Valentines in the Sun Room

Oh how I love Valentine's Day.

My mother always made each of the holidays quite special.

Valentine's Day was certainly on the top of the list of days she

worked so hard at making fabulous for us.

As I married and had children, I too made holidays special.

Breakfast was the first thing that was different.

Pink pancakes!  

Mom always did this for us, and so I too cooked pink pancakes

for my children.  It was always a favorite.

We have recently added on a sun room to the back of our house.

It really has become the favorite room.  Even in the winter

you can sit on the couch and look out over the yard, in the warmth

of the house and enjoy the winter, and of course in the

summer, spring, and fall it is quite our favorite room as well.

I decided to decorate the sun room for Valentine's Day this year.

The rest of the house still has winter snowflakes, polar bears 

and white everything, and I wanted to have it stay this way

for the winter.  White on white.

But the sun room can bring me smiles of joy and love.

Valentine's day.

When we added the sun room, we just added right on to the outside of our

house, so in this room, there are windows and the outside of the

main house as 2 of the walls.  The other 2 outside walls are panels

of glass that give the view of the back yard with french doors 

that open up to the back yard.  

We added furniture, some of the furniture is from my garden

like the lounge chairs.  They have red floral pillows (Ralph Lauren)

and black and white pillows, with a grey stripe throw over the top of the 

padding.  Then a pink tablecloth is thrown across the top for the

pink Valentines look.

The table is covered in a red and pink, two separate table cloths, on top of

the other, and then my fun Valentines items on top.

Our walls in this room are very distressed, and for the most part I will leave

them that way, I may fix a few spots.  

I have a darling silver tea set on the table! 

Remember, I love silver!

On the shudder I added a piece of wood Dana found for me in the forest one 

day with a heart in it.  I have saved it for many, many years, and still to this day

love it.  I will probably keep it here all year now.  It has been in the laundry

room, and just now graduated to the sun room.

Sometimes when we buy things we wonder what will we ever do with it.

That is the cute winter lady on the shelf.  She just represents 

Valentine's day for me.  She wears a coat with hat and gloves, which

for me, this is February!  This year most mornings are at 4-6 degrees Fahrenheit

and just 2 days ago 0!

I still to this day don't remember where I got these cherubs,

but I really love them.

I made this cute heart with Robin's Nest products and dew drops.

I just pack it away and bring it out every year.  So Fun!

I made this banner this year for all my grandchildren's pictures.

I'm still missing a few kids, but I love having it up,

they are my valentines.

I also made this Love banner years ago with Robin's Nest

products.  I still love it! 

And used it on the window this year.

One day I will post our couch and what it looked like when we started.

Such a good find, and such a beautiful couch!

The box in front of the table was mine in high school.  It just recently became

mine again after mom and dad passed away.  

I sure fits the decor of this room.  Casual elegance.

Well there you have it! 

The sun room at a glance with Valentines all over.

There is a table set for a quaint brunch on the other side of the room.

I will post that in a few days.

Happy decorating!

Robin

Christmas Medallion

Hello!

on this Thanksgiving Weekend.

We are on the Robin's Nest Christmas Blog Hop.

So I am using the Black and White Christmas line
for my Medallion today.

I started with the Snow Covered Trees CS
I comes in glittered or non glittered



Cut the cardstock into 4 6x6 pieces.
Then I made a cone and stapled this in the back.

To look like this.

I then dipped the open pointed edge into gorilla glue.

It was the only glue my dad had at his house.

I wasn't sure about it, but wanted to get the project done,

so used it.  But.... I got this clumpy look from the gorilla glue that

I would not have gotten from just elmers glue.

Then I stapled two together like this.

Then the whole circle together.

I cut 3 circles from 3 cardstocks.

Red Glitter Classic Swirl CS

Snow Covered Trees CS

gold glitter chipboard comes in 6x6

I cut a rosette on my Cricut from

White Glitter Classic Swirl 

and glued it onto the Gold Glitter chipboard.

Then on the top I cut "Peace on Earth" from the

Christmas Words Glitter CS

I glued it on like a ribbon.

On the outside edge of the Red Classic Swirl

I glued Red Metallic Dew Drops.

Then I glued Red Tear Drops around the edge of the 

Gold Glitter Chipbard.

Around the Snowy Covered Trees I glued

White Diamond Drops

Then on each of the cones I glued one
Red Metallic Dew Drop

I am thinking that I will put this
on the top of Dad's Christmas tree.

He gave away all the Christmas stuff that mom had collected
over the years to family members.
I will later show our "newly decorated tree"
It will be fun, and this year my
goal is to bring Christ into our Christmas a little more.

So..
Happy decorating this week-end!
This only took me one evening, and the night to dry,
then staple it all together.

Merry Christmas!

Robin

Thanksgiving Pennant Banner

Today I am sharing with you the fireplace at my Dad's house.

Dana and I are staying with my dad right now, 

he is in his 80's and needs some company, and help,

so we spend alot of our extra time at his house.

Last year Rachel was part of a group who shared their scrapbook

talents.  They made banners, books, and journaling tags.

She gave me the letters to the words Be Thankful,

each person on the trade made one letter, so each letter is 

different.

I wanted to pull them all together to make a banner.

Here is what I finished just this week.

The fireplace has a beautiful cement surround,

I added the bunting banner, with each letter adhered to

its own bunting flag.

These were made from Brown Chipboard and

Honeycomb daisy/stripe.

One of my favorite colors,

I maybe should have chosen a brighter orange

color for the bunting flags, but

alas, it is to late for that!

Here they are cut out. 

I used my cricut to cut these out.

This is how Rachel gave them to me.

She did the "F", She used the Leaf glitter CS,

Brown and Red Glitter Chipboard leaves

and orange dew drops.

Here is a close up of the bunting hanging in front of the fireplace.

Again the hanging effect.

The autumn trees framed picture I painted

 years ago.  It's a watercolor.

It is such a fun look. 

I put a eyelet in each top corner of the bunting

and used gold ribbon to thread them together.

On the ends is just the brown chipboard.

This is fun way to get your candles to be on different levels.

I used goblets to sit them on,

I also added my home grown white pumpkins.

I was only successful in growing 2 orange mini pumpkins.

These are Rachel's pumpkins she grew in her garden.

The orange and large white one.

So cute here!

I am totally in love with princess pumpkins.

That was what I grew last year, but alas, none this

year I had to purchase this one.

 Here are close ups of all the letters.

I distressed each bunting with brown ink.

And now again, the

finished fireplace.

This is such a fun way to celebrate

Thanksgiving!

Have a great week!

You can purchase these papers on our website.

www.robinsnest-scrap.com

Ciao,

Robi