“This holiday season try your hand at “Vintage Green”. Start a new holiday tradition by bringing back some old ones. Use Grandma’s old costume jewelry and raid the button jar to decorate the tree and create your own ornaments. Make a stocking to hang by adding some ribbons and bows to that one purple knee sock that has lost its mate. Incorporate fruit, nuts and candies into your holiday décor. That way, you can snack on the decorations or when the season is over you can throw it on the compost heap. Use those old magazines and scraps of wrapping paper to make folded paper ornaments, or revive some of the old family photos by turning them into ornaments with a festive paper frame. Get creative and have fun! Come up with your own way to keep tradition alive with “Vintage Green”.”
– Bart Scott and Leigh Frazier – Epting Events Floral Department
Our Arizona Blue Spruce tree is designed around the vintage green concept. For starters, the tree is sourced locally from a small tree farm five minutes up the road. Leigh and Bart took our old wedding magazines, and made origami ornaments, rolled the pages to make paper beads added with beads from Leigh’s grandmother’s collection to make a garland, and the tree is topped with an paper origami star. The tree is placed in an Amish country sleigh, Lee Epting purchased years ago in Pennsylvania at an auction. We also used the sleigh on our award-winning Christmas float this year (not to brag or anything).
Before you look at the pictures, let me again remind you I am not a professional photographer, and I could not be any more envious of those that are, especially while trying to capture the beauty of this tree!
And since my pictures unfortunately do not do this tree justice, you must now come eat at Harry’s and poke your head in!
We encourage you to look around your home, and see how can you use things you already have to make your home a little more festive for the holidays!
P.S. Stayed tuned for the blog post on how to tie beautifully amazing bows like Leigh Frazier!
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