White Village Christmas Mantel

Today is the day we start sharing some of our Christmas decor with you! I am excited to share my white village Christmas mantel with accent colors of rose gold and blush. It turned out so pretty!! Especially next to the tree, which you can see soon… but for today we will start with the mantel.

You can find lots more pictures below, and at the bottom of the post check out some other Christmas decor ideas from the many talented bloggers we have joining us for this blog hop.

If you want to see what I have posted for the other days, follow these links:

• Day 1 – Finger Knitted Christmas Wreath
• Day 2 – 30 Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas
• Day 3 – Rustic Christmas Advent Calendar
• Day 4 – Paper Christmas Cookies Kid’s Craft
• Day 5 – Cream Cheese Christmas Tree with Crackers and Pepper Jelly
• Day 6 – DIY Wooden Bead Feather Ornament
• Day 8 – Christmas Morning Muffins in a Jar
• Day 9 – Simple Hand Embroidered Gift Tags
• Day 10 – Blush and Rose Gold Christmas Tree
• Day 11 – Homemade Snickers Bars
• Day 12 – Knitted Christmas Stockings

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Welcome to Day 7 of the Fourth Annual 12 Days of Christmas Series!

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The star of this mantel is not the big star in the background, even though that is really cool too, but it is the Christmas village. For the longest time, I have thought Christmas villages were neat but we did not have a place to put one, they are kinda expensive and to be honest, they were not really my style. However, when I was out looking at some thrift stores for some Christmas decor items, I saw these little village buildings and thought how they would fit into my decor better if they were all white.

I figured it would be pretty easy to paint them and they were fairly inexpensive so I decided to buy them and try it. Also, since they were going on my mantel, I did not need a lot of them. One can of spray paint later and I now have a white Christmas village. 🙂 They look so much better, in my opinion!

I am sure there are people out there who think it is blasphemy to paint a Christmas village, just like when we painted our oak cabinets white. 😉 But to that I say, do whatever you like and makes you happy. Whatever fits your style is what is important. If you like the unpainted villages, decorate with those by all means. I am not putting them down, this is just the style that I like better and want to show others new ways to decorate.

While I was at the thrift store, I also found a strand of old outdoor Christmas lights. I knew they would make a cute garland but I wanted to upcycle them. To go with the big rose gold star, I painted some of the bulbs with an acrylic rose gold paint.

For the others, I wrapped them with blush colored yarn using hot glue to attach the yarn. This took a little longer than I thought it would. LOL I was originally going to wrap them all in yarn but decided against it after seeing how long it took. 🙂 I actually like the alternating bulbs better anyway.

I just tied the bulbs onto twine and strung them up on the mantel along with a wooden bead garland for some added interest. The wooden bead garland also goes well with the DIY wooden bead feather ornaments I made for my tree.

One one side of the mantel is this cloche with a village building inside of it. So I needed something for the other side with some height as well. I had my mercury glass candlesticks up there but was not sure what to put on them.

Mr. Wonderful came up with the brilliant idea to make a moon and stars to represent the moon and stars over the village. Isn’t it perfect!?

He cut out a wood moon and stars with the band saw and painted them gold to match with the bottle brush trees. We used one of the dusters from my Christmas tree as a cloud. You can see how the dusters look like snow on my Christmas tree from last year.

How about that big rose gold star? Isn’t it cool? I have had it for a while and knew I wanted to use it on a mantel someday. My MIL found it on clearance after Christmas one year at Shopko I believe. However it needed a backdrop. I thought it would look amazing against a shiplap backdrop and Mr. W. said he could totally make one for me. Sweet! He did an awesome job. I will be sharing the tutorial for it soon.

I used a lit up faux garland on the mantel to add some greenery. I did not want a bulky garland or there would be no room for the Christmas village to sit so I used a cheaper garland that was more sparse. To make it look a little nicer and more full, I added some faux eucalyptus garland that I had previously cut into smaller chunks. It is easier to work with that way and you can insert it wherever you need some.

This is actually a two for one post, you also get a vignette! 😉 I threw together this vignette for the coffee table although I am not sold on it. I may change it up still. The big church also came from the thrift store but it was too big for the mantel. It was battery operated and came with fiber optic lights in it. We took the lights out so you can see all the little holes where the lights were. I may cover those with joint compound and repaint the whole thing. We will see how motivated I am. Ha!

The blush colored pillows were made from a $4.96 fleece blanket I found at Walmart! Score! It was the perfect size to get two pillow covers from. Check out this zippered pillow cover tutorial to see how I make my pillow covers. Our youngest son loves them and says they are the softest pillows ever, even if they are pink. Ha!

I hope you like my mantel as much as I do! I can’t wait for you to see the tree as well. Have a wonderful day!

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