Category: Valentine’s Day


Feb
2024

A Special Valentine’s Day Frame

categories: DIY, Valentine's Day

I love Valentine’s Day.

I love that this is a special day set aside to tell those in your life just how much you love them.

I love that it is a day for couples to show their love in sweet, loving, and romantic ways, but most of all I love this special day to let my family and friends know how special they are to me.

I love to make cards and send simple gifts, or call, or text, just to say “I love you”.

I love to decorate just a bit for this day, and today I want to share how I turned a dollar store wood frame into something special.

I love how easy and fun it was to update a simple wood frame with just paint, glue, and some flat wood buttons glued around the heart opening.

The flat wood buttons were $1 a pack at Hobby Lobby, I used two packs.

Using a sponge brush I painted the entire frame, front and back, with white paint.

When dry, I started gluing the buttons around the heart opening using E6000 glue.

When the buttons were completely dry and secure, I painted them and gave the entire frame one more coat of paint.

I love the finished frame, especially when I added a photo of me and my sweet husband taken on our wedding day 54 years ago.

It is certainly a special frame for Valentine’s Day.

I love you all for stopping by today, please remember to say “I love you” to all those close to you tomorrow.

Hugs.


Feb
2022

“Love”-ly Valentine’s Day Heart Projects

categories: Crafts, DIY, Valentine's Day

Today I want to share a few simple and easy Valentine’s Day DIY decorations.

I realize lots of folks do not decorate for Valentine’s Day, but for me, it is fun to have a few special decorations out for this one special “love” day.

A reminder in my home of just how much love I have in my life.

This $1 store unfinished hanging heart has turned out to be one of my favorite Valentine’s Day projects.

It was just oh so easy to put together.

I printed some floral paper on my computer, traced around each section of the heart, and cut them out.

Using Mod Podge, I applied the paper pieces to the heart, and replaced the jute twine with pink ribbon to hang.

That was it!

It is so “love”-ly.

A piece to pack up and bring out every year.

Another $1 store find were these paper mache heart boxes.

These paper boxes have a vintage inspired feeling to me and are so fun to decorate.

My boxes are simple. Simple is the look I love in most everything.

I painted my boxes white and added some Valentine decals.

Using the same floral paper I used on the wood heart, I covered the top of another.

Perfect little gifts when filled with chocolates.

I have a childhood memory of a large ornate heart candy box my Momma kept and filled with bits of little things when the chocolates were gone.

Hope you all have a few heart treasures out in your homes, or maybe just take a few minutes to think about Valentine’s Day memories through the years.

Love to all of you!


Feb
2022

A Perfect Day to Create

categories: Crafts, Valentine's Day

Last Thursday two inches of ice fell in our area, followed by two inches of snow.

We were iced and snowed in!

I don’t think there could have been a better day to just stay home and create.

With Valentine’s Day next week, I filled my kitchen table with colorful papers, prints, paints, and stickers. Anything and everything I might need to make cards, and small gifts.

As the ice fell, hitting my kitchen window, I began.

The, “little girl”, that is still in me at 75 years old, showed up, just as she did when I received a new box of crayons or paper dolls so long ago.

Valentine’s Day to me is a special day to say “I love you”.

“I love you” to friends, family, and of course, your “sweethearts”.

I made many cards that day, keeping each loved one in mind as I tried to chose just the perfect creation for them.

Using some small blank art canvas packs from the $1 store, I had fun making small pictures.

I simply turned the canvas to the wood frame side, painted them white, and filled with words and old photos.

To allow the frames to stand, I glued a small wood block to the back of each, and painted them white.

I found these unfinished wood hearts at Target last year.

Painted them pink, white, with gold, again, to hold photos or special notes.

A keepsake, I hope, for those who receive them.

To finish up, I embellished some, just a bit.

What a wonderful day for me, staying home, staying warm, feeling safe, surrounded by things I love, and my sweet family close by.

Just so many blessings!

Love you all!


Feb
2021

Love is Kind…Love is Patient

categories: Crafts, Valentine's Day

Life can sure be stressful.

Some days are especially difficult for caregivers.

As a caregiver, I some days forget the way I should be, it can be so hard.

In the bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4 talks about love, describing it in many ways.

Everyone should take time to read this.

There is a project I have been wanting to try, yesterday was the perfect day for it!

Using a blank inexpensive canvas, I traced around a wood shaped heart on the canvas.

Followed up with placing stick on letters around the heart, “Love is Kind…Love is Patient”.

Painted the entire canvas, including the letters, with two coats of white paint. Sorry I forgot to take a photo of this step!

When completely dry, I very lightly painted gold on the letters.

I really wanted the gold to be soft, not harsh, as the letters were out of the package.

A sweet reminder of something we all need more of in our lives, kindness and patience.

“Love” this project, it is especially nice for this upcoming Valentine’s Day.

I plan on placing my canvas in my home where I can be reminded just how much my husband struggles.

Just to walk a bit, takes so much out of him.

He has put up with me for 51 years.

I think that after 51 years of putting up with all my shenanigans, the least I can do is show him love and patience every single day we are together.

Love to all of you folks.

Baking heart cookies today, I hope they turn out as beautiful as I want them to be!


Feb
2021

A Cute and Simple Valentine’s Day Table Idea

categories: Celebrate, Valentine's Day

It has been oh so cold here, hot cocoa everyday.

Today it is snowing, lots of it!

Spent time these past few days putting up a few Valentine decorations and making some cards and crafts.

So funny that as a child I never liked Valentine’s Day, but love it now!

In grade school we would all walk around the room and lay cards on the desks of our classmates.

My fear was that I would return to very few cards placed on my desk.

It happened, and I was crushed.

On a happier note, and making happier memories, today I thought I would share a Valentine’s Day idea that anyone can do to celebrate a bit.

All you need is a red table napkin folded 4 times to form an envelope.

Fold each side to the center, one over the other, and then fold up twice from the bottom to form the shape of an envelope.

Fold the flap down, and it looks exactly like a red envelope!

Don’t you think it is so cute?

You could place a simple greeting inside for those you love, or maybe a sweet treat, heart chocolates, or a Valentine cookie.

So simple, a surprise for those you love when they come to the table.

Valentine’s Day for me is telling and showing all the special folks in my life that I love them.

Show them in special little ways.

It’s LOVE day!

Until next time, with love and blessings.


Feb
2019

Boxes Filled With Love and Kisses

categories: Valentine's Day

As a little girl, I always loved those large lovely heart-shaped Valentine boxes, filled with chocolates. Not so much for the chocolates, but just to have one of those boxes for my very own.

I would imagine all the sweet things I might keep in one.

Found these paper mache boxes at Michael’s, $2.50 for four. I thought what fun to paint them with the colors of Valentine’s Day.

I also found some small knobs that fit perfectly on the top of each one of the boxes.

Filled some with chocolate kisses, but the one I especially like is the one I filled with small, wallet size photos. Photos of those I will always love. Always.

The larger white box, filled with photos, is a Valentine’s gift to myself.

It now sits on a table in my living room.

Every time I dust, I open it, sit a minute, and just look at those special loving faces that have filled my life.

The box itself is a gift!

Would be cute on each plate at Valentine’ s Day dinner, or a really sweet box for a small gift. No wrapping needed.

Thanks for stopping by, I love you all so much!

Wishing all love and kisses!


Feb
2019

Just a Kid Again…Making Valentines

categories: Valentine's Day

Saturday morning, with a throw wrapped around me, I sat at my kitchen table surrounded by old photos, colorful paper and envelopes, scissors, and fun stickers, remembering days so very, very long ago, when I made valentines.

With love in my heart I created simple cards for those who bring love into my life.

As I completed each one, I imagined a smile on their faces when they receive them.

Simply made by printing out old photos, and adding fun stickers.

So easy and inexpensive, yet so special because of the time and love I put into each one.

Valentine’s Day isn’t just for sweethearts, it is a day to let those you love know it!

After I completed my cards, I took a pack of $1 store white paper doilies, some yarn from my Momma’s sewing box, and made a simple banner. So very sweet hanging across my dining room cabinet.

Friends and family, watch your mailboxes, a smile and lots of love from me is headed your way!

Blessings and hugs!


Feb
2018

Our Valentine’s Day Breakfast

categories: Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine’s Day!

I hope your day is filled with love, and lots, and lots, of hugs!

As I posted a couple days back, I surprised my husband with a cute, simple, kitchen table, set up with love, Valentine’s Day breakfast.

Step by step I set up the table early while he was still sleeping.

The Target mugs worked great as the focal point of my table setting.

Oh my gosh, they are so sweet!

No flowers for the table, so I used these black and white floral bowls for the berries and yogurt, and decided on the mini gold frames for our wedding photo.

Scattered a few paper hearts to finish up.

The table looked amazing.

No bacon, eggs, and all of that, just his usual simple breakfast, something sweet, fruit, yogurt, juice and coffee.

We enjoyed our bit of quiet time together, not even the usual TV noise in the background.

We have not had a perfect marriage, but we know that we are in this together, to the end.

My husband is a good person who struggles with horrible physical issues, I love him so!

Love that has grown over the years.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Hope your day is filled with so much love!

XO XO

 

 


Feb
2018

“Sweets” on a Cold Gloomy Day

categories: Celebrate, Valentine's Day

Oh my gosh, yesterday was a really cold, rainy day!

So, I made cookies to warm our home.

I am not a good cook, that is why you do not see many recipes on my blog.

I am not a good baker either, but I do love to make simple heart shaped sugar cookies for Valentine’s Day.

They are not perfect, my icing sometimes is a bit drippy, and maybe a bit too hot pink!

But I found that if you wrap them in a cellophane bag, with a colorful ribbon, they look almost perfect!

Wrapped up they become a sweet treat for anyone you love.

Bakery heart cookies are over $1 each, and sometimes just not so fresh.

On Valentine’s Day, I like to put one on each plate at supper.

So cute!

Just an inexpensive way to say, “I Love You”!

Today I am going to try to catch my “mail lady” as she delivers on our street.  She has been off sick for a bit, and maybe a cookie will cheer her, get her through a long day.

We have become friendly over the years, just chit chatting at my mailbox.  Love her, she is so sweet, down to earth, and a very hard working person.

I love to put a cookie in my son’s work lunchbox as a surprise!  I know he will smile when he sees it!

A great treat with coffee, on his mid morning break.

We eat too many cookies in our house, but isn’t that what cookies are for?

Hope you are warming your home on these cold days, with love, and making heart cookies!

Hugs and kisses!