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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Happy Valentines Day everyone! I love the new messages on sweethearts! This one was my favorite! Aaron brought it home for me.

When I got up this morning there was a giant pillow heart waiting downstairs for me. Both Stewie and Oscar have been eyeballing it as a potential napping location - no! Bad kitty! Down boy!

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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Aaron sent me flowers at the office yesterday to kick off Valentines weekend. I love the peonies, hyacinth and pussy willows! What a nice surprise! (Even though they dribbled all over our receptionist's desk - oops!)

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Friday, February 12, 2010

I made these I heart twitter buttons for my peeps for little Valentines Day treats. Have I mentioned how much I love my button maker?

I also made up these little goodie boxes for Tina, Shruti and Aprille. Inside were items I bought right in front of them! Clay bird for Tina, knit cup snuggy for Aprille and a bird decal for Shruti.

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

I love decorating for Valentines Day. (ok what holiday DON'T I love to decorate for?) I was excited to set up my heart tree in the new house. I had Aaron get me an extra big branch for it since we have more room now.

It looks so nice on our mantle with my other bits and bobs. The red really stands out. Almost makes me want to keep the living room white. Hah - almost.

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

I almost forgot to blog about this because I picked it up on the way home from my parents at Christmas and it seemed ridiculous to blog about Valentines Day so early. I found this in the Target $1 bins... it was $2.50 however, but still a great deal. It's perfect for our Jack & Jill bathroom upstairs.

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Target has it's $6 Valentines Day shirts out! I loved this squirrel one.

This one cracked me up. If you are looking for them at Target - you will find them in the PJ section.

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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Aaron also got me a necklace from Figs & Ginger, my favorite jewelry designer. Unexpectedly matches my t-shirt from Target.

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Saturday, February 14, 2009

We had a special breakfast for Valentine's Day.

Aaron surprised me with a pan to make ebleskiver aka Danish aka filled pancakes.

He made half with cream inside and half with chocolate.

In the evening we went to dinner at The Melting Pot and went to see Coraline.

I think the highlight was when we discovered we got each other the same Valentines card. It's the third time we have done this! Once at Christmas and again on our anniversary.

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Friday, February 13, 2009

Since I was going to see most of my friends today at work I had to have my Valentine's gifties ready to go.

Using my most excellent button maker Aaron got me for Christmas I designed and made these heart themed buttons.

And Aaron helped me make these white chocolate dipped pretzel sticks.

They were weren't very hard to make and are sooo tasty.

I also used the Valentine cards I designed for work as gift tags.

I think everything put together made a cute little surprise.

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Friday, February 06, 2009

Valentine's Day is almost here so time to get cracking on some Valentine's projects. I designed these little Valentine cards for work that you can download and print for yourself. They would be great for tucking into a lunch bag or for the kiddies to give to their classmates. There is a link to the pdf here.

I also designed these lollipop treat templates. There are ones with Valentine messages...

... and a template you can personalize with your own photo. There is a link to the pdf's and how to's here. Nice little treats for handing out to your buddies.

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Thursday, February 05, 2009

I can't wait until Valentine's Day. We had brunch last sunday with all my heart themed accoutrements.

I tried to get fancy with Aaron's coffee and draw a heart in the foam. Ehhh. I could use one of these machines!

And Aaron made heart shaped scones with pink sugar on top. We had them with cream and strawberry preserves. Sooo gooood.

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Friday, January 23, 2009

Aaron won these candlesticks at his office holiday lunch. I was going to put them away for the season, but he pointed out they would work for Valentine's Day too.

He was right. Especially with pink candles. (which are harder to find than you would think) I love pink and red together!

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Those darn owls from Target are taking over my house.

Window clings.

Placemats. Window jelly clingy things.

Blanky. Very soft blanky.

Good thing Aaron doesn't mind pink. Well, really he got me all this stuff, so he can't complain.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

We were checking out the Christmas clearance sales at Target over a week ago when I noticed they already had their Valentine's Day stuff out. And the theme is OWLS! Can you believe it?!

Hmmm-mmmm! Pink owls!

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Friday, February 15, 2008

Aaron got me the most amazing balloon ever for Valentine's Day. It's a singing balloon! And it looks a little like him too.

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Thursday, February 14, 2008

I made Candy Bar Cozies for my friends for Valentine's Day.

They were pretty quick to make, they are felt envelopes with hearts and buttons.

I like mixing and matching the colors of felt and buttons.

Each cozy has a yummy bar of dark chocolate tucked away inside.

You can see more pictures of this project and how I made them on my Project Gallery.

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Monday, February 11, 2008

I am really excited about this project I created for work. It's a picture frame made from an empty Valentine's Day candy box.

Now you can reuse your heart shaped candy boxes instead of throwing them out. Reduce, reuse and recycle!

It's just the top and bottom of the box glued together with an easel cut in the back for it to sit up on.

Here is a close up shot of the back easel configuration.

You can see more pictures and detailed instructions here. (note: I have added the extra support arm you see above since I wrote up those instructions)

I blogged about it on 1000 Words too.

I ate a lot of chocolate while making these frames by the way.

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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

I am so lucky that I get to do stuff I enjoy at work. I just designed these Valentine's Day Candy Bar Wrappers for the project center.

Aaron had no idea he was going to be the cover boy for all the candy wrappers.

There are three different wrappers that you can download. They all have funny little sayings on them.

You can either open the pdf's up in a photo editing tool and add your pictures or print them out as is and cut out the hearts and place your picture behind the cutout.

Go here to download the wrappers and see more detailed instructions.

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Sunday, January 20, 2008

Have you seen the Valentine Day stuff at Target? There is a cupcake theme.

Cupcake handtowel and cupcake dish scrubber.

Cupcake dish cloth and dish towels.

Cupcake picture frame and photo holders.

Cupcake bowl and dish.

and cupcake pillow! Yum, yum, yum!

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Friday, January 18, 2008

There were some amazing Martha products at Michaels for Halloween and Christmas, so I was looking forward to seeing what they had for Valentines Day.

Not a whole lot is the answer. Usually there is an entire freestanding display of holiday craft goodness, but this holiday only got an endcap.

I am hoping it's just because they are busily working away on Easter stuff!

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