Valentine Candy Home Decor

 Valentine's Day is just around the corner so I thought I would celebrate with some sweet and yummy home decor.

 Winco Foods sent me a $10 gift certificate in the mail so I bought the candy with that little freebie.  Love a good deal!

 Conversation Hearts, Valentine's Day M&M's, and Red Hots.  I used Mason jars I already had on hand.  The carafe and cake plate are from Hobby Lobby and the apothecary jar is from The Quilted Bear in Salt Lake City, Utah.

My husband thinks I have set up my own little candy store right in our living room.  He has been so good and not eaten any of my display until I could get the pictures taken.  Now he gets to dig in to this little stash.  Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy New Year 2013

 Sorry this post is a day or two late.  I decided I wanted to decorate for the month of January so I decided to take out all of my red ornaments and just leave my silver ornaments in my lamp.

 I already had all of these Christmas tree decorations handy since I didn't put up my tree this year.

 Took the red balls out and left the silver balls here.

 I thought gold would be a good color for January too.

And I filled my apothecary jar with ice crystal garland.  It has been frigid COLD here so I decided to bring some of that ice theme inside.  Hope everyone had a fun and safe New Year. Clark and I actually got to break away from our busy schedules again and went to see the movie "Lincoln".  My hubby is a huge history buff so this was one of his Christmas presents.

I love apothecary jars

This is an apothecary jar I found at the Quilted Bear. I did two variations with what I put inside.

In this one I used crushed sea shells that you can find in most craft stores. The bigger sea shells came from the actual beach in San Diego but craft stores also sell the larger shells and starfish.

With this one I used mung beans. These also come in a bag at your local craft store. And of course the same sea shells.

I then created the bow from instructions in one of my floral arranging books. It was very simple.

This is my favorite way to browse apothecary jars, glass canisters, and other stunning vases from Pottery Barn. They were the inspiration for my own little creation above.