Cream and white galore! Who uses the word "galore" anymore? I guess I do! I probably get it from my mom b/c she uses it too! This year I made a drastic departure from the traditional way I usually do my mantle. I've always done it in pine roping with red and green baubles and beads but I felt I wanted something more peaceful this year. So this is what I came up with..........
I got this very cool piece of pottery at a flea market for a dollar. It has a cream colored base with a bumpy white texture to it that reminds me of snow.......
A very tall hymnal music and text tree. The white candles were also a flea market find for one thin dollar.
Peat pots make great little containers!
I bought a whole bag of green bottle brush trees and dipped them in a solution of water and bleach for about 15 minutes. Large wooden blocks of wood covered with various decorative cardstock is a great way to elevate the trees.......
This is a big cloche I made out of chicken wire to go over the tree just to balance out the tall tree at the other end of the mantle. I cut the paper strips a little wider and cut the tips with pinking scissors for this tree.......
The white lights are doubled over and then wrapped with a cream strip of tulle. The use of the tulle diffuses the light and gives a soft glow.
This piece was created with chicken wire molded into a basket shape, glued to a candle stick base and filled with moss, tinsel and a glittery bird (with a hat, because all birds should wear hats).
So that's my mantle for Christmas 2011! What do you think?
I had a little assistance, if you can call it that. This guy was very helpful with his super long arms, he could easily hold onto the bead garland. 
This dude was no help what so ever, he kept giving everyone this shy sideways glance and kept wishing then "Happy Holidays!". These snowmen are a hard bunch to work with, they are VERY unfocused.
Ok so I, by myself got the greens on the matel and started to place the dark green glass balls and large metal jingle bells when this guy started to poke me in the nose with his aluminum tree.
Well, I finally just finished but not without somebody getting stuck in the gumbal machine.....
Sunshine climbed into the gumball machine and got stuck. He then yelled out for me to bring him his snow, bottle brush tree and red and silver balls. I think he's planning on hanging out there until after the holidays.
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