{"id":701,"date":"2014-01-24T15:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T22:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/?p=701"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:44:34","slug":"winter-mantel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/2014\/01\/winter-mantel\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Mantel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christmas may be over, but winter is not! And winter is pretty. So I have left out my winter decorations! And this year I put together a new arrangement on my mantel! I didn&#8217;t buy anything new; I just rearranged things from around my house onto my mantel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4304.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-711\" alt=\"Winter Mantel 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4304.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4304.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4304-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4304-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4294.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-704 aligncenter\" alt=\"Winter Mantel 2014 - birds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4294-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4294-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4294-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4294.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The birds came from the kitchen &#8211; they are actually salt and pepper shakers!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4295.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-705 aligncenter\" alt=\"Winter Mantel 2014 - lantern\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4295-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4295-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4295-624x832.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4295.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>The lantern used to live in my living room, but it looks quite nice here too!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-710\" alt=\"Winter Mantel 2014 - close up\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4301-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4301-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4301-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4301.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The candle stick holder was my grandmother&#8217;s, and so was the white vase! The vase usually lives in my guest room. This little owl is actually a Christmas ornament! But he wasn&#8217;t very Christmasy, so I let him stay for the winter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4297.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-707\" alt=\"Winter Mantel 2014 - garland\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4297-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4297-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4297-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSCN4297.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This white berry garland used to be my mom&#8217;s! Usually it lives on my mantel during the winter, but this year it looks so much better with more winter things around it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas may be over, but winter is not! And winter is pretty. So I have left out my winter decorations! And this year I put together a new arrangement on my mantel! I didn&#8217;t buy anything new; I just rearranged things from around my house onto my mantel. 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