Will You Be Our Valentine?!

Lovey and I put a lot of

 heart {♥}

 into our Valentine’s this year.

I made these with coordinating envelopes.

 

And sweet, mini-heart clips to seal them up!

I LOVE Lovey’s Valentines.

They make me smile every time I look at them.

He was a good sport and allowed me to pose his right hand in the photo so that once I added a sucker it would look like he was handing it to you.- -The hand in his pocket has evolved into his personal trademark, by his own doings. Such a charmer he is.

I originally saw the card idea here and thought it looked like such a fun one that family and friends would be happy to receive.

 

I mean who can resist a cherry sucker and such a loveable, little boy’s smile?!

Gingerbread Boy Ornament

Do you remember the Christmas tree ornament tradition Lovey and I began last year?

 This year we made a gingerbread boy one.

  

Christmas Cocoa

I think this very well is my favorite hand-made gift to date. Also the most tedious to make might I add. Talk about a hand cramp after I curling more ribbon than I normally do in an entire Christmas season.

Well worth it though I think, take a look!!

I portioned the cocoa and marshmallows into individual serving size bags.

Then I dipped spoons to stir the cocoa with into chocolate and added festive sprinkles.

In total I made twenty-nine! I hope all the recipients enjoy their cocoa on Christmas morning made with my special ingredient, LOVE!

Santa’s Hat! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Lovey’s Christmas craft this year was to make Santa’s hat. Since he is finally at the age that he recognizes who Santa is, he had a lot of fun making it. I cut the hat out and applied glue where needed then handed him a pile of cotton balls and he went to town.

He insisted on wearing his very own Santa hat and sang a little song while he worked that went like this;

“Santa’s hat! Hey! Hey! Hey!

 Santa’s hat! Hey! Hey! Hey!…”

  

Stocking Stuffers

Every Christmas I put together stockings and send them to my family back home. This year I figured since they already have several from over the years that I would do things a little different. After making the bulb wreath I had a lot of the empty containers that they came in so I used them to make stocking stuffers for the stockings they already have.

   

I filled them up with all of their favorite candy leaving some room at the top to add a few extra special things.

I wrapped them up and added foil paper and ribbon to seal the tops. So simple to make which saved me a lot of time for another project coming soon.

WHISKing You A Merry KISSmas!

You read the title correctly. What do I mean by that though you ask?

Combine a Christmas kitchen dish towel/pot holder set, a whisk and a lot of Hershey kisses…

 

Fill the whisk with Hershey Kisses.

Wrap it with tinted transparent wrap and curling ribbon.

Add it to the dish towel/potholder set, place it in a fun Christmas bag, add a sweet tag that of course says just that

Whisking You A Merry Kissmas!

And you have a lovely handmade gift for someone special this holiday season.

This particular set I made for my Mama but I also made a few in different prints for the other ladies in my life. A  simple little something that you can make to say you care!

Christmas Bulb Wreath

I have wanted to make one- -or five! of these for a few years but have never gotten around to it. I even promised my Mama that I would make her one and since I’m a woman of my word I finally did just that.

Red, green, gold and silver bulbs in shiny, matt and glitter finishes. The glitter ones were my favorite!

Lovey helped make it by handing me each bulb as I slid them on the wire coat hanger.

I think it turned out beautifully and I hope she will enjoy it hanging on her front door each time she arrives home as much as Lovey and I  enjoyed making it for her.

 My only wish is that I had enough left over bulbs and time to make my own. Next year though, definitely next year!

Diaper Box Makeover-Tutorial

If you are a parent, I bet you probably have many empty diaper boxes stacked up in your garage filled with outgrown baby clothes, Christmas decorations and a whole assortment of miscellaneous things, I know I sure do!

I’m always looking for cute and practically priced storage options for around the house.

I am a firm believer in

“a place for everything and everything in its place!”

Unfortunately, the cuter the basket the pricier they usually seem to run.

So I decided to take advantage of all those diaper boxes and create my own! 

You may remember this wrapping paper from

my little sister’s birthday chic package a few months back.

I couldn’t help but fall in love with the pattern.

Lucky for me I came across the last two rolls on the shelf at Target the other day while I was there. Score!

I decided I wanted to start by organizing

my upstairs hall closet.

Towels, hand towels, wash rags, 

extra blankets and sheets etc. which would call for five lovely boxes, one for each shelf.

To get started I used;

-Five empty diaper boxes

-One roll of the floral wrapping paper for the outside of the box

-One roll of contrasting wrapping paper in a fun color,

 I chose red.

-Ribbon to make bows.

Fortunately for me I have a giant bag full of red ribbon!

 Of course you do not have to make bows, I just did because I like the feminine detail that bows add and in a house where I’m out numbered by boys 2-1 I try to sneak in as much of that as I can!

scissors

-Tape

I made my ribbons first for each box so that I could get them out of the way.

Then I wrapped the floral paper around the box and folded it inside as if I were wrapping a present.

After I secured that into place I cut the red paper to size and wrapped the inside of the box edges

so to leave about an inch of the red paper over lapping the floral on the outside.

I felt it added a bit more visual interest.

Then I just stuck one of the bows I had made on the front.

Simple and easy!

Also each additional box will only take half the time to make because I used my first paper measurements as a guide to cut all the rest which is a plus when you are making these during your little one’s nap time.

I present to you a gorgeous storage box

or even just decorative box if you would like!

One down, four more to go

where my hall closet is concerned.

I’m  sure many more of these will be popping up around the house in all kinds of  paper patterns!

I think I’m going to make a few for my laundry room shelfs next once these are finished!

 

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We Love You This Much

As soon as I saw the idea for this card,

 I knew right away Lovey and I were going to make one.

I love and miss my Mama and Lovey his Grammy.

So it was only fitting to make our We Love You This Much card for her.

What we used:

*Tissue paper

*Cling Wrap

*An iron

*A pen

*Scissors

*Alphabet stickers

*Craft foam

*Printer paper

*Double sided tape

 

How we made it:

* I used my favorite card making technique with pretty bird tissue paper that I transferred to a white piece of paper.

Then I traced my hands and cut them out.

* I traced Lovey’s hands on the green craft foam, cut them out and taped them to the inside of the cut outs of my hands.

*I cut a heart out of the pink craft foam and taped to the front hand in the center then used the alphabet stickers to finish writing WE LOVE(♥) YOU.

* I cut two strips of white paper and folded them accordion style and attached the alphabet stickers saying THIS MUCH. Then I attached a hand to each end so that they would both be left-handed.

When it’s folded up it looks like one hand that says WE LOVE YOU, then when she opens it, it’s a pop up card that says THIS MUCH!

 Which represents Lovey’s and my hands open wide for a hug! 

 I think this photo says it all! ♥

WE LOVE YOU THIS MUCH!

 

Grandma’s Gifts

Lovey and I made these awhile back for his Grammy and Nana.

I just came across the photos and realized I  forgot to post about them, oops!

My Mama, his Grammy, especially loved hers because she collects angel things.

They say:

Wherever you go, whatever you do

may your guardian angel watch over you. 

 

 Lovey is a bit neurotic about having dirty hands so slathering them in white finger paint and getting him to sit still long enough to make the “angel wings” took some quick movement on my part.

 So please excuse the photo quality of the picture below as I only had one shot before he bolted to the sink!

His expression says it all!

Making them may have been a bit of an ordeal but they turned out to be really sweet keepsake’s for his Grandmas, who in their own special ways are Lovey’s guardian angels.

♥