Reversible craft

I got this cute reversible wooden craft kit from groopdealz.com (one of my favorite websites). It came with the wood block and vinyl letters. I painted the wood white and mod podged the scrapbook paper onto each block. Then of course added ribbon to give some pizzazz. I loved hitting two holidays with one project!

Valentine's for sunbeam class

Yet another idea from Pinterest. I made these cute little Valentine's for my sunbeam class, aren't they the cutest! 

Valentine Candy Grams

 Oh Valentines' Day. A beautiful Hallmark holiday time to celebrate the love you have for the special people in your life. I decided to make my two Valentine's some candy grams, one big one for papa bear and a smaller one for baby bear. Deke found his this morning on the couch and Tyler found his in his lunch pail at school. There is more Valentine goodness  to   come but this was just to start off their day. 

My Mini Valentine

This weekend Deke worked at the fire department and since I don't have Tyler next weekend I decided to have my Valentine's with him early. I asked Tyler a few weeks ago if he'd be my mini Valentine (I ask him every year) and to my delight he said yes. My husband is of course my true Valentine but just look at this kid.... I mean, can you blame me? THIS lady just ♥'s him!

We started off by making heart shaped sugar cookies and decorating them with mountains of sprinkles and chocolate chips.

I had more pictures of him and his cousin Jonathan making the cookies but realized that I didn't have my memory card IN my camera. I hate when that happens.

Then he made this cute little heart shaped wreath. We love wreaths in this house.

Ok, he was SO done with me taking pictures of him. lol

Here are the delicious cookies!

This wasn't part of the Valentine's fun but I thought it was too pretty not to share. This is the candy bar pizza I made for the super bowl. I made one for us and another for the firemen. I love any excuse to visit Deke when he's on duty... hehe...HERE is the recipe!

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Valentine's Day Craft

I found this adorable heart wreath on The Idea Room website and thought I'd create one of my own. I cut out 276 three inch round pieces of felt (no I didn't count them, I just did the math), folded them twice, and then pinned them onto a heart shaped foam wreath.

This project was VERY time consuming so I ended up doing it at work on my breaks as well as a home when I should of been sleeping. But needless to say, I am very pleased with the results.

Here are the materials

I bought a few different packages of pins before I found the ones that worked. Save yourself the trouble and buy these!

After folding it twice stick the pin through the bottom like so and then push into the wreath.

Here is the wreath part way completed. Notice I placed the felt closer together than shown in the original tutorial. Once I realized that I felt I was too committed to turn back so I just went with it! I still like the way it turned out though :)

Valentine's Day

So I have to admit that I'm not the biggest fan of Valentines Day; to me its just an over-done commercialized holiday. Love should be celebrated everyday of the year, not just once. Not too mention I don't like spending money just because everyone says you're supposed to. My birthday is one week after Valentine's Day and Deke's is the week after so its already tight financially. Having Deke home this Valentine's Day was a real treat, last year he was gone all day doing the "boot drive". I told him that spending it together was enough for me and asked him not to spend any money. He didn't listen. He came home with tulips and chocolates... how could I be mad when they are both my favs... ((sigh)) Here are a few pics of our day. ♥

I love celebrating with food lol

Heart shaped pizzas every year!

Tyler said he was texting his wife to tell her Happy Valentine's Day. I didn't even know he got married! lol

This was the Valentine that Tyler made for me ♥

Happiness is time spent with the ones you love ♥