I hope everyone had a happy heart day! I didn't have time to do my usual she-bang because I'm STILL trying to get things unpacked and organized, but I managed to pull my heart wreath out of its little storage bag and put it on the front door in time for the big day.
This was something I made several years ago, with little wooden hearts that I painted and taped wires to the back of so I could wrap the wires around the wreath. The ribbon has wire in it so it's very easy to "fluff" it back into position after pulling it out of storage.
The wreath is just a simple, inexpensive grape vine thing purchased at a craft store, and I hot-glued some fake grape leaves to the wreath before adding the ribbon and hearts.
This type of thing would be very easy to do with easter eggs too. I keep meaning to make an easter egg wreath...I love some of the higher-end ones available commercially, but there's no way I'm paying the kind of money one of those requires. Hopefully this year I'll have time to make my own...
Every Valentine's Day morning I do a special breakfast for the family - it's a tradition that I grew up with and I've always loved it. My parents would go all out, making tons of waffles, whipped cream (the real kind) and serving it with frozen strawberries harvested in the summertime. Mom would always make the most elaborate valentines, they were truly works of art and she must have spent hours making them for us all (there are 5 of us kids).
My kids will have to settle for heart-shaped buttermilk pancakes (at least I make them from scratch, even if they aren't waffles!) and relatively simple valentines made with doilies and some scrapbooking stickers. Hopefully next year I'll be back in full swing, but in the meantime my kids are young enough they didn't seem to notice anything was lacking. Hooray for that!
Hazel took great delight in picking off the 3-D stickers I put on her valentine...
...and here's a hot-chocolate-mustached Hyrum digging into his breakfast - he was so proud of himself that he was able to cut his pancake by himself with a butter knife!
Eliza was looking a little groggy, but she still had a smile for the camera. She informed me that I had spelled LOVE wrong on her valentine, but I told her it was an acceptable "term of endearment" version (the real reason: the kids had already swiped my E's and O's from the sticker sheets!)
It's getting late, I've been trying to go to bed earlier than I sometimes have in the past (hey, midnight is better than 2 am, right?). Just to give you a little sneak peek on what's on my short list of things to do after I finish unpacking...
I have a "mere" ten or so (!!) furniture refinishing projects on the docket that I'm really excited about...Craigslist here in DC is a beautiful (or annoying, if you're talking to a certain male member of our household who is tired of hefting big, heavy bargain furniture into our house!) thing. Who, I ask, can resist a gorgeous solid wood armoire for $100? But that, dear bloggers, is a story for another day...
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