Well, here she is in all her fresh cut greenery glory, Our Christmas Mantel. This is the very first time I have never used bright colors for our mantel. Which, to be honest seems a little odd for me. I love color. But this year, I want to focus on everything being fresh and simple.
With some measuring (and remember to always measure twice!) I was able to find a wreath and a frame that fit exactly the look that I was going for. Surprisingly, it all came together beautifully, and I love the combination of it all.
Don’t get me wrong, I love how it all turned out. Now that I have the black wall in my house (which I plan on blogging about next week) I felt I needed to be a little bit more classic and calm. Because I didn’t want the two (my black focal wall & my mantel) competing against each other. If that even makes any sense at all???
The other nice thing about this mantel, is I only purchased the battery operated LED lights & the feathers. I used our Christmas tree cuttings, layered in some faux magnolia leaves and added some fresh cut cypress trimmings. So it was almost free!
I really just call these Fairy Lights, aren’t they pretty? You can even put them under water (not the battery box) they are the coolest little lights & they make it so easy for a mantel display.
Don’t forget to add antler or a statement piece right in the center of your greenery. It will make all the difference in your display. I want to get 2 more just like them, from Target, of course. Surprisingly, I was able to make the chalkboard printable for my frame, and had it enlarged into a blueprint at Staples, like I did last year to my Christmas mantel & to my Fall mantel this year. The downloadable file for the chalkboard printable is at the end of this post, if anyone is interested. Just follow the instructions in this post & hopefully you wont have any issues when you go to enlarge it as a poster size.
It’s been dark & deary here for the last several days but the sunshine came out long enough to take a few pictures of my mantel.
I still have a few more rooms I would like to decorate. All these Christmas tour of homes out in blogland are killing me! Everyone has their entire house decorated & I am not even half way done. Craziness!
If you’d like to download and have this printed at Staples or Office Supply, here’s the direct link to the download.
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