Decorated Wood I love U and 2014's Valentine Hutch

Decorated I {Heart} You:

Looks so cute on my hutch:

Speaking of my hutch.  Here is my 2014 Valentines Day decorated hutch:

I adore all of the reds and pinks!  They make me so happy :)

Scrabble Tile I Love You Frame

My latest Valentines Day Craft:

I just used a $1 heart frame that I got at Michael's, painted the outside edge and inside of the heart then, covered it with scrapbook paper.  I used glitter paper on the inside heart, glued the scrabble tiles and embellishments on, inked and sanded around all of the edges and ta-da!  Done :)

Easy Sneezy! And, it looks super cute with all of my other Valentine decor :)

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Valentines Wreath with Glitter Eyelash Yarn

This is my favorite yarn ever!!!

Seriously! Hot pink, red and glitter.  What's not to love?!

I needed (ha,wanted) a Valentines wreath.  I found the yarn and this cute little "Kiss" sign at Hobby Lobby and thought it was perfect:

Here she is:

I love her!

Linked to:
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nifty-thrifty-tuesday
time-sparkle-link-party
take-look-tuesday.

Love Sign From Old Wood...

I have a bunch of old boards and am having a lot of fun making signs out of them.  Here is what I came up with for Valentine's Day:

I love how rustic and worn it looks:

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE Valentines Day?!  I do!

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Yarn Art Heart...

Yarn is so fun, but I stink at crocheting so I have to use it in other ways :)

 I decided to decorate an old frame with it and then cut a heart out of cardboard and wrapped it as well.

Easy sneezy!

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Button Art Heart #3...

The other day, I pulled out this pile of stuff:

I wasn't sure what I was going to make with it, but knew that it would be Valentine's Day related!  Here is one of the projects that I came up with:

I'm so in love with Valentine's Day and all the fun decorations that come along with it.  Red and pink are my favorite colors and you can never go wrong with hearts right?!

Apparently, I have a thing for red buttons.  They look awfully cute next to each other on my hutch!  You can find my other two button hearts HERE & HERE.

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Valentine Candy Bouquet...

We love, love, love chocolate covered cinnamon bears! A dear friend's sister passed away this week and she has been on my mind a lot. There isn't much one can do or say that would make the pain go away, but this friend and I share our love for those tasty treats so instead of sending flowers, I decided to make her a candy bouquet. This would also make a wonderful Valentines gift:

I wrapped it in cellophane and tied ribbon around it to finish it off:

Chocolate can make anyone's day better right?!

Valentines Dinner...

We do a family "candlelight dinner" for Valentines every year and invite my parents to join us.  This year was no exception other than it's always a bummer with Valentines falls of a week night.  I work full time outside my home so on years like this one, I tend to simplify and don't go as overboard as I do when it falls on the weekend.

The Menu.

The beverage "Cupids Love Potion"  it was so cute and festive and tastes delish.  I found it here.

The dinner.  I made Olive Gardens Fettuccine Alfredo, heart fruit kaboobs, spinach strawberry salad and  Olive Garden Breadsticks.  This is my plate, Hubs also made breaded chicken strips for the meat eaters in the fam, which is basically everyone except for me :)  

For dessert, I made the brownie trifle. It was so delish!!!

 

After dinner, we exchanged gifts and everyone got a goodie bag filled with lots of chocolates and cinnamon hot lips. I found the cute bag toppers here.

It was such a fun night!

Button Art Heart Tile #2....

Happy Valentines Day!!!  I hope you will each be surrounded with loved ones who will make you feel very special all day long!

I made some button art heart tiles for some friends.  It's very similar to the other, with just a few differences:

The paper is actually called "Heartstrings" and is made by Carolee's Creations.  I think it's just darling and really ties it all together.

My sweet daughter is spending her very first holiday alone.  Well, not completely alone, she is living and working in the "Happiest Place on Earth", but I still wanted her to know that we love and miss her, so we sent her a card and goodie bag.

She is our zebra stripe loving gal, so this is her card:

I embossed the "Sweet Love" tag with pink glitter and filled the bag with her favorite chocolates and included a Utah Truffle just so she would think of home.

We do a fun Valentines dinner tonight and I'm super excited about it, although we will miss sweet Kadee.  I hope that you all have a wonderful, fun filled Valentines as well.  Make sure you tell the people you love how much they mean to you. XOXO

Candle Holder Redo...

I've been crafting for a long time, as in decades.  I've gotten rid of most of my early projects, but some I've hung on to.  I have these heart candlestick holders that I made clear back in the early 90's:

So, this year I pulled them out of my Valentines tote and decided they needed to be updated.  Here's what they look like now:

Repainted, mod podged some paper on to them, sanded, inked and added some 3D heart stickers.

They found a home on top of my fridge for February anyways.

I can now look at them and no longer say to myself, "Joni, the 90's called and they want their candlestick holders back!"  I guess I'll hang onto them for another 2 decades ;)

Bucket O' Love (Coffee Can Craft)....

A few years ago, I made on of those cute candy bar bouquets for the family.  I decorated an old coffee can with Valentines paper and embellishments.  After that Valentines was over, I thought it was too cute to throw away, so I kept it but haven't used it.  This year, I added a few pink flocked heart picks and one sparkly red and turned it into my "Bucket O' Love!

This is another super easy, inexpensive but still cute craft that anyone can make.  It looks darling as a center piece on a table :)

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LOVE Letters...

I made these 2 years ago and originally did them without any embellishments other than the mod podged paper.  Last year, I added the tulle bow, this year I added sparkly hearts.  Apparently, I just can't leave anything "simple" LOL!

This works for this year, maybe I'll add more next Valentine's Day :)

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Yarn/ Wire Art- LOVE...

Remember back in the day before the good plastic hangers came out and we would cover our wire hangers with yarn?  Okay, so maybe you didn't do this, but I did!  For a couple of my Valentines decor items, I used this same technique to make some word art.  I did the word LOVE and a cute heart using fencing wire and yarn  that I already had on hand:

I like to use the loop technique with the yarn, but you could just wrap it around the wire.

The possibilities are endless here, you could also use more than one color to mix things up. These are also easy enough that kids could help or make their own. They are so simple, and cost next to nothing to make, but look super cute and festive, which is my favorite kind of crafty :)

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Tissue Paper Valentines Topiary...

Awhile back, I made a Valentines Topiary using cupcake liners. I liked it so much, that I decided to make another. This time, I was bound and determined to not spend a dime and to only use supplies that I had on hand. Here is the final result:

I love pulling out my old scraps and seeing what I can make with them.  It totally makes me happy to turn things that could very well have just been tossed in the garbage into something that looks so cute!

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Valentines Hutch...

I got my hutch redecorated for February this weekend! I'm so in love with all of the fun pinks and reds! Here is how it turned out:

Yeah, I know.  I need a heart instead of the snowman for the "O" in my HOME.  Hubs still can't be around sawdust, so for now, Mr. Snowman stays :)

The center of the hutch:

Left Side:

Right Side:

The top shelf.

Middle Shelf.

Bottom shelf.

I just LOVE it!  Makes me happy every time I walk into my dining room :)

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Plate of the Month, February...

Yay for me for remembering to post this months plate of the month!  Here it is:

I just adore Valentines!  Love is most certainly in the air at my house, I hope it is at yours as well :)

Heart Bouquet & A Frame Re-do....

A couple other Valentine decor items that I put together to send to my cute daughter in Florida to help decorate her new apartment:

For the bouquet's:
I got all of the stuff for the Valentines bouquet's at the dollar store.  I just put a little square of floral styrofoam in the bottom of the bags and covered them with valentines tissue paper. I then stuck the cute hearts down in and then added some red tulle on top.  So stinking simple! 

For the frame:
I repainted an old  brown wooden frame white and then added a couple of coats of Plaids Extreme Glitter paint so it is all sparkly.  I did it in white so that I can send her a new subway are for each holiday and she can just continue to use that frame, i'm keeping my fingers crossed that the glass won't be broken by the time UPS gets it to her!  I found the darling subway art at Every Creative Endeavor (Thank you!).

This project is another one that will look super cute in her apartment but didn't cost very much so we won't feel badly when she won't have room in her luggage to bring it home with her.  I still have some of the hearts and boxes left and I intend to find a way to use them :)  Yay for cute Valentines crafties!!!