Valentine Mantel 2014..

Last year I wanted my Valentine Mantel to be completely neutral and calm.

You can take a look at it here.

This year,  I still wanted to keep it simple, but with a pop of red.

So, I simply spray painted my wooden X and O with the same red spray paint I used on my lamps.

You can see in the photo above that I also spray painted a frame the same red 

and hung a heart shaped grapevine wreath inside.

(That was before my cow painting was done.  Now "Bonnie" hangs above my old blue dresser.)

These galvanized tin hearts were IKEA Christmas ornaments I got in 2012.

I love that I can use them more than once a year!

I'm loving my preserved boxwood topiaries!

These exact same ones can be found at Homegoods for $30 each,

but my Safeway store had them on a shelf of closeout stuff in the floral department

 for a fraction of the price.

Score!

They had some blue gingham type ribbon on them when I bought them.

 I put this nicer grain sack style ribbon with the red stripes around them instead.

So, a pop of red or totally neutral ~

what do you prefer?

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