Valentine Kissing Ball

I know it is so close to Valentines day, and almost everyone is done with any decor you may be creating/putting out. But I made these a week or so ago and just never got around to posting about them.

You will need
Styrofoam ball
crepe paper color of your choice
hot glue
Styrofoam hearts on stick (dollar tree)

For the pink one, I cut strips to about 14". if you want them a different size, cut accordingly.

I started to wrap the roses and you can find the full tutorial on my post about my 

Pretty in Pink Burlap Wreath.

To make the one below I used the same technique I did on my Scrappy Burlap Tree I did

for Christmas. You can see that technique here. The only difference is that I used pink and made a heart shape first, then the white around it. I actually cut the pink a bit shorter after I had it glued on. I also trimmed the white to make it more even and circular. (OK fine, cause I am a hairdresser and I love to cut things! Happy??)

I bought a pack of hard foam hearts on red sticks at the dollar store. I just carefully twisted off the heart from  the stick and turned it around so that the bottom of the heart is now the 'arrow' in the front, and carefully pushed it into the foam and then hit it with a dollop of hot glue.

(secret: I was a bit tired of making this one, so the back is actually 

unfinished! Maybe next year I will fill it in!)

Easy as pie!

My parents got engaged on Valentines day in 1960. My 

Mom made this ceramic heart box for my Dad's Mother. 

I never even knew it existed until my Grandfather passed away and my Mom and I had started to clear some of their stuff out. I usually keep this on my guest room dresser, close to the back so it does not fall. It did get a chip somehow in the last few years.

I have not gotten around to fixing it yet. Can you see it on the top of the rose?

If you like this, Pin it and you can make it next year!!

 

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Valentine Mantle

I finally have all my Valentine decor up. I know, for what, a week??
There are alot of pics, so I will just show you already...

This was my first attempt at bunting!

One of my favorite photo at our wedding! 

The glare from the glass makes it seem like it is over exposed, but no.

 I did try to fiddle with it in Picnik, but didn't work.

You can't see it, but the antique book is a book of Poems. 

I use the mercury glass candle sticks through out the year.

The wreath of roses I bought at a Thrift store and it actually looks like dirty cement. 

Unfortionatly it is not a strong. I had two of them...

(I used them in my Halloween mantle too!)

Of course, two other loves of my life!

I got the striped fabric at a Thrift store, about a yard of it for I think $1.

The lace was bought there as well. They had 'I love you', Just Married', and 'Love' on 4 

different panels. I just cut them out on top of the triangle I cut out of the fabric.

The red hearts I got there also for $.25 a piece.

Ok, I know. I have tried 14 different ways to get this to stay turned and everything is 

good in editing all the way up until I hit 'add selected' in Blogger. Ggggrrrrrrr!

I have had this box of Ireland's Chocolates from St. Louis for a while now, but I have never pulled it out for Valentines day. The paper on the top is a little frayed on the edges, but other than that is it pretty solid.

I am guessing from the girl it is from about the 20's-30's. The small Mercury glass to the right of it is real Mercury glass. It was my husbands Great Grandmothers. I usually have it tucked away in safe keeping. Did you know Mercury glass actually has no Mercury in it? Back when Silver was all the rage, the people who could not afford it, bought 'Mercury looking glass' to fool you. Funny how it is more popular now than the Silver.

I also did a few little Valentine day crafts. I will post those tomorrow!

Also I will be linking up my Wait a wee Meenit Wednesday's party, so stop back by!

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