Linen Christmas Stockings

It's official, I love white!!  Now even our Christmas Stockings are a creamy white linen.

Here's all of our stockings all in a row.

I used a creamy linen for the stocking, a striped linen for the cuff, a bit of simple lace, added an initial so Santa would know whose is whose, and a sprig of real red berries for an extra special touch
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The mantle is going more rustic with these architectural fragments I found at Round Top.

Lots of chippy goodness here, to add lots of texture to the room.

The candles are some I painted with homemade chalk paint a long time ago.

I added more berries to the mantle. The "Fifteenth St." sign also came from Round Top.

And rather than a heavy garland of greenery, I added this simple strand of handmade vintage lace.

I filled the ironstone pitcher with more red berries from outdoors.  Mr. CH asked what MEKLA stood for. I looked at him for a minute, and said, "You're overthinking this, it's just our initials."  He should know I'm pretty uncomplicated and am not sending a secret message to some underworld spy.  But if I was, I couldn't tell him any way. 

Here's a list of the parties that I visit on a regular basis.  I might have shared this link at any number of these.