Celebrate, Celebrate, Celebrate > Sweet Valentines Day Decor

Are you one of those people that the second the Christmas decor is back in the garage, your house is shellacked in Valentine's red, pink, and white?

I'm a little late in the game this year but I decided to shoot for a fabulous, last minute finish, in the Valentine's day decor department:

I used my Halloween tree because I love it so much, and let's face it- it's too cool to be in a box; and I strung it with a fringed crepe paper garland. You all know how I love feathers, so I put some white ones in clear heart ornaments that I got from Hobby Lobby. Then I added in the sweet little Valentine's Day Banner that Laurie Glossy had made from paint chip samples; and a recycled book page garland that she had given me. (Okay I admit - I stole it. But my tree needed it!) The finishing touch was a sweet little pink sparrow that I roosted in the top of the tree.

I also found this adorable wood rosette wreath that I scored on clearance for only $6!

It looks just as fabulous as the price, hung over my mirror. Better late than never right?

 Have some photos of your own fabulous Valentine's day decor? Send us a pic! We would love to see it!

~Angela

Celebrate, Celebrate, Celebrate > Ruffled Crepe Paper Streamers

I am in love with these ruffled crepe paper streamers.  In the last month I've used them several times and I'm pretty sure I'm not finished yet.  Can you say "OBSESSED!!"  I learned how to do this at MADE, and her tutorial is the fastest, easiest way to make ruffled crepe paper streamers, the woman is a genius.   
I've used the streamers to decorate, made party hats for Mikey's Birthday Party Banner and also used it for the Treats Banner.

HMMM - I'm thinking Halloween Streamers.  -Laurie

Celebrate, Celebrate, Celebrate > A True Labor Day

Meet my son Mike, AKA "2Wicked". 

Today is his birthday - so 25 years ago it truly was "labor day" for me.  In honor of his 25 years, I made a banner of Mikey through the years.  The biggest challenge is that Mike is the 3rd child, you know what that means, he raised himself  he was a little left out of the photos.  The first child you take 1000 photos the first year (I think I had 1000 the first month) and 500 each year after, the 2nd child gets 500 photos the first year and 350 each year after, the 3rd child gets - well lets just say it might look like we adopted him when he was three and then he didn't live with us from the ages of 13 through 16.  And then he lived with us but we had our first grandson and thank goodness that we took a thousand pics of the new grandbaby because Mike was in some of those.  So if you're reading this and about to have your 3rd child - take note because at some point that 3rd child will notice that you are a little thin on pics of them.  After finding a respectable number of pictures, scanning them (remember film - without a choice of a digital copy), resizing, printing, cutting out and putting on the party hat, this is what it looked like made into a banner and hung across the gazebo.  

It was fun for everyone to see him at different stages of his life and fun for the grandkids to see him when he was their age.

Happy Labor Day!   -Laurie