Mantle Closeups;)

Here are some closeups of items on my mantle.  The main mantle photo is in the post below;)

My 50 cent star:) that I just LOVE!

Metal stars picked up through the years for my collection.

The wooden personalized santa that was a wedding gift from my parents.

More stars from my collection and some of the pretty $ store bulbs:)

and last but not least the Angel from Germany a gift from our cousins.

And you can see a bit of the window that was salvaged from my growing up home:)

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!