SPD: Love on the Wall

Phew, I am glad we have made it to Thursday.
Yesterday was a doozy and I wasn't sure it would ever end.
Someone please tell me there was a full moon.  That is the ONLY possible explanation.

Anyhoooo, on to some crafting and Valentines details around our house!

First off, I love love LOVE our house.

It's our first house, our first official taste of grown up life and it's our space.

I love decorating and changing up our house (obviously considering my profession) and am always looking for ways to improve it or spice things up.

Also because of my profession, I get designer antsy and can't keep anything the same for too long.

What I don't love about our house is that we don't have a mantle upstairs.

(FYI - Our home is bi-level and we do 90% of our living upstairs and the entire space is open.  We do have a mantel downstairs but it's in a really weird spot and just not where we spend a lot of time.)

I dreammmm of decorating and changing out a mantel every season and throughout the year.

Dream of it, people.

Christmas time is the worst...everyone has the MOST adorable mantels all over blogland and I just have a big ol wall.

Granted, I love my big ol wall and my frames but she doesn't have a mantel on her

(or really a good way to install a faux one).

SO to curb my mantel sadness, I've been DIYing and decorating our frame wall more to soothe my mantel needs.

I started back in the fall with this garland

and now for Valentine's Day I've added a few 'love' touches.

 Please welcome my fabric scrap heart wreath and cute Valentine's printables to the wall!

I whipped up the wreath in less time than it took to watch an episode of New Girl.

To make the wreath, I just cut strips of extra pink and red fabric scraps I had (perk of the job, always have fabrics around) and tied them onto a (pink) wire hanger shaped into a heart.

I then used a piece of ribbon and hot glue to attach the wreath to a frame.

These simple touches are a few items I had mentioned I wanted to whip up for Valentine's Day a few SPDs ago here.  

(Original wreath pin and inspiration from here)

 And I downloaded the printables from here and here.

And! As you can tell, I painted our frames recently! I really like the way they turned out and have been enjoying the contrast of the blue against the brown wall.

Linking up with the ladies: Katie and Steph!

P.s. I am participating in a HUGE giveaway going on over at Pink on the Cheek to celebrate Lauren reaching 1,000 followers!! GO enter! I'm telling you it's massive and awesome!!