3 DIY wooden village Christmas mantels

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DIY wooden village Christmas mantel

This charming DIY wooden Christmas village brings the magic of the holiday season straight to your Christmas mantel, using scrap wood and a window frame! If you know me at all, you’ll already know I love love LOVE Christmas decorations that are very natural and neutral, as if you’re walking through a forest. Most of my preferred traditional Christmas […]

Christmas living room junk home tour

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Christmas living room junk home tour Merry Christmas friends! And today is a special one indeed… Today I’m sharing the final part of my Christmas home tour which is the coziest room in the house… the living room! Which also includes this year’s Christmas fireplace mantel and Christmas tree. If you missed the Christmas kitchen […]

When less becomes more, with a moody winter mantel

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Watch out world… I’m in a colour-less mood. Even more so than normal. 🙂 This can change at any given moment of course! Once the Sleigh Rides Christmas mantel came down, the mantel actually sat bare for awhile. A reset, if you will. I was just done seeing ‘stuff’. What was so attractive about ‘bare?’ Invisible. Didn’t […]

A summer hydrangea mantel with a twist

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My poor fireplace mantel. It hasn’t been changed out since I did this version with the dried brown hydrangeas. During winter! Can you tell I’m not huge on seasonal decorating? 🙂 I honestly would have just left it, but the metal containers were really dusty and it needed a good clean. Plus I wanted to summerize […]

Day 10 – illuminated old windows Christmas mantel

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Nothing spells progress quite like when your mantel is decorated for Christmas!  And this year, my illuminated old windows Christmas mantel comes with a little heartwarming memory story attached. Create an old world rock fireplace without destruction – tutorial HERE The fireplace mantel is glowy, snowy, with plenty of greens and a grapevine / pinecone […]