Welcome!

Thank you for taking the time to join me as I begin chronicling my journey.  My life is not a field of poppies but who's is and if it were I probably wouldn't appreciate them as much as I should.

My husband encouraged me to start this blog several months ago.  He thought it would be good for me to keep up with projects and maybe even sharing experiences would be somewhat therapeutic for me.  I decided that a new year was the perfect time to begin so here we are.

With Christmas decorations put away the house seems somewhat bare.  I wasn't happy with the emptiness and the feeling it gave me so I turned to Pinterest.   The next big holiday is Valentine's Day so I decided to get a head start.  Generally, I'm very good at pinning things on Pinterest but I usually don't get around to actually doing them, especially the crafts.  In fact, decorating is something that is just not my gift at all.  My sister usually has to help me out in this area.

I'm actually pretty proud of the decorations I've completed so far.  I started with a decoration using wooden hearts.  You can find it here.  It leads to a link where you can actually purchase it but to be honest, I never got that far and thinking it was just a craft idea, I made it myself.  I purchased the hearts from A.C. Moore for about $1.79 each, I think.  I bought some red acrylic paint and used white paint I already had at home.  I bought the red with white polka dot ribbon at Walmart for $1.99. I painted the hearts and once they dried I used this technique to write our names on them. Instead of paint I used a black sharpie.  I hot glued the hearts onto the ribbon and my fabulous hubby placed hooks on the first and third hearts to anchor them to the wall.

My next attempt took a bit longer to complete.  I loved these tissue roses so I went out and purchased styrofoam balls and red, white and pink crepe paper.  I followed the tutorial here and got started.  My roses turned out a bit tighter and not as full as the ones in the video but I still like them.  I'm going to show you a picture of the two I've done so far but this is not how I plan to set them out so no judging my poor decorating skills.

So there it is.  My first post on my new blog.  I'm looking forward to sharing many more times with you.  Thank you for visiting and please come again.  I love feedback but please keep it clean and positive.