Tuesday, November 30, 2010

My Mantle

Yes that's right I said mantle!  I have taken a bit of a hiatus from blogging thru November as I was SWAMPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I am still pretty busy but now have enough time to at least grab some pics and enjoy the season!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE Christmas!  Here is my front room mantle:)  My hubby built it for me the year we moved in here as our fireplace didn't have a mantle.  I added the vinyl established saying this past year.  This is my first ever attempt at truly doing a "Christmas Mantle".....so here it is...

The details:
Mantle shelf built by my sweetheart:)  Est. saying made by me and added this year.  The window was in my growing up home until this last summer when my parents got new windows and I snagged the ones they took out...yes its weathered from being out in my "stash" of stuff I wanna use eventually. 
The stars have been gathered thru th elast few years as I LOVE stars and they are my main decor year round.  The one in the center tho I must share as it was a BARGAIN!  I found it at a thrift shop last weekend for just 50 cents!  I couldn't pass that up!    I found the sweet goldish ornaments at the $ store .  The Angel is from Germany a gift from our cousins.  The lil Santa was a wedding gift from my parents and was handmade and personalized just for me and my sweetie!  The greenery is just some garland from the $ store and I made the twine/fabric garland a few years ago and this year decided we'd use the shiny stuff on the tree (kids begged), so it was available for my Mantle:)  The bows were tied by me with some cute holly printed gold ribbon from the $ store.  SO I've spent well lets see probably about $2.50 on this Mantlescape! Gotta love it! 
I've been inspired a ton by Beth over at The Stories of A2Z and that is how I found out about the link up party shown below.  Thanks Beth!

The Lettered Cottage







6 comments:

  1. Thanks! I LOVE it but it is my "baby" for this Christmas! Lots more Christmas decorations to come!

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  2. Jenny, your mantel is very pretty. Merry Christmas! La

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  3. Yay! It's so warm and cozy. I could happily sip some cocoa in front of that mantel!

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  4. This, my friend, is amazing! I love, love, love it! I love the history behind and how your have stories for all your stars and decorations. We miss you! I hope all is well!! Thanks so much for sharing!!!

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  5. Thanks ladies! and Beth I did just that last night! I had a nice cup of Cinnamon Cocoa and enjoyed my newly decorated mantle and a cozy fire in the fireplace:)
    Laurie, the girls are doing much better and I think we're on the mend around here! I was over to SerenityScrappers today! I'm getting caught up from last month finally!

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