My Christmas Mantle & Recycled Project #6-Rustic Palette Board Chalkboard

Hi Friends!

I hope you are all off to a good start with your week:)!

A huge thank you to Jennifer Rizzo for letting

me share my home in her

Annual Holiday Housewalk last week.

I have to say it was

such a THRILL for me

to be a part of  this!

If you haven't checked the housewalk out yet

click HERE

to follow it through from start to finish.

And if you would like to win a chance to be a part of

the Holiday Housewalk NEXT year click HERE.

Another huge thank you to Andrea from Keeping It Cozy for

giving us a tour of her beautiful farmhouse!

 

 

 I thought I would share  a little more about my mantle

that was featured in the

Holiday House Tour

&

reveal my

Recycled Christmas Project #6-

DIY Rustic Palette Board Chalkboard.

And I mean RUSTIC!

I apologize in advance for not giving you more pictures

 but that was the week

my camera broke:(.

 

This year I went for simple, rustic and meaningful. 

I have ALWAYS loved this movie & this saying.

In just a few simple words it says it ALL.

I feel SO blessed to have my beautiful boys,

my kind & handsome husband

and the most incredible family & friends a girl could ask for.

Each and every day with them is a GIFT.

And although my life is far from perfect,

 it is indeed WONDERFUL:)!

 

 Ok, now onto the

HOW TO

I had an old palette board base in my garage

and knew it would be a perfect frame for something.....

So with a simple, NON-electric saw, some nails, a sheet of MDF(had that too)

&

GORILLA GLUE(my new BFF)

came this-

A RUSTIC chalkboard.

 I do want to say this....

Use an electric handsaw:)!!!!

The wood is aged & tough to get through.

The wood was a little uneven, warped & had some war wounds from when my very handy hubby:)

pulled it from the palette base

but I LOVE how it turned out.

Click HERE for easy instructions for the chalk lettering.

 The holiday sheet music was a free download that

I printed on burlap & framed.

The silhouettes I had scanned in my computer

from this simple project

& printed them out on vintage french book pages.

The Starburst Paper Wreath is handmade

& you can find the tutorial HERE.

 Stockings were a last minute purchase from Pottery Barn.

I had ordered some simple burlap ones from Etsy but....

they didn't come in time...

long story:(.

But I actually like these better:)!

 And the horn....

that was my mother's & saw EVERY single Christmas in my home growing up.

It is nice to have a special place for it in my home now:).

 I will leave you with this.....

Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful!

-Annette Funicello 

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Have a great week:),

-Jen