Happy Valentine's Day!

Today, we are having a Valentine's Centerpiece Party. Cindy, from "My Romantic Home" is hosting this. Beginning Thursday morning, there will be links from her website to everyone that has created a Valentine's Day centerpiece or February centerpiece.

If you are a Romantic Home Blog reader, thank you for stopping by. I am Dream Mom and I write stories about my seventeen year old severely disabled son, organizing and anything else that is going on in our lives.

Dream Mom's Valentine Centerpiece

About the centerpiece:

• I purchased the red "love" placemats a few weeks ago. The rest of the items were things I had around my apartment.
• The red ceramic container the roses are in, was originally a Christmas gift. It was filled with chocolates and came with a lid. I originally put it in my box for Goodwill donations, however I decided to use it for a vase. I took a cherub Christmas ornament and glued it to the box.
• I love to use white roses in my apartment. I have them in a crystal vase in my living room and in my master bedroom, I have them in a beautiful depression glass bowl on one of my nightstands. For this centerpiece, the roses are silk however real roses could have been used. I much prefer real flowers though.
• The ecru placemat is a vintage hankerchief that my mother used at her wedding. I've had it for many years and could never figure out where to use it. Since I wanted to create a feminine centerpiece, I knew this would be perfect.
• The candles I had since I use them often for dinner.
• As an added touch, I hung two cherubs ornaments with crystals from the chandelier.

I had hope to create a "Flickr badge" to make it look more professional. I worked on that for quite a while but could not figure out how to get it working. I created the sets, linked it to the blog, but ran into problems connecting it to the groups. I confess to being technically challenged however the Flickr directions could be improved! Finally, I deleted it since I didn't have more time. Sigh.

Thank you Cindy for doing this. It was a pleasure to take time last weekend to be creative and put this together! Click here to return to the "My Romantic Home" blog to view more centerpieces.