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Friday, December 11, 2015

Vintage Christmas Kitchen Deux


Welkommen og Gladelig Jule, or Welcome and Merry Christmas from our small house. We live everyday with generations of family antiques and personal finds. 

Everything in this post is OLD NEW GREEN REDO,  and loved.


 One of the advantages of being old, is everything I own is vintage, LOL. The Cookie tin is a recent find from a thrift store and filled with pumpkin cookies. The coffee pot is Danish and my grandmother's it's a drip coffeepot with a little white cloth bag to hold the grounds.


Have a cup of coffee from my Wachtersbach cups...I have no idea--20years old maybe. I have some white ones that are from the 1970's. I loved the wine snowman---he just fit in here---late in the afternoon we can share a sip of wine.


Center of the table right now is the fish poacher filled with my jello and tart tins, with some vintage napkins I found a few weeks ago, in this post Vintage and Holiday Finds. 
Christmas pig is still fattening up on his trough of acorns. 
Will he or won't he find himself 'on' the Christmas table this year?
The tablecloths are all cotton and vintage--the blue faded topper is from Denmark from 1969-70.
 I use it every year as our everyday tablecloth during the holidays.

 Here is the dining room area from the counter side of the kitchen. The blue plates are Bing&Grondahol and Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates that are up all year long. 
My oldest is 1914 and inheirited from my great-grandparents.
I use holly and mini lights across the top of the room, 
and it pretty much stays up through the winter months.


 The corner hutch I snagged about 25 years ago at a thrift store, it had been in a fire...
but the the glass was intact. Hubby scrapped and sanded it down to bare and we painted it. Underneath is great storage for big platters and bowls.


My windows have vintage jello molds, and a spongecake springmold 
used as wreaths with a sprig of ivy in them.


 Peppermint striped ribbon is added to my normal blue and white for Christmas color. 
The television is Vintage too, lol.


The spinning wheel lamp was my grandmother's summer cottage.  I have Vintage Santas in a variety of materials: a pressed wool German Belsnikle, resin Santa's from around the world-from Carson Pirie Scott years ago. My small wool Danish elves (Tomte or Julenisse) are very small and mischevious and will show up in the strangest places closer to Christmas.
 Part of the magic of the season.


The bottom of the cabinet: these wonderful candlesticks handpainted by an artisan from the 80's and some porcelain Santa's from around the world, I have had forever.



A closeup of the other Santa candlestick  
shares the stage with the Laplander Santa and reindeer from Carson's. 
An old milk pail filled with handmade antique and vintage wooden spoons from the family. 
More bits of Ivy for green. The plate behind is the last plate
 I have from my first set of dishes, 1968, Johnson Bros...I forget the pattern name.


 My Cookie tin tree from this post, Vintage Christmas Kitchen  
and all the vintage baking goodies spread around.


Center of the kitchen dining room is the island with a small Christmas tree. 
The white chair is Ikea and a cutdown bar height chair used for the Grand at the dining table. Hopefully after the new year, all the cabinets, floor, ceiling will be replaced. 

The needlework hearts are traditional Danish after the paper heart pockets called, Julehjerter.
 Great tutorial here, Danish Woven Paper Hearts.
My great aunt, Gudren made these when in her 90's, along with the small baskets you see on the tree. 
The gingerbread guy is my hubby's with his Christmas-'Honey Do List'.


I used a spring-form cakepan for the base of the tree.
My three year old grandaughter chose the ornaments and where to place them. 
She put them on and I spun the tree around to get some sort of balance. 
I didn't change any, well maybe one or two...but, she is a born decorator. 


Cookies, hearts, mushrooms, red enamelware, and Scandinavian wooden ornaments
 or special ones made by crafters. Nothing is NEW on here now...everything is vintage at this point.



Cookie tin is from IKEA a few years back...
crock was a gift says, "Executive Grandma's snack jar for VIP grandchildren," 
which I love and gets plenty of use.


Covering the end of the island and the electrical works of the tree, 
is a cross-stitch Santa on heavy cotton probably a 12-count cloth. 
As another great-aunt in Denmark became older she worked larger because of her failing sight,
 and this was a treasure she sent to me in the 1980's. 
Tante Dagne would have been in her mid-90's then.


Granddaughter's white chair is covered with a child's (mine) 1950's Danish homespun apron. 
The colors and cloth just echo all the colors in our ktchen. 
so Tak!-Thank-you for stopping by, and don't forget to have a cookie or two, 
it's Christmas afterall!

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Monday, November 30, 2015

Vintage Christmas Kitchen:DIYChristmas Tins Tree

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Hello there, from dreary, bleary, dark Chicagoland. After the lambasting of 16" of snow a week ago, we've been locked in with rain and dreary almost everyday since then, with 4-5 more days of such forecasted. If I wait for natural light it will be NEW YEARS before I ever post again.

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So please suffer with the flash photgraphy, and...I am starting to think Christmas. I was in a thrift store last week and staring at the huge stacks of cookie tins...and thought...perfect! We always make tons of cookies and baking for gifts, but where to store them in a small house and pantry-less kitchen.

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An idea hit me! A Christmas Tins Tree!

My collection of tins is a bit rag-taggy. This OLD Fannie May here is ancient, and held my grandmother's emergency mending. The OLD golden one I bought for Fall, the blue one I have had for ages. The green one is relatively new, tall and has a handle---too cute.

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This tin was a hand-painted REDO from a friend, who patiently splattered a myriad of blossoms on it, with all the paint I gave her to play with. I had taught painting classes and had oodles of multiple bottles, so I loaded up a bin and gave them to her. Thanks E for the gorgeous REDO tin.

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I picked up two of this snowman series at a local thrift store, I don't think they were used at all. Really large and green---perfect for the bottom and only 25 cents each!

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Bottom of what, you ask? Here's my completed Christmas Tins Tree. I think it is perfect on the white bookcase in the kitchen surrounded by my vintage kitchen utensils. The broom lady gives us some advice from an old Danish proverb, "If everyone would sweep in front of their own stoop, the whole world would be clean."


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These pics were taken at noon with a flash and doctored to bring up the light...all the auto-lights outside were on it was so dark.

My GREEN plants come into the house in Fall and we have to live with them. The Rosemary bush on the left side is wrapped in a NEW IKEA 2014 apron, and the Ivy planter in the urn will get some decorating and bitty lights soon. I have plans for the large ring mold, my Mom's.

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The tins tree is surrounded by vintage and antique kitchen goodies, the REDO tree is reminiscent of OLD Christmas' past. My runner is maybe 20 years old, but still fits into our Scandinavian Kitchen Christmas theme.

The OLD tree jello molds I picked up this year at a cute shop...4 for $2.00.  The OLD blue jars came from my mother-in-law and are my REDO canister set for all my staples.

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The OLD wooden and tin Cookie press is Danish and circa 1926, so it was probably my great-grandmother's, as my first grandmother died in 1927. Such a fun find! This was in my second grandmother's undealt with leavings. My mom never opened a single box and did anything with it. I'm happy to enjoy each and every find.

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I have the original box, but it is pretty gross. On the box it says Fløde Kage og Bollesprøjte. Smut--translated to Cream Cake and Bun Syringe. 

 I have no idea what smut means, and in that context neither do the translators. I do know the oval tin cutout was used for pressing out dumpling dough---or bolle...for soup. Num, I will have to post that recipe sometime and use the antique press.

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The OLD round jello molds were my gramma's probably from the 1940s or 50s. The OLD salt cellar was my mother's, the OLD sieve was from parent's summer cottage.

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The green glass candlesticks are Jamestown glass from a trip there.

The OLD glass jar is vintage, a smaller version of my grandmother's and now holds her best almost unused, Sandbakkel tins, these are the shiny ones jammed in the jar...but I have a secret.

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When wanting to make a glass jar look full, insert a clear jar or glass in the center and arrange around it. The glass holds your items in place without really showing at all

Sandbakkels are basically tart tins...however the Danish recipe dough is made with finely ground almonds instead of just flour.

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Here is a Sandbakkel recipe and picture from Lefse Time without the almonds. I will have to dig for the almond recipe. There are great Scandinavian recipes on Lefse Time and lots of Scandinavian cooking equipment. 


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The OLD crank nut chopper was my grandmother's. The vintage cheese grater could certainly be used for other baking and grinding.

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Now, baking need to fill the REDO Christmas Cookie Tin Tree. That may take some doing---Cookie day is December 13th here this year, stay tuned!

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THIS is a preview of our family's freehand approach to Old-fashioned cutouts!


Thanks always for stopping by, I will be happy to answer any questions or comments.


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