Last Year's Christmas Mantel

Last Christmas was just before I started blogging, so I didn't take too many photos of our mantel but here is the basic look:

We hung the stockings that I made for each of us, put out our spindle Santas, along with the little wooden Santa, some pine cones and a few Christmas balls.  I've been planning on telling you about the spindle Santas and the stockings in a separate post, especially since I need to make a new stocking for my son's fiance, Christie, who will be joining us for Christmas this year.

I did manage to get a slightly closer photo of the sweet little wooden Santa (in the photo below) that my friend Kim gave him to on my 50th birthday.  She said that I had given her some of her favourite Christmas decorations, while she had never given me any and she wanted to change that.  Along with the wooden Santa, she also gave me one of my favourite Christmas CDs and a lovely nativity book all done in silhouette - they are now some of my most treasured Christmas items. 

When I looked in my photo folder marked Christmas 2009 there was also this next photo of the mantel taken after I had taken the Christmas decorations down.

The funny thing is I didn't change one single thing on the mantel. all. year. long!   Seems to me I need to make a change-up-my-mantel New Year's resolution.

Linked to Last Year's Christmas Mantel Party at The Stories of A to Z
Sentimental Sunday at Sit Relax and Read

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