Our Christmas Mantel

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifmCyZY4Jgrh2KTr-9FQGLpuIsoK3iTDAKLxC460bra_qoekp0UHquQ10b8RYWr1eN8DG8IMXLVed9nt7pQz1QoeLrLUnbom88__v3jCAPl7Xr-lMhq69xnkyLKoNlMvoSIq9kksXLC_0/s1600/rNovember_1298.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifmCyZY4Jgrh2KTr-9FQGLpuIsoK3iTDAKLxC460bra_qoekp0UHquQ10b8RYWr1eN8DG8IMXLVed9nt7pQz1QoeLrLUnbom88__v3jCAPl7Xr-lMhq69xnkyLKoNlMvoSIq9kksXLC_0/s640/rNovember_1298.jpg" width="436" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This year I went really really simple on our mantel. I had planned on doing an advent calendar hanging where the stockings were but didn't get it done in time, I may still make one later this week and we will just have to play catch-up, or I may wait until next year...  </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMStbGMWgNX7p1y6u3oRhQAWIMzDZsYpS1fKXlpcf4fYj3mcGBmVFgTLiu_3_XEm8gANkLc4TklNNKeBI6e1PodVcg9GbPuEGrMqDXbXSCbVXOg2oQoprxrt-lx-oV0TBsAJDIGjbXAGI/s640/rNovember_1290.jpg" width="436" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjWLiakik4yUjkWNkPji1Zvpnss005iv2ahQnKyDzBQp_Xndog7pMSO-XSXa0VcxYvWGzQxd66vX0YhMyhxheALCNcb-2NDdcxVZn79z21TewDIXQkLsZekBSieOOFK2sRT_Hobvc5lbE/s1600/rNovember_1300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYgwNHvFXl9qbVanJghBBnh8LuHwng0zuptcFKEhnb5Cc0_0bGYGF8G7FFkKZmB7V3ovO7aOeZdswzEPkQNEUvQOCocMhs7v8qtycjzCQ09H8x4UpTqmpvuBY4MDklueeYpiBkIjIwGPE/s1600/rNovember_1295.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYgwNHvFXl9qbVanJghBBnh8LuHwng0zuptcFKEhnb5Cc0_0bGYGF8G7FFkKZmB7V3ovO7aOeZdswzEPkQNEUvQOCocMhs7v8qtycjzCQ09H8x4UpTqmpvuBY4MDklueeYpiBkIjIwGPE/s640/rNovember_1295.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also, I forgot to mention earlier this month that you can click here for our free December download: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikL2IqVrmshJTLm9rO_2mxWE9Bv33IzepwOFOWTtzVjlrcJxC4zEIKTQP-fiSfeL4qqMAIZRr4a7WaPGSiXkbKDP3GSeRLfsL38Fn5u0Jq67dhhgSRDOQJfnbXfLsVPUD5vsfeEO8fGWc/s1600/bDecember.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikL2IqVrmshJTLm9rO_2mxWE9Bv33IzepwOFOWTtzVjlrcJxC4zEIKTQP-fiSfeL4qqMAIZRr4a7WaPGSiXkbKDP3GSeRLfsL38Fn5u0Jq67dhhgSRDOQJfnbXfLsVPUD5vsfeEO8fGWc/s640/bDecember.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">And we also have several <a href="http://www.dearlillie.com/category/downloadable-art">Christmas downloads available</a> including Isaiah 9:6 and Silent Night and The First Noel. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ0I8I9y1TXhZ9Bu3UpCDLM-5pnqndsMN9GP_mG6pjMHmJwCFyv1WYEm-maW-398X3vjpTZRsJfizvIyb_ZqlP5Ck1wI75xDGJmqYvpcpMeUGM96qE58X5e-ScXdyIOqHc7hHAi33z51w/s1600/bIsaiah96blackgray.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ0I8I9y1TXhZ9Bu3UpCDLM-5pnqndsMN9GP_mG6pjMHmJwCFyv1WYEm-maW-398X3vjpTZRsJfizvIyb_ZqlP5Ck1wI75xDGJmqYvpcpMeUGM96qE58X5e-ScXdyIOqHc7hHAi33z51w/s400/bIsaiah96blackgray.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I'll be back tomorrow! Have a wonderful Thursday!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYqiHfik3_LH9jxwc9HWtgMqjb2hTMMq7wQUsXFos8XJgnvCzPp0UbhRiGJYbWFWygaFwKs0JRUJ9rAOHx1dm3io2Aq6NaFKOtFUL3-0ixQ35qu5iQa2p-JAJNTvSxgINPIHvdj521yyo/s1600/sig.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYqiHfik3_LH9jxwc9HWtgMqjb2hTMMq7wQUsXFos8XJgnvCzPp0UbhRiGJYbWFWygaFwKs0JRUJ9rAOHx1dm3io2Aq6NaFKOtFUL3-0ixQ35qu5iQa2p-JAJNTvSxgINPIHvdj521yyo/s1600/sig.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />

Our Christmas Mantel

This year I went really really simple on our mantel. I had planned on doing an advent calendar hanging where the stockings were but didn...

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A Simple Autumn Mantel

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZxJlCXcaovdAT4N01Bc8qyVZOwZgTAqDBC4b2YZ5EMCFpP-4BNvzav9Z9VrdWbhkTWRLE4qNOYk7w-SwHsoyeNc5V1Rc9mgGfV5XnPOxbKDVkSqpjSIAwREmeTx3TPcVacNKVuHsg5o5D/s1600/bOctober_647.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZxJlCXcaovdAT4N01Bc8qyVZOwZgTAqDBC4b2YZ5EMCFpP-4BNvzav9Z9VrdWbhkTWRLE4qNOYk7w-SwHsoyeNc5V1Rc9mgGfV5XnPOxbKDVkSqpjSIAwREmeTx3TPcVacNKVuHsg5o5D/s640/bOctober_647.png" width="640" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The girls and I spent last week in New Hampshire with my family. There is nothing more beautiful than autumn in New England. I hated leaving! We worked on a few small projects at my parent's new house including playing around with the mantel. We used all items that they had already so it was completely free! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPAVs7vTfSEZP3oWKAoOnMN5I6T4qTYVrtYgIlZ2TSEJ43m_GCzyOnhfALX4mNw9WPjC8mtz9M2fv5P87C7crbhK2prmI_o-F8udqoSnfJXV6R70DYU3XKriPYlKEMH5Uv1KX1HKhR94M5/s1600/bOctober_637.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPAVs7vTfSEZP3oWKAoOnMN5I6T4qTYVrtYgIlZ2TSEJ43m_GCzyOnhfALX4mNw9WPjC8mtz9M2fv5P87C7crbhK2prmI_o-F8udqoSnfJXV6R70DYU3XKriPYlKEMH5Uv1KX1HKhR94M5/s640/bOctober_637.png" width="436" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They had quite a few faux pumpkins from years past in a mix of colors so we painted them all ballet white to coordinate nicely on the mantel. The leaves were freshly cut - I love how bright they are!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipt2zO2Ybp-vdbp25N2RwXqVe4m66O21DryV6Ww-VbOVXi2I604YOabHGNfrcVgPymgD2ZfXbIBvxP9dQhFXHqbb6j2LC_LDapnZjhEtHk00qEEI5VyupSitD7iIG9LxRztM9txuJcpA1/s1600/bOctober_653.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipt2zO2Ybp-vdbp25N2RwXqVe4m66O21DryV6Ww-VbOVXi2I604YOabHGNfrcVgPymgD2ZfXbIBvxP9dQhFXHqbb6j2LC_LDapnZjhEtHk00qEEI5VyupSitD7iIG9LxRztM9txuJcpA1/s640/bOctober_653.png" width="436" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is my Great Uncle Bob and was done back in 1940! (There's a coordinating one of his brother, my grandfather, that's in another room that I'll show later this week.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjamUOBqApRSqVGC9X8K8TufsMrUpK1E5H00gI7FeUw1Vbi3f8NbuPhP3glbrDcrs4fbg70M9ahN-_cZzHGthzTQ8NfMGq21NwoE5vGxp9hl7Bhhcvt35B8ivEy76xb4iD0lCif5ZA-2SFx/s1600/bOctober_644.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjamUOBqApRSqVGC9X8K8TufsMrUpK1E5H00gI7FeUw1Vbi3f8NbuPhP3glbrDcrs4fbg70M9ahN-_cZzHGthzTQ8NfMGq21NwoE5vGxp9hl7Bhhcvt35B8ivEy76xb4iD0lCif5ZA-2SFx/s640/bOctober_644.png" width="436" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibSTHsOSWvsIANR_yjpFeeCMoOIiypy7XE47oIHeys1lrbkT8w1BPefgzZtNnAXGg4EEJwV4PPXwkidIN263LefqODQ-3P6fNoyrLahtcVNNmhxRHFrhq075uHacIHYcp8iQO9dx3ujU7p/s1600/bOctober_633.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibSTHsOSWvsIANR_yjpFeeCMoOIiypy7XE47oIHeys1lrbkT8w1BPefgzZtNnAXGg4EEJwV4PPXwkidIN263LefqODQ-3P6fNoyrLahtcVNNmhxRHFrhq075uHacIHYcp8iQO9dx3ujU7p/s640/bOctober_633.png" width="436" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> Originally we couldn't find any orange branches low enough to cut so we used these ones that were a bit more dull until we got the orange ones. I liked how they looked but think the orange one pull out the background of the picture of Uncle Bob better.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuAn_UUyl5OOwdgvH8-fg8F-6_N_qv9uZza8t8PeR5LL4QbVe_eAOFAgKpvjI_8ucxim4jvOCm4gDGT_XXBJRqOdA_4dpeXAemCZlHg6v2c7kjEutgVk0Qwki9WfRBpWN3llVzeJOiYukN/s1600/bOctober_204.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuAn_UUyl5OOwdgvH8-fg8F-6_N_qv9uZza8t8PeR5LL4QbVe_eAOFAgKpvjI_8ucxim4jvOCm4gDGT_XXBJRqOdA_4dpeXAemCZlHg6v2c7kjEutgVk0Qwki9WfRBpWN3llVzeJOiYukN/s640/bOctober_204.png" width="435" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2CVF1QHQxZe9dD8WLj5f35fmT-mh9QYcaaTU_8PEt1hF6U8dJUwX7vJKF_-wq9_x8b56YEoShDKQHZ0U0oWTuWrP2zHpfPT1hw7p1thGgZ49gGCa_U86vlcV8uhZqonsFQYXjLCwCwZsm/s1600/bOctober_192.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2CVF1QHQxZe9dD8WLj5f35fmT-mh9QYcaaTU_8PEt1hF6U8dJUwX7vJKF_-wq9_x8b56YEoShDKQHZ0U0oWTuWrP2zHpfPT1hw7p1thGgZ49gGCa_U86vlcV8uhZqonsFQYXjLCwCwZsm/s640/bOctober_192.png" width="436" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHBJjSzqwutBCmJ_TXwZRxipTX_FglgaxTiAr1t4-F7UPUNaLztPQCNAnLjxpIHfa3sn0mHR2xlZsRVonBcxc1sQAX3wM6KkNLaB0ZC1dcgjLX-BE3aX8LHeL94Yq4PD9XoA1nucfuiPH/s1600/bOctober_191.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHBJjSzqwutBCmJ_TXwZRxipTX_FglgaxTiAr1t4-F7UPUNaLztPQCNAnLjxpIHfa3sn0mHR2xlZsRVonBcxc1sQAX3wM6KkNLaB0ZC1dcgjLX-BE3aX8LHeL94Yq4PD9XoA1nucfuiPH/s640/bOctober_191.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />I hope you all had a lovely weekend!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxrRLYsnHNdIjGcb8HvCcDEcO4xTGAvabW_ZHcd0_iHv8tFkrmdhxu6SXpE24zD_gYzh0SJP3pVD2_cPICAlOVhVgC8l3AEpXpHgdPnM_tanZ4Vd0GzZbrr0twduD_lx5nPEbml6KK4iPc/s1600/sig.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxrRLYsnHNdIjGcb8HvCcDEcO4xTGAvabW_ZHcd0_iHv8tFkrmdhxu6SXpE24zD_gYzh0SJP3pVD2_cPICAlOVhVgC8l3AEpXpHgdPnM_tanZ4Vd0GzZbrr0twduD_lx5nPEbml6KK4iPc/s1600/sig.png" /></a></div>

A Simple Autumn Mantel

The girls and I spent last week in New Hampshire with my family. There is nothing more beautiful than autumn in New England. I hated leavin...

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