July Mantle and More...

My goodness, where does the month go?

I seem to always be posting my mantle when it is almost time to take it down :)

My July mantle features my almost always present antique punched tin lanterns (the one on the far left has a punched star design ~ appropriate for the month), an antique eagle snowbird, an antique red iron barn star and Rowe pottery in patriotic designs.

The bunting is a Maggie Bonanomi design (a Country Sampler Girls Club kit from several years ago) made of gauze and wool.

On the hearth, antique bunting and aged flags.

The graters contain timer candles that glow so pretty at night.

Also on the hearth, a Maggie Bonanomi flag mat and a pillow that was also a Country Sampler club kit.

Two more Maggie kits and assorted antiques.

Hmmm, I'm realizing that July is my Maggie month.

I did this one years ago, but still love it :)

And a last Maggie design.

48 star antique gauze flags with Rowe pottery from their historical collection.

Antiques with my latest piece of antique flag bunting along with my own Winding Vine Designs original velvet cherries.

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"But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it."

~1 Corinthians 12: 24-26

Blessings, Patti

May Mantle and More...

I think that this is my favorite mantle so far...

To me, May is the month of nesting birds and so that is my theme.

This is the big picture.

My May mantle features my antique punched tin lantern collection (which usually doesn't stray very far), Maggie Bonanomi topiaries, found nests (some with eggs) and Schneeman folk art birds. 

They all certainly bring a smile to my face.

Although this part on the hearth doesn't fit my theme, they are all well loved items.

Here are the rest of my Schneeman birds that didn't quite fit on the mantle along with a Ginny Henson robin made of linsey woolsey.

A Rabbit Hill Primitives creation along with more bird eggs.

Isn't this robin family the best?!

Created by Audrey Baker of Bay Ray's Child ~ so very lifelike!

Cross Stitch pillow by me of a Primitive Stitchin By Shelly Auen design.

More Rabbit Hill Primitives creations in an old trencher with make do repair.

More robins by Audrey of  Bay Ray's Child.

A few of my Rowe Pottery Historical pieces.

"The trees of the Lord are well watered,

the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

There the birds make their nests;

the stork has its home in the junipers.

The high mountains belong to the wild goats;

the crags are a refuge for the hyrax.

He made the moon to mark the seasons,

and the sun knows when to go down."

~Psalm 104:16-19

Blessings, Patti