{Love} Tour...

I'm going to take you all on a virtual {Love} tour of the V-day decor in my house!! I don't have as much as I do for other holidays....But I love the pinks and reds!! So let's get started!!!


First stop...my fake mantel....my Fantel! (top of my entertainment center!) Here is the last V-day board I did a few days ago. It says "I love you a bushel and a Peck and a hug around the Neck!" Tutorial to follow soon!!! :)

Next is the other side of the "fantel". My valentine stackers {Love} them!!! Then a few stuffed hearts from last years V-day! Tutorial is on the right side bar of the blog :)
Hangin on my wall is this Super cute board!! I found this puppy at DI for a whole 50 cents!!! I was so excited when I found it!! :)

Then to my entryway shelf! My favorite spot to decorate!!! Filled with refurbished black candles courtesy of a yard sale!! The "Bee" Mine Set....some more stuffed hearts and a lovely filled hurricane jar!!

Hurricane jar...filled with Valentine candy corn!! I found it and had to have it :) So fun! Then some kisses in between and a white candle to top it off :) Sitting at the base are some more stuff hearts!!

"Bee" Mine set!! Love this set! The tutorial is a few posts below this!! So easy and fun to make :)

Candy corn covered styrofoam ball and a simple white candle with some red and pink ribbon around it.

My "HOME" set that I ordered from a lady!! The "O" changes out each month to be something different!! Lots of fun!

Next.....Hugs and Kisses! I made this last year around V-day!! Super easy and cheap...all 2x4's! Tutorial is on the right side bar of the blog!

{Love} blocks, also made last year for V-day!!! I love the brick red in it! Tutorial is also on the right side bar!!

My sweet hubby gave this to me awhile ago and it is so fitting for this Holiday!! :) Love it!!!

On our way out you will see this super cute refurbished wreath!! Tutorial on the right side bar of the blog under "valentines"

Hope you enjoyed our tour today!! Come again soon for the next Holiday!!!!

{Love Tour}

Valentine Stacker...

I have been trying to use up a bunch of my scrap wood...(my pile is taking up a large section of the garage) :) So....I went out and looked at what I had and came up with this project! :) I love how it turned out...although the colors I'm still not sure! But it looks cute on my shelf!!! So here is how I did it!

{Valentine Stacker}

Item's Needed:

3 pieces of wood these are 2x2's I believe- 6in, 8in, & 10in.

Paint (3 colors)

Paint Brush

Sandpaper

Ink

Vinyl words

Wire

Picture

Step 1: Take your 3 pieces of wood and paint them with your 3 colors of paint!

Step 2: Let them dry really well
Step 3: Using your sandpaper and ink...distress the heck outta them!! :)

Step 4: Take your transfer tape and vinyl and apply your words to the 3 blocks.

Step 5: Take your wire and wrap it twice around all 3 blocks and then twist it at the top.

Make little "swirls" on top (2) like so:

Step 6: Find a cute pic of you and your sweetheart, or your sweetheart kiddos and put it in the swirls :)

Set it on your shelf and enjoy!! :) {LOVE} it!!!!

{Valentine Stacker}

{Bee} Mine...

{Love} Day is just around the corner! Man this month is flying by!! I love Valentine's day for many of reasons. I {love} making little things for my kiddos and daycare kiddos and I love the pinks and reds!:) So the other day I was diggin through my pile of scraps! I found 5 different sized blocks and came up with this {Bee} Mine project. Now I'm not extremely fond of the little "bee" I did above the "I" but..oh well you win some you lose some! All in all in turned out pretty cute! So this is how I did it:

{Bee} Mine

Items Needed:

5 different size blocks of wood (honestly couldn't tell you the measurements) :)

Paint

Sandpaper

Paint brush

Vinyl

Embellishments

Paper to make your "Bee"

Mod Podge

Ink

Step 1: Take your 5 blocks and figure out how you want to stand them...I played with mine a few different ways and decided on a set up. Then decide what colors of paint you want to do!

Step 2: Paint your blocks the different colors you want. The two colors of pinks were mixed pinks and reds and whites! They turned out that color so I went with it :)

Step 3: After they dry very thoroughly..sand and ink your edges all up!

Step 4: Take your vinyl letters and place them onto the blocks

Step 5: Embellish (My favorite part) :)

Step 6: Make your bee...I just cut a small oval-ish shape for the body, some stripes out of a different color of pink, then a head and some wings...inked it up and mod podged it all together and onto the block!

Step 7: Set them up and display!! Yay! So cute :)

{Rice Krispy Hearts}

{RICE KRISPY HEARTS}

Items Needed:

3 Tbsp of butter or margarine

1- 10 oz. bag of big marshmellows

6 cups of Rice Krispies

This is my last Valentine-ish post for this week!!! Tomorrow I have a new post that I am starting every Friday or I will try to do it every friday called "Follower Friday" so if you are a follower and have done a project that has been posted on here please send me photos! I will spotlight you on the blog and show off what you made! Stay tuned also for another giveaway next week...I have a bunch of projects just dieing to get on here! :) Have a great weekend all! :)

Dinner for 2...

I wanted Valentines Day to be different this year.....normally my hubby gets me beautiful flowers and I get him a CD or Yankee Item and we have dinner somewhere. This year I made the dinner and made it with lots of twists and fun.

{Dinner for 2}

Items Needed:

you and your hubby

dinner of your choice

candles

dessert

Step 1: Make up your menu....here is an example of what mine is like...you can copy mine or you can make up your own my main dish is Carne Asada with Pico De Gallo....one of my hubbies favorites.

Hawaiin Breeze------Rolls, Lover's Delight------Spoon

Conglomerate-----Tossed Salad, Popeye's Friend-----Olives

Chip off the old block------Toothpick, Manure Spreader----------fork

Eve's Delight----apple juice, Cutting Edge--------------Knife

Dried Cube------Crouton, Hidden Sauce-----------Ranch (or other)

Jacob's Well------water, Underground Icicle--------Carrot

Brown Water-----pepsi, White Cloud------------Sour Cream

Triangles--------Tortilla Chips, Square------------Napkin

Good & Plenty----Carne Asada, Discs--------------Tortilla's

Rooster Tail-------Pico De Gallo, Jack Frost-------Ice Cream

Dirt---------Brownies, Vessel-----------Bowl

Platter-----------Plate, Cow Juice-------------Milk

Melt my Heart-----------Choc. Sauce

I split it all into 3 different courses and we are having a Candle Light dinner on Friday night just the 2 of us!! Hope this idea is something that will work for you wonderful followers of mine! I think it will turn out great!! ENJOY :)

{Dinner for 2}

Valentine Airplanes..

Cute/Simple/Fun little Valentine idea for your kiddos. My little one LOVES airplanes so when I saw this idea on Family fun I couldn't pass it up!! It is very simple to put together and he had a blast helping unwrap candies, rubberband, and glue!

{Valentine Airplanes}

Items Needed:

Scissors

Stapler

Gum with a pink wrapper ( I used Cobalt 5, the pink berry)

LifeSaver Peppermint Circles

Smarties

Valentine Bags

1 Sheet of Valentine-ish Paper

Fine Tip Marker

Glue

Step 1: Take 1 smartie, 1 rubberband, and 2 peppermint circles. Unwrap the peppermints.
Step 2: Take your rubber band and go through the centers of both mints.
Step 3: I found it is easiest to stick your finger through the rubber band on each side of the peppermints to keep them on. Seperate the peppermints and put the smarties in between.

Step 4: Stick the rubber band up around the gum to hold it all together on both sides.

Like so:

Step 5: Stick it (I did 2 per child. You have plenty of stuff when you buy the stuff in bags and pkgs.) I also cut the bag down a bit they are really tall bags.

Step 6: Make your little sign that says: "Soaring" in to tell you Happy Valentines Day". Cut a piece of the scrapbook paper. Glue the saying to the scrapbook paper. I glued mine at the bottom of the square so that I had enough to fold over the bag to staple!

Step 7: Staple the paper to the bag like so!

All done!! They are easy and so fun!! ENJOY!

{Valentine Airplanes}

23 Reasons Why I Love You!

I came up with a cute idea to do for my hubby for Valentine's Day..coupled with his other gift! I wanted him to know how much I love and appreciate him and all the hard work he does...so I came up with the 23 Reason's Why I love him...you may wonder why 23? Well that's how old I am so I picked that number :)

{23 Reasons Why I Love You}

Items Needed:

Approx. 6 sheets of 13x13 Valentine Scrapbooking Paper

Pen

Scissors

White Cardstock

Embellishments (Buttons/Ribbon)

Glue

Hole Punch

3 ring binder clip (may have another name!)

Pictures (Optional)

23 Reasons Typed out on Paper

Circle object to trace

Distressing Ink (Stamp pad with Napkin if your cool like me!)

Step 1: Start by tracing circles all over your valentine paper. I used an old CD for these ones.

I fit about 5-6 circles on each paper.
Step 2: Do the same to white Cardstock...I did the white cardstock a little bit bigger..with a circle bowl I had.. so that the Valentine paper when glued on has a white border around it.

Step 3: Cut out all of your circles from both sets of paper! It's quite a bit of cutting!

Step 4: I distressed or Inked all the edges of the paper a bit and then glue all of your valentine paper to your white circles. Then go through and hole punch all of them to where they line up and are straight!

Step 5: The fun part...create your first page. Mine looks like this:

Here are some examples of what some of the circles look like on the inside...

I cut around all 23 reasons and fit 2 reasons per circle so the whole thing was super thick!

Embellish with different Valentine ribbon and buttons and cute sayings!

When you are done attach it with the 3 ring binder ring/clip.....and tie some ribbon on it!!! Then you are set to go!! Super cute and easy idea to show your honey how much you love him or her!

{23 Reasons Why I Love You}