Here in North Carolina people panic when there is a forecast of snow. Yesterday when it started to snow I decided just to stay inside like a native Southerner. I made some soup and some brownies and got some extra firewood ready to “ride out the storm” and I decided to do a little project.
Valentines Day is approaching. I don’t decorate for Valentines day, but I love hearts, so this is sort of a Valentine’s Day post.
I have always loved the shape of a heart. I also like buttons and always buy some if I find them at garage sales. I have lots of button ideas on my Pinterest pages and this idea for the button heart came from there.
I had a photo in this lovely frame. So I removed the glass and covered the cardboard back with some pinstripe fabric that came from an old sheet. I just taped it on the back. Then I lightly painted the frame with Annie Sloan pure white, leaving some of the original color to show through
I drew the shape of a heart on a piece of white paper and then hot glued the buttons on it. When I finished I glued the heart to the pinstripe back. There are so many online instructions for this that I’m not going to give you a step by step tutorial. You can google it 
Here is the finished button heart. At first I was going to put it on the mantle in our living room. It looked good there.
But as I usually do when I have something new, I walked around the house trying it in different places.
I decided I liked it best on the desk beside my bed, next to the little cherub which was already there. As I am writing this, I just realized that without even thinking I just made a Valentines Day vignette: hearts and cherubs!
I am always on the lookout for heart shape stones and I put the few I have in a dish in front of the heart.
Here is a close up. if you ever see a heart shaped stone and don’t want it, send it to me
My daughter and I have done several button initials as gifts. They are so easy once you get the hang of it and are great for personalized baby shower gifts, or a gift for the bride. She did for me one Christmas and I have it hanging on my gallery wall in the TV room.
Speaking of the TV rom, do you remember the button heart garland I showed you that was on the winter mantle in our TV room? Now that I had my little button heart in the bedroom, I decided to bring it in there.
I randomly draped it over the plates on the wall. I think every room in our house has plates on the wall Maybe it looks a little corny but I like it for now. It adds some whimsy to the room.
Because it’s white, my button heart isn’t just for Valentines Day. It can stay around all year. And we all need LOVE all year long, not just at Valentines Day.
**As I have been writing this post, it has started to snow again and they say so we are in for a bad storm again. Good thing I’ve got some bread ready to put in the oven and some homemade soup for lunch.
Rhondi xo
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