Showing posts with label mantle. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Whimsical Witch Halloween Mantle

Morning lovelies!  I’m finally getting my Halloween on around here… I typically begin with a wreath reveal but since my wreath idea is still being tweaked, I thought I’d start by sharing my Whimsical Witch Halloween Mantle!

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I kept most of the elements from my Aqua and Wood Fall Mantle and just added in some fun Halloween touches.  The inspiration was a sassy little ceramic pumpkin witch my sister gave me a few years back.

Witch Pumpkin Halloween Mantle

I dressed up some small pumpkins with decorative witch hats from the Halloween party section at Hobby Lobby – I just slid them on over the pumpkin stems for a perfect topper.  My youngest hoards saves all of her glasses when we go to 3D movies and pops the lenses out for some reason, so I took advantage of that and used them as props for my little pumpkins.  Said daughter also convinced me she needed sticky glow-in-the-dark eyeballs from the Halloween aisle, so I happily obliged and stole a few for my pumpkins (I secured them with a straight pin).

Witch Pumpkin Mantle

The purple LED lights are battery operated – which is great because we all know that electrical outlets by mantles are never close enough for our decorating needs (you know what I’m saying)!

Witch Hat Garland

I added some “creepy fabric” for some extra texture and then made a teeny witch hat garland with some leftover stash ribbon trim.

Whimsical Halloween Mantle

I’m enjoying this Whimsical Witch mantle so much that I’m already conjuring up ideas about how to modify it to keep it for Thanksgiving… wonder how long those pumpkins will last??

Hope you’re having a great week so far!

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Monday, September 30, 2013

Aqua and Natural Wood Fall Mantle

Fall Mantel Blue and Natural

Happy Monday friends!  I’m excited today to finally show you my aqua and natural wood fall mantle!
This mantle has slowly been in progress over the last week, but the already shorter days of fall were making it a little difficult to get decent lighting for pictures when I got home in the evening.  I was finally able to snap some pics for you and here it is!

Linen Oak Leaf Garland

If you follow me on Instagram, then you got to see a sneak peek of this linen oak leaf garland early this week.  To make this, I simply traced an oak leaf image from my computer screen, then traced onto my fabric.  I got this gorgeous floral linen long ago on clearance at Hobby Lobby, and it’s been sitting quietly in my stash waiting to be made into something beautiful.  After cutting out the leaf shapes, I tied them to a thin twine that I hang from my mantle with Command small wire hooks.

Fall Mantel Wheat

I used the leftover wheat from my Wheat and Hydrangea Wreath by placing it in the aqua vase that I found on my recent IKEA shopping trip.  And in lieu of the traditional real pumpkin, I made some of my own… Embroidery Hoop Pumpkins, which I’ll show you how to make later this week.

Fall Mantel

Aren’t they fun?!  *squee!*

Embroidery Hoop Pumpkin

Keeping with the embroidery hoop theme, I also made a hand-stitched pumpkin with an oblong embroidery hoop, some osnaberg fabric, and some hand-stitched pumpkin grooves.  I love how the wooden brackets on top resemble a pumpkin stem without even trying.

Blue and Natural Mantle

So that’s it!  This will be my view for the next several weeks until it’s time to start spookin’ things up around here for Halloween.  I already made a trip to the costume store today with one of my littles, so it’s just around the corner.  Hope you’re enjoying these first weeks of fall…

Are you decorating for fall or do you skip straight to Halloween?

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