Happy Valentine's Day
My sweet girls on Valentine's Day!
Our Valentine's Day was a busy one! We hosted a little Valentine's play group with friends that morning and the kids all had a blast. They played, made Valentine's, played some more, ate cupcakes, and then played some more! My girls love hosting their friends here and we really should have more play groups...I'll put that on my Needs Improvement List...#103!
After our morning play group, we got busy getting ready for our special Valentine's dinner for Daddy! We made a quick trip to the grocery store to get the remaining items on my list and then we were set. The girls helped me make heart shaped rice krispie treats that we dipped in chocolate and added sprinkles.
The girls helped me set the table with paper hearts and candles. There's a little story behind the small paper hearts on the table. A lot of those hearts have little love quotes on them. I made these hearts for the first Valentine's dinner I ever made Danny when we were dating. It will come to no surprise to some of you that I kept these hearts and I bring them out every Valentine's day to display on out table. It has become a special tradition of ours.
Aubrey made her first Valentine's this year. Well, not her first, but the first one's that she did completely by herself. She was so thoughtful to make one for each of her sisters and I think she did a fabulous job!
My little Alexandra giving me some Valentine kisses after dinner!
I'm not sure why, but I have always loved decorating for Valentine's day. I haven't had time to do a whole lot of crafting lately, so I decided to step it up with Valentine's day. I follow so many wonderful blogs that have the most amazing craft ideas. They are so inspiring, so these are a couple of the things I made to bring a little red, pink and white love into the house for Valentine's Day.
My first project with my new Silhouette Machine!
This machine is awesome and I can't wait to have more time to play with it!
My front door plaque. I'm very much a copy-cat artist! I saw one similar to this posted on fb.
I've been wanting to make one of these for a while, so here it is.
It was so easy, too! Be on the lookout for more of these!
Our foyer entrance. The wreath is made with a styrofoam ring wrapped in ribbon with cupcake wrapper hot-glued on! It was super easy and cheap! I also printed the Love one Another sign from a blog and framed it in a frame my mom gave me for Christmas. I used my wonderful JoAnn, Michael's, and A.C. Moore coupons to by the apothecary jar and candles. I finished the look off by adding M&M's to the jar and placing some greenery on the table!
Our morning chocolate chip muffins were displayed on different height pedastals. I bought the plates and cups at Target (all for around $7). Instead of gluing the plates to the cups, I added velcro to the plate and cup. This way, I can change out the plates for different seasons simply by adding velcro dots.
I also got the red & white pokadot plates so that I could use these for different holidays.
I can use them for the Fourth or July or Christmas!
This is a better view of the cup beneath the plate.
Another great idea for this is to fill the cup with decorations to to add a little pizazz to it!
Aubrey and I also made some really cute hearts made out of wax paper and melted crayons that we hung from our kitchen table lighting. I don't have a picture of these hearts because a certain 20 month old climbed onto the table and ripped them all down while I was blow drying my hair! Here's a picture of what they looked like, though!
Ok. Ours didn't look quite as good as Martha Stewart's,
but they were still cute!
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