Thanksgiving Mantel/Dining Room Tour Part 2

Welcome back for part two of my Thanksgiving tour! Today I am showing you my Thanksgiving mantel and buffet. I hope you will check out part one if you haven't already. You can see my farm table and some other little Thanksgiving touches I added around the dining room. Just click the link at the end of this post. Hope you enjoy the tours!

 

 This year I wanted to do something different on the mantel, but I had no clue what, so I started thinking about the junk I hoarded collected over the summer to get inspired. The idea really came together quite quickly once I remembered the old galvanized chick feeder out in my garden. I decided to simply fill it to overflowing with my favorite faux garland, some mini pumpkins and gourds, and some dollar store candles embellished with burlap and little Thanksgiving hang tags. I took a few deer antlers from the table and used them as well. I displayed my favorite prim turkey whose tail feathers are so long they got cropped out of the picture! For visual interest I used an arched mirror-less mirror, and layered an antique oval mirror to reflect the light of the candles. I like the contrast of the dark wood on the mirror against the shabby metal frame, as it adds just enough brown to balance out the mantel design.

At Halloween I created a "Queen of Halloween" vignette on my mantel using this vintage bronze trophy. (See it here: http://junkaholicsunanimous.blogspot.com/2013/11/best-of-halloween-2013.html) Once the Halloween was packed away, I decided to keep the trophy  on the mantel for Thanksgiving and fill it with a gorgeous variety of turkey feathers and a matching spray of florals and berries from the garland in the chick feeder. A winning combination, I think!

Yesterday I added the large acorn ornaments that I found in an old basket while cleaning. I didn't

remember them at all, and just got lucky that I was cleaning out baskets in time for Thanksgiving so I could use them.

 

I am so obsessive I almost went back and retook all of my mantel pictures because my red shirt is reflecting in the mirror and clashes! I should have worn white or ivory! I digress. Easily.

Anyway, I love, love, love this year's mantel! Our farm table may very well be the best $10 ever spent while junkin', and has inspired the use of more natural elements mixed with vintage junk, which I think it's the perfect style for our home.

 

A little blurry but you get a good view of the trophy.

 

Love the glow of the candles at night casting shadows, along with the cozy warm colors. I will miss the warmth of fall. I'm enjoying every last minute of it. 

 

Below is a picture I took with my iphone but I wanted to use it since it shows the most of the mantel from another angle. It's hard to get the full mantel in any shot because our farm table sits where you need to stand to get the whole thing.

 

Now that you've seen the mantel in the daytime and evening, let's move on around the dining room...

 

My buffet is one of my favorite things to decorate, but nearly impossible to photograph due to the large picture window behind it. I hope you can get an idea of how it looks in real life. I have enjoyed creating this chic and elegant display, where all I did was tweak a few of my everyday buffet vignettes for Thanksgiving.  The center features my vintage jewelry bust, "Grace." You may have seen her in my Halloween posts all decked out as the Belle of the Halloween ball. Now she is cozied up in a warm ivory scarf and looking dreamily ahead toward the upcoming Christmas holidays.

 

The buffet is packed with vintage pretties, amber goblets and salad plates, vintage amber glass bottles, loads of tarnished silver plate items, a few vintage turkeys, and my Johnson Brothers

"His Majesty" turkey teacups and saucers.

 

I am so in love with fall that I try to bring as much of it indoors as possible. To the right are some little ironstone leaf dishes filled with acorns my son picked from the yard. He and I went for a little drive to see what gifts nature could spare and we found these lovely orange and blue berries. I believe the orange is bittersweet. So pretty in the amber bottles!

 

 

 

 

Well dear readers, I am going to do my best to get part three of Thanksgiving up tomorrow, depending on whether or not my health cooperates. I still want to show you my corner cabinet, since that is where most of my favorite vintage Thanksgiving treasures are.

 

As for now, this last picture has inspired me to fix myself a cup of green tea and to check out some of your inspirational Thanksgiving and holiday décor. If you would like to see more of my dining room, click here: http://junkaholicsunanimous.blogspot.com/2013/11/thanksgiving-tablescape-and-dining-room.html

 

Have a great weekend!

Amber

 

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Thanksgiving Farm Table/ Dining Room Tour Part 1

 

Well here we are, a week before Thanksgiving and I am just now getting around to posting my Thanksgiving decorations. I can't believe how fast November has flown by. As most of you know I am battling chronic illness and it takes everything I have to keep up with things, so it's taken a while for me to get a post together and time has just slipped away. I hope Christmas doesn't go by too quickly! I love Thanksgiving, and I am savoring autumn's last big hurrah all this week.

I have been excited to share my Thanksgiving tablescape with you, since so many of you commented and pinned my farm table post last month. If you missed the post, you can see it here: http://junkaholicsunanimous.blogspot.com/2013/09/10-find-antique-farm-table-and-fall.html. I have junked a lot in my life but I have to say that I think this table takes the (gluten free, egg free, casein free) cake!

 I had a different look going on before Halloween with a lot of natural pumpkins and gourds and leaves, but I wanted to change the colors a little more for Thanksgiving by adding some browns and I did this simply through the use of pine cones and just a touch of grapevine. I kept the deer antlers and one of my muted Cinderella pumpkins, along with the green acorn squash I used for Halloween. I also added two cool-hued pumpkins for something different and to compliment the floral design on my teacups and plates. I found the candle holders in my junk stash. I had never really found an every day place for them in the house but they were too pretty to get rid of and they turned out to be just what I needed to complete the elegant/rustic look I wanted. I love the end result.

I  love these dishes, marked Myotts Bouquet, made in Staffordshire England. I found a whole set of plates, cups and saucers at the flea market for $5 a couple of years ago. They have just enough brown, gold and dark burgundy to work beautifully in fall décor.

I added a little scoop of spicy rosehips and cinnamon sticks to each cup. Smells like autumn!

 

Love the frosty gray "patina" on this pumpkin, along with just enough soft orange and green to blend with the other pumpkins.

 

 

Love this picture, but I did just notice that my little boy put his cup directly on the table and it sat overnight and left a mark, and I forgot to fix it before taking pictures. Usually there is some sign in my posts that a happy little boy is allowed to "live" in our home! A random lego in a vignette, a lone Luke Skywalker stranded on a remote base under the table...

This is the corner you can see in the background of the previous picture. I fell in love with that old chippy screen door last fall and brought it home not knowing where in the world it was going. I tried it a few places but loved it most here, where it evokes a little vintage farmhouse/cottage feel.

I enjoy a touch or two of primitive, especially around the holidays. This scarecrow is my favorite prim guy. He visits our cozy cottage from late August through Thanksgiving.

 One of my favorite primitive Thanksgiving decorations is this pillow featuring the image of an antique Thanksgiving postcard wishing the reader a "A Hearty Thanksgiving."

Another favorite vintage pillow that  I reserve for use in  November is this one with  beautiful pheasants.

Here are some owls that I showed in my early fall and Halloween posts. They have flown all over the dining room this fall! Now they are in a completely new vignette, just perching  til right after Thanksgiving. Then they'll fly south to the basement for the winter.

 

As for me, I'm flying north to the bed!

 

Hope you'll continue on with part two of Thanksgiving tour, which focuses on my mantel and buffet:

 http://junkaholicsunanimous.blogspot.com/2013/11/thanksgiving-mantel-and-dining-room.html

 

Good night!

 

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