Wishing you a day full of wonderful treats . . .
lots of sweetness . . .
fun people to celebrate with . . .
and lots of heart-y goodness!!!
Happy Love and Friendship Day!
Category: valentines
I forgot!!!
I posted about my Valentine’s Day exchange gifts but I forgot to take some pictures – thank goodness the very talented Shannon took a bunch, explaining how she made one of my gifts.
This pretty quilted piece . . .
is reversible!!!
And she made it in my favorite colors of turquoise and olive green – go check out her post!
Thank you, Shannon, I LOVE it!
A Valentine’s Day Exchange
I was thrilled to participate in a sweet gift exchange, hosted by the lovely Adrianne at Happy Hour Projects. She paired me up with Shannon from I’m Working on a Project – I was happy to discover that Shannon is a very talented quilter, which is the one craft I KNOW I have no patience for, so I am always amazed to see the care and time people spend to make their gorgeous quilts.
On Thursday the 9th I had just sent off Shannon’s goodies (bad bad blogger, I had meant to send them earlier!!!) when I came home to find a box waiting for me. It turns out Shannon is not only good at quilting with fabric but she does a mean paper weave too, check out this sweet card!
She was also thoughtful enough to send something for my boys – OMG, right??
My sons have never tried shrinky-dinks (and neither have I!) so I am totally looking forward to trying it with them.
This pretty bag — the blue is more turquoise in real life, she knows about my obsession with that color — is destined to hold my makeup 😀
Shannon also made me stationery in my favorite colors of turquoise and green:
My favorite gift (I loved them all, but check this one out) is this beautiful, quilted hanging piece:
It now hangs next to my desk as a reminder of the wonderful people I keep meeting online.
I am so thankful for all these sweet goodies, and for having met Shannon — if you want to see beautifully worked quilted pieces, definitely check out her blog – hope your Valentine’s Day is a wonderful one!
LOVE banner
I saw this sweet banner at Simple as That and knew I had to make something like it for my Valentine’s Mantel. Of course my turquoise obsession is permeating even this most “red” of holidays, but I figure, I can throw red somewhere else in the house. For now, this is what I came up with, based on Rebecca’s idea:
I went with scrapbook paper in an argyle pattern, some of the lines have glitter, which catches the light very nicely.
I layered turquoise hearts matted with white glitter cardstock. The hearts are topped with scalloped circles from the same white glitter cardstock and letter stickers spelling LOVE. The banner is “hung” from my fleur-de-lis candlesticks.
This banner can obviously be made in endless color/pattern/theme combinations, so I have a feeling there are more pretty banners in my future. Thanks to Rebecca for this great idea!
More Sunday reading!
This time I’m linking up my little Valentine-themed mantel.
I made the little mantel cloth from some remnants from JoAnn’s and leftover brown fabric I pleated for a pretty edge.
I’ve kept my mantel pretty simple, some pictures on the sides of my “loves” and a picture from our honeymoon in the center. Target has these seasonal frames for $4.99 and I wish I’d gotten more of the black ones, but I love the pretty red heart one.
A crystal dish on the left for Valentine Hershey kisses and a red candle on the right, and pretty candlesticks with red candles on the ends.
That’s my Valentine mantel linked up at The Stories of A to Z!
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