New Year, new mantelscape

The weather has been so dreary that the mantel has been rather dark—these photos feel so somber, but I'll take you through what I've chosen to display anyway. At the very end is a sulking white colored amaryllis/hippeastrum, it's just a little nubbin that has barely grown since I planted it up in early December.

Then a NOID cryptanthus I divided (this is just a third of the plant I bought), at least I think it's a cryptanthus—it came without a label.
Next is a vintage ceramic pedestal with an IKEA glass dome on it—a BEGÅVNING, I'm using the brass base elsewhere. Inside the dome is a staghorn fern (Platycerium bifurcatum), it's base wrapped in moss, and a trio of brass flowers. 

These wouldn't normally be my style, but the freesia caught my eye and I decided why not have a little fun with them.
Another shot of the vase, and one of the candleholders. Years—many years—ago, before we bought things online, I bought mom a single candle holder at an antique shop, intending to buy her a second when I ran across one. But I never did, and then I forgot. She gave me that candleholder when she gave me the vase.
On a whim I went online in early December and found a second candleholder for sale for a very nice price. Actually the listing was for a pair, but the second one had a sizable chip that someone had tried to repair—sold! This one with the lilac colored bloom is the new addition.
The round white vase on the left was also one of my mom's, and this green dish was a recent purchase. It seemed to call out for moss and brass mushrooms.
The mushrooms and other brass pieces are from Another Studio and I found them locally at Dennis 7 Dees Bridgeport.
This white freesia bloom candleholder is the original one I bought my mom. On the right is a green flowered amaryllis/hippeastrum that's going gangbusters with many leaves and a fat bud.
Another NOID cryptanthus, and a late blooming Schlumbergera truncata...
The cryptanthus had just wrapped up blooming when I bought it, and now it's sending out a pup.
The buds were so creamy on this Thanksgiving cactus that I was hoping they'd be a peachy or white bloom. Nope. 
Another IKEA glass dome, this one filled with many things...
I couldn't say no to the brass frog...
And these selaginella seemed like the perfect tiny plants to try out in the covered dome.
While I had every intention of giving away the chipped candleholder, once it arrived I decided to use it as a tillandsia holder instead, chip turned to the wall and nobody knows it's there...
The calendar change also called for something new on the tabletop... unfortunately it's another gloomy image! I really should have waited for a bright day to take these photos...
This amaryllis/hippeastrum, should it decide to bloom, is supposed to be 'La Paz'..."slender spidery flowers that are dark coral with a greenish white edge" and because buying new plants is always a mood lifter, I also filled the ceramic "canoe" with a selection of small jungle cactus.
Of course when you buy small 2" pots they're rarely labeled with names—just a mix of rhipsalis, stapelia, etc.

Since it's been one crazy windstorm after another for the last few weeks, I picked up a small branch, moss and lichen to complete the planting. That's how January is looking around here...