Love ready

heart: diy   flannel shirt: old navy   jeans: target   boots: zulily 

We've never been a big celebrator of Valentine's day in the past.  But thanks to more time at home and pinterest I now love decorating and acknowledging Valentine's day.  Having a baby to do things with makes it more fun too! 

1. Heart sweater.  Now I've seen some pretty cheap cute heart sweaters, but when I made mine two years ago I could not find one.  I made mine for less than $10 (check out the easy tutorial here).  Of course this summer I found one at Old Navy for less than $5 and justified needing another heart sweater.  

2. Decorations. I love my Valentine's decorations that I made last year and may be a little overboard adding this heart felt garland.  Super cheap.  Super easy.  

Cut out hearts and sew together.  Easy, easy. 

3. Footprints. After making these I want will happily find any reason to put Addilyn's footprint on anything.  I'm pretty sure I'll do some footprint project on a canvas for every holiday this year.  
Happy February!

Lately . . . .

Wearing:  a $15 dress I found at Ross and enjoying the chance to dress up.  
Thankful for: a good friend's wedding last weekend and a chance to see my best friends from childhood. My blurry pictures included. 

Enduring: a little sleep training for Addilyn and feeling a little anxious about it. 
Reading: a few new blogs, like The Ausam Life..
Watching: the Bachelor.  It's embarrassing how excited I am that it's back on.  However I am so far unimpressed with it.  Which by no means equates with me no longer watching it.  

Excited to: put up my few Valentine's Day decorations.  After the depression of taking down all Christmas decorations, it's nice to have something to replace them with. 
Surprised that: my baby girl turned six months old this week.  I can't believe Addilyn has been in our life for half of a year.  
Dreading her: six month shots on Monday. 

Slightly disappointed: that this was the best picture I could get on her six month birthday.  Hello little drama queen? We will have to try again. 
Happy weekend friends!

Valentine's Day Decorations

I feel like my title would be a little more appealing if it said Valentine's Day Decor and I almost kept it, but you know how I feel about abbreviations so the long version it is.

Last year was the first time I ever decorated for Valentine's Day thanks to pinterest, and I plan on doing in now each year.

I saw a lot of cute banner ideas on pinterest (like this) and put a few of them together to make this one.  It was really pretty easy and quick.  The only part I don't like is cutting the burlap because it frays a lot! 

First I cut out my banner pieces from burlap.  Then I cut out my hearts and glued them on with a glue gun.  I used my sewing machine to sew the pendents onto a piece of twine.  That is it! 

The other things were pretty easy too, but a little more time consuming.  The vase on the right was a vase that didn't match anything in our house so I cut an old text book into squares and modge podged it to the vase. 

I took a styrofoam ball and glued candy hearts around it and then stuck a dowel rod through the bottom, filled a bucket from the Target dollar spot with sand and stuck it in.  

The red rose ball is a styrofoam ball covered in tissue paper roses:

1. Cut a piece about three to four inches long and fold it in half as you go. 

2. Start twisting your streamer into a little circle to form a rose bud. 

3. Keep twisting until you use all your piece.  Put a little dot of glue to hold it down.  Put a larger circle of glue on your styrofoam ball and place the flower on top. 

4. Keep going until the whole ball is covered. 

I just filled a mason jar with candy hearts and put the flower ball on top.

and the nice thing is I will use all of these each year!

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