Simple & Colorful Spring Mantel
Hey, hey! I hope y’all had a fantabulous weekend! We have been out of town in Indianapolis at a conference and visiting with my husband’s grandparents. I’m ridiculously excited to share my Spring 2012 Mantel today!! It is one of my favorite mantel decorating projects so far. Everything on it came from either a yard sale, thrift store, antique store or flea market.
Isn’t the fireplace just the happiest thing ever?!
I wanted to keep the mantel decorations simple so that I could live with them for a few months…maybe even until Fall. Yeah, right. Who am I kidding?! I’ll probably change it up a bit in a few weeks.
The oil painting is an original. I snagged it at the thrift store for $42 which is typically WAY out of my price range, but it was framed and the tag on the back is from an annual starving artists sale where it was sold for over $400. Yowza! While I liked the oil painting framed, I really love it’s unframed simplicity.
I’ve had this cute little bunny since I was a very little girl. It’s perfect for Spring! Stacked books, an old cigar box and pedestal bowl of lemons add just the right amount of color and texture.
I found this bunny at the thrift store. I almost spray painted him, but I decided to leave him white…at least for now. I added a smaller pedestal bowl with {fake} grass, more stacked books and an old minnow bucket full of orange tulips. Oh, how I love orange tulips!
You might remember seeing this old window in last year’s Spring Mantel. I got a bit tired of the busy fabric, so I snagged a yard of yellow and white chevron fabric for 50% off at Hancock’s. I love the graphic simplicity and color that the chevron gives.
My Ballard Designs Knock Off Garden Stool is on one side of the fireplace with an old scale that I recently found at the thrift store. I’ve been looking for an old scale for months and almost ran for it when I saw it. But, don’t worry. I tried to restrain myself to preserve my dignity…well, most of it.
I have a thing for old yard sticks. Someday, I will create something amazing from my growing collection.
Just a bit more eye candy…
Decorating with things that make me smile is so rewarding!
A little green cut glass candle holder…love.
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And there she is, folks. My Spring 2012 Mantel!
I hope you enjoyed looking at it as much as I enjoyed putting it together! 🙂
Have you decorated for Spring yet?
I’m linking up to Today’s Creative Blog, Women Living Well, Tip Me Tuesday, I’m Lovin’ It, Weekend Wrap Up Party and The Lettered Cottage.
XO
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My husband has a thing for old yardsticks too. I just keep stashing them in a corner between a bookshelf and a wall. I never thought to use them as part of my decor. Thanks for the idea! 🙂
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I love it! Very cute and happy. 🙂
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So cute! it all looks fantastic. I have been keeping my peeps open for a scale also, nice score! :o)
SO pretty, Myra. AND I KEEP looking for a garden stool at thrift stores with no luck. I do believe you are the only one in history to find such a steal, but I will not give up. 😉
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Love the colors!
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So pretty I love it!! You know I love that scale too! 🙂
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Thanks girl! Yes, lovin’ on our vintage scales, aren’t we? LOL!
Myra…I love it! I like each piece you chose to go on the mantel…but I especially love the painting! I like how you pulled the colors from the painting in each object you chose to go with it.
Lovely!
Happy Spring!
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Hello, Myra,
I popped in from BH&G’s online featured spring mantels, but the one they are showing, linked to your website, is not the lovely one you have here. I suppose it is from another year, maybe? Anyway, I love them both.
http://www.bhg.com/holidays/easter/decorating/real-home-spring-and-easter-mantel-decorating-ideas/#page=3
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Love the window! I’ll have to snag this idea for the future!
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Lovely, lovely. And really LOVE that chevron behind the window!! Beautiful job, friend!
xoxo,
shaunna
Your mantel is especially lovely, Myra. I love the oil painting. And now I think I finally know what I’m going to do with my old wood window from the family barn! Yay!
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Simple, colorful and gorgeous! Love it!
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This is gorgeous Myra! I love the lemons in the white bowl… I don’t know why but lemons always make me smile 🙂 Also, great score on the canvas!
Love it! It is so cute. What great uses for the scale and rulers.
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Apart from Titebond, you can also have Yellow glue that most of the carpenters use to stick the wood materials. One more option for you is 3M’s Scotch-Weld Structural Woodworking Adhesive which is also one of the best glue for wood.
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Lovely arrangement! You have such a neat collection of items.
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Lovely, Myra! You are so inspiring! I think I will take this weekend to try to do some spring decor as well. I always am so inspired with your decor.
I think that a bit of fresh flowers make all the difference, don’t they? I just picked up a bunch of daisies at Trader Joes and it makes me smile every time I walk by the table. Sometimes it’s the simple things. 🙂
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I love this! I love the vintagey feeling of the whole thing…and the lemons and tulips just pull it all together and make it so fresh!. Great job!
That painting is absolutely perfect! My local thrifts have really been disappointing me lately. 🙁
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Really love those tulips, lemons, and milk-glass pieces!
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I love the colors you used! I have the same white pedestal bowl that you have your lemons in. I love to put lemons in it as well as green apples or “cuties” tangerines.
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Beautiful! I love the pops of color and the chevron!
–Katie
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Gorgeous! I love the colors. So cheerful and vivacious.
I love it! Especially the pedestal bowls. I have them both! Thrift store of course! I’d love to go shopping with you.
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Just gorgeous. I love how there’s lots of visual interest but it doesn’t feel cluttered. And I’m jealous of those pedestal bowls too! 🙂
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I love it, so very pretty. I’m sad I don’t have more “decorate-able” mantle… It is on my very, very long list of things to improve.
~Jamie
Such an interesting mantel. I like all the different elements you incorporated in it. My favorite though, is the minnow bucket with the tulips–absolutely love it!
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I love your mantel. I love that you used color and it is not like everyone else’s. Very Pretty!
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Simply gorgeous!
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so beautiful! it looks gorgeous. i love your idea.
Titebond, you can also have Yellow glue that most of the carpenters use to stick the wood materials. One more option for you is 3M’s Scotch-Weld Structural Woodworking Adhesive which is also one of the best glue for wood.
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Titebond, you can also have Yellow glue that most of the carpenters use to stick the wood materials. One more option for you is 3M’s Scotch-Weld Structural Woodworking Adhesive which is also one of the best glue for wood.