Pottery Barn-inspired Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Chalkboard

 

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on, our troubles will be out of sight...

 

This is by far one of my all time favorite Christmas songs.

So it makes sense that, months ago, when I first received Pottery Barn's

Winter/Christmas catalog, I was smitten with the idea of their Holiday Mirror Art.

I think it was around $129.00 plus shipping. I was totally convinced that I could

turn one of my thrift store mirrors into the spitting image of theirs.

So I ripped out the page and put it in a pile along with all my other "someday" projects. 

But as Christmas grew nearer and I hadn't even started it I had to admit that it was too

late in the scheme of things to be able to pull it off in time for Christmas. The only other

blogger I could find that had done a knock-off had used chemicals and a Silhouette

machine, neither of which I own. Time to improvise!

Enter my DIY oversized vintage frame chalkboard in place of the mirror.

I originally used this as a  Thanksgiving chalkboard, with the words

 "Give Thanks" on it. I figured it was about time to switch things up.

For starters, I practiced free-handing the song lyrics on a piece of scrap paper.

You have to understand that I am sorely inept when it comes to drawing
 anything, fonts included. But I really wanted this to hang over our mantel
this Christmas so I gave it my best shot.

 

Unfortunately, my iPhone pictures are pretty poor quality. Couple that

 with horrible natural light in our house and you get what you get. I wish

I could have taken a picture that does it justice.

 

 

Here it is above the yet-to-be-decorated mantel.

As I've already mentioned before, the wall space above our

mantel is huge! And the actual mantel shelf is six feet above the
ground! While I don't like the height, I do like the brick.

I finally took a few shots with the lights on (gasp!) and I think
 that helped a little bit.

   Here it is once the mantel was decorated.

Now you may recall my obsession love of reindeer from last Christmas.

Of course I had to bring them out again this year.

 

 

I think the pop of red is just what the otherwise neutral colored vignette needed. 

 

 

I'm not sure if I'll be sharing any more Christmas joy before the big day.

Right now I'm nursing a bad cold and I'm still homeschooling chickadee

number three for the rest of this week. After that it's wrapping and baking!

 

Blessings for a wonderful

Christmas season

to you and your family.

 

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