Date Night!!!

It's date night tonight!  

Instead of going out and spending money tonight, how about curling up on the couch to a good chick flick with your special someone and stage a romantic evening together!

I know its suuuper cheesy but I created a get-away-retreat right in our own front room.  I just draped fabric above our couch and hung some lanterns from the ceiling. Way cheesy but you know you love it.

To make it, I hung a dowel over our couch and then draped some fabric over it. Anyone could do this. Really.

      

For the lanterns, I cut up some old blinds I found at a thrift store for only 6 bucks!  

How to make the lanterns;

1. Cut the blinds to the size you want.

2. To start creating the lantern frame, I hot glued wire to the top and bottom edges of the piece you just cut out.

3. After the glue dries, roll it  into a circle and hot glue it together.

4. Make a X with the wire at the bottom of the lantern and hot glue the battery operated candle in the middle of the X.

5. Bend another piece of wire into a U shape and hot glue it to the top of the lantern for the handle.

6. Tie string to the handle then hang it by a hook from your ceiling.

I wish I would have taken better step by step pictures, because I'm sure this make nooo sense.  Sorry!

  

  Voilà!  You got yourself a lantern!

Cheers to your romantic evening!

xoXox

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