Valentines Day

Happy Belated Valentines Day!

This year for Valentines Day I worked and had a Happy Days marathon. Sounds exciting, huh? 

Here's how my day went:

1. worked from 11-1

2. passed out some Valentines

3. went home, gave Gracie her snacks, etc.

4. went to the after school program for their VDay party

5. passed out Valentines and ate

6. went home and ate a slice of pizza

7. watched a couple episodes of Happy Days

8. went downstairs for a little bit and took pictures with Gracie

9. watched more episodes of Happy Days until I fell asleep

These are the valentines I bought for the kids at the after school program. 

My mom made these for my brothers and me.

I made these pencils for my coworker. The pencil part are Rolos, the tip is a Hershey's kiss and the eraser is just pink tissue paper. I wrote the tags.

I made these dog treats for Gracie.

Here she is enjoying them.

And here's me and my valentine, Gracie.

So that was my Valentine's Day. It wasn't very exciting, but I enjoyed it.

Only a Dum-Dum

In my last post I shared the Valentines I made for my girl friends. I also made a little something for one of my guy friends. My mom had this box that she made in the past, but never did anything with it. I took that box and I bought Dum-Dums (you know the lollipops). I wrapped the Dum-Dums in red tissue paper and put them in the box. Then, I made a tag and (with my semi-crappy handwriting) wrote, "Only a Dum-Dum wouldn't want you as a Valentine." For the "Dum-Dum" part, I cut out a piece of the wrapper that said Dum-Dums and stuck it to the tag & then I crossed out the S with a pen. Then, I tied a white ribbon around it. I haven't been able to give it to him yet, but I know he'll like it (or at least he better).

I Am Fortunate to Have You

Happy Belated Valentines Day! This year for VD I decorated these take out boxes from Origami Owl & made fortune cookies out of felt. I made 3 for my friends Crysalyn, Danielle & Favi. For the boxes, I covered each of them with love related paper. Then, I put a ribbon around it and tied it in the front. Finally, I added random red, pink, white & yellow ribbons around the handle. For the fortune cookies, I followed the link below.
http://www.thewonderforest.com/2012/01/14-days-of-love-love-filled-felt.html?m=1

My friends loved them! I loved making these and I'm glad my friends love them as much as I do.

I am fortunate to have you in my life. Fortunately, I have you as a friend.

The Before

The Afters

Crysalyn's

Favi's

Danielle's

Gift from Valentine's Past

Even though I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day, I still love making (and even getting) gifts. I had so many different ideas of what to make my friends this year. Last year we had a Secret Valentine between my group of friends. Originally everyone was suppose to have someone from the opposite sex; however, there were more girls than guys so one girl had a girl. The name I chose was my friend Michael, which was nice but I didn't know him that well then. So I asked his GF (at the time) who I was also friends with what kind of things did he like. Once I got a general idea I decided what to make him. I have seen in a magazine (the name escapes me now) a small mailbox and it has Valentine goodies coming out of it. I loved the idea so much, so I decided to do that. First, I bought a mailbox from Michael's. It was lavender so I painted it a dark purple (his favorite color). Next, I embossed his name on one side and for you on the flag thing (obviously I don't know what its actually called). Then, I glued two music notes on the ends of his name since he was in band in high school & he loves music. Next, I found old Scrabble letters and found his initials, MDL, and glued them to the front of the mailbox. Once I was finished with the mailbox, I had to find something to fill it with. I made chocolate cake balls and envelope shaped cookies. For the cookies I covered them with with frosting and used red icing to make them look like envelopes. I was so excited about my gift yet nervous if he was even going to like it. When the day came to reveal your Secret Valentine, I was genuinely surprised when he told me he loved it and it out-shined everyone's. He actually still has it a year later, at least that's what he told me. Anyways I just wanted to share that just because that was my first V-Day where I actually made something for someone. Now I can't stop, I want to make stuff every year even when I don't have a Valentine.