A Little Valentine's Day Shelf

My picture is crooked. I'm artsy fartsy.

 

 

In case you thought that it was too late to decorate for Valentine's Day.... I'm here to tell you that you've still got time.  

 

Just leave your dishes from the night before in the sink (that's me) and avoid taking your dogs for a walk (that's me) and you'll get some V-day decorating done before tomorrow.

 

Since I decided to do this at the last minute to avoid my daily chores, I had to be creative with things that I already had around the house. I made a giant mess digging through tubs in the basement for things but who needs to know about that.

 

I took my little heart-punch art thingie from a few years ago (links here and here), trimmed it down, and placed it in a smaller white frame:

 

 

I propped some vintage heart cookie cutters (I'm collecting them) into some white ceramic dishes:

 

 

I made a little garland with some twine and used some tiny clothespins (from Chapters) to hang little heart cut-outs. I just used the leftover scrapbook paper from the heart-art project:

 

 

 

I'll probably write some cute things on them and give them to Alex tomorrow. Of course I can't share what they're going to say on the internet.

 

{Okay fine. They're probably going to say things like, "I like you because you don't get mad at me when I bring the car home with the gas light on" or "I like when you use your strong muscles to hang drywall in the basement, hint hint."}

 

I used a wooden candle holder to display some tiny fresh flowers in tiny glass candle holders:

 

 

 

The pink tray I've had since my very first year of teaching. It was a gift from a student. It's one of my favourite things.

 

 

So there you go. A last minute Valentine's Day shelf from the biggest procrastinator you know. :)

 

 

I'm a bit sad that my posts have been so few and far between lately. But I do have one in the works called 'Baby Chasing and Baby Proofing' because that's all I've been doing lately!

 

:)

 

Any big plans for Valentine's Day? I think I'll make a chocolate cake for Alex. Don't tell anyone but it's really like a gift for me. Muhahahaha!

 

Other Cute Valentine's Day Ideas Here:

 

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