Valentine's Day - Our DIY Details

With Valentine's Day just around the corner..

I wanted to share some fun

and easy DIY Details that you can use to

decorate your home or a party!

Mini Powdered Sugar Donuts might have

been used as bribery for this photo shoot...

Here's a Summary of my DIY DETAILS.

I'll explain more on each throughout the post!

--Dollar Store Heart Doily Garland

--Dollar Store Heart Balloons

--'XO' Gold Spray Painted Letters

--2 IKEA Frames filled with Valentine's Day Themed Printables

--Thrift Store 'Donut Stand' Spray Painted Gold

--Gold Sparkly Heart Toppers

--Flower Crowns (Tutorial later this week!)

--Tulle Tutus

I found this cute little stand at good will one day..and knew it had potential!

I spray painted it gold (the metallic kind) and loaded it up with pretty little donuts!

The toppers were made from leftover gold sparkly card stock that I cut out with my heart craft punch(JoAnns) and taped to some candy sticks(JoAnns)

I made the GOLD 'XO' LETTERS using

Metallic Gold Spray Paint and Letters from JoAnns.

We used them on the table display but they could be cute as photo props!

I used a white IKEA storage box(from my office area) upside down

to give some height to my table. 

 I made up in Photoshop a couple VALENTINE'S DAY PRINTS

to put in frames as part of our Decorations!

The girls really loved this one with the cute little bumble bees. :)

You can get the Printable for yourself in my Etsy Shop.

I think they would be cute for your home decor but even for a valentine's day party!

Or printing up a bunch and framing as gifts... a fun little DIY you can use each year.

BE MINE PRINTABLE - $8 

   KEEP CALM and EAT CANDY PRINTABLE - $8

LOCATION: I took these photos in the corner of the Girls' Room...

moved their beds to the side. The Table and heart rugs are from IKEA.

OUTFITS: They are wearing basic white tops from Target...

and their Tulle Tutus I made them last year. (no sew SUPER easy.)

The girls were all about this super girly photo shoot.

It didn't take much convincing for them to participate

once I said tutus and donuts were involved...

DOILY HEART GARLAND

I grabbed 2 packs of heart doilies from the Dollar Store.

Took some Clothes pins I already had, painted one side with mod podge and dipped them in Gold Glitter from JoAnn's (bought big size and used coupon)

I used fishing line that I already had to string them up! For something even more sturdy you could use ribbon. We moved this garland to our mantle! :)

This is what happens when powdered sugar donuts are involved in photos...

Sugar high. ;) goofy girls.

Hope you found some inspiration in this post to make

your Valentine's Day extra special for your sweeties!

I am trying to help Sophia fulfill her new years resolution of "celebrate more"...

I thought that was a good resolution. ;)

I'll be sharing the Flower Crown Tutorial later this week!

or weekend...depending on life.

I seriously have been pooped/peed on every day this week

and our humongous laundry pile is proof of that.

Starting to decorate for Halloween...

It's starting to look like

Halloween at our House!

(Well...a cute, not so spooky, more fun and bright Halloween ;)

I have been adding little touches around the place..

still a few things I'm working on before bambino #3 makes it's appearance!

(like hanging those pictures above the fireplace...

it'll happen!.. eventually: that'll be it's own post!)

I'm not a fan of the mushy messy part of carving pumpkins...

so this year we painted pumpkins instead!

I made up a little garland for over the piano.. "peek a boo!"

and a little print to frame that says "keep calm and eat candy."

A little motivation for october days. :)

If you want to grab up the banner and sign printables..

I just added them to my shop!

"PEEK A BOO!" Banner - $5

Keep Calm and Eat Candy Print - $3

Here's some phone shots of the girls and

I painting one night after dinner!

They loved it. :) I like how they mixed together the paints I gave them 

(leftover pink, yellow and blue acrylic paints from their party)

and they ended up almost matching our wall color! ;)

I'm working on the mantel still..I have a bunch of leftover burlap I'm thinking of making another garland with and layer it up cute with the one I already made.

Nesting here..... ;)