Picture Board

This month Allison updated her bulletin board with a red, white and black background and some of her favorite pictures.

Earrings

This month Valerie made two sets of earrings.  One a little dressier and one for more fun:)

Kitchen Scrubbies

This month Vicki made some kitchen scrubbies.  She crocheted them using rough netting.  They work so much better than the regular scotch kitchen pads.

Kitchen Decoration

I was feeling extra ambitious this month:) I've had these canvases on my "want to do" list for a while. I took acrylic paint and gave the canvases two coats a piece - still had a bit of white showing through, but liked the look. Then I used the Silhouette to cut out the sayings and coffee cup in black vinyl and attached it to one canvas. Then I used adhesive backed card stock to cut out the olive and heart. Once I attached everything to the canvas I gave it a good coat of Mod Podge to give it a bit of gloss.We are a house that likes our coffee and olive - though not together!

Valentines Day Kids Crafts

So this month I enlisted the help of my son, Holden.  For Valentines day presents, I helped him make paper heart wreaths for the grandmas and a bird seed ornament for Daddy.  The bird seed ornament was made by cutting a heart out of cardboard, spreading shortening onto the heart, and then pressing bird seed onto the shortening.

Recycled Frames

These frames were originally brass colored bamboo and a dark green.  Kelly gave them new life by spray painting them white.

Then Kelly spray painted over an old print with celery green and painted a silhouette of a bird on a branch to go in the frame.  She put the mirrors back into the two smaller frames.

14 Days of Valentines

So instead of the 12 days of Christmas I decided to do the 14 Days of Valentines for my Hubby. Each day he got to open a card that either had a gift, theme for the day, or a date plan inside. The first day he got a muffin tin countdown that each day had one of my favorite love quotes for him to read. The numbers, muffin tin countdown idea, and several of the dates we had I borrowed from The Dating Divas! Below are a few pictures from the two weeks: Day 4 was breakfast in bed, Day 6 was a special Monday morning CD/itunes mix for his drive to the office with lyrics that I love written out, Day 8 was baking dessert together, Day 9 was a specially packed lunch (note: my attempt at Mater thanks to the Funky Lunch Bunch) and the last day was the all about him basket - with 100 reasons why I love him and small corresponding gifts. Happy Valentines Day everyone! : )