last weekend.

[@RyanMercer]

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[@ShannonMakes]

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[@wendybrook9685]

So fun! You did well Shannon.

[@kalka1l]

I just bought replacement bubble lamps for my tree! The glass bells are gorgeous! They are very retro. The tinsel garland is such a snapshot of mid-century holiday decor. What finds!

[@lilaskye2375]

Shannon!! I absolutely LOVED your compilation of your last Christmas vlogmas. I watched it all last week in between household chores and my art/sewing projects 😊 You talents with video making add to the enjoyment and excitement of watching you and Phil’s circus life. I especially loved the segment of you doing your warm up exercises in the historic theatre in Denmark where there were about a dozen of you doing different exercises throughout the seating area

[@laurawilliams7782]

My folks have bubble lights on their tree, they are super cool. We also always did beads - never tinsel because of our cats. This was a lot of fun

[@aquaaurora2747]

2:09-2:14 I have to at EXACT ribbon!! Used it to trim one of my hats for autumn.

[@CatMindy2187-o4v]

I love the double dose Christmas Cheer with Corgi guest apperances...

[@robine916]

Years ago, in New Hampshire, down the street from Storyland theme park, (Glen/Bartlett?) was a restaurant that had a train that ran high up along the wall and went through "tunnels" in the walls between the rooms! It was the highlight of our vacation💕

[@lindaroyal8161]

That was fun! A couple of the ornaments were really nice and hopefully find a place on your tree. The "drunk Santa" I'd display him just for shits and giggles! Look forward to the 2nd half ... I'm team white lights, only. Grew up in a multi colored lit tree.

[@ericalbany]

The Russian ornament is St Basil's Cathedral.

[@theresadoyle6360]

White lights and handmade icicle ornaments. I use the gold beads (like your white ones) as garland. Also a Boyd’s Angel Bear as a tree topper. Very simple, Less is more in my book.

[@pandjjensen]

We have 5 dogs, 3 outside and 2 small inside. Our oldest had digestive issues about 3 years ago. In addition to a Tablespoon of pure pumpkin every morning the vet said to give him a Tablespoon (for his 20 lb size) of plain Greek yogurt. He hasn’t had digestive problems since we started that.

[@Toomanydogs7]

That would be so perfect for your dining room table that's beautiful

[@bettymunguia2136]

Beautiful decorations 😊😊

[@greyhound19961]

Wow! Cannel is a bi lingual pup ! Such a talented pup 👏

[@alisonwallace]

Team white all the way and definitely NO tinsel!!!!🎄🎄🎁🎁🎅🎅

[@Ddouglas0302]

Those ornaments are awesome! I hope u are able to fix and use some of them!

[@katehirst6046]

Such fab vintage decorations, that tiny Bambi is just très mignon! 🤣 I love the idea of a train track right through the house! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[@mariecaister9722]

I like the sled with ice skates which was in background.

[@barbarabaldwin8922]

You can wrap that silver garland around a foam wreath form or wire wreath form and glue it down for another wreath (and add ornaments to this also).

[@joecoloff4247]

Team white Christmas lights, beads yes on the tree. 😄

[@sdmcdaniel2255]

You asked about Christmas light preferences. My answer is BOTH. The garland and wreath I made has white lights on them, because I needed cordless lights and they all came in white. But my Christmas tree has colored lights on it. Some of those ornaments may be collectables, like that porcelain angel bell you showed us. Those frosted and glass bells are nice too! I personally liked the folded paper poinsettia ornaments, makes a Christmas tree look more rustic. Those first little stockings were definitely crochet, I recognized some of the stitches (avid crocheter for over 20 years). The bead tree garland would actually look nice draped around the silver garland on a Christmas tree. I can't wait to see how you decorate the house for Christmas!

[@damogranheart5521]

I have white lights on a green tree decorated with gold tinsel, a gold tree skirt, with gold, red, and white ornaments, some of which are old world decorations. I have red bows and cardinals spaced over the tree also. The artifical tree is close to a register, so the tinsel and lighter ornaments move gently. My old cat, Frankenstein, used to pull down some tinsel and push it into a nest shape that he would sleep in under the tree. How I wish that I had taken a picture of that!

[@tammymurphy2707]

You scored some nice Christmas decor!

[@janeimel7488]

I'm team multi. Also team all blue, but only on a white tree. Cannelle is a sweetie, and very smart.

[@littlecr3atur3]

so many of those decorations looked like ones my granny had. we still have a couple of them floating around, but it was cool to see the ones that didn't survive the years again. (also we still have a strand of bubble lights from her but most of the bulbs don't work anymore, I really should see if they can be replaced, it's a fun, if a little dangerous effect with how hot they get)

[@marionrichardson1523]

My aunt had lovely decorations from Norway. She had a tree with little red kind of stoppers on the end of the branches. It was lovely. Aunt Anna was the first person I ever knew who had cheese in the shape of fruit that was waxed red or green.

[@kittenbug1994]

Colored lights make the tree more interesting to me

[@eliseclairoux5282]

White on my indoor Christmas tree, colour on those outdoor!

[@bettymunguia2136]

Colored lights 😊

[@CosnerCoPiloting]

Those “lava lamp” lights are called bubble lights! They are super cool and fun to find nowadays! My light style depends on the tree, but we use bubble lights for the most part, some are clear housings and some are coloured like the one you showed in the video!

[@patriciareeps3389]

The pearls are garland for the tree. I like the candle holders

[@lovematters7515]

You guys found some cool decorations in the boxes. I have a feeling if you gave Canelle a stick in her stocking she would be happy ❤ adorable puppy!! Thanks for the great video Shannon and Phil ❤

[@lisakilmer2667]

I missed the live stream since I was baking for a party. Your Friday offerings are so much fun! It occurred to me that, once-upon-a-time, those ornaments were considered quite nice. The technology must have figured out plastic, and flocking. In earlier times, the top tech was blown glass. Earlier still, hand-carved wood or papier-mache. Your mini-reflectors are cute. When I was a kid reflectors were 6-7 cm across, and the bulbs were the size of nightlight bulbs. The tree got very, very warm! ( BTW, team white)

[@sudrosa]

My father is antiqe collector so the familj christmas tree has over the years had allot of fun stuff in it glasdecor( worthy mentions are, smoking pipe, lampshade, trupets, birds and many more) Every shape and size. Those pearl tinsel you have and swedish flags. And White candles. And a Star or spire topper.

[@aprilgreen2006]

That crochet candy cane, my mom use to have one when I was young use to hang it up in the window along with an old wire brush (The old huge wire brush ones) She also had a crochet Christmas wreath that hung on the front door. I am team-colored lights, but I also light all blue lights also. My grandma had couple of strings of the original lights that did the lava lamp thing, I also remember the big heavy lights that went on live trees and the original tinsel that was heavy and hung really pretty.

[@armedvsokord]

Free range, organic corgi! Only the best for Shannon and Phil! 😂❤ She's clearly worth it.

[@pat56458]

You two are absolutely adorable! I'm trying to remember when those decopauged ornaments were popular but I keep thinking either the 50s or the 70s.

[@DebKirk]

The little Christmas stockings are crocheted

[@kathrynredmond5294]

I have some similar made by my paternal grandmother that are (essentially) a granny square folded and sewn!

[@barbarabaldwin8922]

Those will look awesome on a wreath.

[@theaweggen6805]

😊😊 love the decor from the past😊

[@brendastephens5893]

Your first box of "gifts" are mostly from the 50s and 60s. The little gold knee hugger elf is worth some $$$, so are the red deer. Fun time watching the box empty of their contents.

[@MichelleRamirez-i6j]

The trees are bottle brush trees, and believe it or not a lot of those vintage decorations are worth quite a bit of money even the elves!😉. You could paint the cardinals

[@CatherineDunn-62]

team colored lights