Target $1 Aisle Valentine Day Crafts

I'm finally back with a new post...  I don't know about you, but the Christmas holidays wiped me out this year!  With all of the Valentine's Day blog posts and the fun items stocked on the store shelves, I'm rejuvenated and back with some Valentine's Day ideas. 

First, I have to share that our Valentine's Day breakfast from last year was posted on a new and fabulous site, The Party Press.  What an honor!!!  Check it out here.

For those of you who have daughters, if there anything like my Grace, you are probably pulling your hair out trying to think of new craft projects to keep them busy during these winter months.  On any Saturday morning, Grace is asking to do a craft or art project by 7:00 a.m.  There are only so many paper plate ideas I can come up with!

I came across some cardboard heart boxes in the Target $1 aisle the other day.  There are lots of cute Valentine's day craft/art supplies out there right now.  I grabbed a few as well as a few heart doilies.  I'm on a shabby chic/doily/rustic kick right now.  Stay tuned for doily overload for our Valentine's Day breakfast this year and Grace's First Communion/Birthday party.

So, when Grace asked to do a craft project at 8:00 a.m. this morning, I let her loose on the heart boxes and doilies.  Add a little modge podge and some ribbon and here is what she came up with.  The fun part - I plan on incorporating them in our Valentine's Day breakfast table.  I love getting the kids involved in holiday/birthday party planning!

And for the next Target $1 aisle project...  I came across these heart chalkboards (okay, they are actually $2.50, but close enough...)  Last year I searched high and low for heart chalkboards for a similar idea for the kids.  Of course if I would have waited a year, Target would have made my project much easier (and cheaper!)  Here is what I started out with:

After a little vinyl applied to the chalkboard that I cut with my Silhouette and some polka dot ribbon, here is what I came up with.  I plan on giving them to the kids' teachers for a little Valentine's Day teacher gift.

Happy crafting and Happy Valentine's Day :)

Merry Christmas from our Family to Yours!

May you have blessed Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year!

Thank you to my FABULOUS Aunt Debbie and her colleague Ashley for our Christmas card!

(Imagine that the card is cut out around the yellow and is shaped like an ornament :)

www.debbiedaanen.com

Christmas Paint Can Gift Holders

When I looked at the calendar today, I could hardly believe that Christmas is less than 2 weeks away!  Not a single gift wrapped thanks to prepping and holding our Gingerbread House Party, but all in due time! 

Tomorrow we are having our Holiday Potluck at work and I know it will shock you that I volunteered to take care of the gifts for our administrative assistants.  It was too much fun and they are such great people that I wanted to do something special.

I found adorable snowflake pins and placed them in the Christmas paint can tins I found at Target in the $1 aisle.  First, I filled the tins with holiday kisses (who doesn't love a little chocolate), added the pins and then, using my Silhouette machine, cut out of red vinyl, "Ho Ho Ho."  I adhered that to the front of the tin.  I then cut out snowflakes out of the white vinyl, added that to the top of the tins and then added a coordinating ribbon.  All in all, I thought it turned out cute.  I am excited to give them out tomorrow!

 

Happy Holidays!

Gingerbread House Making Party {with a special visitor}

We hosted a gingerbread house making party this past weekend for a few family and friends.  What fun we had!  If the sugar didn't make us happy enough, we were lucky enough to have a special visitor join us - yes, that special guy from the North Pole!  The kids were so excited!  If you have never had Santa visit your home, I highly recommend it.  It will make your holiday season.

A lot of the props for this party served double duty.  I kept the same blue and red color scheme as I had for Ethan's carnival party.  Last year, I found the printables from Frog Prince Paperie and fell in love with them!  Yes, I've been saving them for a year!

Here are few a lot of pictures of our fun.  I apologize for the quality - it was quite dark in our house with not a lot of natural light.  Keeping it real - no professional photographer for a friends and family gingerbread party.  By now if you've followed this blog, you know I can't narrow the pictures down so once again, this post is a picture overload.  Vendors and credits at the end of the post.  Thank you for looking and have a great holiday season!

The Sweets Table

 

Gingerbread House Making

  

  

Decorations

Pictures!

 

Printables - Frog Prince Paperie
Foam Gingerbread Men - Hobby Lobby
Striped Paper Fans - Party City
Gingerbread People Cookies - Happy Cookie Lady