Love This Dazzling Christmas Decor? It's Insanely Easy!

Love This Dazzling Christmas Decor? It’s Insanely Easy!

December 11, 2016

Don’t you Love This Dazzling Christmas Decor? It’s Insanely Easy! If you recall, this lantern was purchased to display the DIY Moss Covered Bunny in 2015. My plan is to display a snowman in it this year. Well, you know how it is, due to circumstances, sometimes plans change. Our Christmas decor reflects this.

Time has definitely been pressed this year. Helping with Memphis, Aidan, and Sophia, some medical issues in the family, and numerous birthdays here in December have all eaten away at the time. Family comes first, you know.

Time for shopping has been almost non-existent. I didn’t find the perfect snowman. So, the boxes of Christmas decorations were packed upstairs from the basement, opened, and while unpacking the collection of Santa’s, an idea struck me.

The smaller Santa’s are usually displayed on the sideboard each year. A tip here is if you have a collection of items and they are scattered all over a room, or the house, they can be barely noticed or missed altogether. If gathered together and displayed as a group, they take on more importance. (This picture is from a couple of years ago.)

A Christmas Mantel Display Unfolds

Well, as I unpacked the Santa’s, I place two of the larger ones on the fireplace mantel, cocked my head sideways, and consider them. Then, the white trees bought last year are situated between them. The golden wire trees are also placed on the ends and ultimately, a sparkly gold deer is centered on the mantel below the clock. (I purchased this deer to display in the lantern, but it ended up being a little too tall.)

The mantel display looked nice, but it needed some more weight. Since the Christmas tree ended up being predominately red and gold, the color red seemed to be needed. And yes, it just so happened we have a sparkly red poinsettia length of garland.

The poinsettia garland is attached to the mantel using a couple of those ‘Command Strips’ placed on the top of the mantel and secured with some floral wire. Instead of laying it straight along the edge of the mantel, an arch is formed mimicking the arch of the trim. A red velvet bow is attached to each end with floral wire.

Christmas Mantel Display — Christmas Mantel Decor

A string of white lights is scattered behind the vignette. When they are turned on the magic happens.

The Lighted Lantern Christmas Decor

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Back to the lantern, a pin on Pinterest gave me the idea to add lights to it. These little fairy lights are available at craft stores and on Amazon. I purchased these at Michael’s and they were half-priced at the time. This wooden lantern has four holes in the top, which is not removable.

With the leftover piece of ribbon from the Christmas tree, I made a bow. A green plastic wrapped wire was used to secure the loops. Some greenery and a pine cone are also attached with floral wire.

The Lights For This Christmas Decor

These lights have a battery pack, which takes 3 – AA batteries. This set has to be turned on and off with a switch. The holes in the top come in handy. The lights are snaked down through the holes and the battery pack sits behind the bow on top of the lantern, out of sight.

*The light set purchased for the apothecary jar displayed in the foyer has a timer, which can be set for 6 hours.

Using clear packing tape, the string of lights is secured to the top of the inside of the lantern in two places.

Faux snow is sprinkled on the floor of the lantern and then the golden deer, which matches the wired Christmas trees on the mantel, is set inside. How insanely easy is that? The battery pack for the string of lights is switched on. Doesn’t It really look quite stunning in its simplicity?

Given more time for shopping, some of this Christmas decor might take on a completely different look. Sometimes, maybe having less time can be a good thing!

Love This Dazzling Christmas Decor? Maybe it will inspire you! It’s Insanely Easy!