Curtains (Valentine's Day!)

Hi!

Happy Valentine's Day!  Here are the few decorations I put up.

I made a garland from our old red couch material.  It alternates red and white (the front and back of the material).  I cut out the letters and sewed them together on the sewing machine last year. I'd forgotten about it!  DD also put up some window gels!

Here's another craft (I think from Martha Stewart). I cut out a heart from an old map, then used an exacto knife to cut out a bunch of hearts on the inside of the big heart, leaving the sides, tops and bottoms attached.

  

When you lift it up, it has hearts on the inside.  It's supposed to be a card, but I just left it as a decoration.

I also made more map hearts.

Last year, I had them hung up as a garland I think in the back room/bedroom by our dresser mirror. This year I just put them on the secretary.

From the side they look like hearts!

Finally, we have some hearts the kids did last year.  (Can you see what I'm watching? Covert Affairs on Netflix. :-))

So, I actually did a little house project this week.  I finally put up DD's curtain on her front window.

I also fixed the curtain for her closet nook. I used iron-on hem tape to hem it since I think the sewing machine isn't working.  A while back we kept smelling a burning rubber smell and couldn't figure out what it was.  It turns out the foot pedal on the sewing machine had gotten squished and it was going as if it was sewing! I'd kept the machine plugged in because it was easier, but I never thought that would happen.  Actually, it had been acting funny before that, and I haven't tried it out so maybe it's ok.  Anyway, it was just easier to use the hem tape for this project.

 I also painted the thin rod and hung it up with ribbon and hooks.

Here's how it used to look.

Have a great weekend! :-)