Valentine's Day

My husband and I don't really make a big to-do out of Valentine's Day. Our normal tradition is to buy a movie (my only request is that is contain some type of love story) this year we got Grease. Before we were married or living together we would make dinner together since we rarely got a chance to do that. We tried going out once and it was crazy busy so we try to stray from that. Valentine's Day should be about enjoying each other and that's what we do. This year he made dinner, then we got our movie and some ice cream and enjoyed. He's the best.

With my nanny girls we had some fun creations to give away as gifts this year. Our big project was home-made some salt dough beads/magnets. We also did some other fun crafts as well.

I got the idea for salt dough necklaces from this blog: http://amazingmae.blogspot.com/2012/02/salt-dough-necklaces.html. All you need is 1 cup of salt, 2 cups of flour, and 1 cup of water. Yup that's it! So easy right?! I pre-mixed it for the girls, then comes the fun part. You roll out your dough, and using cookie cutters cut out hearts. Cut out as many as you can. We had enough for each of the girls and me to make five necklaces each, and five magnets! We gave the necklaces to the girls and the magnets to the boys! After you cutout your shapes you have to bake them for about 2 hours (or until they're dried out) in the oven at 200 degrees! Once they're out of the oven and cooled off you can paint them. (In the blog above she coats her beads with a sealer, which you should do. We didn't and I can already see some of the paint is wearing.)

Addie rolling out her dough, and cutting her hearts.

Here's our beads right out of the oven, see we got  a ton of hearts just from one recipe! Make sure you poke wholes in your beads BEFORE you bake them, makes life a lot easier!

All set up and ready to paint!

 Time to paint!

 So proud of Gigi for using her paint brush and not her hands!

Hard at work!

I also found the cutest little heart frames and Wal-Mart for just a dollar! So I scooped those up and had the girls paint them, using just red, white and pink (perfect for Valentine's Day!) We put a picture of them inside and boom, done! So easy and the girls loved it!

Addie and Eva working together to complete their frame! Such good team work! They used just their fingers to create little dots all over the frame!

Gigi decided that using her whole hand would work best!

These are the pictures we decided to use for their frames! Seriously, are they not the cutest?!

On Valentine's Day we of course had to do something with hearts. So we made potato stamps and stamped away! All you have to do is make a heart shape out of your potatoes and you're done. You could make any kind of stamp but since it was Valentine's day we stuck with a heart. We grabbed some paint and set to work.

Our stamps

 Lexi showing off our cool stamps!

 Working hard!

Here's a few pictures from our Valentine's Day!

 This is not even half of the gifts we made! The girls worked so hard! And the kept it a secret, which is pretty amazing for them!

 Addie modeling her necklace I made for her!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day lunch! Addie said "This is the coolest lunch ever!" I love these girls!

This was the hub's and I Valentine's Day! :)

Hope you all had a lovely Valentine's Day full of love! Stay tuned for even more crafts coming up, a little more organization and an update on our bulk buying!