Happy Valentines Day!!!

Just sharing a bit of our lovey dovey decor! The kids just love holiday decorations, so each year we add a bit more to our stash! Have the most wonderful day and be sure to let everyone you love just how special they are!

Happy little decorations...

I love making banners and garlands. They would be strung all over the house all year round if I had my way... :) These are a few of my Valentine garlands that are hanging in my house. My daughter Maddie and I made the "puff ball" (as she calls them) garland and the doily garland. The honey comb hearts were a fun dollar store find.

Love Sign

I know Valentines Day is over, but I had so many things I wanted to make and with the Christmas Photo Challenge I just couldn't get them all done before the 14th. No big deal though, cause I decided I would work on some of them this week. I left my handy storage tub that holds all our Valentine decorations out so when I'm done I can pack them all away for next year. When I get it out next year it will be filled with new decorations! Fun! (see how good I am at making myself feel better about it! :))

This Love sign is one of the new goodies I've made.

It was so super simple to make, I thought I'd share it with you. I just stitched cute polka dot fabric to some chipboard I cut to form the base. Then I added some journal paper, the circle letters which I crumpled and inked, and then stitched it all onto the sign. I added the vintage pink fringe, a white silk flower that I inked, and a fluffy tulle hanger.


Quick, easy, and cute! My hubby looked at it and said "that's nice, but it's very fluffy." (think he meant really girlie) I just smiled and said it's a "fluffy" holiday. Hope all of you had a great Valentines Day...and before you pack up those decorations, make a few more to add to your stack next year!

Be sure to stop by my shop today, lots of new goodies going in this week!

Valentine Gifts

Happy Friday!!! Whooo where has this week gone? Do you ever have weeks like that? Monday comes then you blink and oh, it's Friday already? I tell you what, I feel like have been running all week! I haven't even posted any thing since Monday.... ugh! :) I've been trying like crazy to get my Valentines Day gifts done amongst all the other goings on, so I thought I share some of them with you!

Here are some cute little tea towels I decorated up. I used some vintage Valentine images, turned them into fabric transfers, and stitched on some fun polka dot ribbon. (you can find this ribbon in my shop if you like me and just have to have anything polka dot!)
I put 2 towels in each set and tied them together with more of that lovely ribbon.
I'm so excited to give these out! :) I hope they like them!

How is the Christmas photo challenge coming? I'd love to hear about your progress so leave a comment! (see previous post for details)

Valentine Mailboxes

How is everyone today? This is one busy weekend for us! So much to do! I'm hoping to get a little more scrapping in amongst the chaos cause I have to get some more Valentine goodies made!

For a while I think my hubby thought I was a little nutty, starting all these crazy traditions right after my first son Parker was born. I know he was too little to remember when they started, but now they have become such a part of our family we look forward to each and every one. I loved our family traditions growing up, and it's just so important to me that my kids have those wonderful memories too. So now I'm always coming up with new fun traditions that we can share!

Today is the 1st day of our Valentine mailbox deliveries. I had the mail boxes all set out and ready to go for the kids when the got up this morning. We love this tradition! Every day for the next week (until the 14th) each of my children and my hubby will find a little goodie in their mailbox. So I thought I'd share the little goodie bags they got today!




If you'd like to start this little tradition for someone you love, I still have a couple of mailboxes for sale in the shop. Lots of other fun Valentine goodies there too, so check it out!

Vintage Valentine Creation

This is a cute wall hanging I made for our house the other day. It was so quick and fun to do! I had just been dying to use this cute red striped fabric I bought so this is what I came up with.

I dyed a white silk carnation with coffee to give it an aged look and added it to one corner of the sign. I used really large red rick rack as a hanger and tied pink and white striped fabric strips and sparkly red tulle to it after I stitched it onto the sign.

I layered vintage dotted Swiss fabric, floral print patterned scrapbook paper, and a vintage Valentine image and stitched them to the sign. I added some fun trims, vintage appliques, and wooden bingo markers.

I made the base of the sign out of chipboard. Then I cut,tore, and frayed the fabric so it would cover the chipboard with some "hanging over" the edges.

Then I stitched the 2 together with some haphazard layers of stitching and added the embellishments!

I love how it turned out, and now I have several more I want to make! Valentines Day is sneaking up so quickly! I have several gifts I need to get working on too! I share them as I finish them.

Don't for get about the February Special in my shop. (see previous post for details) Be sure to head on over there today, I've added some new goodies!

Valentines Day Traditions

Since we were talking about the importance of scrapbooking your family traditions yesterday, I thought I'd share one of our Valentines Day traditions today.

I made little mailboxes for each one of our children and one for hubby and I to share. Then the week before Valentines Day I put a card, a sweet, or surprise in their mailboxes each day. My kids absolutely love this tradition; it has become one of their favorites. I think they love the idea of getting their own mail! They are so excited about each card and goodie. Since this is so popular in our house I decided to make a few mailboxes for my etsy shop.
This is the Froo Froo Mailbox. It's super girly and a bit over the top, but really how can you have too much floof for Valentines Day.

This is Cupid's Mailbox, it's going in the shop today. I just love that little vintage cupid image, too cute!

Be sure to start some fun Valentines Day traditions for your family! I'll be sharing more of ours as we head into February. I'd love to hear yours to! Leave a comment and share your fab ideas with us!