Valentine's Day is less than a week away and I'm enjoying all the sweet inspiration from blogland these past couple of weeks! Today I'm joining a group of bloggers who have created romantic homes in anticipation of Cupid's holiday. I hope you'll take a moment to visit each home; I guarantee you'll find ideas for your own living spaces! A very special thank you to Kathy at A Delightsome Life for organizing this month's Romantic Homes round-up! … [Read more...]
Wooden Valentine Boxes: Heartfelt and Handmade
January 29, 2018 By 25 Comments
Welcome to Heartfelt and Handmade! In honor of Valentine's Day, 28 bloggers have joined together to share something they made by hand for Valentine's Day. You'll find crafts, recipe, artwork, printables, and more! Heartfelt and Handmade runs Monday through Wednesday this week and all links are at the bottom of this post (just remember that Tuesday and Wednesday links won't be live until those days). My project shows how to make pretty wooden … [Read more...]
Pink and Gray Valentine Table
January 22, 2018 By 13 Comments
Beautiful pink tulips are the inspiration for my Pink and Gray Valentine Table that I've designed for another installment of our Styled + Set series. Today I join blogging friends to bring you three days worth of beautiful Valentine tables and entertaining ideas. A special thanks to Lory at Designthusiasm for organizing this event. Ahead of me on today's tour is the lovely Janet who blogs at Shabbyfufu. I love everything she does and Valentine's … [Read more...]
Pink and White Table Setting
January 24, 2017 By 16 Comments
Valentine's Day gives me reason to celebrate my inner girl and bring out the pink! Pink has been my favorite color for many, many years and I'm happy to say it's my daughter's favorite color, too. So in the spirit of Cupid's holiday, I've put together a pink and white table setting. I'm joining fellow bloggers to bring you a week of entertaining. Thanks to Lory at Designthusiasm for organizing the event! And if you're here from Zevy Joy ... … [Read more...]
Valentine Heart Boxes: How to Make
January 16, 2017 By 3 Comments
Valentine's Day was always my favorite holiday classroom party back in grade school. Choosing Valentines from the shelves of boxes at the local five and dime store was always fun. Once home, signing my name to each one and tucking it into a small white envelope marked with each classmate's name was a task I enjoyed. It didn't matter if you didn't like someone in your class, you still gave each schoolmate a Valentine card. The teacher asked us to … [Read more...]
Homemade Valentine’s Day Cards
January 10, 2017 By 34 Comments
Do you remember when you were a kid and used to make homemade Valentine's Day cards to pass out at school? Such care was taken to glue little heart-shaped doilies, buttons, and ribbons in place to make beautiful cards for your friends. It was a proud moment to share these original works of art and have the teacher praise you! Keep this nostalgic feeling alive by making your own Valentine's Day cards today. You can make them with or without … [Read more...]
13 Easy Valentine’s Day Projects
January 27, 2016 By 2 Comments
Do you miss the days of youth when you'd make your own Valentine's Day cards and hand them out at school? I remember in Girl Scouts one of our holiday projects was to create a unique Valentine. I glued buttons on mine and was quite proud ... but Jennifer Mitchell ended up winning our contest because she had a red cardinal glued to hers. Clearly her mother helped her make it. I thought she should be disqualified. Dejected and heartbroken, I … [Read more...]
Hugs and Hearts $550 Valentine’s Day Giveaway!
February 9, 2015 By 4 Comments
What are some of your favorite Valentine's Day memories? I have to be honest and say that I most enjoyed the parties we had at grade school. I loved decorating my Valentine's box to hold all the cards that you'd get from your classmates. There was no favoritism ... every kid gave every other kid in the class a Valentine's card. Image courtesy of Karen Horton on Flickr It was so much fun opening each Valentine while eating cupcakes that some of … [Read more...]
15 Simple Valentine’s Day Projects
February 7, 2015 By 2 Comments
The holiday of love is just a week away and I've rounded up 15 simple Valentine's Day projects of my own and from various bloggers for you to do in time to celebrate. Our family is getting together for pizza Sunday night and I'm going to give my grandkids their Valentine's gifts. I know I'm going to use at least one of the ideas you'll see below. You'll find links to each project under the photos. I adore these book page hearts from Muslin and … [Read more...]
Valentine’s Day Decor in the Living Room
January 28, 2015 By 7 Comments
Do you decorate for Valentine's Day at your house? I don't do a whole lot but I like to bring in touches of pink and red. It's like a decorating transition period between Christmas and spring time. I hauled my Paris Poster back out and added red and white pillows to the love seat. You might remember the penmanship poster that used to be on this shelf at Christmas. I had simply taped it onto another piece of artwork. It makes … [Read more...]
My Simple Valentine’s Day Vignette
January 17, 2015 By 12 Comments
Valentine's Day isn't just the holiday of love ... it's the holiday of pink! Pink is the color of nurturing, compassion, and unconditional love. It's always been a favorite of mine and I love using it in a simple Valentine's Day vignette. Today I'm joining fellow bloggers for a Valentine's hop. You'll find their blogs at the end of the post. For my vignette, I created simple wall art and brought in some roses. Beautiful, soft roses in … [Read more...]
How to Make a Paper Heart Banner
January 15, 2015 By 2 Comments
Valentine's Day is just a month away and I created my first decoration for the holiday of love. It's a very simple paper heart banner that you can make in less than an hour. I'm using it in a Valentine's Day vignette that I'm sharing in a blog hop this Saturday. You don't need a lot of supplies to make this paper heart banner. Decorative scrapbook paper, a piece of colored twine, scissors, pencil, and glue. Cut out a heart to trace; … [Read more...]
Celebrating Valentine’s Day with Things I Love
February 13, 2014 By 13 Comments
Happy Valentine's Day!! If you follow my blog then you probably love many of the same things I do. So today, the day of love, I thought celebrating Valentine's Day with things I love would be a good idea. Since my list is long, I shortened it up ... otherwise we'd be here all day! In no particular order, here are just a few of my favorite things. { Home Decor } White ironstone is definitely on the top of my list of things I love. Some of my … [Read more...]
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