Valentine's Day is Almost Here!

With less than a week to go until Valentine's Day, I thought I would share a post about how we have been getting ready to celebrate in our home!

Last week I made cookies for my kids and took it one step further and set out some treats to celebrate a 4-day weekend from school with some Valentine's goodies...

For the past few years, we have used these cute little mailboxes I found at Target to exchange Valentines as a family. It's become a fun little tradition to open them up on February 14th!

I incorporated some Valentine's decorations onto our fireplace mantle in our family room...

On my kitchen island...

On my kitchen counter...

This is on an end table in our living room...

Valentine's Day cushions from Target a few years ago...

This button heart frame is something I made a few years ago and I still love it! It's on my fireplace mantle...

My daughter helped me put together these little goodie bags to hand out to her Kindergarten class along with her Valentines...

My son in grade 3 will be giving these goodie bags out to his class along with his Valentines...

My kids will also be giving a little thing of Lindor chocolates to their teachers. For my daughter in kindergarten, I added on a picture of her with both of her teachers onto the bagS (I covered the faceS with the hearts for privacy reasons)...

Have a Happy Love Day, everyone!

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Check out some of my old Valentine's Day posts below:

Button Heart Frame:

Chocolate Cake Waffles:

Simple Ways to Spread Some Love:

Framed Glitter Hearts:

Chocolate Cake Waffles

Over the weekend I tried out this idea I saw on Pinterest a while back.

All you do is make up a box of cake mix according to the directions.

Then instead of baking it in the oven, you cook it in the waffle iron, just as you would cook waffles!

After each pair cooked in the waffle iron, I set them on cooling racks until they were completely cooled, then set them all together on a platter.

I had ice cream, cool whip, icing sugar & strawberries, raspberries, bananas, and crushed pineapple to top them with!

They turned out really yummy & I highly recommend trying this idea!

It's a perfect treat for Valentine's Day!!

:)

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Framed Glitter Hearts

Hey! Here's a simple little project I made last week for Valentine's Day....

{It's the same idea as the Framed Easter Egg Art I made last Easter!}

I picked up the heart picks from a dollar store. Each package was $1.25.

And I had this Ikea frame sitting & waiting to be used!

I stuck in a piece of white cardstock...

And then started cutting the foam glitter hearts in half with a serrated kitchen knife, on a cutting board.

Tip: cut through the heart slowly & use a back & forth saw motion to get a clean cut and avoid pieces of the foam from breaking off!

Then I just started gluing the hearts in place with my glue gun!!

And then I set it up with my other Valentine's Day stuff in the living room!

{The Button Heart Frame post can be found here}

With a little rearranging, I settled on this set up...

I love the pink stuff I get to put out for Valentine's Day!

Using a few of the left over hearts, I quickly whipped up this little version for the bathroom...

{The frame was also from Ikea}

I love it!

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So are you finished YOUR crafting for Valentine's Day yet??

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button heart frame

When I packed away all my Christmas decorations, my home seemed so bare!

So I started putting up some of my Valentine's Day stuff!!

I was inspired by this on Pinterest & wanted to make my own version. Here's what I did......

I wanted to fill this white frame that was now empty after the holidays...

I grabbed a piece of grey linen & then made a heart with some pink buttons.

I just set the buttons on & moved them around until it looked like a heart. Then I glued them in place with my trusty glue gun!

Instead of somehow making this permanent in the frame, I just wrapped the linen around the glass, then stuck it all back inside the frame.

After Valentine's Day, I can just store the piece of fabric with my decorations, then my frame will be ready to fill for Easter!

This literally took 5 minutes to make & I love the result!

The subway art was a printable that I framed last year from eighteen25.

The little rosette ball was made by gluing rosettes I made using crepe paper streamers onto a foam ball, then I stuck it on a candle holder.

And because yesterday was kinda gloomy out, it was hard taking decent photos. So my frame even made a trip outside for a quick photo....

I love having some pink stuff up in my home!!!!

Has anyone else brought out their Valentine's decorations yet??

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simple ways to spread some love.

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, here are a couple of easy ways to spread some love.....

Here are some little things I whipped up for the 4 year olds my husband and I teach at church on Sunday:

The cute bubbles came in packs of 4 at Walmart for $2.

I made some labels using a word document then printed them out on cute scrapbook paper. Red for the boys and pink for the girls.

I glued the labels onto some white cardstock to give them some strength, then used a mini heart punch so I could tie them on with some ribbon.

So easy and the kids will like them I'm sure. My 3 year old son was all over this project. Thankfully I had a left over one for him. I'll also take an extra or two in case we have some visitors in our class on Sunday. You never know!

Last night I made some cookies to put in my husband's lunch today. I just used store bought cookie dough. But to make them more special, I added a Reese chocolate heart in the middle of each cookie as soon as they came out of the oven. I'm not a big fan of peanut butter chocolate, but my son and husband like these cookies. They do look pretty yummy....