Spring Mantle

While the boys were away this past weekend Dallas and I did some crafting. Seeing that it’s March and Spring is getting ready to arrive, I was ready to change up my mantle and get it ready for the new season.

I just love Spring and everything that comes with it…warmer temperatures {with little to no humidity}, flowers and trees blooming, being able to wear jeans and flip flops…it’s like it’s God’s way of waking us all up from a deep Winter’s sleep.

So, I pulled out my Easter bin and realized I didn’t have much for a mantle…ah-ha, time for crafting. Where’s the first place to go to get ideas??? Pinterest of course.

I found this adorable Easter egg tree and had to make one.

It’s from sweetfloweret.com…SOURCE

While Dallas and I were out we hit the Dollar Tree. I bought the eggs and Easter grass there along with a few more Easter-y stuff.

I got the cone from Michael’s and used my 40% off coupon.

I heated up the hot glue gun and began gluing on the eggs.

Once the eggs were glued on, I started sticking the Easter grass down into the “holes”. There were blank spot between the eggs, so I took my scissors and used the point of them to help the grass go into the crevasses…no glue was needed here.

That’s pretty much it…simple as that.

Oh, I did hot glue a bow on top for decoration.

I was on a roll with my Easter trees and decided to make another one. I made a ribbon tree at Christmas, and loved it, so I decided to make one for Easter as well. I bought some ribbon at Michael’s and already had the cone shape on hand. I didn’t want to hot glue this one, so I got out my sewing pins to hold it all in place.

This was pretty easy as well, so I kept pinning.

I added a bow at the top of this one too…just for the finishing touch.

Two more things I made and then put it all together.

I bought a cylinder vase at the Dollar Tree and decided to paint it.

I had the paint on hand and it is the perfect blue for spring.

I taped around the vase leaving some blanks to help make stripes.

And then I painted, let it dry, and painted it again. I love how it turned out.

I {borrowed} some sticks from my neighbor’s birch tree and painted them yellow. Super easy.

The last thing I did was print out the Easter Subway art.

Of course I found it on Pinterest too.

It came from eighteen25.blogspot.com: SOURCE

I printed it out on cardstock and instead of framing it I used a canvas I had wrapped in yellow fabric. I used my favorite, Modge Podge and glued on the art. I also hot glued on some big Ric Rac to give it a little pizazz.

I gathered the other things I had purchased either at the Dollar Tree or on clearance at Kohl’s and arranged my new mantle. And of course the wreath got a new ribbon.

Do you have out your Spring decorations yet? If so, how do you decorate???