I love these wraps because they are such an easy way to decorate and a pillow can add so much to a room. This is my Valentines version. I love the colors with the touch of green added in the ruffle. It goes perfect with my black pillow, so I did not need to make a new pillow, just the wrap!
Part of our granddaughter’s Christmas gift was to have a date with Grandma and go to the beauty salon! So last week we went to a local beauty school and each of the girls got their hair done and their fingernails painted!
It was so much fun and the girls loved it!
I think that we might even have to do it again sometime! :)
My daughter found this idea for this darling Motorcycle diaper gift and wanted to make one for a co-worker.
There is a full tutorial at Sweet Aprils if you want to make one too!
I have a couple of Valentines projects that I am in the process of working on…but decided that I would do a roundup of some of my previous Valentines ideas for you to look at right now!
These are in no particular order and there are recipes, crafts, printables, candy, cookies and all kinds of goodies for you!
Just click on the link for the “how to” for each of them.
I love the quote from Pres. Uchtdorf, so that is my focus for this month’s handout. Since it is winter here in Utah, I went with the winter/snowman theme!
Here are the printables: Continue reading
Today my thought comes from Erma Bombeck. You can never go wrong with any of her quotes! She was amazing.
I love this thought and even though my children are all grown, I still feel this way, maybe even more now that they are grown and most of them have children of their own.
I hope that you all had a very Merry Christmas and that you are still enjoying time with your loved ones! We had a great Christmas Eve gathering with all of our family and it was so fun to have all of my family together! We had dinner and a fun night of sharing our White Envelope Stories (we changed this up just a bit this year and had the kids all tell us what they did). We then we opened presents with all of the adult men getting a Nerf gun and having an all out competition with a target drawn on one of my french doors! (Even my 86 year old dad got in on the action!) It was crazy!
Then we all settled down to read the Nativity story in Luke 2. The kids loved the nativity costumes and it turned out really cute to have them act out the different parts!
It seems like we all turn to organizing and setting some goals for the new year and I have a fun little idea for you. I am not very good at setting goals because they are the same every year, which means that I am not very good at accomplishing the goals that I set for myself! But I am good at making lists and accomplishing a lot of the things on my list, so I love the idea of the Smash journals. If you are not familiar with them, the basic idea behind them is that you just “smash” your ideas, pictures, magazine articles, ticket stubs, etc into your book. Here is the description from the Smash Pinterest page:
“So, what do you Smash? Well, it doesn’t have to be a life event, just the special little moments and mementos of your day—some of that stuff in your junk drawer, for example. A snapshot, a ticket stub from that movie you loved, a newspaper clipping, a magazine snippet, a cardboard coaster from a favorite restaurant, your child’s first crayon doodle…get the idea? Smash it, jot a note or add a caption sticker, and go! Smash is a great way to document everyday life or a road trip.”
So I made some “Smash” books for some of my Christmas gifts this year!
A couple of weeks ago, I visited a good friend of mine who had a boutique booth at “This is the Place” in Salt Lake City. She had so many cute things and it was fun to go to this boutique. It was outside in the winter time! They had fires going in the evenings and carolers and it was an old fashioned Christmas setting! So fun!
While at this boutique, one of my purchases was a fun sweater scarf.
I loved it and knew right away that I wanted to duplicate it and make some for Christmas gifts!
Aren’t these sisters the cutest!
They are my friend’s daughters and I asked them to be my models and they were so gracious to consent. I love how they all have their own very distinct personalities! They are such sweet girls.
Who doesn’t love peanut clusters with the wonderful, smooth chocolate and the salty, nutty crunch of the peanuts?
