Happy Hearts

After all the Christmas decor is removed, the house seems bare and I actually like that for a few weeks,

but I love that Valentine's Day is the next holiday.

I don't decorate every room, but I have a fun bringing out all my happy hearts.

I'll admit to going a bit overboard in the kitchen,

but the head chef has not complained.

And I will also admit to constantly tweaking things on the shelves.

The guest room has the most Valentine decor -

too bad no guests are scheduled for February.

It's left for me to enjoy

all the Valentine touches.

A little Valentine table setting from last night

will remain until the asparagus fern looks shabby.

I even tucked a few hearts here and there in the garden.

How about you,

are hearts popping up around your house?

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"You Gotta Have Heart"

I have been on a forced computer hiatus while my laptop was in the hospital with a damaged screen.

So, I used the time to add a little "heart" to our cottage.

I removed all the clocks on this shelf in the dining room and replaced them with my small beach pail collection.

The metal heart garland hangs on shelf year long.

The kitchen shelves were an easy fix by simply tucking hearts here and there.

The entry got a big heart

and if you look closely, there are little hearts on the cupboard.

I went a little crazy in the guest room  

pairing hearts with my hand collection.

I am constantly stealing from vignettes

and the Hearts & Flowers diary is now in the living room.

It has been fun adding hearts throughout the house and I could keep going - there is still a basket full of hearts in my little garden house.

They won't be making an appearance this year because enough is enough.

In the last line of "Heart" from Damn Yankees, the boys sing, "We've Got Heart" and we definitely have "heart" in our home this season.

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Hearts Everywhere

I love hearts

and I tuck them into vignettes around the house

all year long.

But at this time of year, I can blatantly use hearts all over the house.

I have spent the last few days setting out full heart displays in every room.

I made this little embroidered piece when we were in Kauai at Christmas

and this quilt was my project last week - yes, I cheated and machine quilted it.

I bought a rusty metal heart garland months ago

and added it to the dining room shelf.

Supplies from the garage are filling up the guest room

and my rusty red cart is being used as a work table for my creativity.

The cloth hearts are a couple of years old and I just added some string to make a garland for my chalkboard.

I cut a variety of sizes of hearts out of book pages and have been playing with them the last few days.

I've made a couple of three dimensional vertical garlands

that will be put into cute little muslin bags from Michael's

and mailed off to friends tomorrow.

This little spool of hearts is an  experiment - I thought it would look cute draping out of a bowl.

I am not quite finished adding Valentine's everywhere, but scenes like this are getting in my way.

It's difficult to stay inside when Lulu is crying to be taken to the beach.

But, I am determined

to finish fluffing tomorrow

before we head back outside.

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