Thursday 14 February 2013

Hearts

Both literally and figuratively, hearts are great.

From a crafty perspective, the heart shape provides the advantages of symmetry (ease of replication), and nicely incorporates both curves and lines. Also hearts look like hugs. I have always loved the heart shape and have some really fond memories of hearts as crafts and edibles.

To name a few; Maria Adamic's personalized (with our names) heart cookies that were cherished and then devoured at Paula's birthday parties, a heart ceramic necklace I made for my mom in kindergarten that she still wears on V-Day, Purdy's chocolates around the house from Dad before boyfriends, placing two cinnamon hearts into each valentines day card - for both the kids I liked and the kids I didn't like. All of these things fill my heart with feelings of hearts.

The Valentines Day craft shown here is a simple one, just a few rustic looking heart felt ornaments stitched with a blanket stitch and some simple embroidery. Once complete, they were  hung on my very dried out berry branch left over from a Christmas flower arrangement - the best $3.00 ever spent.

XOXO