Valentine's Day Heart

Celebrate Valentines Day by decorating your home with a hanging wall heart that you decorated yourself.

To make one like mine you'll need...

A wooden heart shaped plaque
Some ribbon
Decorative roses
Butterfly motif
A napkin of choice
Glue gun

First of all paint your heart white, so that your napkin découpage has a neutral base to go onto.  When dry découpage with your napkin (or paper if you prefer), leave to dry and then give it a coat or two of satin/matte varnish to protect the découpage.

Add your hanging-ribbon and glue on the decorative roses and the butterfly motif.

That's it - simple!

Now you have a beautiful decoration that can be used the whole year through, not just on Valentine's Day.

Wishing You all a Wonderful Valentine's Day

By for now

Mirror - Old Pine to Vintage Chic

It's a great feeling when you've put your heart into something and you finally see the end result and you're smiling.  After a week of working every night on the old pine mirror that I painted recently and spoke about in my last post, it's finally finished and looks great.  Some slight distressing was done first to create an 'old' look and then I découpaged it using a variety of vintage style materials which I overlapped in some places.  After sealing and sanding several times (that's the boring part) I then used a wax for the final finishing.  I'm super happy with it and hope you like it although I don't think the photos do it justice - it's not easy to photograph a mirror!  Don't forget to leave a comment here or on my Facebook page as I'm always interested to hear what you think.  Thanks for coming by.