A sweet valentine mantel!

This fresh arrangement on my mantel features:
• vintage window frames of varying sizes and colors (from my old house!)
• a thrifted cardboard heart
• a printed piece of fabric (maybe a tablecloth?) from Grandma
• a valentine card from years past
• a sampling of my glass collection including milk glass
• a lovely heart garland I made a few years back

my claim to (blog) fame!

I was honored to be included as a guest poster on The Artful Parent  which just happens to be one of my all-time favorite blogs. Jean is taking a bit of a sabbatical from her blog this month and asked if some of her readers would be willing to submit posts. How lovely of her to share her space.

Here's my post on our valentine cards – a current work in progress.

Spoiler alert: Grandmas and aunties might get a sneak peek of their future valentine mail if they check out this post!

valentine hearts

Instead of making valentine my craft project, this year I collaborated with the resident 2-year-old artist.

 In what became multi-step project, I first cut out hearts and she painted them.

Another weekend I glued them to cards and she added marker drawings. During the first drawing session, she focused on drawing around the hearts. When we returned to the cards to finish them up she went a totally different direction and colored directly on the hearts. I was interested to see her two different approaches.