House Happenin's

So with some of the money we got for Christas I REALLY wanted a mantel for our fireplace. I have never had a fireplace and while decorating for Christmas I thought it would be so much fun to have one... Well my friends I now have one to decorate to my hearts content. This is what our firepalce looked like before:

Here is the Mr filling holes and prepping to put the mantel up...

Ok so I'm not going to lie putting this thing up was not as easy as we thought it would be, I know I know it's basically a shelf but people please... It was not working with us!

with a few phone calls and some help from Friends Jeff got it up while I was out of town for a couple days.. (That is after we attempted it ALL day Saturday)

Now-Here is how it looks today:

And finally the whole area:

I am quite pleased with how it looks. I have changed it many times but I think I am finally satisfied with how it looks. The best part is I had everything but the candle sticks. Now on to the painting...