TIME FOR SOME HEARTS

I waste no time in boxing up the Christmas decorations.  Once Christmas has come and gone, I'm ready to move on.  Don't you love *sparse* after all the extras with Christmas?  

So.  What's next?  

Valentine's Day!  

It's time for hearts, and pink, and white, and red!  I looked around on Pinterest for inspiration and then got started.  I got out some of my burlap stash, which seems to multiply in my sewing boxes, and cut out hearts.  Many hearts.  Then I rolled up a few linen roses, attached some white ball trim, book page leaves, antique buttons, and a little string.   Here are just a few.  Rustic and humble.

This swag is available for purchase in my Etsy shop, Gillyflower Cottage.

What am I working on tomorrow?  

Osnaburg hearts with antique graphics transfers.


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PAPER HEARTS

Just a little something for Valentine's Day . . .

A couple winters ago, "McKinney Jan" and I made a bunch of these paper hearts.  I came home, put them away, and kind of forgot I had them.  I don't know how that happened because I love how they turned out!  Well, I found them again when I was sorting and sifting my way through my craft supplies!  What great timing!  We made them out of paper lunch bags and old book pages - kind of like a sandwich.  We just put the pieces together and ran them through the sewing machine.  Easy as can be!

Paper bag heart + batting + Paper bag heart + book page heart = stuffed paper hearts

So I got out a length of hemp string and put a little dab of hot glue on the back of each heart leaving about 6 inches between each one.

 Like this . . .

 Then a little dab of hot glue at either end of the mantel to hold it up there.

(Yes, on the mantel.  I do stuff like that.)

 And it's done!

Now, to bring a little valentine-ness to the rest of the house . . .


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