A Vintage Inspired Christmas Weekend 

To the people whose Christmas will not be merry and bright, nor the most wonderful time of the year, because you have lost someone you love..I hope you will find peace and love in your memories. ❤

Growing up in the 1950s, we lived in a house with cathedral ceilings. Therefore my dad would always get a 7ft live tree. After he put up the lights, with many of them being bubbled lights, my mom would then spend hours putting up the ornaments and tensile. It was quite a project putting up the tree and keeping it hydrated so it would not dry out. My aunt had an artificial silver tree with all blue ornaments and with a colored pinwheel at the base of the tree, which changed the color of the tree different colors as the pinwheel rotated. That was indeed a different kind of tree. It was actually pretty popular for the mid to late 1950s. My mom made handmade stockings which I still have mine 70 years later. Over the years, the only change to the stocking was Santa's beard as the original started to turn yellow.

It’s fun watching these. You make it look so real. Like it’s really in the 50’s/60’s. I’m sitting here wishing I lived in “your time” and then I remember you are in my time. You just know how to live and do what makes you happy. It’s truly a dream!

It's so interesting to get a glimpse of a 'hot' Christmas (i.e. not a snowy, cold one). I think you've done a marvellous job of getting into the vintage festive spirit!

I usually bend the top twig down in half to help the angel to stay in place. Merry Christmas Dear Sage. Safe travels!

These traditions are simple, warming and comforting. They remind me of a better world where families truly enjoyed being together and celebrating a great holiday. You bring me back to a time of love and togetherness, Sage. Fond memories. Thank you!

I've had such a bad mental health week, and your videos take me back in time where I can get away from my issues. It is so refreshing!!! Love your videos heaps!!

Being from Sweden, the idea of celebrating Christmas in the summer is just mind-boggling to me🤯😅 Lovely video!

This was lovely! Also, the look James gave you as picked you up off the thing you were standing on to hang the garland 😍😍😍

I am going through cancer and your videos have been such a calming thing for me to watch as I try to rest. Thank you for your beautiful, and relaxing content. I just adore your channel.

I agree about the unseasonably cold weather Sage, im in New Zealand and still sleeping with my electric blanket on, crazy!

This was charming. Proof-positive that vintage Christmas celebrations are, without doubt, far more endearing than the overtly commercial Yuletide holidays that (we) now experience. I grew up in the early '70's, & whilst not exactly as one might recall from the '40's or '50's, it was close enough to be reminiscent of that era - wonderful !

Just a tip for the people with artificial trees, if you get garland that either matches or is close to your tree you can wrap it loosely around the inside. It makes the tree look fuller. Just something I learned with having an artificial tree (my cats are rude and think live trees are evil).

Find someone who looks at you the way Sage looks at her vintage washing basket 💖 Merry Christmas Sage, James, Mabel and Maude 🎄💖

Popcorn, made on the stove in a saucepan, is the best ! I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one who makes it the 'old timey' way ! Merry Christmas to you, Sage, and your lovely husband !

If you bend the top branch of the tree down in half and then put your angel on she will sit nice and sturdy up there. That's what I have to do with mine and it works beautifully. 🎄

Sage, you truly make such beautiful videos!

the inner child of me screams in awweeee … if you have a kid, she/he will be the luckiest ❤❤🥰

The tinsel and bubble lights look absolutely gorgeous and reminds me of my grandparents tree when I was a kid. Love it 👏👍.

Dear Sage, thank you so much for your lovely christmas video. Merry christmas to you, your family and friends from Germany🎄☃️

12:19 was literally the cutest thing ever! It's so sweet that you can capture moments like that on video

The decorations look wonderful! It has such a warm and inviting look to it. Makes me feel so nostalgic and miss my grandmother’s home and even mine as a young child. I hope you and James have a very Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁❤️

For the angel topper, try bending that top piece down and make it doubled up/shorter. Maybe she’ll stay on then.

Great job…if you bend over the tree top branch in half…the Angel base will fit

We had those bubbler lights when I was a child. They just scream 1950's. Loved the whole video. Wishing you both a Merry Christmas. Jon from the USA.

I love the candle bubble lights. We had some old ones that my dad liked to put on our tree in the 70’s.

So jealous of that Mrs Beeton’s cookbook find! I loved this episode. So Christmasy. 🎄🤶🏻 Happy Holidays from Oklahoma USA. ❤

This was so beautiful and James is so sweet you're a lucky girl! You have made a beautiful vintage Christmas and shared it with us as well. I have the warm cozies now. Thank you and belated Merry Christmas!

This Nemosdreamscapes and SageLilleyman crossover moment felt like a holiday gift just for me

Ah I love Nemos Dreamscapes! I've been struggling to feel festive this year but your video has really helped 😃🎄

An enchanting and warm and lovely Christmas video Sage. Thank you for sharing this. A very Happy Christmas to you and yours! Blessings - Judith 🎭🎵

I find it fun that you keep with north hemisphere Christmas tradition : Christmas tree, warm apple/orange juice with spice. We use drink with spice to keep warm in the cold and bring greenery in our houses because they tend to disappear in nature.

Merry Christmas Sage and James! I love your Christmas decor. From snowy Utah, USA.

Those silver strands you put on the tree. We had them on ours in the 70's / 80's.

Boy, do you take me back. Those were the days and I still can't get enough of those wonderful times. As a child, we always had a tall tree with tinsel and glass ornaments on it. You are really authentic in your home style and cooking. Really a fun channel.

I'm so glad you mentioned Nemo's dreamscapes. I've been obsessed with them lately!

I wish instead of just a thumbs up I could give you a heart! I love your videos, they make my heart at peace. Thank you.

Lovely video, as always. I found the lift off the ladder at the end to be so wholesome - for some reason that was more nostalgic than anything else, as I remember my father doing that with my mother, who was also petite. :)

Hi from Ohio, Sage! God bless you, James, Maude and Mabel!!! 🐔 🐥 I'm going to say "Op shop" from now on!! Love you!

We have had to fold over the top branch of the tree and put our topper on. Or you might can add a dowel rod to your angel or that top branch with floral wire to give it support. Love your tree and decorations 😍

Love your videos!!! Wishing you and everyone a very Merry Christmas and a blessed 2023.

I remeber studding oranges with cloves and tying ribbons arond them as christmas decorations with my mum when I was little. I absolutely am so envious of your space to be able to decorate so lovely! Our tree is on the mantle...it's tiny! But I love it! I love everything unicorn so it's topped with a glittery unicorn and all the ornaments are ceramic and something to do with unicorns....oh there is a gorgeous glass jellyfish! I think you did a beautiful job of all your decorating! Your tree is beautiful and I love your front door wreath. It definitely is a festive home! I hope you both have an absolutely beatiful Christmas with all the love and wonder you deserve! Your channel has brought me so much joy in some tough times and watching your videos just reminds me that there are wonderous and beautiful things in the world. Thank you Sage and have a Wonderful Christmas🎄💝

Awesome video! Thanks 4 sharing! It's lovely 2 keep precious old traditions alive! Just priceless! Blessings 2 Ur family! 🎄🥳💞✝️

This is the perfect Christmas video ❤. Thank you for sharing. Your tree and decorations are beautiful.

I could not have left that lovely little chair in the op shop! Thanks for a beautiful Christmas video. 🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄

This video brings all the cozy Christmas vibes😊

Love this video - your angel will go on the tree! Just bend the top branch in half and it’ll hold really well. Our family have an angel like yours and it works every time! Merry Christmas both of you ❤

Perhaps you could attach a chopstick or other piece of wood to the top of your tree to give the angel support, and then the angel would cover it up. Just an idea! That hug was just the sweetest!

I live in R.I. U.S.A., and we always have a snowy Christmas hear. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Gracias por sus videos, es increíble cómo nos transportan a otra época. Feliz navidad, son un hermosa pareja. Bendiciones

Vintage in every way! Merry Christmas!

Hey doll. Oh the tree is beautiful,and all ur decorations. Hi to the chickens. This was fun,Thank you so much sweetheart 🎁🎄🎅🏻🕯😇🦌🎄

Lovely vlog!!! U always do fun things!!!

You two are the cutest couple.... are there wedding bells any time soon if you are not already married? Would be amazing to see a Vintage wedding hehe. Merry Christmas!!!

Oh Sage,your videos are so lovely to watch. Your christmas tree is lovely🎄. I love the sunny weather🌞. We have winter at our end. Have a peaceful and blessed christmas🎄🕯everyone🕯🎄.

Oh. Sage, what a beautiful Christmas you created. I'm older now, children are grown and gone, and I so miss all the preparations that go into making the Christmas season special. Your tree looks just like the one I had as a child. I loved the sparkling tinsel and twinkling lights. I had tears in my eyes (good tears) watching you decorate the tree. I hope you and your loved ones have a glorious Christmas and a blessed New Year.

What gorgeous Christmas decorations and a lovely, old fashioned tree. You remind me so much of my mom when she was young. Merry Christmas to you both.

Your decorations look lovely. I remember using tinsel and being fascinated by bubble lights when I was a kid. I still like them. And Miracle on 34th Street is still one one my favorite Christmas movies! Merry Christmas!

I love how your Christmas tree came out❤

I thought I recognized Nemo's video! I love his stuff, very talented soundscape creator. We're down the Surf Coast on holiday right now and yeah it's not quiiiite the weather for it yet 😅 at least it's not raining any more, and it's meant to get to 28 on Wed, might even be able to go for a swim lol. Have a lovely holiday Sage, can't wait to see what vintage inspired joy you bring us next year 😊

So jealous of your vintage cookbooks!!

We love Nemo's dreamscapes too! And call the midwife! It's such a good show. This video is so lovely. ❤️

The vintage ornaments and tinsel take me back to my childhood. I need only to close my eyes to see it. My grandmother, Ruth, always decorated her tree like that. I remember how my dad used tinsel on our tree growing up bc it was his mother's tradition. Very beautiful and nostalgic holiday video. Never realized Aussies celebrated Christmas in the summertime! I'm from Illinois(USA), and I couldn't imagine it without snow. ☃️

Love the wreath… I decorated our tree with my grandma’s ornaments this year. There was a spool of silver tinsel garland that is probably older than I am (58) . I don’t ever use garland on the tree so decided to repurpose it into something I could/would use… As luck would have it, there were 2 perfectly even strands of it. I wrapped 2 wreath forms and made 2 very mid-century modern wreaths with it. One for me & one for mom (her mother’s decorations). Not my moms style, but I think it made her feel good to have it & they are both hanging on our front doors.

You just need to trim the top branch so that the angel sits on the branches just below. 🎄

I look forward to your videos. Great job decorating for Christmas, so beautiful!

This is so lovely 🌹 but very odd to see such a warm weather for Christmas! In here (Prague, Czech republic), we have currently snowy weather 🌨️ and -8 degrees Celsius :) sending my best regards!

Sage, if you take 2 or 3 pencils or dowels and wire them to the top spike on your tree, it should make it stable enough to hold your angel tree topper.

Beautiful!! Thank you for sharing & have a very Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 😊 x

Bubble lights! Love them! Took my memories right back to our trees in the 1950's & 60's! I was fascinated by them. All gone now. I do have a bubble light nite-light. I leaped when I saw your copper fish mold hanging on wall! My mother had the same one & used it when company came or for the holidays. TU for taking us along. Love each moment. Hi to James!🎄🎄🎄

Hello from Canada where it will be -33c tonight , my wife and I love to watch your videos , Its great to see the green haven't seen it for 2 months LOL . Keep up the videos we really enjoy them, Have a Merry Christmas and maybe a shrimp on the Barbie !😊

It's interesting seeing a wam Christmas. It's 13f (-10c) where I am right now and just a few days it was -2f (-18c). I think you did a great job making it seem festive.

12:20 awww that was so sweet! you two are adorable!

Oh Sage, I just have to say that I absolutely love the way this video is filmed especially the scene where you went into your garden to say good night to the chickens, i love how casual it is, for some reason it gives me a lot of nostalgia ☺️ Merry Christmas!

I'm late to the party here because it's February, but I'm in love with the decorations on the tree. These were the decorations I grew up with and they say Christmas to me in a way that the modern matchy-mathchy themed everything Christmases do.

Wishing you and your husband a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Sage!!! How did nursing placement go? I hope you were placed at a good hospital or clinic!!!

How lovely! I will use your ideas for livening up my mantel garland for next year. One thing I have done in the past so that my really cool star, which is rather heavy, would stay on the top of my tree without drooping is I took that top stem and folded it double. That gave it more stability and it did hold up my star. That might work for your angel. Thanks again for all your beautiful videos! They always make my day!

It's fun to watch a Christmas video in July or August 😁😍. It came up in my RU-vid feed, so I watched. Lovely decorations (as I've heard on Aussie videos -"lovely" I mean) and we used to have the single strand tinsel when I was little ❤. Brought back memories of when my mom was still here for Christmas. Cheers with a spiced chi latte 😅😋

Christmas sure looks a little different in Australia than here. I don't have to dream of a white Christmas because we're already covered in snow. Not a speck of green to be seen anywhere. Even the trees are covered in snow. I have never heard of using oranges for decorating.

Watched Miracle of 34th Street the classic version for the first time this year. Loved it! Also watched An Affair to Remember on New Years Eve. A must see!!! Soooo good!!

Hi Sage. I love your Christmas tree and decorations. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and James.

Great Vinnies find with that basket! I love the loose tinsel for the tree, could you share where you got it from? Have a safe and Merry Christmas ❤

I was just sruck with a memory from my childhood in the 70s. My mom would hand each of us a small handfull of tinsel and told us just throw a few strands at the tree lol

Merry Christmas, Sage and James 🎄♥️

You always have such lovely dresses. But that floral print from your sister is just the best. It's beautiful. Thank you for another charming and entertaining video. Also, to fix your angel problem just double over that piece you were trying to put it on. It shortens it and makes it thicker and sturdier. Merry Christmas.

Wonderful video, Sage and James! Here in my neck of the woods of America it is rather chilly, which I prefer, but you're beautiful tree and garland, and decorations add to this beautiful, cozy time of the year. Blessed Christmas and Happy, Hralthy New Year to you and yours!

How lovely! ❤️ I haven't seen tinsel on a tree before, but your's is gorgeous. Also, your part of Australia seems to have a similar climate to the Eastern Seaboard of USA. All that green. 😍 Overall, absolutely delightful. Merry Christmas, Sage. 🎄

Sage, this video is better than anything I’ve seen in so long. The world is so icky these days and this has so much joy and is just heartwarming!

Wishing you and James a very happy Christmas, from a very cold icy UK.❤️🇬🇧

🧑🏻‍🎄🎅🏻Merry Christmas from New Zealand to you and yours. 🧑🏻‍🎄🎅🏻 I remember those little wooden decorations. Great find on the hamper.

This video is so nostalgic Sage! You did a fantastic job creating that reminiscence of yesteryear! I am thrilled you're keeping the remembrance of Christmas alive in all our hearts! Merry Christmas to you and James! ❤️❤️🎄

If you don’t mind my saying so, you are just the absolute cutest! Love these videos! 😊

Just love you and your wonderful home 🏡 You put out such warmth that is so comforting. I'm trying the orange garland! Merry Christmas 🎅🏻 🎄

Hello melbournian from another Melbournian! Its amazing to see these videos you’ve made! Please make more if it’s not a hassle for you! ❤

Sage, U know we were waiting for this. Thank U!

I just discovered your videos and you are the most charming person alive right now! I picture my grandma back then living like this. A lot of the things you describe is how she lived her life as well. I’ve always loved this time period and always felt I live in the wrong time period. Thank you again for these lovely relaxing videos 😍

This was so lovely! TY & Merry Christmas

I watch Nemo's dreamscapes at night. It makes me too happy to sleep!

Just found this video, Sage, even though it's a year old now. I was a kid in the late 50's and 60's, and so much of your decor reminds me of the Christmas magic I remember from my youth. The bubble lights, tree ornaments, and tinsel are so nostalgic to me, and I've kept that decor and our old traditions to make memories for my own kids and grandkids. The only thing I've changed is going from an actual cut pine tree to an artificial one -- I hate seeing trees grown just to be used for a couple of weeks and then discarded. Merry Christmas to you and James!

Good evening, Sage. I love your videos. This year, when you put up the tree, bend that very top sprig down in half. I think the angel will fit perfectly. If you need to snug her up, wrap a bit of cotton batting around the sprig. Lovely tree & home. Thanks for taking us along on the thrifting. Creative Blessings!