Summer Mantle

All my blogging friends have been posting their gorgeous summer mantles and this morning I realized the summer is over half gone,     Guess I better get in gear if I am going to do a summer mantle before fall gets here !  

I was playing with my birdcages the other day and made a bird condo for the sun room.    I have enjoyed it so much that I decided to do something similar in the family room.    The cages that I didn't use in the sunroom condo were still in the garage so I didn't have to go far for my supplies to do the mantle.

  

I rounded up a couple of birds and some picture frames .....

I tied my birdcages together....

Hot glued a few paper birds to the "doorway frames"

and I had my mantle done in about an hour!

I may just keep the cages on the mantle ....pick off the birds.....and add some owls for fall!

The cute cardboard birds that I used came in the currant copy of Daphne's Diary.   

 

The bird condo in the sun room..............................................................Birdcage mantle in the family room

This summer is going by so fast.....school starts here in about 3 weeks!


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