Thrifting Find: Vintage Wooden Ornaments

This year's Christmas tree in our apartment is studded with vintage wooden ornaments that I collected this November at thrift stores.  They are gorgeous and beat up a bit and perfectly lovey.  They definitely breathe a bit of child-like goodness into our apartment.  And the best part... 95% of the ornaments were only 25¢.  The other 5% were only 50¢.  I got over 75 ornaments.  That's about $20 for a tree full of vintage ornaments.  Considering how much the plain ole glass ornaments are... that's a stellar deal.  It's also pretty priceless not looking like everyone else. 

Nutcrackers are my favorite.

 

Our lights were the big vintage ones as well. So dreamy....

Sustainable Gift Wrap Ideas

If you haven't noticed already, the holidays can produce A LOT of waste which is a big no no when it comes to living consciously and sustainable.  

Not so good for the environment = not so good for us.  

In our apartment, we have done about half online shopping- half in stores.  The extra boxes that we receive from online purchases go into packing the other gifts.  We reuse EVERYTHING  or at least try to and recycle everything we can't use.  Take this box for example, it does not contain tea, but a special surprise.

This year, I wrapped my gifts in traditional wrapping paper for the most part.  While this can be used and recycled, next year and for the holidays and special occasions in between, I'm going to try out some more sustainable methods of wrap like using reusable grocery bags and newspaper (which I've used in the past).

Simple Organic has fabulous ideas that are so cute, while being sustainable and cheap!

Click here to check it out!

And.... Calamity Wilde Mercantile had some great ideas here.