Christmas at the Lexington County Museum

Once a year, the Lexington County Museum in South Carolina is open free to the public.

This happens around the holidays and includes period Christmas decor.

The use of cotton here and there is quite charming.

This colorful decoration below is what it looks like, branches with gum drops on the tips! So simple and so festive. 

We can learn a lot from prior generations on how to decorate with what we may have lying around the house or yard.

Decorating the fruit with cloves is brilliant.

Instead of a wreath we can gather branches and holly berries to decorated the front door.

Dried hydrangrea is always so pretty.

I never thought to embellish with lemons. Why not? Yellow is a joyful color.

 

Wild garland like this is a bit more jolly than what we see today.

I hope you enjoyed this decor from yesteryear.


Thank you for stopping by! Val