Happy Valentine's Day

I hope you all have a day full of love and sticky kisses.  Here are few of my vintage Valentine's cards just for you:)


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Valentine's Day Craft Roundup

Here is a small sampling of the V-Day crafts we made this year.  With back to back blizzards you can only imagine the quantity of heart related crafts I have been subjected to these past 10 days.....Construction paper and glitter need to be in any emergency survival kit if you have children:)

First up is this Valentine's Day inspired tic-tac-toe game.  Roots and wings has an awesome tutorial for making these super cute gifts.

Next, is this super simple and fast headband....felt is the best fabric ever.  Modeled by lovely mother...the diva would not cooperate.

Here is the Valentine's card the children and I crafted together.  We melted broken crayon into these decorative tart molds and attached them to our cards (Note to readers...glue guns do not work with wax crayons).  We had to use industrial strength packing tape to get a good fix.

Finally, I made these felt rose wrist corsages for the little ladies in my life.  Here is an easy tutorial for how to make the roses.  Once the roses were constructed I cut a band of  felt slightly bigger than O wrist, attached a button and stitched it all together. Viola, she is ready for the ball :)

Dainty Doilies

Today we made an easy Valentine's day garland out of doilies.  First we cut out the hearts, varying the shape and size of each.  Next I double threaded a very large and dull sewing needle with embroidery floss and had O lace it through each heart.  The results were beautiful and it kept O busy for at least 30 minutes...a double bonus!

Spuds...

We dabbled in potato printing this morning and O has found her media I believe.  We stamped away with glee and gusto creating some beautiful artwork for our Valentine's Day cards.  O loves to do "projects" and boasted to me today that "she's crafty".....this of course resulted in me singing the Beastie Boys in my head all.morning.long.

She's crafty - she's gets around

She's crafty - she's always down

She's crafty - she's got a gripe

She's crafty - and she's just my type

She's crafty