Hearts and Flowers

 We have some handmade hearts being finished off this week, ready for hanging up on valentine's day next weekend...........i actually made the hearts a while ago when i made lots of lavender sachets and pillows, but have kept them until now to finish off..............

 ...........i love adding simple embellishments, like little stamped signs, paper or fabric flowers and tiny keys............or buttons and small pieces of tape measure ribbon...........

 .............on my travels i found these tiny test tubes with a valentine message inside.....just could not resist them, with the raffia bows and tiny buttons..........

 ............another heart to hang up (this week especially) is the cross stitch project i made for this month's crafts beautiful magazine............you can find lots of crafty inspiration here and download patterns and charts too........

 ............as well as hearts we have to have flowers of course.........over the past week i had a pretty bunch of pale pink tulips, as well as my usual primroses and spring bulbs planted into whatever container seemed to suit...........

 ................the little white catalogue of garden seeds planter has had grape hyacinth bulbs planted in it for ages and at last they are showing some green shoots.........lucky they had a little chalked sign or i might have forgotten they were there........

 ..............i find the fresh green leaves and soft pretty flower colours very cheering on these cold and wintry days......we have had some sunny times but some very grey ones too and at the weekend a strange cold white mist greeted us when we woke in the morning............

 ............we went out on our annual snowdrop walk anyway and enjoyed seeing lots of different kinds at the botanic gardens we love to visit....here is one of the close ups of these gorgeous little flowers..........their shapes are so neat and perfect, i always love to discover them around the garden, but on the snowdrop walk there are masses of them under the trees.................

 .............a few more views of my new hearts..........btw the pink and the lilac french fabric is from the sausalito cottage collection by lakehouse dry goods, and the striped heart fabric is by michael miller, all from plush addict..............

.............thank you for visiting me here, dear readers, and for all your kind comments...........it is always lovely to hear from you :)............i wish you a wonderful week with happy hearts and lots of lovely crafty inspirations too.............back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxooooooooooooxxxxxxxxxx