Christmas Mantel

For all the fabric lovers and fabric hoarders, this is a great way to use scraps to make holiday crafts that coordinate with your home. Last year I made some fabric Christmas trees and stockings and there is a link to some great instructions on that post.

The smaller ones are made from empty spools of thread and the larger ones are made from pellon from the workroom.

I wanted to bring in some non traditional colors so I used a fun fringe on the stockings.

 

 

 

Next year I’m thinking about a mantle scarf. This one is really

pretty but I’ll probably attach a fringe to the edge.

 

 

 

 

 

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Happy 4th Birthday to my sweet Zoe !

I’m linking to My Uncommon Slice of Surburbia’s Party

 Ten June and Southern Hospitality and Stories of A to Z come have a look around and get some ideas.

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Fall Mantel

Last year was the first time that I decorated my mantel for fall and was so surprised when BHG included it in their Halloween mantel collection.

This year I decided to put my spooky trees up there.

I added the skeleton in the tree and spray painted my green pumpkin with chrome paint.

A fellow blogger made this printable to share and I can’t remember who it was ! Let me know if it was you………

I got a little excited when I saw how it matched my roman shades !

I wanted to paint the frame black but to my horror I was all out. My son was just glad I painted something a color other than white.

I’ll be linking to these Fall parties……..

Fall Crafts link party

The DIY Showoff link party

Transformation Thursday

Valentine’s Day Mantel

Here’s my Valentine’s Day inspired mantel.

It was fun finding and making things for this one.  I’ve never decorated the mantel for Valentine’s Day, so thanks Beth for having the party.  I left up my Eddie Ross wreath for this but I promise I’ll take it down soon.

I bought the little boy and girl plaques at an antique store a long time ago, they were hand painted by an artist in NC.

I saw these cute X and O frames that Jen over at Tatertots and Jello had featured and I had to make some too !  That required spray painting some old frames in the snow, hot pink velvet and flat floral stones.

The Love frame was a gift from my niece that got some snow spray painting action too !

Why yes that is a shiny disco ball hanging from my ceiling fan cause I’m just that cool…… lol.  Yay, it’s Friday. I hope you all have a great weekend !  I’ve been working on a redo for the Master bedroom that I will post on Sunday or Monday.

I’m linking to Beth’s Mantel Party #5 at The Stories of A to Z

Mantel Party

Beth at The Stories of A to Z is having a mantel party so I’m linking up over there.  Yes, my Eddie Ross wreath is still up.  I promise I won’t leave it up all year !