Farmhouse Valentine Kitchen Decor

I wasn't quite ready but hubby took down Christmas and went straight to Valentine Kitchen Decor arranging. He took our little tree in the fresh eggs daily bucket and turned it into a Valentine tree.

From farmhouse Valentine decor and a little prim Valentine our kitchen is so cozy. As always full credit goes to the hubby as he does all our decorating.

Our Valentine Kitchen

Hubby left all the black and white enamel in the kitchen and added touches of red and hearts that will be the perfect January to February decor.

This little shelf has a place in my heart and holds our main kitchen display area.

This is my mom's old cheese grater and I love to display it. I think it makes a nice prim or vintage Valentine statement.

 A little rustic Christmas tree was tucked into our fresh eggs daily bucket. Some glass heart ornaments and other hearts add the finishing touches. The perfect farmhouse February decorating.

I can't wait to see what hubby has in store for spring.

Frugal Cheesy Noodle Mac and Valentine Decor

A favorite frugal meal idea. Cheesy noodle mac is a great make ahead meal and works great as a freezer meal idea.

Come by for a recipe, some Valentine's day decor and a visit from Tugg and Luna.

Valentine Cookies Recipe

Nothing says love more than heart shaped cookies and our Valentine cookies recipe is sure to be a hit.

If you are looking for a Valentine treat idea for your loves, these Valentine cut out cookies are perfect.

When you bake some Valentine cookies, you are saying I love you and my Mom's best sugar cookie cutout recipe is the perfect soft, not too sweet cookie that rolls out nice and firm. I like my Valentine cutouts nice and thick. Don't bake them too long just until slightly golden brown.

I always bake my cookies on parchment paper now. It just makes for the perfect even baking and the cookies never stick to the cookie sheet. So worth the cost and then you just toss and put your cookie sheets away with no washing.

These cookies hold up nicely and are ready for decorating those Valentine cookies with royal icing.
I like to use powdered sugar with milk and just a dash of vanilla. To me that is the perfect royal icing recipe.

Check out my tips on how to store cookie cutters.

Rustic Valentine's Day Decorations

As February is just around the corner I am gathering some rustic Valentine's day decorations to tuck here and there. I love to take down the Christmas but after a couple of weeks I am ready to decorate for the next holiday and am starting with some rustic Valentines day ideas.

Rustic old graters and galvanized buckets and watering can were brought into the kitchen to add some rustic decor.

Prim heart ornies are tucked into a bowl in our dry sink. I love their old feel and continue the rustic decor trend for Valentine's day.

We keep up our little winter tree and add red hearts to the red mittens for a Valentines tree idea. See our Valentines cookies recipe to bake up some Valentine treats.

Happy Valentines Day

Simple Valentine Decorating Ideas

Simple Valentine decorating ideas.

It is time for red and white and hearts. I love Valentine decor. I love red and white so I mix in items from around the house to dress up my small collection of Valentine decor. 

We always leave a Valentine tree up because I just cannot take all the Christmas trees down. One left for sparkle and Valentine's decor always finds a place. 

How about some red heart lights for out front. This says, "There is love in this house." Or at least some crazy people who decorate for every holiday.

Check out our Valentine cookies recipe to bake up some Valentine treats.

Valentine's Day Decor in the Kitchen

Sharing some Valentine Decor in the kitchen with you today. As soon as Christmas comes down, Valentines decor goes up. This little white vintage shelf in the kitchen helps keep things bright after we take down all the Christmas decor.

Sharing some Valentine Decor with you today. As soon as Christmas comes down, Valentines decor goes up. This little white vintage shelf in the kitchen helps keep things bright after we take down all the Christmas decor.

Don't you love my egg plate?? Gift from my friend Shelly with the cute house I always share.

Dollar Spot Valentine's Decor

In order to combat the post Christmas decor blues we always put some Valentine's Decor up right away. I love hearts. Don't you?

One of our little trees stays up with a switch to red decor. The lights and few baubles are old but this year we made a Valentine swag from felt hearts found in the Target dollar spot section. I say we as in I bought it brought it home and the lineman took over from there.

I don't know where I was but I stepped out and when I came back home the little tree was decorated and the trio heart swag was up and I told him what a good job. He dug out some Dollar Spot baker's twine in red and white from Christmas and strung the hearts up.

So there you go. A three dollar swag. Makes me happy.

Hearts

I think my favorite part of Valentine's day beside RED is all the hearts.

I have a love affair with them and that could be why I have several sets of heart shaped bowls. When I see them I have to buy them. I need to share them. I don't think I ever have.

Even the front room has some hearts.

Winter Red

I love red. After Christmas, the reds that remain, cheer me.

As the sun streams in, it says, "Hello morning."

Winter berries left in a crock .

Every few years I leave one of the small trees up for a couple extra months. I decided my winter woodland tree would be perfect.

Hearts that were bought our very first Christmas when we had a huge tree and no money to decorate it, will start to appear as we think of Valentine's.

Our Valentine's Day

 Do you see that hunk behind me there? He is so awesome. God I love him. Sorry I just do. I was out front taking pictures of my daughter getting ready to head out on a special date and he drove up. Some lovely flowers and Loft House cookies of course. I don't know what I am saying here but it was something good about the flowers. My kid was snapping pics.

They smelled so lovely.

My younger girl making her famous brownies for all her Valentines at church.

She wrapped each one so carefully and finished with a bow.

nd of course my baby opening up her card from daddy. He always gives the girls their cards as he is there first Valentine in life.

My daughter's friend asked why we weren't out for Valentine's day and we laughed. That is for the young we said. Fighting those crowds plus we were just both tired from a long but lovely day. We will be out of town this weekend and will celebrate with a dinner for two at our favorite restaurant on the central coast. Hope yours was filled with love and the simple joys of life.

Happy Valentine's to You!!

Love and hugs to all of you on this Valentine's Day.

You know I am a sentimental sap and just want you all to know how much I love my blogging friends.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO!!

Today is pretty much a normal day around here. Kids to school and piano lessons later and for dinner, BLT's and potato salad. Maybe something sweet for dessert but my rear does not need this. I have some goodies for the kids and hubby.

Happy Valentine's To Me

I was at our local garden center picking out some seeds and lovely chicken manure for my veggie garden and saw this sweet little metal pot. I placed it next to a pic of me and my original Valentine, my sweet momma.

I love me some galvanized metal so I caved and bought it for myself.

So nice to have some greenery inside. I hope it will be happy here.

We have this unruly rose in my backyard and this gardener did not cut it back this last year so look where it has climbed to.

Climbing, climbing...

Oh are we going to have a heck of a time getting it pruned out of my tree. My ornamental peach is just about to bloom so we will wait until it is done.

Simple Valentine's Decor

Simple Valentine's Decor

Late late afternoon, almost dinner making time and all my little lights I have on timers click on. I am just a sucker for the soft glow of little lamps and strings of lights.

A soft glow from the lights and fading light coming in from the windows. Daylights last reach indoors.

View peeking in from the front porch. I think our homes are like another member of the family. You grow to love them and they become a part of you. When we said goodbye to my parent's home of over 50 years, I just balled and felt like we lost another family member. I still miss it and the sounds and smells. The warmth and security I felt there. Ironing day, oh is there a better smell and my dad barbecuing on the weekends. It was a wonderful simple house that I hold very dear in my heart.

My husband teases the kids if they don't get the holiday lights on before dark. He threatens to put you on the list. Not sure what list as I have never seen one but he still tells us we are on the list. I guess he figures if he hangs them we should go through the trouble of turning them on.