Pages

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Garden Mantel

It's that time of year! I started decorating for Christmas. Honestly I started with the mantel to enter it at the Lettered Cottage. You should too! Love all those gorgeous mantels.

Here's our mantel this year, decorated in a garden theme. I think it's really interesting that there are no ornaments, no wreaths, no lights, none of the glitter I'm seeing elsewhere in blogland (which I do love)... and yet the look is unmistakably Christmas.

Photobucket

Our fireplace has this large built-in niche. I knew I needed something great to fill it. I usually have a carved wooden spire in there, and I fully intended to leave it... until I spotted this angel in our yard. I knew instantly the proportions were right. I love it so much I might just leave it there.

Photobucket

I love to bring in things from the outside for decorating. Usually that means branches and flowers, but why not statuary?

Photobucket

Or my children's worn garden trowel?

I am in love with that bright lime/pear/some-sort-of-fruit green. And I loved how the moss on the angel had that sort of tone. So I sprayed a branch lime green with some leftover spray paint.

Photobucket

A little fake moss ball (which is there year round) in a thrift store vessel.

Photobucket

For the greenery, I started with two fake evergreen garlands. I added real clippings from the outside, some fake holly, and two clear beaded sprigs.

To complete the vignette, a terra cotta bird and a vintage cardinal print.

Photobucket

I tied some green ribbon on our existing stockings for an additional shot of green.

Photobucket

And there you have it!

Photobucket

Photobucket

Photobucket

Photobucket

Photobucket

Merry Christmas!

Linking to some of these parties.

This project was featured on Life as Lori.

7 comments:

  1. That is one of the most classic memorable fireplace mantles I have seen....Heavenly :)

    Take care,
    Lisa

    ReplyDelete
  2. The best in all of blogland!
    from one gardener to another-

    ReplyDelete
  3. Very pretty!

    I'm featuring this over at Life As Lori. If you would like to stop by and grab my I was featured button please do so.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Happy Holidays - I'm dropping by from Nifty Thrifty Tuesday's blog hop.

    Love your mantel!!! It is so beautiful.

    Please come by & say "Hi!" sometime: http://SallyLeeByTheSea.com

    ReplyDelete
  5. What a grand mantel. The niche with the statue is just stunning (okay, I know that's not the actual Christmas part).

    ReplyDelete
  6. Thanks for the feature, Lori. And thanks for all the nice comments! :)

    ReplyDelete

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...