Mini*Mantel {1/12 Christmas Crafts}

Four days in and I am already behind... but what do you expect during the holiday season, really?
I need to get my Christmas cards out... I want to get some holiday baking done... and I want to complete my goal of twelve crafts for Christmas.

This morning, we packed up all of Nic's birthday decorations and cracked open the Christmas totes. I've put up garland and hung our stockings {with care}...

And I got one crafty thing done... My mini mantel.
As a reminder, here is what it looked like for Thanksgiving...

And here it is as of right.... NOW! ;)

This shelf hangs above my smaller radio cabinet, in the formal dining room. I had different plans for the "O" in JOY, but a certain now 5 year old decided that he wanted to crack those plans open. Literally. So, I used what I had on hand (which is not much since I haven't been to Hobby Lobby in over 5 days).  I used the bottom ring of a $1.00 light shade from Target. I had already taken the actual shade off of the rings, because I needed to use the top piece for a lamp (long story, but it involves an older style lamp shade and zip ties. Kinky. Okay, maybe not).

I wrapped the ring with ribbon. And I am in the middle of looking for two bronze-ish bells I found at the dollar store to tie at the top, where the "bow" is.

The owl I had from Thanksgiving, the star was bought for Nic's birthday, the cinnamon sticks in the mason jar, I had, the candle I had, the tinsel I had, and the little tree was $1 from Walgreens.  The J and the Y were $.99 from Hobby Lobby, and finally, the green spray paint I had from a different project.  So, less than $3 for this mini*mantel makeover.


Could I get anything else on that shelf? Really?!

Maybe not, but the bottom would be a great place to hang Christmas cards from {hint, hint!}...

So, we are still decking the halls over in my hood, but I will be sure to post pictures from Nic's party super soon and then of course, the other 11 crafts (that I have yet to do!)...

Happy Sunday!

Linking to: COM 
Everything Under the Moon 
Thrifty Decor Chick  
Home Stories - A2Z 
Uncommon Slice of Suburbia