My Grandma Izzy always decorated her house with wonderful little scenes that made such an impression of what "Christmas" looked like in my little mind. There was a small village under the tree with a train that wove its way around the tree, a crèche with sweet little animals looking in, (some were plastic toy animals) also tinsel, lights and angels all around. She used whatever she had to embellish what she had saved over the years. The result was glorious.
Today we hear the mantra "recycle/re-use".. but Grandma did these things for the sake of being thrifty. For example, she would use Christmas cards from the previous year that were sent as large gift tags that decorated the box beautifully. She also re-used gift wrapping paper, wrapped gifts in oatmeal boxes, nut tins and cereal boxes. She even wrapped some gifts in tin foil, (it's shiny and pretty - why not?)
While surfing the blogs this morning I saw this card luminary and it reminded me of my Grandma. She would have enjoyed this idea...
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