St. Patrick's Day Victorian Clipart Project

Hope everyone had a nice

Valentine's Day!

Now onto the March holidays

and hopefully some

warmer weather.

 This weekend I had a chance to 

search The Graphics Fairy

site for some Victorian

St. Patrick's Day 

clipart.

 If you have never visited her site

you should plan to stop by

she has such an archive of 

images and graphics.

 I really don't do much for

St. Patrick's Day in the way of decorating.

 This weekend I was thinking

about what I would setup

and decided just

a tray and a few

decorations on the bar.

 I think these adoreable Irish

will make a nice addition

to my picture wreath.

I will share the finished project

with you so, but wanted

to share the images today

in case you had a few projects in mind.

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Valentines February Tray

Last month I shared my

January tray, 

which was a lot of fun and

sat out at my bar area for most of the month.

Today I'm sharing my 

February Tray, 

which is just in the nick of time

before Valentine's Day

this weekend!

 I recently saw this croco embossed

black tray on sale at One Kings Lane

and thought it would be perfect 

for my tray nights.

 I started with square black border plates

and added red heart love napkins

along with these adorable black

lab heart cocktail napkins.

 Two little heart candles are up in the corner.

and red and white striped flatware

matches great with the cocktail napkins.

Tonight I'm watching Suffragette

while the hubby is out enjoying his 

boys night.

I love all of the actors so I hope it's good!

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Valentine's Day China Cabinet Displays 2016

Thanks for stopping by to visit today.

Last week I shared with you

some Valentine's Day 

China Cabinet ideas.

Today I'm sharing

this year's decorated

China Cabinet at home

and at the booth.

 This year at home I used blue and white

in combination with reds and pinks.

 Pink plastic heart plates from Target

were light weight enough to display between

the back row of dinner plates

and the stack of saucers and bowls.

 I used more of the Cavallini postcards from my
February table inside the cabinet.
I like that they are paper therefore they are lightweight
but they are card stock so they are able to stand up on their own.

Next we visit my black and red china cabinet

at the booth over at 

The Red Scooter Antique Mall.

It was perfect for Valentine's day

especially since this display has 

gone to dogs, with black lab

tea towels and cocktail napkins.

I couldn't resist the Bee Mine towels

since I love, love, love bees!

I think the modern stripe and heart napkins

mix well with the milk glass

vintage collectibles.

 A few chalkboard bud vases and some burlap

gift bags join the display.

Finally, I added the Bless your Heart sign
on the door
and some chalk board
dessert plates and napkins below.
I hope you and yours have
a wonderful Valentine's Day!

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Valentines Day Table

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Today I'm sharing by February table,

with a not so subtle Valentine's Day theme.

 

 Starting with this heart & check tablecloth

I mixed in my blue and white plates, heart shaped bowls,

vintage ruby goblets, pink depression juice glasses

and clear flatware.

 I used clear flatware so you could see the detail

of the napkins -Xs and Os

(I am singing Elle King's song now)

 

 To mix it up I put some velvet & glitter hearts

in the heart bowls along with a Victorian Postcard

because no one can have enough velvet, glitter

and hearts around Valentine's Day right?

Here's a better close up of the glasses.

I began adding in touches of pink after first

setting up the table because it

looked a little red, white and blue to me.

 

 Which led me to using my cherry blossoms as the centerpiece.

I like the height it gave the table, but it made it hard

to photograph without getting too much

noise in the picture (dining room chairs).

Around the branches I hung my clipart from this post

and various blown glass heart ornaments.

I hope you enjoyed this table setting.

Here's my sources:

Tablecloth Kohls online

Flatware Walgreens years ago

Blue & White plates Meijers years ago

Heart bowls and heart scatter Dollar Tree

Postcards in bowls Cavallini on Amazon

Napkins-my booth at Red Scooter Antiques

Vintage Glassware -my booth at Red Scooter Antiques

Vase Walmart years ago

Cherry Branches Michaels Crafts

Ornaments Current Catalog

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Valentines China Cabinets

I showed you my 2015 china cabinet 

decorated for Valentine's day

in this post.

But this year I wanted to change it up a bit.

I searched google images to find

some inspiration.

I love this black hutch

from Lookiewhatidid

literally spelled with L O V E!

Domestic Fashionista did a fabulous job

with this white cabinet with the sweet banner!

And for all seasonal china cabinet/hutch

inspiration I turn to Jeanneselep.blogspot.com

She does her hutch seasonally

and it is always wonderful!

Very soon I will share with you my 

2016 Valentine China Cabinet!

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Blue & White January Tray

This year in addition to my

tablescapes I thought I would 

share a few tray ideas. 

I usually eat alone once a week

when my husband has

a "boys night out" with his

shooting club.

I look forward to these "girls night in"

as a time to eat "girl food" and watch my 

"girl tv shows".

Just the opposite of my January table,

this January tray is composed of 

paper products, easy for clean up

so I can sip my tea and 

watch Masterpiece Theater 

rather than stand in the kitchen doing dishes.

Caspari Seville pattern is perfect for

a cold January evening mixing two of my

favorites blue & white and lemon.

I added a few lemons in a blue and white bowl

to perk up the corner and go along with the 

lemon theme.

I just love that Caspari offers placecards

to match their paper sets.

This one is held in a lemon wedge 

glittered place card holder.

A bunch of hyacinth adds a hint

of Spring to my bar area.

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National Handwriting Day

Did you know that Saturday, January 23rd is 

National Handwriting Day?

"January 23rd, 2016 marks the 39th anniversary of National Handwriting Day.  Established in 1977 on the birthday of perhaps one of America's most celebrated scribes, John Hancock known for his bold signature on the Declaration of Independence – National Handwriting Day was created to acknowledge the history and influence of penmanship.  The Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WIMA) sponsors National Handwriting Day offering insight and inspiration to honor the writing holiday." 

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Woman at Her Writing Desk
Warren B Davis
American Gallery

In order to celebrate the occasion I am sharing

with you a few of my favorite 

note card designers.

The Crane & Company 

bee notecard is my go to standard

for personal notes.

I also have a monogrammed set of ivory

crane notecards for business.

Anna Griffin also does a 

wonderful line of stationery.

These Imperial Notecards are beautiful

and come with lined envelopes.

LB Originals has a ton of cute

monogrammed notecards

along with lots of other stationery

on her Preppy Paper Girl Etsy site.

Emily McCarthy's multi cheetah

note cards are adorable.

The spot cheetah pattern

is a unique design created by

Ms. McCarthy.

The notecards can be found along

with many other

unique paper & entertaining products

in her shop on her website.

What's your favorite notecards 

& stationery products

these days?

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Valentines Day Victorian Clip Art

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I'm working on my Valentine's Day crafts.

This year I am using these Vintage Victorian

Postcards as ornaments similar to 

the Halloween Tree I did in 2013.

In addition to ornaments, they would make great

printouts to use on a non-floral centerpiece

as I posted this week.

Or to make your own

Valentine cards or scrapbook pages. . .

Or to make signs or posters . . .

And I am sure you can think of a bunch

of other uses too!

You can see my previous tree

on my Valentine China Cabinet post.

Hope you enjoy crafting with these

as much as I do! 

I will be back next week to share

my 2016 Valentine Tree.
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Non Floral Valentines Day Centerpiece

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This weekend I was researching online for a

non floral centerpiece for my

February Table.

The florist really jacks up the 

prices beginning the first week of 

February and many of us

don't want to spend twice the amount on flowers

we would normally.

To find these images and more google 

Valentines Day crafts

My favorites are using some kind of stick/branch

theme with paper decorations.

 This would be a great project to do with your 

kids or grandkids & a quick trip to the dollar store.

 I also liked this garland using paper

doilies and white strand lights.

Great over a doorway or down the middle of the table.

 Isn't this idea lovely with

pictures included along with paper hearts!

 Here it looks like they've used

sticks with paper hearts, simple but elegant too.

 If you don't have/want to forage thru your yard

for sticks and branches, or they are covered in snow

these block paper votives are a cute idea too.

Finally nothing beats love

spelled out down the middle of the table!

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