More Valentine's Decorations

In my defense, no I did not just do these 2 days before Valentine's Day.  We did these last weekend, I just haven't had a minute to pull pictures off my camera until now!

I have been wanting to make one of these banners since the very first day I discovered craft-blog land and fell in love.   The simpleness and kind of 'eh' -ness (even my sister said she only kinda liked it.. gotta love her honesty!) is another indicator of how not into Valentine's day I am. BUT as I said, it's not for me, its for the girls, and the gasps and awwww's I got made it totally worth doing.  So here is my nothing spectacular, but never-the-less, Valentine's banner. 

(We have the coolest huge fireplace, but I long for a mantle! This looks kinda random! lol)

I should note that the entire time I was slaving over trying to get the letters to look half way decent I was able to list off about 50 reasons to Josh as to why I need a cricut or silhouette.  He matched that with about 50 eye rolls. I'm breaking him down though, I can tell!!

I actually made the next project a few weekends ago.  I've seen different versions of these popping up in blogville... so I copied a few different variations.  I had this super duper cute red fabric on hand, and I got plant foam squares at the dollar store.  Wrap like a present, pin in place and you are good to go.  I don't have any stencils so I decided to just free-hand letters on.  The girls have had fun stacking them in different ways.  I'm tempted to make a bunch for every day decoration so they can spell out different things.  I didn't think they'd have such a good time messing with them! 

Valentine's Day Wreath

If you know me, you know that I'm not a foofoo lovey dovey person. I call Josh by his name 90% of the time, not "babe" or "hun" or "sweetie"... our terms of endearment fall more into the category of "hey stinky" stuff like that.  What can I say, we are weird.  :)   So Valentine's Day decor is not top of my list of things to do.  However, the girls will be with us on Valentines Day, so I'm making an effort. 

I had to go to Costco Sunday night and SCHUCKS... Michael's is right next door.  So after getting the Costco trip done (ugh it was packed) I rewarded myself with a trip into Michaels.  I saw a cute heart wreath and decided to go with it and see what I came up with.

A few fabric flowers later....

The little cardboard cut out of "True Love" was also a great find at Michaels.  They had a few different v-day sayings... $1 each!  I would have probably preferred to attach a pink or red ribbon at the top but alas I didn't have any. So I decided to go with the earthy feel of the wreath and used up some left over jute I had. 

In case you are curious here is the cost breakdown:
Wreath $3.99
True Love Emblem: $1.00
I used left over fabric scraps to make the flowers, and had the jute on hand. 

Total Cost around $4.99!