Mirrors, Mantel and Winter Magic

When I took down all my Christmas decor, the house seemed so much bigger. The mantel in the living room seemed huge! I almost took pics of everything and wrote a post called "Naked Is A Good Thing". But then the bare nakedness started getting to me, and I had to arrange and rearrange again.

Among that rearranging I did a

Winter Mantel.

I got the cute little

faux pinecones at Wal-Mart for 75% off this weekend.

They were supposed to be

Christmas tree ornaments,

but I thought they would work well on the fireplace.

I already had the white pinecones that I had

bought last year after Christmas.

Don't you love after-Christmas sales?

I mixed some big mercury balls, some twig balls, the two kinds of (cheapo) pinecones, crystal (the candlesticks) and silver, white and gold candles.

When I first just put down the balls and pinecones, it was fine, but a little flat and one-dimensional. (I should have taken pics.) So then I scoured the house and got the old mirror from the upstairs hallway. The mantel mirror is SO huge, I wasn't sure the small mirror would look right, but the natural wood really helped with the look I was going for.

Then I decided to throw in the various tapers to help with the heigth.

The various mirrors make it look like there are even more

candlesticks up there

than there really are!

The down-side to the

mirror magic

is that

it is DARN hard to take any pictures

without getting myself

in them!

Obviously, you can see me in this one,

but did you see the top of my head in the

one above that?

This mantel should get me through

most of the winter....

or until I get the urge to

rearrange.

Again!

I am linking this with Between Naps On the Porch and Met Monday, as well as Wow Us Wednesday.  
Also Potentially Beautiful and Open House Thursday and Farmhouse Friday's.

For other pics of my mantel in the 7 months we have lived here, see below!



The day we moved in.



The summer mantel.



The fall mantel.

Christmas mantel.



Winter mantel.