I'm in Love

Found this when I woke up this morning.  My husband loves me. :0)

Valentine Oreo's

Pinterest had them in heart shapes but I was lazy.  I am loving the filling recipe I got on here though.  It uses a lot less sugar and marshmallow cream.  I think I've found a winner.

Valentine Purse

 I love making Valentine's!  I love making Valentine boxes.  This year, I didn't get to make one with my boys.  One got to do it at school and the other is getting to old for that kind of thing I guess.  But, I made this for my daughter to take to school today to put her Valentine's in.

It is just craft foam cut out and sewn together with boondoogle cord.

Pretty smart huh. :0)

Home-made Valentines

 Again, thanks to Pinterest, I had the desire to make all my kids Valentines this year.  I have 3 in school.  I'm crazy. 

But I have saved a ton of money. :0)

These ones I spent $2 on the paper clips.

 I had all that felt from Christmas and I had the thread so it was an easy thing to make these ones.

 I spent $3 on the pencils for this Valentine.  Too cute.

 This one was $4.50 for the suckers. 

My kids are excited to finish them up this weekend and to work on the boxes for them to take with them.  I like being crafty with my kids. :0)

Valentine Cupcakes

I am a sucker for cupcakes.  You can eat one and not feel like you are eating the whole cake.  But it sometimes is hard to stick to just one.

Another Pinterest recipe.  I got it here.  I used the Marshmallow frosting from here.  This frosting is just like my mom's 7 minute frosting.  So good!

I wanted to take some to our Sister's night this weekend.  Of course we got so full on all the other goodies that we had there that we forgot all about the cupcakes til we were leaving.  One of the sisters had left so I had one up for grabs.  Big mistake.  I'll be taking a bunch to her today. :0)  They were a big hit.  I will be making more when it really is Valentines day.

Valentine Nails

I love all the ideas that you can get from Pinterest lately and I wanted something for Valentine's.  I thought this one up myself and I wish they had turned out a little better than they did.

And I just have to say how much I love this nail polish.  It really is no chip and it lasts over a month.  So wonderful. :0)

Valentine Wreath

I wanted a little bit more than just the wreath.

Not quite happy with the placement of my "word".  Glad I make these things myself. :0)

I don't have much when it comes to Valentine decorations.  But I have become a Pinterest freak and combined a few different things I saw to make this.  It took forever to cut out all that felt, and then pinning them on... what a job!  I tried 3 different ways of gluing the felt on before I gave up and spent 99 cents on pins and pinned them on.  Then I was running out so I had to move them around a lot and then I worried that my wreath was going to come apart.  I made that.

All in all, this project cost me $2.  That's right.  I paid a dollar for the foam to make the wreath and a dollar for the pins to pin the felt on with.  Pretty awesome!  Found the ideas from my new favorite blog Nap Time Crafts.  Go check it out. :0)

Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope everyone had a wonderful day yesterday! I know that I enjoyed myself, spending the night with my kids and spoiling them. :0)

I wanted to show you what my boys made for their Valentine boxes. I was so excited because this is the first year that we got to make them at home. I found this and loved it but was informed by my 9 year old, "Mom, I'm just not IN to monsters." Man they grow up fast. So I kept looking and found this card and asked them about making a robot. Robot won. This is what we came up with.

Just a little tin foil and some paper hearts and we have robots.

I also made these cute little boxes for their teachers and filled them with candy. I just love this stamp set. I really want to get back into paper crafting. I miss it.