Well, as most of you know we just finished our wood stove project,
as mentioned here.
So I have a brand NEW mantle to decorate for christmas.
Just one more
area to fill up with holiday
yumminess 🙂
So here is a close-up look at our new mantle,
decorated for christmas.
So technically I have 3 sides.
Not one, three =)
That makes for a lot of fun space to fill.
So here is the left side. I first put down the extra branches we cut from the bottom of our christmas tree,
spread those out, and a string of white lights,
and a few sprigs of champagne leaf leaves
then I grabbed one of my serving platters from my
chine set (featured here),
my other silver reindeer, and a few ornaments.
I grabbed these little wooden chestnuts at Hobby Lobby,
back in September. There was just
something about them that grabbed me,
had to have ’em,
it’s a good thing they were less than $1 each.
On the right side, I grabbed the coffee pot and sugar holder
from my china set. Using nice china to dress
things up for the holidays
is such a cheap and easy way to class things up a bit.
Plus it also gives you a chance to
see things on display
that you might normally have put away throughout the
rest of the year.
I also grabbed another after dinner drink glass,
like on my shelves,
filled it with left over cranberries and a
few acorns on top.
In the middle, I got to put my favorite piece.
My dear friend, Kellie, gave me this,
it’s an old window from her ‘new’ great old house that they
bought in downtown Concord.
Simple statement. It’s amazing. Would love to take some photos of her house
to give you all a tour.
Anyways.
It’s my favorite.
And that’s it.
Keeping things simple and elegant.
I’m also linking to the holiday link party over at
&
tomorrow over at
~Happy Holidays~
~BDD
Jessie did a great job – the stone looks great with your decor. It will definitely be great keeping you all warm and the heating bill down.