I�m so glad you all loved the mantel inspiration photos! I was so inspired by the natural looks and all the �fluff� � I think it worked for our mantel as well. I spent much of today messing around and having fun with it. I�m so pleased with the final result, I hope you love it too!
I started with natural looking pics of greenery from Big Lots � I used three at $3 each. I just laid one on each end of the mantel, one in the middle, flattening them out as much as possible:
Then, I took the magnolias and all of the glammy (word?) stuff out of the greenery I had used last year (see previous post), then just folded it in half, and it ended up being exactly the length I needed. I laid it right on top of the greenery above.
Because I really loved the look of the long pine needles, I used more garland from Big Lots, for $9, and cut it up into a bunch of pieces, just sticking it here and there in the greenery. Then I cut up some sparkly branches and stuffed them in too:
The BL garland had the huge pinecones in it, but I added a few more of my own as well.
I took my clearance WalMart lanterns from our deck and repurposed them to work on the mantel. I was so pleased with how it turned out�
I was still craving a little somethin� though � some color! I just can�t do completely natural � it�s against my nature. ;) So I cut up some red beady stuff I had and stuffed it in here and there, and then hung my dollar store stars from each piece of ironwork:
I took some of the beady thingamabobs and sprinkled them on the pinecones in the lanterns:
Which was super easy to do, because the blasted things were flying off everywhere anyway. Argh.
The result? Lurve:
I found this little reindeer at HomeGoods and I seriously could not resist him. Adorable. He picks up the red touches in the mantel perfectly:
Hang in there � I took a crazy amount of pictures�
I used dollar store candleholders in the lanterns, and made them a bit taller by putting them on top of blocks of wood. I wanted to put faux snow in the lanterns, but they only open in the front, so it was next to impossible to get the snow in there. (Believe me, I tried.) So I just used my fluffy snow stuff instead:
Because the greenery is so full (sigh), I propped up the lanterns and the tree with books and boxes so they wouldn�t disappear. You can�t even see them when you look at the mantel:
Do you luuuuurve it? Huh? Do ya??
I hope so! I do. I had so much fun with this! One more mantel to go, and I hope to have that up this week. It�s MUCH simpler though. :)
The winner of Pampering Beki�s necklace giveaway is Melissa Howard from Melissa and Cas � please email me and I�ll get you in touch with Beki! I still haven�t heard from Kat at Measuring my life in love who was the winner of the vinyl giveaway � Kat, give me a holler! Enjoy ladies!
P.S. Did anyone watch the Behind the Magic Disney special on HGTV tonight? OMG � it was fantastic. (Popcorn as big as my head! Sixty-five foot trees people!) Check out a rerun if you get a chance! Spectacular!!
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