Valentine's Day decor

I know it's WAY after the fact, but I did want to post photos of this year's Valentine's Day decor, both for my own records and just to share some fun pictures.

Last week, I posted the window I made and mentioned that I wanted to back it with old book pages. It was a project that took me about five minutes and made a big impact! I simply cut a piece of cardboard box to size, sprayed it with spray adhesive and slapped on some old dictionary pages. It's adhered to the back of the window with blue painter's tape so it is easily removable, but it occurs to me now that I could have also cut it to the size of the glass and just wedged it in, eliminating the need for tape.

The window inspired me to use a red, black and white theme for my decorating this year. I used the red honeycomb medallions that I made last year and stuck them into a red and silver vase. I added my red gumball machine that is half-full of white buttons, a few black thrift-store finial-thingies, and at the last minute added a cute vintage-style Valentine take-out box that has a black beaded handle.

For the top of my little dresser, I used a vintage redwork tablecloth, an old red book, and a vintage candy box from an estate sale last summer. I added a bit of black with a neat cameo pin (thrifted, should get a better photo to show a close-up) and a red, black and white folding ruler used to hold up a vintage Valentine from my collection.

I stayed with the color scheme when filling my muffin tin table. Yup, still my favorite piece of furniture in the house!

Back before Christmas I found this darling vintage chalkboard at an antique store, but I've never showed it on my blog because it's hard to get a good photo with the lighting in the room and because there's a big chip in the navy wall paint that I've been too busy/lazy/distracted to fix. I picked out some Valentines that school kids would have exchanged and hung them with tiny clothespins from a length of baker's twine.

Just for fun, I added an old class photo (dated 1938) that I picked up somewhere and suspended it from little metal clips inside a thrifted frame that looks like it's made from old rulers.

I didn't get things decorated until the Friday before Valentine's Day so I'll probably leave them up for another week while I decide what to put up in their place. I got rid of all my St. Patrick's Day stuff (what little there was) because I just can't get really excited about the holiday, plus kelly green just does not go with the paint on my walls! Easter is late in April this year so I have a good month before I'll want put out the bunnies & eggs, so I'll have to do something non-holiday related. There's never a wrong time for aqua pottery so I think I might go that direction.