St. Patty's day shelf display

I just wanted to post my most recent holiday shelf decor.  I copied all of the ideas from landeeseelandeedo.com.  I figure, I can either spend my time thinking of cute things to do and not have time to do them, or see something I like already done so I can just spend my time actually doing it.  Obviously, I choose the latter 99% of the time.  Thinking up cute things takes so much time and brain power!  I feel like I don't have enough to spare, LOL.  It is much easier for me to copy someone else's good idea.  (isn't that why they share it, anyway?)  Anyway, I have enjoyed having it up and will enjoy changing it into something Easter-y tomorrow.  Or sometime soon.  

I copied these particular ideas because I love how they all show how much I love my family.  I don't really believe it's "luck" that we have each other, but it's just cute for the holiday, ya know?  The signs say "you are my pot of gold", "lucky us", and "lucky I'm in love with my best friend".  So fun!

Here are the shelves more in context with the kitchen.  You can see my command center I have created

on the side of my cabinets.  This is our main family calendar (I LIVE by this thing) and my in-boxes that hold bills, coupons, ads~all kinds of papers.  This helps keep my counter and table clear from paper clutter and I know where to look for things.  Once a month or so I file papers I need to keep into our big filing cabinet.

I like how this display turned out very simple but festive.  The only things I bought for it was the two metal pails from the Target dollar spot and the printables. (I always print mine out at Costco because it is the cheapest place)  Hope your day was cheery and fun!  (we didn't even have any green food this year!!)  

Lately...

I have been bit by the crafting bug.  The spray paint has come out several times.  Even the sewing machine has come out. 
Here are my latest creations:

We have been just using the plain clear-ish liner for the past month, because my old curtain totally clashed with the paint in this bathroom.  So I took the clashy curtain down and we lived with the ugly old liner instead.  Much better, right? (not really) I had pinned some cute ruffly curtains, and finally just broke down and made what I wanted.  I bought two white twin flat sheets at IKEA, and then realized I needed a third one.  So I got one from Walmart, but it was totally different that the IKEA ones.  So I decided to use the Wally one for the actual curtain and the IKEA ones for the ruffles. 
It came out exactly as I had hoped!  I haven't trimmed most of the threads yet, but it is up anyway and they probably will never get trimmed.  But it's so lovely!  Ruffly loveliness. 
It inspired some new towels and a rug (since we didn't have one).  I tried gray, but to my surprise and dismay it did not work in there.  So I went for the yellow, and like it!  Cute and happy.

The rod was also nasty, so it got a spray job.  It was brushed nickel and all rusty.  It has a great shape, but needed a new finish.  I just installed the oil rubbed bronze towel rods a couple weeks ago, so went with an bronze spray paint to match.  I LOVE it!  (and spray painting is just so FUN!)  Looks great now!

Here is my other latest project.  I have had one shelf that I made a couple years ago, and was inspired by The House Of Smiths blog to make another shelf so I could make an arrangement like this:

I had the perfect spot for them in my kitchen.  Well, just so happens I found some corbels at Goodwill a month or so ago, so I got them to use with a board I had lying around.  Put them together and made a shelf.  There were a couple little hitches, like the corbels didn't have any hangers on them.  I searched my tool box and found a couple hangers and made them work.  Then I decided to put some trim on the shelf to match the first one I made, and then painted them both Rustoleum's white gloss.  LOVE that Rustoleum 2X spray paint. 

Here they are, hanging in my kitchen, just like I wanted them to!



I will post more pics of the kitchen soon.

All decked out for Valentine's Day!  This is going to be my holiday decor area, I have decided.  For these "little" holidays where I don't need to deck out the whole house, this is just enough decor to make me and the family happy.  We all love it. 
I have to be honest and say that hanging that bottom shelf (the newest one) was a comedy of errors that was NOT funny.  I have never screwed up a project like that before.  And it didn't end up perfectly lined up under the first shelf like I planned, either.  Oh well.  Suffice it to say, I am happy that all the holes in the wall are hidden by the shelf now.  :)  I am hoping it doesn't come crashing down--time will tell.  (I don't think it will, but with the grief this thing gave me I wouldn't be totally shocked if it did)
Anyhoo, I am going to call the shelves a big winner, because they look great and I like them.

I think my crafty bug is satisfied for the moment.  We (Sweet G and I) also arranged her room and gave several mirrors and picture frames a makeover for a sweet wall display.  It is coming out AWESOME!  Her room Teeny Bopper's room are coming along nicely.   Pics to come soon...

Our V-Day

We started the day with some heart pancakes and a sweetheart smoothie:

Here's my sweetheart with his smoothie:

I gave my kids a "love-ly" lunch; a ham and cheese melt in tortillas cut into a heart shape:

I didn't get pics of dinner, but we had stuffed pasta shells, salad, garlic bread, and Martinelli's to make it all so fancy.  ;)   For dessert we had honey brownies.  Have I mentioned Teeny Bopper hasn't had ANY sugar all YEAR??  She is a rock.
The great food was my gift to my family but DH did get me a beautiful bouquet of flowers:

Twas a lovely "love" day!