all in favor of dinosaurs, raise your hand ....

i've been saving these pics for a while now ... waiting til i got close enough to valentine's that you wouldn't think i was crazy ...

so ... mid january, coming off a pinterest binge .... i was interested in this pic ... of groovy hearts .... made from paint chips .... and decided to make my own .... i blog teased you here ... did you see that post already? .... when you saw it did you know what i was going to do ? ....

 ... i punched more than 100 hearts .... and this is what i did with them ...

 i attached all of those hearts to pink string .... and attached the strings over a large canvas ....the canvas was an old painting that i'd grown to hate ... .so i painted the whole thing brown .... so there's my mantel ...

and because just a canvas full of hearts wasn't quite enough, i spray painted some dinosaurs pink .. yup ... really ... pink dinosaurs ... doesn't that just scream "be my valentine" to you? ... yes, me too ...

 did you know that we don't actually know what color dinos were? we (we being scientist types, paleontologists, and hard core dinophiles) presume that they were lizardy or reptilian in color ... but i'm thinking no one can prove they were NOT flamingo colored ....i chose flamingo colored to show that this pink is found in nature, as opposed to cotton candy pink or peptobismol pink (not quite found in nature).... for arguments sake, agree with me, yes, there's a good (to great) chance that dinosaurs (at least some of them) were pink,  making them the perfect valentine beasts ....

let's say it again ... dinosaurs are the perfect valentine beasts ....

here's a tyrannosaurus rex ... isn't he (she) dashing in pink? fierce? growly and gorgeous?

you know, easter has bunnies .... and eggs and chicks and pastels and peeps and new bonnets and lilies and patent leather mary janes and clip on ties and once a year church goers and the cross ... 

and halloween has pumpkins and witches and zombies and ghosts and SO much great candy ...

 and christmas ... well ... baby jesus and mary and joseph and wise men and a star and camels and a donkey and a manger and shepherds and sheep... and then a whole 'nother christmas with santa, elves, reindeers, sleighs, snow, snowmen, candy canes, and tickle me elmos (insert present of your choice) ....

 so i think valentines is kind of paltry with hearts, chocolate and flowers ... we need more substantial ... why can't we give it dinosaurs?

now it's february .... so i thought it was ok to show my valentine dinos to you .... and you still have plenty of time to make your own ... hop on board the latest trend ... in five or ten years when the drugstores and groceries and hobby lobby and michael's are just FULL of dinosaurs at valentine's time, you can say you were an early adopter ...

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... happy valentine's day ....