Kitchen Mantel ready for Winter

This is the first Christmas with our new kitchen...and I have a mantel to decorate!!  Hard to believe that it will soon be a year ago that we tackled our kitchen reno. Here are a few more shots of my "winter decor" that I have in the kitchen.   The rest of my Christmas decorating is pretty much complete, so will post some of that later.   I know alot of you are busy decorating your homes as well for the holidays.  What are some of your special traditions, things your family looks forward to? The other day when I was decorating the tree  I was talking to Ben on the phone.  He said to be sure to leave his ornament out for him to place on the tree when he gets home.....made me miss him  :)

The wreath is a wee bit small, but it was light in weight and I could use

sticky tack to hold it in place.   Darrell's first question when he saw the wreath...

"How is that wreath staying there?!!"

The "word" tree was originally gold, but Darrell spray painted it silver for me.

The sparkly reindeer are popular this year I've noticed.

Old jars and insulators make good candle holders...

Darrell and I went to see "Sarah's Key" at the movie theatre tonight.  Have any of you read the book?  It is a very good book and the movie did not disappoint either!  I won't give the story away, but highly recommend it.  Funny story at the movie theatre though....we were sitting at the back and 2 young guys we know from Hanna slid in the row ahead of us!  They thought there was a different movie playing!!  So we gave them a hard time ......they did stay until the end of it and hey..maybe they learnt some history as well!  They were standing in line to get in and were wondering why there were so many "older ladies"in line!

Linking to:

Turquoise Lovin Party
Farm House Friday
Mantel Party