Homemade Valentines

     Valentine's Day is coming up and Liam's class is celebrating it a few days early.  They don't have school on Friday, so their Valentine's Day party is this Thursday.  Some of classmates have food allergies and restrictions, there's even a diabetic, so I wanted to make something each student could enjoy.  I also made some valentines for his teachers, the administrators, and some of the volunteers that help out at the school.

     I had a lot of fun designing these cute Valentines on PicMonkey then had them printed at Office Max.  I can't wait for Liam to give them out.

These are for his Teachers...

These are his Classmates...

These are for the Administrators & Volunteers...

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

A Day Full of Love

          Happy Valentine's Day...well a week or so late!  Hope you and your sweetie enjoyed the holiday as much as we did.  We kicked off our day of love with these yummy Heart Pancakes, Heart Strawberries, and Conversation Hearts for breakfast!

Here is Liam's Valentine's Day Gift

He was excited to open it!

Loved his Sponge Bob card too!

Kinley was excited watching Liam open his gifts!

Kinley had some of her own (I ate the chocolate though)

Kinley like all her gifts too

I love her little fox card

After everyone got dressed, I set up an impromptu 

photo shoot of My Little Valentines

I made Liam a fun heart filled lunch too!

While Kinley was napping, Liam and I colored his window clings

And he stuck them on!

LOVE the foxes!

What big lips you have Kinley!

The better to kiss you with momma!

When the hubby got home, he presented me with these beautiful pink roses!

We dined on some Surf & Turf for dinner with a 

Spinach Asparagus Salad, and 

Heart Shaped Roasted Potatoes.

For dessert we enjoyed Raspberry Clafoutis

...and some chocolates!

It was another great Valentine's Day!

My Little Valentine's

     So yesterday was Valentine's Day so I set up an impromptu photo session of the kiddos and the LOVE Yarn Letters I made..then edited a few on PicMonkey.  They've got some really cute holiday themes.

Hope you and your Valentine had a wonderful holiday.
Happy Valentine's Day!

I LOVE Yarn Letters

     I've seen these adorable yarn letters on Pinterest and thought I would give it a try myself.  So I went to Hobby Lobby to get my supplies.

What you need:

Paper Mache letters

yarn

tape

How to make them:

     Tape one end of the yarn to the back side of one of the letters.

Then start wrapping the yarn around the letter, keeping it tight and close to the each strand.

Continue doing until the entire letter is wrapped.

Around the corners, it gets a little tough, so just cut the yarn tape it to the letter, then start a new strand by taping it on the letter and start wrapping the letter again.

Here's how mine turned out!

Kinky Bubbles

Cocktail recipe from Kinky Liqueur

What you need:

2 oz KINKY Liqueur

2 oz Champagne

Strawberries cut into hearts for garnish

How to make it:

Pour chilled KINKY into a flute, then top with chilled champagne.

Garnish with strawberry heart, then ENJOY!

Teacher Valentine's Gifts

     Next week Liam's class is having a Valentine's Day party and will be exchanging Valentines.  Liam picked out some fun Skylander Sticker Valentines to give to his classmates, but I thought we should make something a little more special for his and the other teachers.  So here's what I came up with..... 

Here's all you need:

Glass Lightbulbs 

Ribbon

Valentine's Scrapbook Paper

Valentine's candy

I found these at Hobby Lobby.

I printed out "You BRIGHTen my Valentine's Day!" then had Liam sign his name at the bottom,

Then cut them into little squares with my paper cutter.

To make them cuter, I used some decorative scissors and cut around the edges.

Next, I stuck the square onto the Valentine's scrap paper using some scrapbooking adhesive. 

Then cut around to make a border.

You can either use the decorative scissors again or a corner rounder.

Then, punch a hole in the corner for the ribbon to go through.

Fill the lightbulbs with your favorite candy, I chose Milk Chocolate Valentine's M&M's.

Then, I tied the note onto the lightbulb with the ribbon.

They turned out so cute, I made some for my friends!

Happy Valentine's Day!