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Chorus of Christmas Angels

November 29, 2012 By Merri Cvetan Leave a Comment

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The mantle is a great place to display your Christmas collectibles, but if you don’t have a fireplace, a coffee table, shelf or end table work just as well. 

I have lots of Christmas decorations: Santas, snowmen, angels and vintage items of all sorts. Every year I look for something new (or old) to add to my collections.

Design Tip:

  • The secret to creating a beautiful display is to group like items.
  •  Your collection has the most impact when you stick not only with a theme (angels), but also a color or medium (wood, metal, etc). 

For this display, I pulled together only ceramic or glass angels in white with a touch of gold.

Design Tip:

  • To make the grouping more interesting elevate some of the angels. Here I used small boxes, dishes turned upside-down, even a napkin ring.

 

Start at the bottom and work  your way up. Cover the table with a coordinating fabric then scatter gold star confetti and jingle bells around the angels to fills in the “negative” space.

 

The lamp looked a bit bare, so I added a big gold bow. Now it becomes part of the display. Notice how everything flows from left to right on a diagonal.

 

Almost finished, but I didn’t like the big gap between the tall lamp and angels (more negative space).

 

I often see glass shades at Goodwill and finally found a use for them! This 60’s-70’s era one with white and gold circles is perfect for my angel scene when propped up against the wall.

Next year I can use it to display a stack of ornaments.  Or serve cheese and crackers, show off  Christmas cards, etc.  There are lots of ways to up-cycle this shade.

What do you think? Send me photos of your angel display! I would love to see them.

Filed Under: Christmas Chic, Interior Design ~Chic Tips, Vintage Chic Tagged With: Christmas decorating, Color Chic, Goodwill SEW, Holiday celebration, Holiday Decorating, Interior Decorating, Interior Design

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