Is it too late for Valentines?

My daughter loves any and ALL holidays. She thinks she needs to have a new outfit or some kind of party for like every day of the year!! So I know this is kind of old... But these would be great for birthday parties or even St. Patty's day coming up. This year for Valentines me and my little girly girl stayed up late poking holes in gum balls and stringing them up for her class room Valentines. I think they turned out absolutely darling!!! So easy and so fun! I got the idea from tip junkie and when I saw them I knew I would be making them. You can buy gum balls in bulk or by certain colors at different party stores. We lucked out and just raided Grandmas gum ball machine! Easy enough free and free!!!

The boys got blue green and yellow ones and the girls got the girly ones. The arrows were big tootsie roll cupid arrows for my Max man's joy school group.

Nothing like a new skirt from grandma to help celebrate the day of love! The necklace just made the whole outfit right??

A Valentine treat for your Honey.

Ok, so this is SOOOOO old!! about ten years old to be exact!! I made this pillow as a gift for Valentines day for my hubby (but at that point he was my almost fianc'e) . I was inspired by this fabric that I had found at Walmart in my small college town. I loved the whole "How do I love thee let me count the ways" thing so I went with it and began thinking up all of the ways I loved my man! The fun part about this pillow was that I re-read the list for the first time in ten years the other day and it reminded me of all the little things that I loved and still love about my honey! And for the last couple of days I have re-noticed all of those little things that made me fall in love with him way back then! I know this is so cheesy! But fun!

So I typed up my reasons and printed them on transferable iron on paper. and then Ironed it onto a white piece of square fabric. The pillow is 16X16 inch square and I just used a pillow form for the stuffing.

This such a simple project and would be great if you are a beginner sewer and just looking for a fun little project. All straight lines and really no way to mess up.  And if you don't love the whole pillow idea just type your reasons up, print them out and frae them. That works to and is even easier then the pillow!!

I LOVE Free!

I needed a little Valentines fun in our house, and Mr. Hess doesn't really like to pay for that little extra fun!! So I got creative! I found some sticks in the back yard and went to my handy dandy spray paint collection and started spraying. We sprayed them red and pink! (I must say that I love the rainbow colored grass it left behind!) Madi was the glitter girl and while the spray paint was drying her job was sprinkling the sticks with glitter. Then I had the kiddies color me some hearts and we hung them on our tree! It's kind of fun. But it was missing something... I wanted a cute table cloth so I went to my fabric scraps and found this pink cotton. I cut a square out of it and made some ruffles and sewed the ruffles and some pink ribbon on. originally I was going to ruffle the whole square but then my ADD kicked in and I just did the two edges. But I still think it turned out pretty cute, if I don't say so myself!

Raise your hand if you think I should stop blogging and go wash those dishes in the background!!!!

Valentines Garland

So have you been noticing in the crafting blogging world a lot of similar Valentine ideas floating around here??? I have to. I think that they are all darling, so I pulled three ideas that I have been seeing a lot into one. On My frugal family, she made a way cute ribbon heart hanger click here for tute details, Then all over the place I have seen these ruffle hanger hearts. So simple. Cut your strip of any type of fabric sew a gathering stitch down the middle, gather it and then hot glue your ruffle to a wire hanger formed into a heart. And then of course there are the Valentine garlands all over the place as well. So I decided to take a bunch of ribbons and hang my hearts onto them. I put it over my fireplace and now we have a new free Valentine decoration for our home! Kind of fun to play off of other ideas floating around the web. Happy Valentines!