Happy Valentines weekend!

We started our weekend off Friday night with a homemade heart-shaped Pizza with pepperoni hearts. 

And some goodies Saturday morning from the Dollar store. 

Fun Valentine's Suprises: stickers and a lollipop in her mailbox (from the Target dollar spot).

 

Whipped cream (and a cup of sprinkles ) for our pink heart pancakes. 

"Lucy look at me. Lucy smile at me like this..." Ok this will do. 

And we finished Love Day off with our annual fancy-dinner date at home, this year with steak (or "snake" if you ask Lucy) and potato skins from The Butchers Shop, followed by Finding Nemo, lollipops, sugar and more sugar.

 

Not pictured: 2 hours worth of crying and screaming about her socks, her shirt, her pants "not feeling good". (Maybe, just mayyyyybe it was from all of the sugar?)

We hope you had a fabulous Love Day! 

 

heart garland diy

Love day is on its way!

I decided that I want to start decorating for every holiday possible. And by possible I mean every holiday that Lucy naps so I can craft for.

So far in 2013 we have successfully accomplished one project. It takes about 30 minutes and can easily be done during a babynap.

I got the idea from here. In case you like the look but don't feel up to DIY-ing. Yellow Bird + Yellow Beard has some super cute garland you can buy.

Print out a heart and trace it on cardstock. (Make your life easier and stack the cardstock). If you happen to have a fancy cricut machine I'm sure this is where it would come in handy.

Otherwise, you can use a pen and scissors. And be frugal. Like me. #wishihadacricut

I ended up with about 25 hearts.

Set your sewing machine to the longest stitch, leave some slack at the beginning, and sew across the heart. I just pulled the thread about an inch or so in between hearts to make a gap in between them. No backstitching required.

and...voila! Hang your pretty heart garland.