New Love Mantle!

This past week at school was packed full of sweet treats, parties, and fun!

My kids decorated their boxes as usual.

The craft the moms had them do was adorable. They made a love message in a bottle. They wrote a message on scrapbook paper and rolled it up inside the glass bottle. They could add in heart confetti and then they wrote on the outside.

Fruit kabobs! 

I loved the girls monogrammed valentine shirts.

Cute bird fabric!

Most of my decorations stayed the same this year BUT I was so excited to change up my mantle!

Kept my LOVE frames in the entry way with the pink runner.

Little love birds on the table.

Felt hand stitched hearts in a frame.

This might be one of my new favorite things in my kitchen. 

The "Happy Everything!" plate

It is huge and so cheerful.

It came with a birthday hat attachment. For Christmas my brother got me this envelope and the Easter Bunny....

They attach with velcro and you can switch them out for all kinds of occasions.

You can find this online or at Swoozie's.

Valentine's Day has obviously passed but my beautiful flowers from my sweet husband are still hanging out in the kitchen.

You can't go wrong with pink monogrammed towels! 

 This year I put my little love owls in the cut out in the living room.

Sugarboo painting above.

Pink pillows!

 Hand stitched note "p.s. ....i love you"

Here is the updated mantle. 

The felt and button banner stayed the same but almost everything else is new.

I knew I wanted something pink and tall in the pitcher but am not a fan of fake flowers at all.

I found these metal art flowers at Hobby Lobby and found the filler there as well.

The pink mercury glass was used for my SIL's baby shower and fit in perfectly!

 I knew I needed some kind of filler to have in random places on the mantle to fill up empty spaces. I made some stuffed hearts for another gift and ended up making a lot more to throw on the mantle.

Found this cute little pillow at Target this year and finished filling the bowl up with the fabric hearts.

 The X and O are my favorite part of the new mantle!

I bought the cardboard letters from JoAnn.

I used spray adhesive to attach the fabric to the front and sides of the letters. I went back and hot glued all the edges down.

When I saw this bird fabric at JoAnn I bought a yard and knew I had to use it for something!

I love that it has pink and hearts in it but doesn't scream Valentine and isn't cheesy.

I went with this other fabric for the X because I wanted the mantle colors to be pink and turquoise with a little bit of red.

Still loving my fabric owl that I ordered from Etsy years ago....

Picked this felt heart wreath up at Target this year.

I added the trim to all of the edges of the letters.

Loved this pom pom piping.

The little metal bird is just leaning up against the X.

I wanted the X to be on a different level than the O so I bought a white cake stand from Target and can now use it all year round!

I didn't spend much on this mantle and love how it turned out.

Too bad it is time to pack it all up.

I still have a couple more Valentine's Day highlights to show but will get to those another day!

Can't wait to post the gifts I was given this year.