Books on the Mantel

I love books!  I especially love old books and when putting my mantel together I decided to use some old books I had lying around.

I especially like the cover of this Natural Music Reader book.  I have had this book for a while and I don't even remember where I got it.

This picture I purchased at an antique mall last year when I traveled to Savannah, Ga. That was such a fun trip! You can click here to see some of the pictures I took on that trip.

You would think mantels would be any easy space to decorate but I struggle with this area of my house more than any other.  I love the way it turned out, it probably has something to do with the books. It makes me want to sit down in my favorite chair and start reading.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have time to curl up with a good book sometime this winter.

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Winter Buffet

It is always hard after the Christmas decorations go down to make my living room look as beautiful as it did in December.

But this year I had some inspiration.....a dear friend of mine gave me these cute little white bibles for my birthday and that is were this whole vignette started.

I also found this brown and black movie reel box that they used to use to mail movies in at one of the local antique shops.

The label on the end said it once had the movie Mighty Joe Young in it from 1949.

Sadly the movie reel was not still in the box, but I loved the box so much I went ahead and got it.

I added a few other elements from around my house...

such as this old postcard postmarked 1914 and....

this is what I ended up with.

I hope all of you are getting a great start to your 2014!  Thanks, as always, for stopping by.

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THE CHARM OF HOME
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