My Valentines and Valentine’s Day Decorating 2023

I mentioned my Valentine’s Day decorating in my last post but haven’t shared it yet. I kept the garland up in the kitchen and hung up the valentine ornaments I’ve made and collected as well as my yearly card ornaments.

Continuing with the fortune theme I used a couple of years ago, I used the Fortune Teller Miracle Fish image and Swedish fish candy for my Valentine’s this year. When I went to get one of the wooden bowls I usually photograph them in, I saw this fishbasket and thought I have to use that!

I struggled with what to write on the back since there weren’t any actual fortune telling fish but finally settled on “No Fish…..Go Fish.”

In the dining room windows I hung the cherry and heart garlands I made a few years ago along with the origami heart my oldest granddaughter made. And I arranged the M&M spokespeople beneath – a nod to all the recent drama about them

A couple of Saturdays ago, Brenda of the Cozy Little House blog shared a post called Easy Vintage Valentine’s Day Cloche Display from the Follow the Yellow Brick Home blog. When I clicked on it, I saw it was a hop of sorts hosted by the CountyRoad 407 blog. Called a Pinterest Challenge, the host picks an image from Pinterest and invites the other bloggers to recreate it in their own style. In this case, the Pinterest photo was from the blog Crafting While I Wait. I had fun looking at the original blog post and at all the creations inspired by it. And then I was inspired to make one in my tiny cloche.

I was looking for a vintage spool of thread and was especially excited when I found one from Corticelli Threads, a company whose fascinating history began in Florence, Massachusetts where we used to live. I also found a small wooden spool, so I made a tiny shadow box too.

Not sure why the box looks so dented in on the side. I need to go fix that, and I’ll probably add a loop so I can hang it on the garland next year.