- Daffodils in crystal or glass vases on each end of your mantel bespeak the coming of Spring. Tie a wired chiffon ribbon in a soft spring hue in a bow around each vase for a nice touch.
- Another Easter decorating trick with crystal or glass vases, or other glass containers such as glass canisters or brandy snifters, is to fill them with Easter eggs. Wooden, ceramic, plastic, or
glass eggs work well. Jelly beans in spring hues, either alone or mixed in with Easter eggs, are also delightful on a fireplace mantel in a glass container.
- March a line of fluffy chicks across your mantel. Five or more chicks, whether stuffed toys, porcelain hens, or craft store chickens, make a cute display.
- And speaking of stuffed toys, now is a great time to find those old stuffed bunnies and ducks and turn them into mantel ornaments. Add Easter grass, and scatter decorated eggs along the mantel
to keep them company.
- Tie wired gingham-checked ribbons into bows, and attach them to the edge of your mantel. Let the ends of each bow hang down various lengths from one to three feet. At the end of each ribbon,
open a plastic egg, tape the ribbon's end inside the egg, and force the egg shut. This creates a set of eggs dangling at different heights.
- Leaving wooden craft store eggs unpainted gives them the hue of natural brown eggs. Screw tiny cup hooks into each end of several unpainted wooden eggs. Tying 6 to 12 inch pieces of wired
organdy ribbon in a spring color between each egg, create a garland to adorn your fireplace mantel. This makes a great country look! For a shabby chic look, paint the eggs a crackled white,
and for a more elegant look, paint the eggs and use wired velvet ribbon.
- Bring out your glass, crystal, white, and pastel candle holders of different heights for your mantel. Select a trio of springtime colors such as lavender, pink and eggshell or aqua, pale green,
and soft yellow. Use pastel candles in some of the candle holders. In others, perch decorated Easter eggs (real, plastic, wooden, or glass).
- The ideas above are great for your fireplace's mantel, but what's a terrific way to decorate your fireplace itself? Fireplace candelabra are the perfect accessories. And using candles in the shape of decorated Easter eggs in your fireplace candelabra is a super-simple, but visually dramatic way to decorate for the season. (Just don't be too surprised if the Easter Bunny replaces one of the candle-eggs in the fireplace candelabra with a chocolate one!)
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