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You can’t see the middle part because it’s covered by all those pretty, green branches..
Trust me, you’ll love them.We live in a 100 year old house and we have no fireplace.How is that possible?

Now, we have an old unfunctioning chimney, just no fireplace.It’s OK, house, I still love you..I decided I still needed something mantle-ish to accommodate my decorating needs, so Chris built me a little something..

The top is reclaimed barn wood and the legs are old 2 by 4s that Chris took out of the wall upstairs when we was re-studding Kennedy’s closet.. I’m not quite done decorating it yet, but I’m sharing it anyway.I wanted to get some hay and maybe a big mum for underneath it, but I then I didn’t.

The weather-vane was at the house already when we got here.
I just brought it inside and gave it clear spray to seal it up.. Chris picked up the white shutter thingy for me the other day, just cause.This time they’re empty because that’s the cool thing to do now.
Or it was the cool thing two years ago and now I’m just getting there.Either way, I like where it’s going!
It only took me, oh, 5 months to figure out that that’s what it needed.. I’m going to add more, kind of like this, to outline and emphasize the ceiling line in the room.And then I may just keep going from there.