Valentines Day Gifts

Here is a glimpse at what I am giving my "VALENTINES" this coming Sunday.

So I was being serious when I said I was going to make these two projects. I decided to give them both to my husband.

First is my little "Coupon Book of Love"- idea from here

Let me tell you how easy it was using cards instead of having to cut out cardstock, such a great idea

I had a lot of fun with this and think the husband will like it

SO fun and So easy!! I included a coupon for a 10 massage from me (more than 10 min would just do me in, my poor husband :)  )

We joke at how bad I am at giving them so that's why I included a REAL coupon (gift certificate) for him to get a REAL massage- he will discover that on one of the cards.

The next is what I like to call a "Poor Man's Valentine Card" basically because it's used with 

Paper Bags (seen here)

This was SO much fun to make

There are about 8 diferent cards he can pull out with a Reason why I love him/ picture attatched on each side

Here are a few examples

(inside joke)

(click to enlarge, one of my favorite pics of my hubbie)

Such fun and inexpensive gifts (well minus the massage gift cert.)

Oh and here are a couple more felt food desserts I am giving my son to add to his "fatty" and "sugary"

felt food collection!

I really need to make him some veggies!

Celebrate the Holidays- Mr Potato Head Style!!

I have been dying to make a Mr Potato Head out of felt ever since Christmas time. I saw the idea at Make it and Love it and thought it was brilliant. Well yesterday I finally got around to it and here are the results...

I briefly read over these directions here and went to work.

After finishing, I really wanted to add something elso to it. For those of you who don't know me, I go nuts over all the holidays, I just love them. So... I decided to give my Mr Potato Head some festive parts...

here are some for Valentines Day

And then some for St Patricks Day (one of my favorite holidays I might add)

Here is how they looked on....

What do you think??

I loved adding the extra pieces and think it will be a fun way to celebrate the holiday. Don't worry, Easter and 4th of July pieces are in the works.... I hope to have them for all the holidays. Check back for them soon!!

By that time I probably should think of making him a wife!!! Let me know if you make one!!

Weekend Ideas

Spent my lovely weekend working in the ER. Luckily it was pretty slow and relaxing , giving me plenty of hours looking for some fun Valentine Ideas. Here are a couple I stumbled across that I wanted to share.

V day gift Ideas

I thought this was such a cute idea- Valentines Day coupons on face cards. Here they give you the instructions and a list of coupon ideas!! It is on my to do list this week- adorable

Same with this one- Check this CUTE idea HERE

and here is another idea simliar to these two that was cute

Cards

I really want to learn how to crochet a heart- Over at Little Birdie Secrets they share a video on how to do it and some cute ideas of how to use it after

Go here to print this card

Crafts

I am in LOVE with this- here is how you do it

And I have been wanting to make this wreath for forever and fell even more in love with it when Dana at MADE sprayed it pink. SO cute

Treats

These looked pretty fun to make- See Here

I love Valentines Day!!

Pretty fun ideas huh (Can you tell I was really bored at work!!)

Let me know if you have any fun Vday projects you are working on, I would love to know!!

Inspired by Sour Cream...

When I went home for Christmas, my mother in law had such a fun craft for us to do. She told me that these cute little things were inspired by the little holders the sour cream at Wendys came in. Anyone know what I am talking about???
Anyway, it's the perfect little holder for treats, love notes, money, letters, um sour cream I guess...etc... We made a lot of these and gave them away at Christmas time, but perfect for V-day, your kids, teachers, classmates, Vteachers , neighbors....

Here is how you make them

The Supplies

First take a sheet of paper, cardstock or wrapping paper- try not to get too heavy of paper

For the typical smaller size ones we cut the paper 4 1/2 by 5in. We did make one 6-7 in and turned out cute as well.

After cutting take one of the smaller ends and stick a piece of double sided tape on it. Join the two smaller end sides together and stick together in the middle, making a tube.

Then take one end, stick another piece of double sided tape inside on the edge and press it down

Next take your crimper (boy was it great to find a reason to use this after my scrapbooking days) and crimp the end you just taped.

The crimping showes up better on this paper

Next fill with candy or whatever you want

Now do the same thing to the other side but fold it the opposite way the previous one went, and crimp

Now you're almost done, take your hole puncher and punch a hole at the top.

This part is up to you, I like to put a ribbon through and attach some sort of tag so you can address who it goes to. Again, you can be creative at this part!!

Fun Huh!!

Well that's it- the sour cream holder- pretty easy- funny what things can inspire us huh!!

Felt V-day Treats!!

I have been meaning to make some felt food for my son ever since he got a play kitchen for Christmas. I have come to the conclusion that it is going to be over a period of time before we can stock his fridge and cupboards. For Valentines day, I thought it would be perfect to give him some dessert themed felt food items to get his collection going!! I started out with some doughnuts. I think I was craving them ever since I posted this.... Anyway, here is how they turned out....

for those of you whose hearts fancy chocolate glazed...

or maybe white frosting and chocolate sprinkles

After showing my husband these- he told me they looked great but didn't have enough sprinkles on them to tempt him... so here is his

just a few more!!

They were SO much fun to make and decided that each of you should know how to make them too- so here is how I did it (there are probably better and less complicated ways to do this but this is what I came up with)
Supplies: Felt (multiple colors) thread and needle (coordinating colors) scissors, stuffing
1- Cut out two circles that will make up the actual doughnut- I chose my chocolate brown for this one

(I know fabulous photography.. blame it on the camera!!)

2-Line the two up on top of each other and cut a hole in the middle-

3-Get another piece of felt that you want to use for the frosting and cut
4-Place frosting on top of circle, lining up where you want to place it, measure where the hole is and cut the exact shape of hole onto the frosting
5-Sew around the edge of the frosting in thread color of your choice (I liked mine matching) I used a backstich. Sew only on one of the circles!!
6-Add sprinkles. Easy- just do one little stitch randomly over the frosted area of the doughnut

7-Next, get your other circle and match all the holes together. Then do a little whip action (whip stich) around the middle circle with same thread.

8-Once your middle is sewn together, change thread and whip stich around the outside. I like to do almost half the circle before I added stuffing. Once halfway, stuff that baby, stitch some more, then stuff stuff stuff until you are done!!!

Not too bad right???

I couldn't just stop at the doughnuts.... so I made some festive sugar cookies

(click to enlarge)

DO these make anyone else hungry???

Anyway, thought these would be a fun Valentine gift, and the possiblities are endless!!!

Like I said before, felt food is quite addicting!! Dont be surprised if the next couple of posts are more felt food projects- Maybe I will try going a little healthier

Celebrate the Boy!!

You know I am excited about this!! For the whole month of February two fabulous sites MADE and Made by Rae are each dedicating a whole month to "Celebrate the Boy" It's wonderful news for us moms with little guys and look forward to seeing what ideas they have! Make sure to check it out!