Winter Farmhouse Mantel

Although I am already missing the twinkling lights and  Christmas decor.........at the same time,   I am excited about starting the new year with a fresh less cluttered  look for our home.

Note that I said LESS clutter........not "NO" clutter!

My style of decorating involves quite a bit of clutter......lol!

I  drew up the plans for a farmhouse barn for the  Christmas mantel and H made my plans come to life.      I  will use the barn year round and am already excited about including it in my spring,   summer,   and fall  decor.

I replaced the Santa that was in front of the barn with a sweet child ready to play in the snow.

I packed up the rest of the Christmas decor on the mantel and put a couple of deer vignettes in their place

The lit flocked tree's on each side of the fireplace were packed away and replaced with some simple "naked" trees.

I like to have something under my tree's ,     so since the presents were all gone, I placed a  sleeping lamb under each of the tree's.

I also decorated the display cabinets that are on each side of the fireplace.

Continuing with my winter farmhouse theme on the display cabinets,    I used  pictures of  cows in a snow covered field.

Each vignette also had birds feeding on seed covered balls.

Christmas mantel....................................................Winter mantel

I really am missing  the lit garland I had on the Christmas fireplace.   

   I removed the lamp shades that I've had on the chandys for several years.     I am loving the cleaner look that the chandy's have now,    so that kind of makes up for the missing lit garland....lol!

Almost all of the Christmas is packed away now,    all except the Nativity which I will leave up until the 6th of January.

Til next time........