A Pop of Pretty

A Year of Mantel Decorating Ideas! {aka: Revealing my Inner-Mantel Freak}

A Year of Mantel Decorating Ideas! {aka: Revealing my Inner-Mantel Freak}

I’ve been freakishly addicted to changing my mantel for special holidays and for the seasons long before I started blogging about home decor.  But when I did start blogging, I was happy to discover that there are lots more ‘mantel freaks’ out there too! It’s fun and creative, and it helps in some small way to keep our home feeling festive even in the duldrums of our regular routine.

A Year of Seasonally-Decorated Mantels 2012

In 2012, my mantel changed at least 10 times from what I could count (yup, freakishly, I tell ya)!

Here were some of my faves…READ MORE

Simple Christmas Mantel Decor (Branches & Bulbs)

Simple Christmas Mantel Decor (Branches & Bulbs)

 

Yesterday, I mentioned that our neutral Christmas tree this year is a really big departure for me.  Well, the same can be said for our Christmas mantel decor.  Last year, I had a very traditional Christmas mantel, with lots of layers of full greenery, and pops of saturated color.  (That Christmas mantel decorating tutorial is found here).  I’m a really big fan of that look, but this year I was ready for a change.

 

Christmas mantel decor with branches

 

I liked the very simple, wintery mantel I decorated back in November, which consisted of branches and pillar candles.  So, for Christmas, I decided to simply build on that, rather than start from scratch.  I added some white lights and my sparkly reindeer, and hung some pretty glass bulbs from the branches, and called it a day!

 

Winter Mantel Decor

 

I lie: it was a little more tedious than that… READ MORE

A November Mantel (Late Fall / Pre-Christmas Decorating)

A November Mantel (Late Fall / Pre-Christmas Decorating)

November is a bit of an oddball month here for seasonal decor.  Our (Canadian) Thanksgiving falls in early October, once Halloween is over with, I’m pretty done with Fall decor. But since it’s too early to decorate for Christmas, I either need to keep my mantel bare (never!) or decorate it in a way that says ‘holidays’ without being overtly Christmas.

I decided to keep it simple: some pillar candles, frosty white berries, birch logs, and a bunch of branches that I collected in my parents’ yard after a Tropical Storm ravaged their trees earlier this Fall.

 

Late Fall Mantel Decor

 

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