Happy Valentines Day

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!

This is what our breakfast looked like this morning! I was informed by my son, that this was the best breakfast that he had ever had....I think the sprinkles on the pancakes won him over!

I hope you all have a great day!!

This was actually a candy bar bouquet I did last year for the kids! It was super easy and was a big hit! I just took a glass vase and put a little Styrofoam in the bottom and stuck small dowels all over in it. I covered up the Styrofoam with confetti paper (I don't know what else to call it), and the just taped a whole bunch of different candy bars to the dowels, and just added some ribbon to cutesy it up. I wish I had a better picture, but this will just have to do!

Window clings

I apologize for the pictures. It was really hard to get a good picture of a window, without it being too bright. So this is the best I could do.

I made my own window clings for Valentines Day! It was super easy, I just cut out the images with my silhouette using the self adhesive vinyl and stuck them on the window. It was as easy as that!

Valentine heart suckers

I saw these adorable candy cane heart suckers over at The Idea room, and also in the Family Fun magazine and had to give it a try! She gives a great tutorial on them. I love how hers look perfect, and ours don't look so perfect, but it was still fun, and the kids loved them! Just click on her picture to get instructions on how to make them!

Hers......perfect....

Ours.....not so perfect...

Remember this cute litte Valentine basket, well, I told you it wouldn't leave our house! Yah, my daughter thinks it is hers. She packs it around constantly with lip gloss, and Dora inside. Well, I thought it would be cute to display our suckers in.

She loved them!!

Give it a try and let me know how yours turn out!!!

Valentine popcorn!

I thought I would post a fun and easy Valentine treat that you can do with your kids and one that is really yummy too! It would be great to give out as gifts if you have some clear gift bags, you could really make them cute!

I just air popped 1 batch of popcorn, which filled my bowl. I know you can use Microwave popcorn if you would like, it does give it a little bit different flavor, because it has butter already on it. Then put wax paper down in a cookie sheet (which I don't really know why I did that, I guess less clean up) and then poured the popcorn into cookie sheet.

Then I melted 3 cubes of white melting chocolate in microwave, in increments of 30 seconds until it was all melted. Then poured it over the popcorn.

Then in a cup I crushed up some left over candy canes from Christmas...is that gross???? It hasn't been that long.....

Then my big helper poured the crushed candy canes over the popcorn.

Then she added some sweethearts to the mix to give it some color.

Then I had some more help!

Isn't she cute???

It definitely was a hit!! Once the older kids (counting hubby) got home, it didn't last very long!

Super EASY!!!
which is what we like....right???

More Valentine gift ideas!

I have another Valentines gift idea to share...am I getting a little carried away with the Valentines stuff????
...and I have another fun thing for tomorrow!!!
So stay tuned!!

I took 3 junior mints....

... 3 pieces of pink cardstock and 1 heart printed piece of scrapbook paper....

and I wrapped the junior mint boxes in the pink card stock. I like to hot glue most of my projects to ensure that it won't come undone, like a lot of glue stick projects!

Then I took the scrapbook paper and cut it into strips and wrapped it around my already pink wrapped junior mint boxes.

Then I took the corner of a sponge and dabbed it onto a pink ink pad and inked all around the boxes.

Like so...

Then I cut out a cute frame, using my cricut. And typed up my saying in a word document and put them together to make a cute card for the top.

Then I inked around the card and then glued it to the box.
I then tied some pink ribbon around it.

And now you have yet another V-day gift idea!
I really need to stop doing Valentines stuff, but
it is just too much fun!

...and all three!

Valentine gift ideas

We had a red basket from Christmas that has been hanging around...so I decided to make it into a Valentines basket, to give to someone....or not!

Well, I don't think it will make it out of your house!
My daughter has become attached to it!

So anyway, here is the Christmas basket, and I just pulled off the front of it.

Then I cut a white and red heart out of felt and started stitching yard around the hearts.

Then I hot glued them onto the basket.

Now that you have the fr0nt decorated, add any goodies you want to to the basket.

I told you...she was just loving this basket!!

Then we made a card to attach to it.

Then we wrapped the whole thing in tulle. I punched a hole in the card and tied it around the top of the tulle with red ribbon.

I'll bet this basket doesn't make it out of my house!

I link to this party