Luckily for you, I get to introduce you to whom I have deemed the Queen of Vignettes.

The owner of my favorite booth at our local antique mall, Susan Pridgeon, is the master at putting together a random grouping of items and making them look like an easy vignette. I always make a beeline to Susan’s booth as soon as I walk in the doors, and I was surprised one day when I actually ran into her while she was reworking a few items in our booth.

I immediately began gushing over her (since I turn into a blabbering idiot when I’m around someone like her), and she laughed and said, “Well, you see how I do it?” She was standing in a pile of pages that she had torn from various magazines. “I find an idea I like in a magazine and just run with it.”

Susan graciously allowed me to come back a few weeks later and take photographs of her booth to share with you. I think you will enjoy seeing how she puts her items together into displays.

A pearl-embellished bottle brush Christmas tree underneath a glass cloche.

Old balusters turned into candle pillars.

Beautiful vintage Christmas ornaments hanging on what I think is the skeleton of an old lamp shade.

Corsets hung on an old door.

Letters made from vintage pearl buttons. I happily treated myself to one of these back on my birthday.

Chandelier hung under a picture framed wrapped in a line of old raffle tickets.

An old patio chair holding vintage photographs and other goodies.

Dance costume hung among empty frames and vintage letters.

Isn’t it all just lovely? I’m sure it’s easy to see why I love her booth as much as I do.

Susan doesn’t want to keep all of her secrets to herself. She has a basket of magazine pages to share with her shoppers.

Like every other able-bodied, home decor-obsessed blogger on the planet, today I’m joining my friend the Nester and her Christmas Tour of Homes.

I’m going to be upfront about this. I am not someone who thinks that Christmas needs to explode in my house. I have some parts that are really decorated, but most are just simple touches. I don’t think you need to completely cover every square inch of your home in red and green in order to be “ready” for the season.

Plus, I’m lazy, so I can just use my Christmas mantra as a good excuse.

Anyway, let’s start with the outside, shall we?

Oooooh….

Ahhhh….

Looking back through the front door once you are inside the house.

Once you walk into the front door, you see my dining room on the left. I kept my burlap table runner on the table from the Spring Fall and just added some fake snow. In the center, I placed a cupcake stand and added some vintage ball ornaments. I don’t think I can take the credit for that, as I’m sure I’ve seen it somewhere, but I think it is super smartypants.

I added some lime green and turquoise decorations to my china cabinet. It’s incredibly hard (for me, at least) to photograph something inside of a glass cabinet, so this is as good as I could get. The sequined trees that I showed you how to make over at Centsational Girl are in here, too.

On the right side of my entry way, we have my early Christmas present from Mom and Dad – a late 19th century English sideboard. I wish I could marry this piece of furniture. On it, I have all of my son’s pictures with Santa and a winter scene inside a covered cake stand (totally stole that idea from Rhoda). One of Zack’s preschool crafts hangs above.

Further inside my home, you find our Christmas tree.

Wait, here’s a more realistic picture of it.

Yep, it’s just a tiny fake tree. Sigh… I don’t do fake. I bought this one as a secondary tree because it looked nice and was a good price. Once I put the rest of my collection of vintage ornaments on it and placed it on a burlap covered table, we decided that we liked it just fine. We thought about going to get a real tree today, but again, we’re lazy and it didn’t happen. At least I found something to fill that space, right?

In my living room, I hung a simple wreath on one of my windows.

And filled a patina-ed urn with some moss and vintage ornaments. Easy peasy, and it looks great. Just imagine there is a picture here. My card reader decided to quit working right this very second. Looks like there’s a trip to Fry’s in store for me tomorrow. I’ll update the pic when I can!

Then, you’ve seen my breakfast room. The ‘B’s’ are for ‘breakfast.’ I kid. Or, do I?

Wel, folks…this is pretty much all of it! I’m tired of decorating for Christmas (and thinking about decorating for Christmas), so I have declared it DONE.

What do you think? Do I need more, more, more? Or, do I need less, less, less?