Valentine Garlands

We are getting to the home stretch for Valentine's Day so I thought I would throw out a few more ideas that I have found and just don't have time to post about before the day is actually here!  And even if you don't have time to pull them off before next Sunday, at least I won't have to try to remember to post them next year!

Love the fabric in this pennant garland from A Pretty Cool Life:

Real Simple added foil cupcake liners to white Christmas lights to make a sparkly garland:

And a tutorial from this cute one, you can find a link on Sew, Mama, Sew:

Olympic Rings Fruit Pizza

Valentine's is almost here...which means it is time to start focusing on the next party! Okay, maybe not yet, but I still have to post these cute Olympic Rings that I found on Gordon Gossip:

I love the Olympics and my Hubby REALLY loves the Olympics, but they are even more fun now that my kids are old enough to get excited about them!

If you want to make this fun berry fruit pizza you can find the recipe at Taste of Home.  Something tells me this was intended for the SUMMER Olympics, but that won't keep me from spending a small fortune on berries in the winter!

See Jane's Valentines Ideas

I would like to thank my cousin Jack for this post.  He has absolutely NOTHING directly to do with this post.  I am pretty sure he doesn't have a crafty bone in his body (although I could be wrong), but he DOES have great taste in women.

He married Katie.  I adore Katie.  Katie is cute and talented and so is her ENTIRE family!!  And Katie has a sister, Jane.  And Jane has a blog.  See Jane Blog.  And all of the very cute ideas on this post come from her blog.

She made a bouquet of some of the fun treats she has found floating around blog land:

Look at these cute creations:

I want one!  Actually I want all three.  I have issues.

But these!  These are my ABSOLUTE favorite:

She made these for her girls to take to preschool!  I am off to find some vinyl to copy them!  You can see  these goodies (and more of her super crafty-ness) HERE.  Go say hi and tell her I said hello!  And tell her I gave Jack all the credit for her cute ideas!

I *heart* peanut butter blossoms

Sister's Stuff dressed up their peanut butter blossoms (you know the peanut butter cookies that usually have Hershey Kisses on top) with heart shaped chocolate candies for Valentine's Day:

Which got me thinking...Dove makes chocolate covered peanut butter hearts and I thing they would be TO DIE FOR on top of a peanut butter cookie.

Sweet Treats from Family Fun

Family Fun has some great treats the family can make (or eat) together this year:

Cute little individually wrapped pieces of  micorwave fudge:

A bouquet chocolate covered strawberry roses:

And sweet heart brownies (graham crackers and chocolate...you can't go wrong!):

Mini Rice Krispie Pops

Cara Yeh, from Living the Yeh Life made these cute rice krispie pops and added yet another treat to the list of things I need to make for Valentine's Day:



She, like me, had a bad experience with her first attempt at cake pops. These are JUST as cute and about 1/2 the work! Plus you get to use a cookie cutter and I LOVE cookie cutters!!

You can see her tutorial HERE.

Clothespin Valentines

I love this idea from Martha:

Paper and doilies and clothespins and paper bags and glue.   I LOVE IT!

And a HUGE thank you to Kacey from Chronicles of a Mommy for posting this today.  I saw this last night and then couldn't find it again when I wanted to post it.  She saved my sanity.   And I need to hang on to that for as long as I can!  

Valentine Lips and Mustaches

I almost forgot to check out Family Fun for Valentine's ideas!!

And then I would have missed these:

Okay, they don't look like much there, but when the kids put them in their mouths:

Just look at how much fun they are having!

And it is foam and some really inexpensive suckers!  Love it!