Shaker Top Vintage Valentine's Day Ornament for LESSology Challenge

I wish I could say that I came up with this idea on my own. I spotted it AGES ago and pinned it and have been looking for salt and pepper shakers ever since. Check out the one Katalina made here. I am still on the hunt for smaller ones. May the Vintage Goddess of the Second Hand Stores shine down on me favorably in 2013. ;-)

Even though I have been extremely unlucky on finding nice & cheap salt & pepper shakers, I did find larger sized (also cheap) shakers with glass bottoms. Mine is certainly not a necklace like the one she made. It's much larger, so makes a nice ornament.

Let me show you the pile of pieces I started with.

You should be able to see that I also used a cardboard tube for my center, not a wooden dowel.

It's a great recycling project as I was also to reuse a large brass washer I had left over from a lamp, an old necklace, an Eiffel Tower earring, some vintage sheet music and a scrap of paper.

The only new stuff was that wooden frame, a Tim Holtz finding, and some flowers.

I am linking this up with the LESSology Challenge #21:  You are my Sweetheart which requires one upcycled item and also to use hearts.

I have several hearts incorporated into this project, one of which being a piece of heart ribbon, and the second being that lovely little flower & heart you see that I got from Irini and her fabulous shop. 

Here is another view where you can see the heart stick pins I included as well. 

And I'll leave you with one more side view so you can see where I added that necklace. 

Happy Sunday! Ours is bright and cold, so who knows what we'll come up with. Maybe we'll hit a second hand store and I'll finally get lucky!