Pink, Red, White Valentine Mantel

Write it on your heart that the ones

you love are life's most precious gift...

Red, Pinks and Whites for this years Valentine Mantel display.

I made the heart mini wall quilt to take center stage for Valentine's Day. 

Fill a bird cage with flower petals and a mini mailbox or other lovey finds. Use mini clothes pins to attach love notes...

Kindred Spirits

Make a Valentine Card board using old cards from dear friends and family...

or display on a message board

Bring out your white milk glass to hold flowers, candles or candy...

Stack items on old books to add height in displays. 

Recently picked up the wooden red hearts (top right) on a trip to Utah...

I found them at the Quilted Bear in the Ogden Mall. 

My mantel has a new home above the sofa...

Love to rearrange wall displays and furniture for a fresh look.  

Have you added some cute Valentine displays to your home?

What is new on your mantel?

A White Christmas Tree

I have loved white Christmas trees for years. Yes, the artificial kind with white lights.  

In November I saw a small one at Wal Mart for only $39.00 and I had to go buy it.  It is a little shorter than my green tree so I felt like I needed to place it on something for height. 

An old steamer trunk was perfect for the tree...

But there was about an 18 inch space between the trunk and the lowest branches of the tree.

Grandmas are just antique little girls so what should go under my tree?

Why dolls of course!

"Old raggedy dolls-

torn and tattered

you were my friends

when it really mattered" 

What a perfect spot for Raggedy Ann... 

and Raggedy Andy. 

My little white tree covered with many vintage ornaments is bringing me lots of JOY this season!  

What is your favorite kind of Christmas tree?

How do you decorate yours? 

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A Christmas Mantel

I can't believe another Christmas is here!

 I chose to use some more of my milk glass pieces in this mantel display and of course the mercury glass always creeps in. The snowflakes taped to the mirror were from my garland I made last year. 

My milk glass pieces are Good Will finds and gifts from family and friends.

I am constantly amazed at the variety of inexpensive milk glass that you can still find.

 

The greenery picks are from the Dollar Store and the pine cones from my DIL yard...I just dabbed the edges with white paint for a frosty look. 

The silver cardboard house was found at Marshall's and I have had the vintage aqua glass ball ornaments for years. 

A very simple Christmas mantel this year.

How have you decorated your mantel or table tops this year? 

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Fall Mantel

Happy November

Happy Thanksgiving

This is my new fall mantel. Full of all the colors and things I love about late autumn.

I started this mantel display by adding the oval mirror for background and reflection.

An orange berry swag was tucked along the top of the mirror.

I hung the fall wreath in the middle of the mirror and began adding more autumn accents. 

I picked up these matching artichoke pieces at Target a couple of years ago...they look extra special with a gold silk ribbon tied around the base.  I stacked them on old books to add height and balance the ends of the display.  

An old LDS hymn book published in 1887 that belonged to a family relative.

There were only words in the book...no music (notes).  

Words to the song, "We Thank Thee Oh God For A Prophet".

The cloche is filled with small pumpkins and acorns.

I left the shredded brown paper from the Halloween mantel because it is a good filler and added a canning jar, candle and pinecones. My Autumn Banner was hung to highlight the season.

The finished mantel and I am ready to celebrate Thanksgiving.

How I made the wreath and banner used in my display.

Tutorial for Fall Wreath

Tutorial for Autumn Banner

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Haunted Cookie Village

This is a Halloween haunted village made from a kit.  I purchased the kit at the grocery store...had all the candies, cookie houses and frostings in the kit.  I added the pretzel fence with candy corns and the plastic pumpkins, ghosts and grave stone.  Hint: glue the houses together with a hot glue gun...not the frosting.  It saves time and does not fall apart later. And decorate your houses before gluing them in place on a permanent board.

Have you made a haunted village before?