Santa's Tree Farm Chalkboard Mantel

 Good morning! The Christmasing of the house continues!
Yesterday I drew the new chalkboard for the mantel in the family room .. and it is all about Santa's Tree Farm! Santa is welcoming you to come cut your own tree!~

 There are a couple reindeer out there  helping.. of course the old fashioned truck with a tree in the back..and I have to admit I was a little lazy and left the barn and the truck from the fall chalkboard :)

 To add to the chalkboard there are 3 trucks with trees in the back .. the one in the middle was my father in laws.. the 2 on the ends my neighbor ( Thank you Cassie)gave me for the grandsons.. I used Styrofoam to add height under the trucks and the chalkboard ..lights are wrapped all around the trucks and the chalkboard..

 all the stockings were stitched by me .. still working on Hunters new one :)

 see the chicken in the back of this truck ? and there is a cow I found at Goodwill last week in the dump truck..The mantel is layered with a white flocked garland, a light green frosted garland.. buffalo check ribbon woven in .. cotton branches and white lights.. I made floral toppers for the 2 lanterns on the ends..Ronnie definitely approves!

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The Stockings Were Hung ..Christmas Mantel 2016

 Good morning!
The mantel is all ready for Christmas! I used the same chalkboard frame I used for the Halloween mantel ..after I drew the picture I thought the frame needed to be painted   ..

I painted it with off white craft paint .. and I think it looks so much better! I dry brushed the edges for the detail to show.

 I used 3 different garlands ( white, flocked and green icy evergreen pieces.. some plaid bows .. clusters of Dollar Tree ornaments... a couple bottle brush trees and glittery paper ( putz like) houses from Homegoods, The furthest left was a present from my daughter this year .I have taken out all the battery packs in the bottom and stuff Christmas lights in the bottom of each to light them up

 All the stockings were stitched  by me .. I still have the replacement fro my youngest sons ..it is all stitched just need to finish the backstitch ...and OMG there is a lot of backstitch! I am hoping to take it down and replace his with w one before Christmas ! I am about 85% decorated and hoping to finish up today!

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Up On The Housetop Mantel

 Good Morning!
I have been busy decking our halls! I so enjoy the festivities and decorations of the Christmas season!

 For this years mantel I used some of the putz like cardboard houses ...white and flocked greenery ..pine cones and glittery metal snowflakes. The chalkboard features Santa and his reindeer's Up On the Housetop! It is in a vintage frame ..

 I take the battery packs out of the houses and stuff Christmas lights into the bottom so I don't need to replace batteries :)

 I just love how this chalkboard turned out!

 I am still working on my youngest son's stocking to replace the second from the right ..all the stitching is finished it just needs more back stitching and of course finishing.. hoping it is up there before Christmas!

 A little peek of the snowman tree..

 I have 6 trees up..7 more to go!

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Summer Stitching

Good morning!
I started this Prairie Schooler Summer piece a couple days ago..loving it so far ! Hope to get it finished soon since I don't have too many summery stitched pieces.
I have been working on my youngest sons Christmas stocking..

This was on May 3rd..

And here it is now. I try to work on it on the weekends, and work on other things through the week,.It will be beautiful once I finish stitching it and doing the backstitch !

a little ornament from Country Cottage Needleworks

The 2004 Santa from Prairie Schooler.. I have 3 left to stitch of the yearly ones, plus this years ...and then there will be no more !!!!
Have all of my stitchy friends heard about Prairie Schoolers retirement ?
I am happy for them but so sad that what we have is it!

My Prairie Schooler Santa tree..

Oh ,how I miss them already :(

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Halloween , Summer and Christmas

Happy Friday !I finished up this Prairie Schooler a couple nights ago..Isn't it just the cutest!?!..I am missing a mushroom on the bottom left that now has been stitched..I used the gold color for all the windows and eyes instead of the orange . I also used green for the witch ..stem of the pumpkin girl and the center of eyes on the cat.It is stitched on tea/coffee dyed 28 count Monaco. I will be on the hunt for a fabulous way to display it :) Do any of you have any news on when Prairie Schooler will release some new charts ?

I also finished up the Summer from Prairie Seasons .. This will go in the grapevine wreath like I did with the spring version.

I made a little progress on the Santa stocking. I am only stitching this one on weekends.

We are finally having some decent weather .. Hoping to plant the vgetable garden this weekend
.. My daughter bought me these Ranunculus for a part of my Mothers Day gift .. Aren't they pretty! Hope all you Mom's have a wonderful Mother's Day!

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I'll Be Home For Christmas Mantel

 Good Morning !
 I am back from a whirlwind trip to California to see our boy play football..Before I left last Thursday I got almost all of the house decorated for Christmas.. My first project was the mantel!Last years mantel was the White Christmas mantel.. This year I wanted some red added ..

I used my daughters flea market frame again and turned it longways. I painted the back of the chalkboard white and wrote the same I'll Be Home For Christmas , but I just wasn't liking it. I turned the board back over to the chalkboard side and doodled away .. and I love it !

 There are white pine garlands, pinecones,red berry garlands and metal glittery snowflake garlands.

 The houses all have red on them , and I took the battery lights out of the bottom and stuffed some of the white lights in each one.They all are from Homegoods.

 I spray painted branches white and added glitter so they sparkle for in back of the houses.

 All the cross stitched stockings are hanging up..with a white sparkly pine garland on the ribbon holding them ..Hopefully my son Hunters new stocking will be finished for next year !

 So much fun adding the colored chalk to the chalkboards this year !

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It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas !

Last Saturday it started ! This was an in progress shot of the mantel .. More has been added ..I will be back to show you the completed mantel as soon as I finish up the trees so I can get some good pics ! These were all taken with my phone..

The hutch in the kitchen..

A vignette in the kitchen..Love my Fitz and Floyd !

and how it all started .......I have 9 of the 13 trees finished so far .. Hope to get 3 more finished today then in about a week get the real tree.

The dining room..

 Still L-O-V-E these crocheted owl ornaments and chalkboard ornaments I made last year !

and my favorites .....The Prairie Schooler cross stitched Santa ornaments came out yesterday .. I still have 4 from this year that are stitched that need to be finished .. Hope I get around to that today ..I started stitching Santa's Night from the Prairie Schooler.. They show it on black but I wanted to go with the tea stained look ..Loving it so far..

Hope you have fun Halloween celebrations !!!

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