The favorite Christmas decorations that have followed me from my childhood home through the years, are the crocheted starched snowflakes that my mom made back in the 70's/80's. With six kids in our family, I love that she took the time, and knew how, to always make our home beautiful. She downsized in later years, and I was delighted when she gave them to me. It makes my heart happy to enjoy them once more each holiday.
Love the trees Sarah. My mom is very sentimental and, every year, she pulled out this hideous red pottery ashtray that I made in kindergarten and filled it with tiny Christmas balls. It was usually placed on the mantle and mom would tell everyone who came in that I made it. I pretended to be so embarrassed but when it broke years later, I cried my eyes out! Pretty sure kids don’t make ashtrays at school anymore!🙂
I love the pasta trees. I remember making one as a child and spray painting it gold. I thought that made it "fancy," but I like the heirloom white much better (more elegant). One of my favorite Christmas decorations from the late 60s,/early 70s were Christmas trees made from folding Reader's Digest pages in a certain way that made them tree-shaped and then spray painting them green. Super simple and inexpensive and they actually looked good! I love your taste and all your videos, Sarah. You rock!
So sorry to hear of your troubles last week and happy to hear all is improving. Glad to have you back this week, you were missed! My favorite childhood Christmas memory is more of a tradition. Every year at my grandmother's, once everyone was gathered around the tree and prior to opening presents, we would read the Christmas story from the bible (Luke 2:1-20). Usually one of the young ones would do the reading. It was a great reminder for the season. My grandmother has been gone for many years now, but we continue this tradition at my mother's house. Congratulations on 70,000!!!
I am 62 years young and your beautiful pasta trees idea is the first thing I have wanted to actually make this season. Love your kind interaction and the gentle way you speak with us in your videos. I always look forward to your posts!
Beautiful trees! I love the memories of our moms’ crafting while we were little. My favorite Christmas decoration was the little vignette my mom created using a mirror, fluffy “snow” and a lighted church. She put a couple of tiny figures on the “ice rink.” Aw memories! Thank you for your sweet channel!
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Oh I remember making these with my grandma. We made all the decorations for Christmas. She didn’t have a lot of money, but it was such fun going there and making all the things with her. Dough ornaments, paper chain and dried fruit garland. Just great memories.
I love the pasta trees!! My favorite holiday decoration (50's & 60" :o), our silver tree that slowly spins. The tree didn't have lights but had a color wheel that sat in front of the tree, 5-6 different colors that lite the tree as the color wheel spins (lots of spinning going on, ha!). Wish that I had that tree today. Congratulations on hitting 70,000!
My grandmother made the most beautiful ornaments with velvet, pearl and gold beads and ribbon. Exquisite for handmade. I also loved the glass ornaments...not the straight up shiny brights but the ones with details and vivid colors. I still have few of my memories! Now my favorite decorations are trees; bristle, fabric, wood, yes! My son made me a pasta tree when he was in grade school. Can't say I still have that because construction paper diys usually don't last long. Thanks for the pasta tree tute and as always your lovely ideas and tips! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
I LOVED THIS... I'm definitely going to try this. I'm a 70's child and just to see all of this nostalgic decor coming back gets me so excited. Do you remember, you may be too young, but in school we would wrap a piece of tissue paper on the tips of our pencils and we would create a fluffy Christmas design (Stockings, Santa and Xmas Trees, etc.). I remember my mom would always save ours and she would use them to decorate the refrigerator, year after year, because this is where she spent most of her time. This is my favorite memory of her during Christmas. I'm actually going to help my kindergartener do this today for his little project for school. Thank you for this video! Merry Christmas!!! 🎄
Absolutely love this diy tree , thank you for your inspiration My favourite childhood memory was stringing popcorn and cranberries for our tree every year and also making paper snowflakes , I do this with my grandchildren as well as I hold a gingerbread house making party Thank you so much for your practical tips , so needed
Good to have you back. Hope the family is all well. You don’t need to apologize for being gone. You do have a life outside of this channel. I appreciate that you share this little bit with us!
I remember in Girl Scouts we covered cigar boxes with macaroni, then sprayed them gold to give our mothers for Mother’s Day. I had so much fun making my beautiful macaroni jewelry box and to see the pride in my mothers eyes when I gave it to her. That’s when I discovered I loved crafts. I’m 70 now and still I get so much pleasure in giving gifts I make myself. Thank-you for sharing this very special tutorial and bringing back such special memories of my childhood. I always love your videos! 🌸
Love that you created that as a Mother's day gift! Another reply here said they made something similar to use for the wise men's gift to Jesus. :) So creative!
I love this DIY! My favorite childhood Christmas decor piece is hands down the stockings my mother made for me and my sisters. They were in this fabulous vintage material with beautiful swans. They were so fancy yet simple and I remember looking at them as a little girl and thinking how much love and talent my mother poured into making them. She’s a fabulous DIYer and I definitely took after her!
My favourite holiday decoration was a concertina Father Christmas. I was blessed with the gift of it when my mother died. It is so old, but still the most precious Christmas decoration I own. I still remember my father falling into the tree, mince pie pandemonium and throughout it all, my mother always stopping the chaos with the grand opening of his paper concertina stomach and hanging him in pride of place. He still gets the place and brings me great happiness and fond memories of Christmases when I was young.
I love your videos! Congratulations on making it to 70,000! My favorite childhood decoration is a pink satin ball angel ornament that my grandmother gave me. I still prominently display it on the front of my tree over 50 years later!
My aunt had made macaroni trees in the ’70s and I loved them! Thanks for the flashback. She used little beads in the areas that the macaroni didn't touch and sprayed the trees gold. My favorite decoration that stands out in my mind are all of the tiny angels that my grandma would hang on the grave covering that she would put inside of her fireplace and stage her Nativity. It was the most beautiful Nativity backdrop that I have ever seen ❤️
These trees are beautiful. I would never have dreamt that macaroni could look so good! I agree that painting them all white or cream is the key! My favourite Christmas decorations from my childhood (the 60’s) are my Mom’s 40’s and 50’s mercury glass tree ornaments. I inherited them are they are such a wonderful reminder of my childhood Christmases.
Am in tears- hadn’t remembered doing this with my grandfather in the 1960’s when I was little until I watched your video- brought back a flood of happy memories! Thankyou! Wish I still had those trees- glad you have your childhood one- it is so cool and very beautiful! Happy advent! Hope you got my answer to your question about the painting over my DIY electric fireplace Mantle I copied from you and sent you a picture of. Sent you an email- am enjoying the fireplace in our bedroom!😊
I remember making Christmas ornaments with my Grandmother in the early 60's. She would visit and bring bags of sequins and felt material cut out in the shapes of ornaments. We glued the sequins on the felt and hung them on our tree. Such great memories. Thank you for bringing that memory back again.
Keeping you and your family in my prayers. I love your videos. Your talent always inspire me. Have a wonderful Christmas. My favorite childhood Christmas tradition was not a decoration, but going to a true midnight mass. My sister was in the choir. We’d come home after mass at 1am to a fabulous breakfast. We were then allowed to open one gift before going to bed…. As a preteen, this tradition was so special and so grownup!!!! I was in high school in the 70’s! I am so excited to see hints if my teen years again. Have a wonderful holiday!
My fave decorations are some cloth ornaments that I bought for 50 cents at a Christmas bazaar when I was about 14. When I see them they bring me back to the time and I can remember all of the details of the day (even though it was 40 years ago!). Someone handmade them in triangles and circles and they are still very precious to me! My best friend and I both bought them that day and the other day while shopping (we still are close friends!) We talked about them and she still has hers also! Very special. So glad you are well and back! I will admit I missed your video last week and so glad to see you pop up on my feed. Your videos are calming and inspiring! Thank u!
Love the craft and your childhood pasta tree! My favorite decoration as a child was a plastic lighted church that winds up, and plays “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem.” I still have it and it’s on a base that’s covered with snow and sprinkled with iridescent white glitter. There’s a steeple with a tiny brass bell and bottlebrush flocked trees in front of the church. It plugs in and lights up. The windows have plastic marbleized windows, that look like stained glass when light is on. This was fascinating throughout my childhood. I still feel the magic the same as when I was a little girl with my Mother and Dad. They made ever Christmas so special.
tinsel reminds me of the 50s Christmases.... there were 3 little girls and mom used to sit on the couch with the tinsel lovingly folded over her arm...we would each get a few strands at a time and mom would say "drape it over the branches ... don't throw it on. It was so beautiful and shimmered like glistening icicles when we were done. Now I see how patient she was to let us take all the time in the world to decorate the tree.
My best memories of Christmas was homemade ornaments made by my Dad. Dad worked during WW2 at the shipyard in Baltimore building ships for our Navy. He took the scraps of aluminum and cut out stars and moons. They were made at a trying time for all of America. His ornaments were just left silver and shiny and also pretty sharp (guess he didn't have time to sand them smoothe. When I look at them, I remember Dad was so proud of America but quiet about his time at the shipyard. Guess he felt that other men had served this country better being in the war. Hats off to Dad.
Dollar tree sells candle holders. Love this idea. I remember making a macaroni necklace for my mom for Mother’s Day. She actually wore it. What a saint.
My favorite Christmas ornaments are always our children's ornaments that they made and that I made. Christmas is for children in my world, so your pasta tree is beautiful to me.
I loved this!!! O will do one of these with my grandchildren. My favorite holiday memory craft was handmade ornaments. We were poor and my parents tried hard to make our Christmas fun. We did lots of stuff like making things. Mom made some kind of salty dough, roll it out and we cut out candy canes, bells, Christmas trees, and stockings. We baked them Then we painted them A toothpick was put in the top of each ornament while cooking. Then we took whatever kind of string or ribbon and hung them on the tree. I will always cherish that!
That is the classiest macaroni tree I ever! I loved the real tree with popcorn and cranberries strung. Also the tinsel, messy, but beautifully tacky and the candy canes hung on the real tree. Very simple.
Your pasta trees are beautiful, I especially like the texture and vibes the wheels added to the tree your mother crafted, and obviously your Mother's canvas allowed larger pastas. Those would make a lovely centerpiece on a large eat in kitchen table or island. Merry Christmas!
Thank you Sarah, the trees are so beautiful and such a great way to think of your mom when you see them. My favorite childhood decoration was yarn wreaths my grandmother made. She took yarn and made multiple yarn pieces (similar to the pom-poms you made for the garland) but you tie them in the middle vs. cutting the edges. She tied them all around a plastic bracelet until it was completely filled in and she added a loop to hang them and finished with a bow ❤️ I miss her terribly but what a great way to remember her at Christmas when I see mine 🎉 Congrats on 70K subscribers, we all love your videos and look forward to them.
Such a beautiful, nostalgic and festive result! I remember decorating our childhood tree with cross-stitched ornaments my mom had made and then anticipating her homemade cinnamon rolls and Christmas cookies coming out of the oven. God has gifted you, Sarah. Thanks for sharing!
The trees are so cute and that is something my grandchild and I can do!! My favorite Christmas from my childhood was all of my Moms old glass ornaments!! They are so beautiful and I was fortune enough to inherit them.... so the tree in my bedroom has all her old ornaments on it and it makes me smile every night!! ☺
Im 50yo and remember when I was little my Mom & I made trees. Cones covered in tiny hemlock cones, (like pine cones only teeny... we had a hemlock tree in the yard) and cones covered in unshelled nuts and yes, we did pasta too. Now all these years later, I have 3 trees in every room. On the family rm mantel, my bedrm dresser, the living rm coffee table, the dining rm sideboard, the kitchen table and even the sink counter in the powder rm. As I unpack them, I think fondly of my mom who encouraged Christmas decorations everywhere. She would be so happy. I text her pics of my decor and, at 78, she is still letting me know those trees in the living rm would look better in the dining rm.🙂
Hi Sarah greetings from 🇦🇺. Congratulations on 70,000. Social media is the best…we come from all over the world to watch your vlogs. I love the simplicity of your styling and your manner is humble and you talk to us not at us. My Christmas was the fifties so post world war 2. Not much wealth as we were a migrant family from Europe. My mum still did her best with a live pine tree 🌲 with the pine smell permeating the house. The decorations were simple….crepe paper mostly red white and green cut into thin strips dripping from the tree.round baubles of fragile glass painted in metallic colours to be handled with care as they easily shattered (plastic was virtually non existent in the fifties). Christmas cards pegged onto string with wooden pegs. Presents were exchanged on Christmas Eve as is traditional in Europe. On Christmas Day which was usually hot and sunny we enjoyed a traditional roast and Christmas pudding and custard. Beautiful nostalgic memories of a simple era.
I actually remember making the pasta trees at school and when my parents moved in with me and I found them saved in the attic. I thought the same they are ugly so I threw them away. But you are right the color would of made them so cute. So here I am going to make the pasta tree. Thank you so much for your great ideas and seeing the pretty in all things.
I love the macaroni tree. I am a 70’s girl so that was definitely a walk down memory lane for me. I’m thinking that would be a great craft to do with my grandchildren. Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Yes the pasta tree from your childhood is special, unique, aesthetically pleasing and your Mom made it. 🌟 My favorite childhood decoration, I as well took from my family home. It has 3 Elves huddled together it’s ceramic and plays music when you wind it up. I remember when I was little we weren’t allowed to wind it on our own, we had to ask Mom to wind it. My parents didn’t want it to break from children winding to tight. 😀 Happy Christmas & Happy Holidays all. 🎄
That's sooo cool. I made tiny angels ornaments years ago as a young crafter and have put them on my tree ever since. Loved your trees. I HAD tons of thread cones but threw them away a year ago. I could have made a forest. My favorite childhood decoration were those rocket tree light sets. They had to warm up before they would bubble. Hours spent, chin in hand, watching the wonderful display.
Love the pasta trees! Glad your family emergency is over! Missed you! When I was a kid my mom macremed a Santa face that she always hung on our front door. Was out shopping yesterday and saw macreme is back! Wish I could attach a picture! Excited for next week's thrift gift ideas!
I have one of those popsicle stick sled ornaments (that kids still make!) from elementary school, dated 1984. My teacher wrote in silver pen, Merry Christmas Rachel, 1984. I have kept it "forever" and it finds a special place somewhere in my decor every year! It is a reminder that we don't have to leave our childhoods behind, even when our own children are almost grown. At Christmastime we are forever children of the King! =)
I love all your videos, this one was different knowing that the 70’s was considered bohemian decor, I grew up in the 70’s. I remember my mom spending many days putting tinsel on our tree, It was beautiful and she did one strand at a time. I just remembered the way it shimmered with the lights.
Fun project, brought back vacation bible school memories with the pasta! My favorite Christmas decor is a single ornament, a little cheap plastic Santa with his pack on his shoulder. Maybe because it’s my oldest memory of Christmas. I sent it to my son while he was serving in Iraq along with a small Charlie Brown tree w/lights. The little Santa now graces his family tree each year ❤️ Merry Christmas!
So glad you are back! You took me down memory lane with the maccaroni art! As a child I made a jewelry box in bible school and it was beautiful in my eyes . It turned a cigar box with shells and elbows painted gold into something the wisemen took to baby Jesus!! ♥️love your channel thanks to Canterbury cottage for introducing you!!
I was just talking about boho style with my son and his girlfriend last night. Who knew pasta trees could be so pretty? Paint transforms everything! My favorite Christmas decoration from my childhood is a fuzzy mouse tree topper dressed like Santa. I still put it on my tree each year as an ornament. I say "mousie!!!" every year when I pull it out of the Christmas bin...and I am 55.🐭🎅
My favorite was my Mom's decorations most from the 1950's, spaghetti Santa, angel, homemade felt ornaments and tree skirt she hand crafted. It inspired me to collect cotton spun ornaments and bottle brush trees. She baked 7 different cookies, she was definitely a woman of her era. I miss her each day, the holidays are hardest, much empathy to anyone else who has lost a loved one.
The macaroni trees are lovely. As a child every year we made baby Jesus with a large wood bead for the head a small white felt square for the swaddle. We added them to citrus baskets for the elderly. The baskets were filled with local oranges, satsumas and cumquats with the sweet baby Jesus . Merry Christmas from southern Alabama
What a good idea! When I was little I was in Mexico, we didn't have any ornaments, so we decorated tree with small balloons, what a great memories. I wish a had a picture!
Oh my goodness super cute!! Mama tree and her four baby trees!! ❤️ how creative are you Sarah!!! I love that your mom kinda inspired you with this diy too 🥰
So beautiful, Sarah!!! Thanks for showing us how to make the trees. Congratulations on reaching 60k subs!!!! Praise God!!!! I have the nativity set from my childhood, which I treasure and love!! Several years ago a dear friend gave the set a much needed paint job. It's prominently placed in the living room for everyone to cherish and adore! Happy holidays to you and your family!!!
I love the pasta trees! My favorite decorations were the homemade felt stockings my mother made each of us kids! They had felt shapes that had beads and sequins on it!
Those are adorable. I have bad childhood memories surrounding christmas, but as an adult I’ve tried to create good ones with my kids. Last year I gathered my kids, and their cousins at my house to craft for Christmas. We built gingerbread houses, made reindeer with candy canes, and I taught them how to make felt ornaments. It was a long day, but I hope I helped create memories for them.
It sounds like you're doing a wonderful job creating happy memories for your children and neices/nephews, Beatriz! I hope they help redeem some of bad ones for you as well.
Spraying with white paint magically turns the ordinary into something special!! When I was a child (and I am 80 so that was long ago!) we had strings of popcorn that somehow were infused in a colored sugar coating. They were not only pretty, but delicious!!
When I think back to the Christmas’s of the past growing up in the late 60’s and 70’s, the favorite decoration had to be the manger scene that was placed under the tree. I think it was a “hand me down” given to my parents, so I believe it would have been made in the 1950’s. The manger scene was made from cardboard and the figures were made of soft plastic. It was placed under the tree and I remember playing with it with my siblings. Now that my mother has passed, the manger travels each year to the house that is hosting the Christmas gathering for our family.
I made macaroni trees in 1st grade in 1965 in Seattle! We also glued macaroni to cardboard Christmas shapes: bells, trees, stars. As they say, there's really nothing new under the sun! I was pleasantly surprised to see this old craft surface. Merry Christmas!
I love the macaroni trees!! My favorite decoration or memory of decorating our tree when I was small was when my mom popped popcorn and we stung them and cranberries up on the tree. Natural and beautiful ❤️
I agree that sentimental things are most meaningful and feed the spirit. They carry memories of sweet times and the people that shape our lives. For that reason, the stocking my grandmother made for each grandchild holds the Christmas feels. She had 19 of us. Each stocking shared common factors, this coordinating them, yet each was unique in its design. Every year these stockings lined my grandfather's mantel. When the stocking went up, it was Christmas!
This is a great diy to do with my grandkids. Something for them to carry on. My fave Christmas thing is a fuzzy striped pen with a pompon top that my Pop tied to my gift when I was a teenager. I stuck on the tree and it’s been there every year since. I don’t remember the gift, but decades later I remember Pop when I out that pen on my tree
My momma use to make macaroni trees with us when we were younger. I love this memory ❤️ So much more special since she has passed. Thank you for showing your beautiful take on them!
Well I missed the give away as I am now viewing this video, I'm just glad to have caught this one!! I adore you and your channel!! My mother was the interior designer of the family and she would have loved your ideas as well.. I am slowly trying to channel her talent into my own home. (With the help of the tips from you and other professionals!!) Your grace and elegance is so heart warming, not to sound cheesy, but in today's world everything is so crazy and crass. It's nice to slow down and remember what is important. The macaroni tree is great! My daughter was the noodle /pasta kid. In school needed to make a project using the letter P or N. So then came the creation of the cardboard letter filled with glued on dry pasta! Not a tree, but still funny and cute!! Thanks for all of your beautiful ideas. Have a lovely Holiday season.
Love your calm demeanor. In 1958, my mother asked the clerk in the liquor dept. (at the Food Giant grocery) if she could have one of the empty boxes that looked like a brick chimney. She glued cotton around the top of the upside down box and every year it stored our ornaments until it was brought out and homemade Christmas decor was placed on top of the “chimney “. Usually, it was a Santa head made from an empty bleach bottle.
Love the macaroni trees! Congratulations on 70K-I’m not surprised at all. Love, love, love your videos and decorating advice. 🥰 I missed you last week. Sending prayers your way!
I didn’t grow up with any real Christmas traditions nor do I have any memories from my childhood about making any specific ornaments or decorations. I do however have a favorite from my own kids past Christmas crafts! My kids are avid readers and because they are boys they are ROUGH on the books LOL every year I hold on to the one they have loved and is “well loved” and I have them take out some pages to make ornaments with! They LOVE it! Some pages have been made into snowflakes and some are shredded and put into clear plastic bulbs. Each one has their name, the title/author, and the year they read it. Hoping they take some when they have a family of their own so they can pass on the love of reading and Christmas ♥️
Hello Sarah-quick question. Where do you stash all of your finds when they're not in use? I wonder if others are curious about that also! Love all that you do!
I love this diy and plan to do this when I gather with my family for good time together- what a beautiful gift from you mom and you still have it all this time later. ❤️❤️❤️
Love the idea of "pasta trees". We never made those. We did make all kinds of decor using the shapes of our hands and finger prints. This brings back such nice memories. I think I will have at least one pasta tree to add to our festivities this season. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much SHE HOLDS DEARLY - I loved your macaroni Christmas Trees! My favorite decoration from my childhood were the SHINY BRITE decorations on our tree.
My mom use to make plaster ornaments, paint them and gift them to people. Through the years they have all broken but I have fond memories of mom making them and when I was older I helped.
Our nativity set was always the most special - we also had bubble lights and a real tree with silver garland. We were small town mid-Missouri..... Best childhood ever! Best custom was reading the nativity story every Christmas eve in the Bible.
I must admit I was never a fan of macaroni trees UNTIL i saw yours. As you say it’s the colour and the collection you put together on your mantle that transforms theses trees from ordinary to a super cool and trendy . My favourite memory is of my dad having cut our Christmas tree and how it made our living room so cold when it was set up. Then for decorating the tree ,dad was fussy about the icicles and so my mom would iron them in between a tea towel so they hung perfectly straight
I LOVE the pasta tree AND your chunky sweater!!!!! 😍 As a 56 year of DIY’er, the only decor that stands out to me is TINSEL…which by the way I didn’t care for. But the memory I have is walking our property back through the woods to find the perfect Christmas tree to cut down.
Those cotton spools remind me of my childhood (40 years ago). My uncle had several of those and I remember playing with them. I’d line them up, stack them. I hope kids still use their imagination with play time.
I also have fond memories of macaroni crafts from VBS. My granddaughters, ages 11, 7, and 4, are always asking for a craft to make. I know we are going to have fun with this one!
I would have to call these lovely pasta trees my Alfredo Couture Trees :) I'm so glad I found your channel. I get so excited when you post. I have so many wonderful memories of my childhood Christmas'. I had 8 siblings and thankfully my Mom was a creative soul and the very best cook. We had a macaroni tree too, but it was painted a brilliant bronze-gold color. I can't really say I have a favorite childhood Christmas decoration. My favorite memories are of my Mom and her determination to make sure our family had a loving and memorable Christmas. She would plan and bake ahead for weeks. Then she'd scour Better Homes & Gardens and Southern Living magazines for new crafts and recipe ideas. Each year she add a new hobby to her creative repertoire such as macramé plant hangers, sewing holiday tree skirts or pretty felt stockings, floral arrangements, and a new sweet confection to add to the always delicious menu of her Christmas Eve spread. I'm still trying to figure out how she did it all. Lol. I'm keeping your family in my prayers and so grateful for the gift of creativity that you always share!
We were so very poor that we didn’t have any decorations except the week before Christmas Dad would allow us to put up a tree with very few ornaments. But the decorations I remember the most were the ones my Grandma had on her tree with Bubble lights being so beautiful to me. She also always had two huge bowls on her buffet. One would be filled with oranges and tangerines and the other with mixed nuts! What a delight! Of course she would put out plates filled with various homemade fudges, divinity and yummy decorated sugar cookies. What a wonderful and most prized childhood memory.
Great video! Screenshot-ed a few displays in your video - gorgeous! My favorite “decor” as a child was a Christmas bowl with ribbon candy in it. I’m not even sure what it’s called but it was a multi-colored hard candy that was flat and folded over on itself. My grandma also had a similar display but that candy and a couple of other kinds were made of glass.
Congratulations on them 70k. I loved the pasta trees. My youngest and I need to DIY these. I remember when I had teachers or girl scout leaders DIY'd trees out of Readers Digests and ornaments out of seed pods and angels.
Loved this idea! My favorite childhood decoration comes from a project in first grade. We made paper chains using red and white construction paper, glue and scissors. I came home and told my dad that I wanted to make one for our tree at home. He took me to buy construction paper at the dime store (showing my age!). Then he drove me to his office where we used the paper cutter and stapler to make a giant chain that we used on our tree for the next 25 years. It was a real bonding experience with my dad…and so much easier than what we had done at school!
Ooooh!!!! I remember making these!!! Such a fun memory!!! I think we used Elmer's glue and had to be very patient to hold them on while they dried or they would slip down .... hot glue is a GREAT improvement!!! My favorite decorations will always be the ones our kids made when they were little - that time just went by so quickly and now they are all grown up!
Yay to 70k subscribers. I love the trees. I never made them, but the color makes them look really high end. I guess you could use buttons, gears, bolts and washers (for steam punk). I graduated from high school in 1972. I bought diy kits and made ornaments out of wood and clothes pins and unpainted ceramics. I just put them on my tree yesterday. I also like the lovely rust, brown and pink ornaments you showed. But for Christmas, I tend to use what I have from year to year. I like the look of real high end (gold and crystal and silver) , and boho, but I stick to reds, greens, whites and snow men and reindeer and Santa's and angels. They are like old friends when I see rhem every year. Having said that, I do add one or two decor pieces every year, but their is no drastic departure from the look I have. It's what my mom did too. And I also have a nativity. It's at least 25 years old.. The tallest figurine is 6" tall. It's in a lovely tera cotta. And 2 years ago, my husband and I made a little stable.
My favorite ornament was a shiny brite bell. ( my mother said it was a tree) The bell had three horitontal sections in soft shades of pink, darker pink, and a little darker pink. It also had the painted on snow on the edges. I loved that ornament and it was my job to place it on the tree each year. The bell would look so sweet with this bohemian color palette.
My favorite Christmas decoration from my childhood was a little cloth ballerina ornament with a soft tulle skirt. It was totally unique and I always admired it even as a tiny kid!
Really lovely! I’m a new subscriber and we didn’t have anything really awesome for Christmas decorations when I was growing up with the exception of putting up an old Nativity display. I really loved the simplicity and symbolism of the little crèche with the infant Jesus, Joseph and Mary, some shepherds, sheep and the three wise men. I miss having a crèche. Your channel is exquisite! Thank you!
Congrats on all the subscribers!! We so appreciate your shared inspiration! My favorite holiday deco as a kiddo was a plastic ornament that my mom hung in our tree. The ornament was a church complete with a steeple and a mini light that warmed the welcoming church doors. The light was accompanied by a sweet old Christmas song. Playing with that three D little church made me smile on more than one occasion. Merry Christmas and blessings to your family and all that came with the emergency!
Just finished watching Your bohemian Christmas decor video & LOVED IT❣ The pasta diy trees were FABULOUS, love them. The one Your Mom made is absolutely BEAUTIFUL❣ The macaroni noodles on it almost look like they're garlin. Just love all Your videos! My favorite childhood Christmas decor was also a diy done by my Mom. She was very talented in many ways & was into ceramics for years. She made Christmas serving platters & the all time favorite ceramic Christmas Trees. We had a very BEAUTIFUL one She made & set out every year. She also made them as gifts. Thanks for sharing.
I love those macaroni trees🤩 My granddaughter would love them since her favorite meal is pasta. My favorite memory was in the late 60’s and very early 70’s was our silver fake tinsel Christmas tree, and the electronic color wheel that sat on the floor next to the tree. The wheel rotated around glowing the colors of the wheel on to the tree. Super cheesy for sure, but I just loved it, and could sit and just stare at it forever just thinking about how magical I thought it was 😵💫😀!
I love the macaroni tree it's awesome I must get the grands al together and make a few. My fondest memory of Christmas is my Beautiful mom decorating her white tree back in the 70s she loved Christmas. I miss her so very much. Merry Christmas
I loved my mom's Avon nativity set as a Christmas decoration. It would have a special place on top of the piano. We never had a mantel. I've made my own by crocheting a set but also I found a quilt panel to make into a nativity so I made that as mini stuffed figures for my kids. I have the plastic little people one but also a glass set that now sits on our mantel. To me the coming of Jesus is the point of Christmas and giving to others. So I'm hoping to encourage creative making and creative giving for Christmas. Thanks for the fun ideas. Xx
Love those pasta trees having memories are the best it makes me feel emotional:-) my momma always put the large colored lights and tinsel and well the bubbling ornaments!! And I do those thank you be Blessed
The favorite Christmas decorations that have followed me from my childhood home through the years, are the crocheted starched snowflakes that my mom made back in the 70's/80's. With six kids in our family, I love that she took the time, and knew how, to always make our home beautiful. She downsized in later years, and I was delighted when she gave them to me. It makes my heart happy to enjoy them once more each holiday.
Those sound lovely! What a nice addition to your decor even still!
Love the trees Sarah. My mom is very sentimental and, every year, she pulled out this hideous red pottery ashtray that I made in kindergarten and filled it with tiny Christmas balls. It was usually placed on the mantle and mom would tell everyone who came in that I made it. I pretended to be so embarrassed but when it broke years later, I cried my eyes out! Pretty sure kids don’t make ashtrays at school anymore!🙂
I think you're right about that, Lisa! I'm sorry yours broke! :(
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I love the pasta trees. I remember making one as a child and spray painting it gold. I thought that made it "fancy," but I like the heirloom white much better (more elegant). One of my favorite Christmas decorations from the late 60s,/early 70s were Christmas trees made from folding Reader's Digest pages in a certain way that made them tree-shaped and then spray painting them green. Super simple and inexpensive and they actually looked good! I love your taste and all your videos, Sarah. You rock!
There have been a few other mentions of similar, like Reader's Digest angels - how fun and creative!
We did bunnies with the digest.
I remember doing that! So fun!
So sorry to hear of your troubles last week and happy to hear all is improving. Glad to have you back this week, you were missed! My favorite childhood Christmas memory is more of a tradition. Every year at my grandmother's, once everyone was gathered around the tree and prior to opening presents, we would read the Christmas story from the bible (Luke 2:1-20). Usually one of the young ones would do the reading. It was a great reminder for the season. My grandmother has been gone for many years now, but we continue this tradition at my mother's house. Congratulations on 70,000!!!
That's certainly one of the best Christmas traditions to have! It's great to reset our focus on the true reason we're celebrating!
I am 62 years young and your beautiful pasta trees idea is the first thing I have wanted to actually make this season. Love your kind interaction and the gentle way you speak with us in your videos. I always look forward to your posts!
I hope you make one, Melody!
Beautiful trees! I love the memories of our moms’ crafting while we were little. My favorite Christmas decoration was the little vignette my mom created using a mirror, fluffy “snow” and a lighted church. She put a couple of tiny figures on the “ice rink.” Aw memories! Thank you for your sweet channel!
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Oh I remember making these with my grandma. We made all the decorations for Christmas. She didn’t have a lot of money, but it was such fun going there and making all the things with her. Dough ornaments, paper chain and dried fruit garland. Just great memories.
Special memories with people we love are far more important than the things, aren't they!
I love the pasta trees!! My favorite holiday decoration (50's & 60" :o), our silver tree that slowly spins. The tree didn't have lights but had a color wheel that sat in front of the tree, 5-6 different colors that lite the tree as the color wheel spins (lots of spinning going on, ha!). Wish that I had that tree today. Congratulations on hitting 70,000!
I loved our tree like that!
Thank you for sharing that memory! I think those trees must have been popular, I've read comments from a few other ladies who loved them, too!
Pasta trees are awesome. They do remind me of trees done is all shells. The one you have that your mother did is wonderful. God’s blessings.
Yes, I love the tree's! Timeless beautiful!
Favorite childhood memories is going as a family to the woods in search of a perfect cedar tree❣
Great tradition!
My grandmother made the most beautiful ornaments with velvet, pearl and gold beads and ribbon. Exquisite for handmade. I also loved the glass ornaments...not the straight up shiny brights but the ones with details and vivid colors. I still have few of my memories! Now my favorite decorations are trees; bristle, fabric, wood, yes! My son made me a pasta tree when he was in grade school. Can't say I still have that because construction paper diys usually don't last long. Thanks for the pasta tree tute and as always your lovely ideas and tips! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Thank you for sharing!
I LOVED THIS... I'm definitely going to try this. I'm a 70's child and just to see all of this nostalgic decor coming back gets me so excited. Do you remember, you may be too young, but in school we would wrap a piece of tissue paper on the tips of our pencils and we would create a fluffy Christmas design (Stockings, Santa and Xmas Trees, etc.). I remember my mom would always save ours and she would use them to decorate the refrigerator, year after year, because this is where she spent most of her time. This is my favorite memory of her during Christmas. I'm actually going to help my kindergartener do this today for his little project for school. Thank you for this video! Merry Christmas!!! 🎄
How fun to recreate it with your child! I hope you two have fun!
@@SheHoldsDearly Thank you so much! He truly enjoyed it. Merry Christmas!
Absolutely love this diy tree , thank you for your inspiration
My favourite childhood memory was stringing popcorn and cranberries for our tree every year and also making paper snowflakes , I do this with my grandchildren as well as I hold a gingerbread house making party
Thank you so much for your practical tips , so needed
Thank you for sharing, Lynda!
Good to have you back. Hope the family is all well. You don’t need to apologize for being gone. You do have a life outside of this channel. I appreciate that you share this little bit with us!
Thank you, Robin!
I remember in Girl Scouts we covered cigar boxes with macaroni, then sprayed them gold to give our mothers for Mother’s Day. I had so much fun making my beautiful macaroni jewelry box and to see the pride in my mothers eyes when I gave it to her. That’s when I discovered I loved crafts. I’m 70 now and still I get so much pleasure in giving gifts I make myself. Thank-you for sharing this very special tutorial and bringing back such special memories of my childhood. I always love your videos! 🌸
Love that you created that as a Mother's day gift! Another reply here said they made something similar to use for the wise men's gift to Jesus. :) So creative!
I love this DIY! My favorite childhood Christmas decor piece is hands down the stockings my mother made for me and my sisters. They were in this fabulous vintage material with beautiful swans. They were so fancy yet simple and I remember looking at them as a little girl and thinking how much love and talent my mother poured into making them. She’s a fabulous DIYer and I definitely took after her!
Love that!
My favourite holiday decoration was a concertina Father Christmas. I was blessed with the gift of it when my mother died. It is so old, but still the most precious Christmas decoration I own. I still remember my father falling into the tree, mince pie pandemonium and throughout it all, my mother always stopping the chaos with the grand opening of his paper concertina stomach and hanging him in pride of place. He still gets the place and brings me great happiness and fond memories of Christmases when I was young.
So fun! Love that you still get to ring in the season with him!
I love your videos! Congratulations on making it to 70,000!
My favorite childhood decoration is a pink satin ball angel ornament that my grandmother gave me. I still prominently display it on the front of my tree over 50 years later!
Thank you!
My aunt had made macaroni trees in the ’70s and I loved them! Thanks for the flashback. She used little beads in the areas that the macaroni didn't touch and sprayed the trees gold. My favorite decoration that stands out in my mind are all of the tiny angels that my grandma would hang on the grave covering that she would put inside of her fireplace and stage her Nativity. It was the most beautiful Nativity backdrop that I have ever seen ❤️
Sounds lovely!
These trees are beautiful. I would never have dreamt that macaroni could look so good! I agree that painting them all white or cream is the key! My favourite Christmas decorations from my childhood (the 60’s) are my Mom’s 40’s and 50’s mercury glass tree ornaments. I inherited them are they are such a wonderful reminder of my childhood Christmases.
I love mercury glass, too!
Your Mom’s macaroni tree is darling! I love all the colors of this style. Thank you so much!
Am in tears- hadn’t remembered doing this with my grandfather in the 1960’s when I was little until I watched your video- brought back a flood of happy memories! Thankyou! Wish I still had those trees- glad you have your childhood one- it is so cool and very beautiful! Happy advent! Hope you got my answer to your question about the painting over my DIY electric fireplace Mantle I copied from you and sent you a picture of. Sent you an email- am enjoying the fireplace in our bedroom!😊
I remember making Christmas ornaments with my Grandmother in the early 60's. She would visit and bring bags of sequins and felt material cut out in the shapes of ornaments. We glued the sequins on the felt and hung them on our tree. Such great memories. Thank you for bringing that memory back again.
That sounds like a great project! Thank you for sharing!
Keeping you and your family in my prayers. I love your videos. Your talent always inspire me. Have a wonderful Christmas. My favorite childhood Christmas tradition was not a decoration, but
going to a true midnight mass. My sister was in the choir. We’d come home after mass at 1am to a fabulous breakfast. We were then allowed to open one gift before going to bed…. As a preteen, this tradition was so special and so grownup!!!! I was in high school in the 70’s! I am so excited to see hints if my teen years again. Have a wonderful holiday!
That tradition sounds lovely!
My fave decorations are some cloth ornaments that I bought for 50 cents at a Christmas bazaar when I was about 14. When I see them they bring me back to the time and I can remember all of the details of the day (even though it was 40 years ago!). Someone handmade them in triangles and circles and they are still very precious to me! My best friend and I both bought them that day and the other day while shopping (we still are close friends!) We talked about them and she still has hers also! Very special. So glad you are well and back! I will admit I missed your video last week and so glad to see you pop up on my feed. Your videos are calming and inspiring! Thank u!
My favorite part is that both you and your friend (with a friendship still going strong) have those and remember them fondly!
Love the craft and your childhood pasta tree! My favorite decoration as a child was a plastic lighted church that winds up, and plays “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem.” I still have it and it’s on a base that’s covered with snow and sprinkled with iridescent white glitter. There’s a steeple with a tiny brass bell and bottlebrush flocked trees in front of the church. It plugs in and lights up. The windows have plastic marbleized windows, that look like stained glass when light is on. This was fascinating throughout my childhood. I still feel the magic the same as when I was a little girl with my Mother and Dad. They made ever Christmas so special.
It's so sweet how _things_ can bring up such sweet memories of times with people we love!
tinsel reminds me of the 50s Christmases.... there were 3 little girls and mom used to sit on the couch with the tinsel lovingly folded over her arm...we would each get a few strands at a time and mom would say "drape it over the branches ... don't throw it on. It was so beautiful and shimmered like glistening icicles when we were done. Now I see how patient she was to let us take all the time in the world to decorate the tree.
My best memories of Christmas was homemade ornaments made by my Dad. Dad worked during WW2 at the shipyard in Baltimore building ships for our Navy. He took the scraps of aluminum and cut out stars and moons. They were made at a trying time for all of America. His ornaments were just left silver and shiny and also pretty sharp (guess he didn't have time to sand them smoothe. When I look at them, I remember Dad was so proud of America but quiet about his time at the shipyard. Guess he felt that other men had served this country better being in the war. Hats off to Dad.
Well that's beautiful. I'm glad you still have them!
Dollar tree sells candle holders. Love this idea. I remember making a macaroni necklace for my mom for Mother’s Day. She actually wore it. What a saint.
Great idea finding candle holders at the dollar tree! :)
My favorite Christmas ornaments are always our children's ornaments that they made and that I made. Christmas is for children in my world, so your pasta tree is beautiful to me.
Love that!
I loved this!!! O will do one of these with my grandchildren. My favorite holiday memory craft was handmade ornaments. We were poor and my parents tried hard to make our Christmas fun. We did lots of stuff like making things. Mom made some kind of salty dough, roll it out and we cut out candy canes, bells, Christmas trees, and stockings. We baked them
Then we painted them
A toothpick was put in the top of each ornament while cooking. Then we took whatever kind of string or ribbon and hung them on the tree. I will always cherish that!
Sally, I love that you have those sweet memories!
That is the classiest macaroni tree I ever! I loved the real tree with popcorn and cranberries strung. Also the tinsel, messy, but beautifully tacky and the candy canes hung on the real tree. Very simple.
Simple and lovely!
Your pasta trees are beautiful, I especially like the texture and vibes the wheels added to the tree your mother crafted, and obviously your Mother's canvas allowed larger pastas. Those would make a lovely centerpiece on a large eat in kitchen table or island. Merry Christmas!
Thank you Sarah, the trees are so beautiful and such a great way to think of your mom when you see them. My favorite childhood decoration was yarn wreaths my grandmother made. She took yarn and made multiple yarn pieces (similar to the pom-poms you made for the garland) but you tie them in the middle vs. cutting the edges. She tied them all around a plastic bracelet until it was completely filled in and she added a loop to hang them and finished with a bow ❤️ I miss her terribly but what a great way to remember her at Christmas when I see mine 🎉 Congrats on 70K subscribers, we all love your videos and look forward to them.
I hope you have fun with the grandchildren, and I love that something so simple ended up being so meaningful!
Such a beautiful, nostalgic and festive result! I remember decorating our childhood tree with cross-stitched ornaments my mom had made and then anticipating her homemade cinnamon rolls and Christmas cookies coming out of the oven. God has gifted you, Sarah. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, Nicki!
The trees are so cute and that is something my grandchild and I can do!! My favorite Christmas from my childhood was all of my Moms old glass ornaments!! They are so beautiful and I was fortune enough to inherit them.... so the tree in my bedroom has all her old ornaments on it and it makes me smile every night!! ☺
So sweet! :)
Im 50yo and remember when I was little my Mom & I made trees. Cones covered in tiny hemlock cones, (like pine cones only teeny... we had a hemlock tree in the yard) and cones covered in unshelled nuts and yes, we did pasta too. Now all these years later, I have 3 trees in every room. On the family rm mantel, my bedrm dresser, the living rm coffee table, the dining rm sideboard, the kitchen table and even the sink counter in the powder rm. As I unpack them, I think fondly of my mom who encouraged Christmas decorations everywhere. She would be so happy. I text her pics of my decor and, at 78, she is still letting me know those trees in the living rm would look better in the dining rm.🙂
:'D I love that your Mom still shares her ideas with you, and that you've also found what makes you happy for the season!
Hi Sarah greetings from 🇦🇺. Congratulations on 70,000. Social media is the best…we come from all over the world to watch your vlogs. I love the simplicity of your styling and your manner is humble and you talk to us not at us. My Christmas was the fifties so post world war 2. Not much wealth as we were a migrant family from Europe. My mum still did her best with a live pine tree 🌲 with the pine smell permeating the house. The decorations were simple….crepe paper mostly red white and green cut into thin strips dripping from the tree.round baubles of fragile glass painted in metallic colours to be handled with care as they easily shattered (plastic was virtually non existent in the fifties). Christmas cards pegged onto string with wooden pegs. Presents were exchanged on Christmas Eve as is traditional in Europe. On Christmas Day which was usually hot and sunny we enjoyed a traditional roast and Christmas pudding and custard. Beautiful nostalgic memories of a simple era.
It sounds lovely. Thank you for sharing, Jackie!
I actually remember making the pasta trees at school and when my parents moved in with me and I found them saved in the attic. I thought the same they are ugly so I threw them away. But you are right the color would of made them so cute. So here I am going to make the pasta tree. Thank you so much for your great ideas and seeing the pretty in all things.
I hope your new ones turn out great! :)
My favorite decoration from childhood was tinsel strewn Christmas Trees. So sparkly and pretty. Nobody seems to use it anymore. 🌲🎄💚
I don't see it as much either, but it sure is beautiful!
I love the macaroni tree. I am a 70’s girl so that was definitely a walk down memory lane for me. I’m thinking that would be a great craft to do with my grandchildren. Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
I bet you'll have so much fun doing this with them!
Yes the pasta tree from your childhood is special, unique, aesthetically pleasing and your Mom made it. 🌟 My favorite childhood decoration, I as well took from my family home. It has 3 Elves huddled together it’s ceramic and plays music when you wind it up. I remember when I was little we weren’t allowed to wind it on our own, we had to ask Mom to wind it. My parents didn’t want it to break from children winding to tight. 😀 Happy Christmas & Happy Holidays all. 🎄
I've heard from a few ladies here about ornaments that were broken, so maybe your parents had the right idea! ;)
My favorite decoration as a child was the Christmas tree! We picked it out and decorated it as a family. Lots of good memories!!!
Such a fun tradition to do together!
That's sooo cool. I made tiny angels ornaments years ago as a young crafter and have put them on my tree ever since. Loved your trees. I HAD tons of thread cones but threw them away a year ago. I could have made a forest. My favorite childhood decoration were those rocket tree light sets. They had to warm up before they would bubble. Hours spent, chin in hand, watching the wonderful display.
Love the pasta trees! Glad your family emergency is over! Missed you! When I was a kid my mom macremed a Santa face that she always hung on our front door. Was out shopping yesterday and saw macreme is back! Wish I could attach a picture! Excited for next week's thrift gift ideas!
How charming!
Loved the trees! I have always enjoyed making DIY trees and ornaments!
I have one of those popsicle stick sled ornaments (that kids still make!) from elementary school, dated 1984. My teacher wrote in silver pen, Merry Christmas Rachel, 1984. I have kept it "forever" and it finds a special place somewhere in my decor every year! It is a reminder that we don't have to leave our childhoods behind, even when our own children are almost grown. At Christmastime we are forever children of the King! =)
That's beautiful, Rachel! Thank you for sharing!
I love all your videos, this one was different knowing that the 70’s was considered bohemian decor, I grew up in the 70’s. I remember my mom spending many days putting tinsel on our tree, It was beautiful and she did one strand at a time. I just remembered the way it shimmered with the lights.
That is some real dedication! I bet the end result was worth it!
Fun project, brought back vacation bible school memories with the pasta! My favorite Christmas decor is a single ornament, a little cheap plastic Santa with his pack on his shoulder. Maybe because it’s my oldest memory of Christmas. I sent it to my son while he was serving in Iraq along with a small Charlie Brown tree w/lights. The little Santa now graces his family tree each year ❤️ Merry Christmas!
Beautiful story, Thank you for sharing!
So glad you are back! You took me down memory lane with the maccaroni art! As a child I made a jewelry box in bible school and it was beautiful in my eyes . It turned a cigar box with shells and elbows painted gold into something the wisemen took to baby Jesus!! ♥️love your channel thanks to Canterbury cottage for introducing you!!
Treasure, indeed!
I was just talking about boho style with my son and his girlfriend last night. Who knew pasta trees could be so pretty? Paint transforms everything! My favorite Christmas decoration from my childhood is a fuzzy mouse tree topper dressed like Santa. I still put it on my tree each year as an ornament. I say "mousie!!!" every year when I pull it out of the Christmas bin...and I am 55.🐭🎅
I'm glad you still get to use it each year!
My favorite was my Mom's decorations most from the 1950's, spaghetti Santa, angel, homemade felt ornaments and tree skirt she hand crafted. It inspired me to collect cotton spun ornaments and bottle brush trees. She baked 7 different cookies, she was definitely a woman of her era. I miss her each day, the holidays are hardest, much empathy to anyone else who has lost a loved one.
I'm so sorry, Dawn. I hope this Christmas is filled with lots of the sweet memories of her to cover over the sadness of missing her.
The macaroni trees are lovely. As a child every year we made baby Jesus with a large wood bead for the head a small white felt square for the swaddle. We added them to citrus baskets for the elderly. The baskets were filled with local oranges, satsumas and cumquats with the sweet baby Jesus . Merry Christmas from southern Alabama
Lovely tradition and gift, Kristan! Thank you for sharing!
What a good idea! When I was little I was in Mexico, we didn't have any ornaments, so we decorated tree with small balloons, what a great memories. I wish a had a picture!
That would have been lovely to see!
Oh my goodness super cute!! Mama tree and her four baby trees!! ❤️ how creative are you Sarah!!! I love that your mom kinda inspired you with this diy too 🥰
Me, too, Britta!
So beautiful, Sarah!!! Thanks for showing us how to make the trees. Congratulations on reaching 60k subs!!!! Praise God!!!! I have the nativity set from my childhood, which I treasure and love!! Several years ago a dear friend gave the set a much needed paint job. It's prominently placed in the living room for everyone to cherish and adore! Happy holidays to you and your family!!!
How sweet that your friend was able to update your set by painting it!
I love the pasta trees! My favorite decorations were the homemade felt stockings my mother made each of us kids! They had felt shapes that had beads and sequins on it!
Loved anything felt at Christmas!
Love that they were handmade by your Mother for you!
Those are adorable. I have bad childhood memories surrounding christmas, but as an adult I’ve tried to create good ones with my kids. Last year I gathered my kids, and their cousins at my house to craft for Christmas. We built gingerbread houses, made reindeer with candy canes, and I taught them how to make felt ornaments. It was a long day, but I hope I helped create memories for them.
It sounds like you're doing a wonderful job creating happy memories for your children and neices/nephews, Beatriz! I hope they help redeem some of bad ones for you as well.
Spraying with white paint magically turns the ordinary into something special!! When I was a child (and I am 80 so that was long ago!) we had strings of popcorn that somehow were infused in a colored sugar coating. They were not only pretty, but delicious!!
Those sound lovely!
When I think back to the Christmas’s of the past growing up in the late 60’s and 70’s, the favorite decoration had to be the manger scene that was placed under the tree. I think it was a “hand me down” given to my parents, so I believe it would have been made in the 1950’s. The manger scene was made from cardboard and the figures were made of soft plastic. It was placed under the tree and I remember playing with it with my siblings. Now that my mother has passed, the manger travels each year to the house that is hosting the Christmas gathering for our family.
That’s so sweet! Jesus is the best gift to pass around. Merry Christmas 🎄. Messy Mendy
I love that it's still a part of your family traditions, and that it travels to where you'll be gathering!
I made macaroni trees in 1st grade in 1965 in Seattle! We also glued macaroni to cardboard Christmas shapes: bells, trees, stars. As they say, there's really nothing new under the sun! I was pleasantly surprised to see this old craft surface. Merry Christmas!
I love that it can still be enjoyed years later!
I love the macaroni trees!! My favorite decoration or memory of decorating our tree when I was small was when my mom popped popcorn and we stung them and cranberries up on the tree. Natural and beautiful ❤️
Yes, this one has been a reoccurring theme!
I agree that sentimental things are most meaningful and feed the spirit. They carry memories of sweet times and the people that shape our lives. For that reason, the stocking my grandmother made for each grandchild holds the Christmas feels. She had 19 of us. Each stocking shared common factors, this coordinating them, yet each was unique in its design. Every year these stockings lined my grandfather's mantel. When the stocking went up, it was Christmas!
Oh I bet it was a sight to see all 19 of those hung together!!
This is a great diy to do with my grandkids. Something for them to carry on. My fave Christmas thing is a fuzzy striped pen with a pompon top that my Pop tied to my gift when I was a teenager. I stuck on the tree and it’s been there every year since. I don’t remember the gift, but decades later I remember Pop when I out that pen on my tree
I loved my grandmother's silver balls from her tree. I am thrilled and miss her when i put them on my tree.
I'm glad you have a little token of hers to remember her by!
My momma use to make macaroni trees with us when we were younger. I love this memory ❤️ So much more special since she has passed. Thank you for showing your beautiful take on them!
You're so welcome, Jennifer!
I think my favorite decoration is the tree topper. Always a star!
I agree, and love the pun! ;)
Well I missed the give away as I am now viewing this video, I'm just glad to have caught this one!! I adore you and your channel!! My mother was the interior designer of the family and she would have loved your ideas as well.. I am slowly trying to channel her talent into my own home. (With the help of the tips from you and other professionals!!) Your grace and elegance is so heart warming, not to sound cheesy, but in today's world everything is so crazy and crass. It's nice to slow down and remember what is important.
The macaroni tree is great! My daughter was the noodle /pasta kid. In school needed to make a project using the letter P or N. So then came the creation of the cardboard letter filled with glued on dry pasta! Not a tree, but still funny and cute!! Thanks for all of your beautiful ideas. Have a lovely Holiday season.
You're so sweet, Patricia! Thank you for taking the time out to share such kind words!
Love your calm demeanor. In 1958, my mother asked the clerk in the liquor dept. (at the Food Giant grocery) if she could have one of the empty boxes that looked like a brick chimney. She glued cotton around the top of the upside down box and every year it stored our ornaments until it was brought out and homemade Christmas decor was placed on top of the “chimney “. Usually, it was a Santa head made from an empty bleach bottle.
Well she sounds like a creative lady!
I love your little pasta trees!! So sweet. Something even children could make, even me ❣️🎄❣️
So true!
Love the macaroni trees! Congratulations on 70K-I’m not surprised at all. Love, love, love your videos and decorating advice. 🥰 I missed you last week. Sending prayers your way!
Thank you, Sherry!
I didn’t grow up with any real Christmas traditions nor do I have any memories from my childhood about making any specific ornaments or decorations. I do however have a favorite from my own kids past Christmas crafts! My kids are avid readers and because they are boys they are ROUGH on the books LOL every year I hold on to the one they have loved and is “well loved” and I have them take out some pages to make ornaments with! They LOVE it! Some pages have been made into snowflakes and some are shredded and put into clear plastic bulbs. Each one has their name, the title/author, and the year they read it. Hoping they take some when they have a family of their own so they can pass on the love of reading and Christmas ♥️
Great ideas, Brandy! :)
Hello Sarah-quick question. Where do you stash all of your finds when they're not in use? I wonder if others are curious about that also! Love all that you do!
Hello! I have a video all about that! th-cam.com/video/eGXA2iwqoGg/w-d-xo.html
I love this diy and plan to do this when I gather with my family for good time together- what a beautiful gift from you mom and you still have it all this time later. ❤️❤️❤️
I bet this will be fun with family!
Love the idea of "pasta trees". We never made those. We did make all kinds of decor using the shapes of our hands and finger prints. This brings back such nice memories. I think I will have at least one pasta tree to add to our festivities this season. Thank you for sharing.
I hope you have fun with it!
Thank you so much SHE HOLDS DEARLY - I loved your macaroni Christmas Trees! My favorite decoration from my childhood were the SHINY BRITE decorations on our tree.
My mom use to make plaster ornaments, paint them and gift them to people. Through the years they have all broken but I have fond memories of mom making them and when I was older I helped.
I bet they were lovely. :)
Our nativity set was always the most special - we also had bubble lights and a real tree with silver garland. We were small town mid-Missouri..... Best childhood ever! Best custom was reading the nativity story every Christmas eve in the Bible.
One of the most important traditions!
I must admit I was never a fan of macaroni trees UNTIL i saw yours. As you say it’s the colour and the collection you put together on your mantle that transforms theses trees from ordinary to a super cool and trendy .
My favourite memory is of my dad having cut our Christmas tree and how it made our living room so cold when it was set up. Then for decorating the tree ,dad was fussy about the icicles and so my mom would iron them in between a tea towel so they hung perfectly straight
Oh ironed icicles, that is dedication! I hope your Mom enjoyed the final look as well!
I LOVE the pasta tree AND your chunky sweater!!!!! 😍
As a 56 year of DIY’er, the only decor that stands out to me is TINSEL…which by the way I didn’t care for. But the memory I have is walking our property back through the woods to find the perfect Christmas tree to cut down.
Love it!!
Those cotton spools remind me of my childhood (40 years ago). My uncle had several of those and I remember playing with them. I’d line them up, stack them. I hope kids still use their imagination with play time.
Some certainly still do!
I also have fond memories of macaroni crafts from VBS. My granddaughters, ages 11, 7, and 4, are always asking for a craft to make. I know we are going to have fun with this one!
Hooray! I hope it's the best!
I would have to call these lovely pasta trees my Alfredo Couture Trees :) I'm so glad I found your channel. I get so excited when you post. I have so many wonderful memories of my childhood Christmas'. I had 8 siblings and thankfully my Mom was a creative soul and the very best cook. We had a macaroni tree too, but it was painted a brilliant bronze-gold color. I can't really say I have a favorite childhood Christmas decoration. My favorite memories are of my Mom and her determination to make sure our family had a loving and memorable Christmas. She would plan and bake ahead for weeks. Then she'd scour Better Homes & Gardens and Southern Living magazines for new crafts and recipe ideas. Each year she add a new hobby to her creative repertoire such as macramé plant hangers, sewing holiday tree skirts or pretty felt stockings, floral arrangements, and a new sweet confection to add to the always delicious menu of her Christmas Eve spread. I'm still trying to figure out how she did it all. Lol. I'm keeping your family in my prayers and so grateful for the gift of creativity that you always share!
Your Mom sounds like an inspiration!
@@SheHoldsDearly She is and much like you
We were so very poor that we didn’t have any decorations except the week before Christmas Dad would allow us to put up a tree with very few ornaments. But the decorations I remember the most were the ones my Grandma had on her tree with Bubble lights being so beautiful to me. She also always had two huge bowls on her buffet. One would be filled with oranges and tangerines and the other with mixed nuts! What a delight! Of course she would put out plates filled with various homemade fudges, divinity and yummy decorated sugar cookies. What a wonderful and most prized childhood memory.
It sounds like you all knew how to enjoy each other's company, regardless of the circumstances, that's a good gift!
Great video! Screenshot-ed a few displays in your video - gorgeous!
My favorite “decor” as a child was a Christmas bowl with ribbon candy in it. I’m not even sure what it’s called but it was a multi-colored hard candy that was flat and folded over on itself. My grandma also had a similar display but that candy and a couple of other kinds were made of glass.
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Pictures are linked and sourced here too, if that is helpful!
Congratulations on them 70k. I loved the pasta trees. My youngest and I need to DIY these. I remember when I had teachers or girl scout leaders DIY'd trees out of Readers Digests and ornaments out of seed pods and angels.
Have fun if you do make some!
Loved this idea!
My favorite childhood decoration comes from a project in first grade. We made paper chains using red and white construction paper, glue and scissors. I came home and told my dad that I wanted to make one for our tree at home. He took me to buy construction paper at the dime store (showing my age!). Then he drove me to his office where we used the paper cutter and stapler to make a giant chain that we used on our tree for the next 25 years. It was a real bonding experience with my dad…and so much easier than what we had done at school!
That’s a great idea to use up scrap papers, and Christmas wrapping (thick) paper! Thx for sharing!
I love that you have that special memory with your Dad, and that it lasted on your tree for 25 years! Lovely!
Ooooh!!!! I remember making these!!! Such a fun memory!!! I think we used Elmer's glue and had to be very patient to hold them on while they dried or they would slip down .... hot glue is a GREAT improvement!!! My favorite decorations will always be the ones our kids made when they were little - that time just went by so quickly and now they are all grown up!
Thank goodness for hot glue! :D *hooray
The bubble lights on the Christmas tree! Always 💚 your tips and tricks!
Yay to 70k subscribers. I love the trees. I never made them, but the color makes them look really high end. I guess you could use buttons, gears, bolts and washers (for steam punk). I graduated from high school in 1972. I bought diy kits and made ornaments out of wood and clothes pins and unpainted ceramics. I just put them on my tree yesterday. I also like the lovely rust, brown and pink ornaments you showed. But for Christmas, I tend to use what I have from year to year. I like the look of real high end (gold and crystal and silver) , and boho, but I stick to reds, greens, whites and snow men and reindeer and Santa's and angels. They are like old friends when I see rhem every year. Having said that, I do add one or two decor pieces every year, but their is no drastic departure from the look I have. It's what my mom did too. And I also have a nativity. It's at least 25 years old.. The tallest figurine is 6" tall. It's in a lovely tera cotta. And 2 years ago, my husband and I made a little stable.
Love the idea of making the trees with whatever suits your look/personality/design style! It would be fun to see what all everyone could come up with!
My favorite ornament was a shiny brite bell. ( my mother said it was a tree) The bell had three horitontal sections in soft shades of pink, darker pink, and a little darker pink. It also had the painted on snow on the edges. I loved that ornament and it was my job to place it on the tree each year. The bell would look so sweet with this bohemian color palette.
It sure sounds lovely! I love reading all the descriptions of these beautiful pieces!
My favorite Christmas decoration from my childhood was a little cloth ballerina ornament with a soft tulle skirt. It was totally unique and I always admired it even as a tiny kid!
She sounds lovely!
Really lovely! I’m a new subscriber and we didn’t have anything really awesome for Christmas decorations when I was growing up with the exception of putting up an old Nativity display. I really loved the simplicity and symbolism of the little crèche with the infant Jesus, Joseph and Mary, some shepherds, sheep and the three wise men. I miss having a crèche. Your channel is exquisite! Thank you!
Welcome! And yes, a nativity is always a welcome part of any Christmas set up!
Congrats on all the subscribers!! We so appreciate your shared inspiration! My favorite holiday deco as a kiddo was a plastic ornament that my mom hung in our tree. The ornament was a church complete with a steeple and a mini light that warmed the welcoming church doors. The light was accompanied by a sweet old Christmas song. Playing with that three D little church made me smile on more than one occasion. Merry Christmas and blessings to your family and all that came with the emergency!
That sounds like a lovely ornament, and even better memories. :)
Just finished watching Your bohemian Christmas decor video & LOVED IT❣ The pasta diy trees were FABULOUS, love them. The one Your Mom made is absolutely BEAUTIFUL❣ The macaroni noodles on it almost look like they're garlin. Just love all Your videos! My favorite childhood Christmas decor was also a diy done by my Mom. She was very talented in many ways & was into ceramics for years. She made Christmas serving platters & the all time favorite ceramic Christmas Trees. We had a very BEAUTIFUL one She made & set out every year. She also made them as gifts. Thanks for sharing.
Those sound absolutely lovely!
I love those macaroni trees🤩 My granddaughter would love them since her favorite meal is pasta. My favorite memory was in the late 60’s and very early 70’s was our silver fake tinsel Christmas tree, and the electronic color wheel that sat on the floor next to the tree. The wheel rotated around glowing the colors of the wheel on to the tree. Super cheesy for sure, but I just loved it, and could sit and just stare at it forever just thinking about how magical I thought it was 😵💫😀!
You're not the only one! There have been a few ladies sharing how fondly they loved theirs, too!
I love the macaroni tree it's awesome I must get the grands al together and make a few.
My fondest memory of Christmas is my Beautiful mom decorating her white tree back in the 70s she loved Christmas.
I miss her so very much.
Merry Christmas
I hope you and your Grandchildren have so much fun putting some pasta trees together!
I loved my mom's Avon nativity set as a Christmas decoration. It would have a special place on top of the piano. We never had a mantel. I've made my own by crocheting a set but also I found a quilt panel to make into a nativity so I made that as mini stuffed figures for my kids. I have the plastic little people one but also a glass set that now sits on our mantel. To me the coming of Jesus is the point of Christmas and giving to others. So I'm hoping to encourage creative making and creative giving for Christmas. Thanks for the fun ideas. Xx
Yep, Jesus is the most important part!
They’re literally adorable 🤍✨
Thank you!
Love those pasta trees having memories are the best it makes me feel emotional:-) my momma always put the large colored lights and tinsel and well the bubbling ornaments!! And I do those thank you be Blessed
Thank you for sharing. :)