Valentine's Day Tree

Hang paper hearts and cookie ornaments on an adorable mini-tree. This tree is vintage, but you might also use an artificial white Christmas tree, a wooden tree, or even make your own wire tree using a dowel for the trunk and wire for the branches.

You can create a Valentine tree inside or outside with a variety of materials.


Instructions
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You'll Need:

Lace
Ribbons
Costume Jewelry
Aleene's Tacky Glue
Cupid Ornaments
All Occasion Ornament Display Trees
Dried Or Artificial Roses
Fabrics
Heart Ornaments
Heart-shaped Boxes
Needles And Thread
Strings Of Heart Lights
Hershey's Kisses Candy
Foil-wrapped Candy Hearts
Pendants


Steps
1 Decide if you will be decorating a live tree outside or an ornament holder inside. If you decorate outside, use materials that are weather-resistant - plastic is your best bet for outside.

2 Determine if you would like to decorate your tree with hearts, Cupids, or other Valentine items. Hearts are the easiest to find.

3 ThreeLook at the size of your tree or ornament holder. If it is large, you will be able to use any size ornament. If it is a small tabletop display, you'll be limited to smaller ornaments.

4 Shop for heart ornaments all year. You may find some in Christmas shops displayed as Christmas ornaments.

5 Be creative and nontraditional. There are lots of heart-shaped items that can be hung on a tree. Inexpensive pendants, little pillows, foil-wrapped candies, children's costume jewelry, and homemade decorations can all find a place on your display. Sew or glue a loop of ribbon on the item and hang it.

6 Add strings of heart-shaped lights to really give your display some flash.

7 Tie pink, white, and red bows on the tips of your branches or on the arms of your display tree. Tie lace in bows or drape as garland.

8 Add some bunches of dried or artificial roses. Attach them to your branches with wire or set them between branches.

9 Display some attractive heart-shaped boxes of Valentine candy underneath your tree, or drape some lace or other fabric around the bottom if your tree is indoors.



Tips
Valentine decorations beyond cardboard Cupids are becoming easier to find in stores. Target carries a large selection of Valentine decorations and some large drugstores like Eckerd advertise Valentine lights.
Look in craft supply stores like Michaels for decorative items to hang on your tree.

I've decided to make a tree from the small white Christmas tree that my son had for the office (I bought it for him) this year..

I also have white and red (with white string lights) that I will use for lights...

lets see what romantic/heart shaped ornaments I can come up with...

wow! thats really pretty
ive cancelled feb 14th this year

aww thats really cute... i don't usually go crazy for valentines day.. never had a reason to.. maybe i'll try something this year

I made my tree and it came out really cute.. I need to take a picture of it..

I thought i had heart ornmants, but the ones I had were too big.. so I hung them on the window..

But I had some red mini ornaments that were not too christmassy...

and then I picked up some cake decorating hearts and clued ornament hooks on them.. plus I found some heart garland I wrapped around the tree..

it came out wonderfully valentinish!! I'll take a picture soon!

Sydney Payne wrote:wow! thats really pretty
ive cancelled feb 14th this year

I hear that.. Last year wasn't so good for me.. I don't think we did much because we were having problems at that time..

This year should be better.. not that we will spend a lot on each other financially.. with him starting a new job.. but I'm sure we'll go out to dinner and get something small for each other..

Actually I saw on a billboard on my way in to work today that the Queen Mary (it is a ship docked permanently in Long Beach Ca) has for this month (ending Feb 17) a Star Trek exhibit.. I thought since we both are into Star Trek (him more than me.. but me too).. we could take that in as something to do together..

Actually we are doing things together all the time now.. Every Friday or Saturday we have date night.. We're doing things we never did before.. keeping 'us' alive.. and happy..

so its feeling right now like Valentines a lot of the time!

butterflypanda06 wrote:aww thats really cute... i don't usually go crazy for valentines day.. never had a reason to.. maybe i'll try something this year

you should Panda!!

even if its on web cam! do something special together!

My Valentines Tree:

awww thats really cute!

yeah I was pretty pleased with how it turned out.. you never know!