February is Fast Approaching - Decorate with Me

 Hi Friends,

February is fast approaching and I need to get some of my February décor put up.  This year I 'm keeping my Winter Décor up. I like the cozy warm feeling with my 'Winter Décor.'

The Den

 I brought out some of my years past February DIY's.   Here in the den, I just stuck these felt hearts I made a few years back, into a hurricane cloche along with the pinecones setting in a tobacco box I had out for my 'Winter Décor.'

The Spanish moss wreath added a nice touch to the red shelves along with the red wooden-bead charm.  

I placed white snowflake around to bring in the snowy cozy winter day on the red shelves where I display a couple of vintage cigar boxes. 

This year I tried to distress the edges of the DIY conversation hearts to tone the white down some. 

 I don't think it turned out to bad.  I definitely need some practice using the distressing technique

 

Another conversation heart I distressed a little

Another wooden heart I added a little distress ink hoping to age it a bit to tone down the stark white I was seeing.

On the hutch 

I added some of my favorite DIY's from the past. I also like using chalk boards here and there throughout my home for all seasons.

On the Mantel

Thank you for stopping by to see some of my Valentine vignettes, stop by next week to see more.

May God Bless you and Your Family.

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Primitive Farmhouse DIY Felt Crows

 

Hi Friends,

Today, I'm going to try my hand at constructing a felt crow to add to my late summer décor.

I of course went to Pinterest and found a couple of free patterns and then just kind of made my own.

This is how my crow turned out with this pattern from Crow/Raven Pattern @ Silver Ravenwolf 2013. Minus the wings, because I'm thinking real feather or felt?  not sure yet.

Another felt raven pattern I found was by my3monster.com that had great instructions

This is how they turned out

I used some wire I had  to make feet for both the crows.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope I gave you some inspiration to give a new project a try.

So until next time....

My God Bless You and Your Family

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Very Easy DIY Checked Black and White Homespun Country/Primitive Garland

 Hi Friends,

I've started another project using fabric and yarn to make this very easy homespun Country/Primitive garland.

I bought 2 yards of checked black and white fabric from my local Quilter's shop.

I cut 1 inch strips about six inches long from the fabric

I measure the width of the mantel to get the length of garland I would need to drape my mantel.  Using white yarn from my craft stash, I started tying the strips of fabric on to the white yarn.

I ended up making two garlands one for the mantel and one for the Livingroom hutch. 

This country farmhouse homespun garland will add a nice touch to all of my seasonal décor, this year.

Thanks for stopping by to checkout this very easy homespun Country/Primitive garland project.

Until the next project.  

God Bless you, 

Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Farmhouse Vignette using Felt Shamrocks

Hi Friends,

Today I decided to make a green felt shamrock garland for one of my little shelf.  I always have felt on hand to craft with so, I made a template from light weight cardboard, that I thought would be the right size and traced out shamrocks from the green felt and cut them out.  For a little  dimension I attached little white hearts on the petals of the clover.

 Once the shamrocks were glued and dry I added a little glitter glue around the little white hearts.

Then I glued the stems to petals to attach the shamrocks

I also put some of the shamrocks on a pipe cleaner as a stem.

Simple project, cutting out all the shamrocks took a bit of time

Fairly easy project , I think the shamrock turned out nice and added a bit of color to my March décor 

Thank you for stopping by to see what I have been doing. So until the next project, take care and God Bless you and your family.

Vicki a Colorado Junkett