Floating Valentines

Happy Friday everyone!!! I am sad to say I might not be as quick and good about link ups, responding to comments, and following. Oddly enough I was doing a lot of my blogging world stuff at work- the nature of my job involves enough downtime that I was able to do SO MUCH throughout the day between calls and tasks. The hard part is that they just made the internet blocks SO MUCH more strict which pretty much includes all blogs that I LOVE and FOLLOW like life depended on it. I am hoping to be able to settle into a routine or be able to look at some stuff on my phone during the day, but thats not always easy. But either way, I will do my best to keep linked up and having fun! Now onto my project!

For starters, I am just going to put it out there right now. I am guilty. I craft-lifted!! Well seriously, I told this awesome blogger that I was going to be making one and she encouraged me to- so it's her fault.. Who might "she" be?? That would be Chelsea @ Making Home Base. She did this super awesome project that I knew right away I would be making.. this was not an option at all.

 http://www.makinghomebase.com/valentines-day-floating-heart-wall-art/

I switched mine up and got a dollar store frame which I painted RED with just plain old generic Walmart spray paint.  I really loved the pop of unexpected turquoise that she incorporated and decided I wanted some kind of fun non-typical valentines color in mine too.

I loved this polka dotted paper because of 1- the dots and 2-super fun colors. I even went a little crazy and used a turqouise string!!

Here you can see the heart line-up before I began the stringing process. I used this string that I bought a few years ago for a whole $1 at BIG LOTS. The under-rated crafters heaven.

Once all the strings were strung, I hot glued (and not very attractively) the strings to the back of the frame. I did have to fix the spacing of each string because my poor spatial abilities did not allow this to occur naturally as I went. No one ever said crafters had to be perfect and it is a very imperfect world.  {thankfully for me!!} And really, if you want to be completely honest, this is my second stab at this project. I thought it would be FUN to do those kind of wonky hearts and use gardener's twine, but this totally didn't work out. The twine is uneven and so everything just look so out of wack. Needless to say, there are no pictures of this craftfail. I actually did mean to, but was so excited to do the NICE and for real version that I didn't take the minute to take pictures. Onto the actual finished product...

I don't know about you all, but I LOVE IT!!!

Turned out pretty stinkin cool I think!! I used some more string to hang to the side of Handy Hubby's desk to take a few pictures before finding its actual sitting place downstairs.

I rerrarranged a few times before I was truly happy with this. I also decorated Mr. Owl a little too...

Howard the Owl is ready for Valentines day... are you???