Vintage Papers - A Christmas Mantle Vignette
We've been handling discarded paperbacks and an old hymnal today as I
prepare decorations for our Christmas mantle.
I have chosen vintage papers as my featured texture to share.
In honor of my Mom's 44th year of work and retirement this past Friday many of her
dear friends and family gave her an unforgettable going away party.
My aunt and uncle from Chicago even made the ten hour
round trip drive to be there for her special day.
She was given four large themed gift baskets recognizing things that she loves:
music, gardening, cooking and sewing.
With the music basket, she was given a wreath made of pages from an old hymnal and as she described it, the wheels of my mind started turning and today I made one similar to the one that she was given.
Karin suggested that I add in some paperback book trees, which I did, and so my mantle is underway.
I typically lean toward a brimming display on the mantle so I'll
probably add some things over the course of the next few days.
Cliff added in the wooden scottie dog puzzle that reminds us of our dear old Christy dog.
We still miss you, little pup.
The twins would like to share their texture of the day - Apples!
Cliff shared the apple he was eating over lunch with them and they both loved it!
Each received their own wedge of unpeeled, fresh, raw apple.
We turned Mr. Muffin's apple peel side up so that he could go at it with his 2 bottom teeth.
Ruby, who has 6 teeth, as of today, was able to chomp on her own fairly well.
I used this tutorial from Mitzi's Collectibles for the Hymnal Wreath.
This Rolled Paper Christmas Tree is next on my craft list, but I'd have to buy the
cone shaped form and leaving the house is rare so we'll take the
"Wait and see approach" on that one... maybe I could make the cone out of cardboard?
I bet Cliff could figure it out for me!
4 comments:
Love, love, love your projects. I might try to copy. What a joyous Christmas you will have. Congrats to your mom.
Betty, we approached texture differently. You chose one medium and ran with it in different themes. I looked for a lot of different things with texture. Hope we get to share next week.
Oh my! Your babies are so cute! LOVE LOVE LOVE! Love the hymnal wreath & the trees too...gonna try that out :) Thanks for sharing your blog with me. I'm going to subscribe...if I can figure out how!
My phone keeps erasing my nice long comments! Anyway, "Nice blog." haha.
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