One of my favorite days of the year, Christmas Eve. There is just something about this day, a calmness of sorts, That I love. This year just about all the decorations are family heirlooms, or decorations I remember us using when I was a wee one, or bits and bobs that were gifted to me. Shiny-Brites, Christmas Pyramids, Swedish chimes, bottle brush trees, and many items bringing about memories of my grandmothers. Tonight, we'll enjoy a dinner of crab imperial. Followed by later in the night the family recipe of egg nog, lighting of the Christmas pyramids, and settle in the watch a Christmas Carol.
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It's not about the gift giving, let's remember. Enjoy time with family or friends, enjoying the company of loved ones, good food, and wonderful spirits!!! The scents and smells of the Christmas holiday. May you all have a magical, wonderful, and memorable Christmas. Thank you all, longtime friends, new readers, reader out there in the dark, thank you for your constant kind and funny words and for visiting the Casa du Borghese- truly grateful for all our online friendships. To all of us everywhere, a Happy Christmas to us all my dears.
"L🎄VE & J🎄Y TO All!
XOXO
Beautiful! Very retro, too.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas, Maddie!
Dearest Mistress, I will hate to see Miss Paulette Goddard leave us at the top of the blog. However you choose to celebrate this evening and tomorrow, make it all about the people, not the products. Make it about the bonds we share, not the bitterness in our midst. Make it about the meals we enjoy, not the misguided mindset of millions. Make it about the spirits we sip and savor, not the sadness looming in the coming year. Make it about the quiet times with beloved friends, not the quasi-sincerity of others. Make it about maintaining love of community, connection, commonality and caring. Make this a better world with the power we have been given to recognize the difference between love and hate, truth and lies, morals and immorality. ethics and dishonesty.
ReplyDeleteHappy Holidays, Happy Everydays
What a lovely comment!!!! I couldn't agree more. Good food ....spirit and time with friends and family is all I need. I hope your Yuletide is going well.
DeleteMy mother used to have the same size green ceramic tree with the lights built in. Happy Holiday Mary!
ReplyDeleteMy mother made the green here. I love it.
DeleteMaddie, everything is beautiful. Your home sparkles! Merry Christmas dear friend.
ReplyDeleteHappy Christmas Maddie. Thank you for another year of fabulous posts.Your beautiful home evokes fond memories.
ReplyDeleteI thank you for stopping in another year!!!
DeleteMerry Christmas Maddie!!!! Another fun December here on the blog. I can't tell you the happy memories and thoughts of seeing your Decor that it brings back. I've always been fascinated by your collection of Christmas pyramids. Happy Christmas Eve!
ReplyDeleteI love christmas pyramids. I'd have more if I had the room!
DeleteAn absolutely beautiful home and display. Enjoy every moment, and the egg nog! Grateful to have found you online!
ReplyDeleteIt's always such a pleasure to see your retro ornaments and decorations every year! Takes me right back to my childhood. Enjoy your dinner, egg nog and the movie!
ReplyDeleteNice tree (the tall, skinny one). Maybe next year I'll put mine up. Right now Howie would think it was a big toy. Enjoy the eggnog! Merry Christmas, Missy!
ReplyDeleteEverything is beautiful, Mads -- calm and bright. Merry Christmas, my love.
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Your bottle brush displays and other Christmas vignettes are soooo charming! Visiting your blog is pure joy: Merry Christmas, Maddie!
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DeleteYou always have the most festive and cock-a-tailed Christmases!
ReplyDeleteMaîtresse, passe un joyeux Noël ✨
ReplyDelete-Beau Mec à Deauville
Merry Christmas to you, too! I really enjoyed seeing and reading this post, I hope you have a lovely time! Your home is so warm, comfy and inviting.
ReplyDeleteNow how about a cup of that family recipe???
I adore your tree!! Love seeing all the old ornaments...and love bottle brush trees.Thank YOU, darling for your everyday words. eye candy and inspiration! Have a blissful, radiant and bubbly Christmas dearest
ReplyDeleteMuch love
I'm sure the spirits will be visiting you dear one.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas and one for Jesus!
XOXO-
Miss R
Best of the season to you.
ReplyDeleteA very merry Christmas to you, Maddie. Love that snowman.
ReplyDeleteA gift from the Dame!
DeleteHappy Holidays to you, too! I'm so glad I found your blog this year, your posts are crazy, inspiring & awesome! I also spied one of those smoking cabins???
ReplyDeleteJoyeux Noël à toi aussi!
ReplyDeleteWow this post is amazing! Especially love the bottle brushes and the silver tinsel tree :) Your tree is stunning. Good luck with Warbucks and your Mother!! LMAO!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas, Mistress Darling!!!
Beautifully festive while being simple and minimal. I love those two angels on the desk. Aren't they Italian? I haven't seen them in years!!!!!! A warm post. Merry Christmas!!!!
ReplyDeleteI love them too. These two are all we have left from a collection of 6. My grandmother always used them in her little Christmas sets ups. I believe they were made in Hong Kong....not Italy.
DeleteBeautifully done. You always have just the right touch. Nice to see the Christmas Pyramids. I love seeing them at Christmas. Hope your holiday is a good one!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Mistress....I love it....warm and nostalgic. Those old vintage decorations really make the feel of Christmas. Your evening sounds just right. You do everything just up right. Beautiful blog this season, I always enjoy December here.
ReplyDeleteYep, I can't blame you for wanting a long winters nap....that bedroom looks so cozy and inviting!!! Love all the trees too. My grandmother used to have those pressed tin reflectors on her tree. Haven't seen them in years! Lovely post as always!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas 🎄🎊🎅🏼
Merry Christmas to my Muse! I really like your tree. I love when I'm at family or friends' homes and see there trees. I love exploring them to see the selections of ornaments. I love that I bet everything has a story with your decorations.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful post Mistress dear!!!! I'm in love with lovely decorations. Hoping you have a wonderful Christmas.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas! Baa, baaa, baah love the little sheep.
ReplyDeleteAren't they cute?
DeleteMerry Christmas 🎄
ReplyDeleteThe best part about gifts are the ones that are free
I always love how you decorate a home, and bottle brush trees are highly underrated. Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI was able to pick out so many holiday ornaments from my childhood in your fantastic collection! The glass birds with the floss tails are my favorites. Thank YOU for a year full of beautiful images, hot men, and excellent rants and outrages! Merry merry XOOO
ReplyDeleteOm my storage unit from my apartment i have another 30 of different birds with the floss tails. My own tree is done with all birds mostly. I have a lot of bubble lights too...but didn't put them out this year.
DeleteAbsolutely gorgeous decorations, sweetpea! xoxo
ReplyDeleteyou certainly gots lovely balls.
ReplyDeleteHey ! Merry Christmas !! It looks so nice and festive as always. I got the hubby one of those smoking cabins this year after seeing it on your blog last year. He loves it, and dare say it was his favorite gift. The simplest of things makes people the happiest I swear. Enjoy Warbucks's visit!!!!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas hun! Thanks for the pictures, everything looks so festive...with some pinches of good memories. I love the history of the Christmas German pyramids. I have one form one of my trips to Germany...they are not cheap...but the hand craft is so pretty. I light mine of Christmas eve.
ReplyDeleteWishing you all the very best in this festive season hennnny. Love all the vintage touches! I miss stuff like this.
ReplyDeleteThank you my dear for the Christmas card. Just receiving it made me feel wonderful.
ReplyDeleteYour welcome! I like to let everyone know they are thought of.
DeleteWhat a great Nostalgic Christmas Maddie, Loved seeing how you Decorated the whole House, it's all so lovely and Editorial my Friend. Vintage Decorations are my favs too, Loved Loved your Shiny Brites on the Tree, I have some similar ones from the same Era and they're Beloved.
ReplyDeleteI love the Shiny Brutes too. I hope to always use them....they bring about such fond memories. Hope your doing well with recovery.
DeleteThank you everybody!!!!! Hope you all had a nice Yuletide!!
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