Vintage Postcard Oil Painting

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I'm so thrilled with this little vignette...all made possible with my niece's gift to me of an oil painting she did herself to replicate a vintage postcard. I like how it matches the ornaments I placed on pedestal plates to the right. I'm not sure if the ornaments are vintage, but they sure look it, and the colors couldn't be more perfect! I got the ornaments at Joy's sale last month while I was in Illinois one beautifully golden fall weekend!

The whole cabinet underneath is full of our music box and musical waterglobe collection. I love it when the room lights are all turned off, and the water reflects the glow of the little pearly lights I laid under the greens and snowy fluff and we wind up a music box or two... lalala...!

The vintage oil lamp on top of the cabinet once belonged to my husband's father and I treasure it. I especially like to use red lamp oil in it to give it a burst of color.

The water globes were something we used to collect and date each one; we'd buy one a year for several years, but once we found out that they don't store well in our attic and the water eventually becomes discolored in them, we cut the collecting off.

Every now and then, I'll find a vintage wooden music box that is a companion for our very first music box (shown in the center of the shelf underneath the painting) at a thrift store and I'm more than happy to collect those. Those are fixable usually, and much more easily stored.

This is a picture of me with Autumn at her apartment last month, after she gave me this painting. A sincere thanks, Autumn, (my beautiful and talented niece) for this wonderful painting to enjoy for years to come at Christmas time!