Showing posts with label salt dough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salt dough. Show all posts

Friday, January 30, 2015

Hearts, White Roses, Transferware & Ironstone

I made this little vignette to use as a centerpiece for Valentine's Day. Our, cast iron, terrarium gets a lot of use all throughout the year and I never tire of using it for seasonal displays.

For now it's sitting on our kitchen counter.

A vintage, ironstone creamer holds faux, ivory roses on top of a stack of red transferware saucers and a remnant of red and white striped fabric. The sweet, little heart was a gift from a dear friend!

I hope to find real miniature, white roses to re-place the silk ones that I used here. I would always prefer real over silk. However, sometimes it's inconvenient to shop for them, or too wasteful to spend the money or they just can't be found.

I made the salt dough hearts and scripted ribbon last Valentine's Day. I made some really cute things with the hearts.
 You can find them here 


 I love them plain and simple just hung from white twine, too.

Not too fancy....just a plain and simple touch.

I love the way the roses formed a little roof on top.

I had to show you the addition to our country cupboard.

The woven tote is a birthday gift that I'm using to hold the white ranunculas (yup, they're faux, too)

I'll be using it as my tote for the pool and beach real soon!
Thanks to my thoughtful mother in-law...she's a sweet, 91 year old, who never forgets!!!
 Love, Hugs and Kisses,
JP
and Gucci, too!

   


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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Salt Dough Hearts and a Valentine Vignette in a Terrarium

The day to celebrate romance is getting near and it was time to play around with hearts. 
Salt dough Valentine's with words of love to hang and display became my creations with an added touch of glitz.

The assortment of hearts then became my props to display for this post and now off to the shop they will go!

A mix of accents create romance and glam, with paper lace, rhinestone hearts and fluffy, little feathers.

The dough was stamped and the holes were made prior to their baking,

The words were selected hoping to sell some as a pair :)

These are especially dear to my heart....a "Savage Garden" hit from 1997!

And who can resist these favorite expressions of the heart?

or these?

Here they are on display in our kitchen's bay window....just for my "shoot" of the day.

I'm keeping winter in the house through Valentine's Day, this year.

I love my precious, little snowmen and I'm not ready to put them away!




I love using our terrarium for so many different vignettes and seasonal displays.

The little love birds were our very first ornaments that we purchased together.

Last year's Terrarium of Love can be seen here...if you have the time ;)

Vintage hearts from my collection...a rhinestone pin and foil wrapped chocolate add a little "candy for the eyes!"

Love~Love~Love


I need to make one more with...."intimacy"...when two become one.
It's my all time sentimental favorite!!!
Monday will be a day of pillows....hearts of course! Ones that I've been wanting to do for over a year now...I'm gonna have to keep one of them, too!

  Love, Hugs and Kisses,
JP
and Gucci, too!

 To see more of my holiday inspirations you can check out my November & December 2013 and 2012 archives that can be found the left of this page!

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