A Christmas Gallery Wall

I always decorate the wall in my dining room for the holidays.
This year, I began with a large chalkboard I had made out of a mirror frame.
From that, my dining room wall became a Christmas Gallery Wall!

I must admit that the gallery wall came into being for one simple reason...

I hate the wallpaper in my dining room!
So after I placed the chalkboard in position, I knew I needed to add something more
to help cover up the hideous background!

I grabbed a bunch of old frames from my garage.
They all need a little bit of shoring up so I haven't used them for any projects yet.
But I knew that with just a little temporary fixing, I could use them on my wall.
After strengthening up any loose corners,
I added some dropcloth to each frame.
Then I added embellishments,
like my twig stars.

Inside another frame, I added some white vintage ornaments.

This frame is adorned with an upcycled wreath.

The wreath is the bike tire from my daughter's toddler bike.
I wrapped it in burlap and added a few poinsettias.

Another fabulous frame sits behind a small tree.

And, finally, I added this shutter backed with dropcloth and burlap

to fill the remainder of the wall.

The big, red chalkboard that I started with sits on an old wooden stand.

I added pine cones and green beads along with a candle holder to make it festive.

I hung some of the white ornaments underneath the stand.

A rusty metal bowl is filled with more pine cones and a sparkly snowflake. 

 A vintage Pepsi crate holds a picture of my kids.

The little Christmas tree sits on another crate with a small Santa.

And under the crate I added some red books and two frosted pears.

The books are wrapped up in twine to resemble a present.

And there you have my little Christmas Gallery Wall.
Hope you've enjoyed looking at it as much as I do!

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