Hi everyone! OK this is THE simplest Christmas mantel I’ve ever done in my whole life 🙂 ! Since we made the mantel ourselves, I made sure to make a nice deep one so I would always have lots of room for stuff. But like I said in my last post, I’m keeping Christmas simple this year! So this year I have just 5 things on my mantel ~ amazing~ I know! My Merry Christmas ornament wreath. I tell you, decorating with red comes in handy this time of year! I used 2 large red lanterns which I filled with… [Read More]
My Fun Thanksgiving Mantel
I wanted to share with you all our fun Thanksgiving Mantel! I took down my “fall” mantel to get ready for Christmas, but wanted to do a little something that was quick and easy to help get us in the mood to celebrate Thanksgiving. We start decorating for Christmas right after Thanksgiving so it won’t be up for long. Since we don’t do Black Friday, I usually spend the day going through my Christmas stuff deciding what to put where. My husband is in retail and now has to work on Thanksgiving Day through the following Saturday. Anyway, Black Friday… [Read More]
Woodland Harvest Victorian English Pottery
As some of you know, I have a bit of a dish problem…I rarely see a plate that I don’t like. Which is why I should just stay out of TJMaxx. It’s hard to walk out of there without one or two plates and the last time I went was no exception. They had a few dinner and salad plates of the Woodland Harvest pattern, Victorian English Pottery by Edward Challinor. LOVE!!! I love brown transferware anyway so the minute I saw them I put a few in my cart. When I came home I re-did my fall mantel. So… [Read More]
Fall Mantel Inspiration – My 2013 Fall Mantel
Hi! If you’re new here at A Cultivated Nest, welcome! Today I’m sharing my fall mantel decor! My decorating style is a more colorful one – so I had to add some pops of color on there. By the way, my fireplace is a fake one that we built. You can see how we made it here. I found some pine cone candlesticks at TJMaxx that I thought would be fun to use (they also have them in gold and silver). I decoupaged orange doilies from Michael’s $1 bins onto 2 pumpkins for a shot of color. The pumpkin towards… [Read More]
My Mossy Flowery Spring Mantel
People often ask me how to go about decorating a fireplace mantel {I guess because I change my mantel every month or so}. I’m flattered that people would ask me for decorating advice since I think of myself as a homemaker & gardener not at all as a “decorator”. So I had to think about it. Maybe there are some kind of rules? I don’t know. I just find it easier to decorate certain things if I have a theme or story in mind. So that’s what I do with my mantel. Sometimes my theme is centered around colors, sometimes… [Read More]
My Christmas Glitter House Mantel
I’ve decided to focus on a few key areas this year when decorating for Christmas. Mainly because I really, really, really want to downsize all my Christmas decor boxes. I decided to display all my glitter houses and some of my bottle brush trees on my mantel. My main focal areas for the living room will be our Christmas tree and the fireplace. I showed you the french grain sack planter I made for my pretty poinsettia on the hearth. So now I’ve moved onto the mantel. This mantel is so nice and deep since we made it over in January!… [Read More]
Faux Ceiling Tin Fireplace Firebox
Sometimes things just happen and a project comes together! That’s the case with my faux fireplace’s faux ceiling tin firebox (that’s a lot of faux!). So what happened is this mirror that I had hanging on my fence started to fall apart. They will do that if you live in a climate with rain. The frames start to detach from the mirror. So it was sitting in the garden propped up against the fence for a few months. I would see it every day and say to myself that I needed to move it. Then we were cleaning out the… [Read More]
My Fall Fireplace Mantel
It seems like most of Blogland started decorating for fall a few months ago so on one hand I feel like I’m late to the party. But on the other, I don’t really live in Blogland – I live in Georgia where it’s still summery. 🙂 Besides I’ve been so busy planting things that I’ve barely spent any time inside! So instead of cleaning my house … I decorated my mantel for fall! I didn’t only just use your traditional orange and brown colors… I filled this little brown transferware pitcher that I got at Goodwill last year (I think)… [Read More]
