This Highlighter Valentine Card with Free Printable is the perfect Valentine for school age kids! There is nothing better than a useful and cute gift idea! I finished another Valentine, hooray! I am on a last minute Valentine craft roll this week, woohoo! (Just don't look in my office studio, it's a complete train wreck in there.) This Valentine printable card is for … [Read more...]
Play Doh Valentine Card Free Printable
This adorable Play Doh Valentine Card with Free Printable is the perfect easy-to-make class Valentine that you can whip up in no time! I know, I know! It's been a while since I've been able to update my site. I have so many things to share with you all that I've created and lots of good recipes we've eaten our way through...it's just finding the time to upload … [Read more...]
Valentine’s Day Teacher Gift Idea
This Valentine's Day Teacher Gift Idea is the perfect gift for your favorite teacher! We all know everyone loves some sweets and good eats on the sweetest day of the year. Here is one last idea for gift giving on good 'ol Valentine's day (coming up in just two days, yo!) don't worry, it's an easy one to whip up! :-) We've got the kids in the classroom covered but let's … [Read more...]
Whoopee Cushion Valentine Printable
This Whoopee Cushion Valentine Printable will be hours of fun for all who receive it! All the silly without the smell, perfect for pranksters everywhere!I shared the valentines I made for both my daughters in my last post (here) and today I'm here to show you my oldest son's valentines for this year. He is currently in 5th grade and getting to the point where he kind of … [Read more...]
Slime Valentine Card Free Printable
This Slime Valentine Card Free Printable is the perfect cute and easy to make valentine for kids of all ages! Just add a container of slime for the most adorable Valentine ever! Having two little slime connoisseurs living in my house, I through what better Valentine to create for them this year than one involving slime?!! You know what they say, "Slime...it's the gift … [Read more...]
Cherry Chip Loaf inspired by 12 Dates of Christmas
This Cherry Chip Loaf is incredibly moist and full of flavor thanks to the maraschino cherries and cherry chips. It's the perfect holiday treat to share with friends! If you enjoy watching Christmas movies as much as we do (especially the kind put on by ABC Family and the like) then you have to watch one of our favorites, 12 Dates of Christmas. I know, I know...so corny! … [Read more...]
Balloon Animal Love Notes
You guys! I am so excited to share this super cute Valentine's Day idea with you today! This is such fun way to tell your kids or your significant other you love them and you are thinking of them on Valentine's Day (or any day of the year!!!) If you love silly animal puns you are going to love these Balloon Animal Love Notes! They are just so cute and those little faces on … [Read more...]
You Make My Heart Sing Valentine Card Printable
Need another fun Valentine Card idea for your little ones this year? With Valentine's Day being two weeks away, I am in full force now getting my littles' cards figured out! Today I am sharing one of the Valentines printables I created for one of my girls! This You Make My Heart Sing Valentine Card Printable came to me when I saw a whole pile of these cute plastic kazoos … [Read more...]
Free Spec-tacular Valentine Card Printable
Have you guys started thinking about Valentine's Day yet? It's less than a month away! How the heck is January almost over, already, so crazy!! So last week a sweet friend asked me to create a fun printable Valentine's card for one of her little ones this year and I thought I would share them with you too, I mean, what kind of friend would I be without sharing the love? … [Read more...]
Simple and Sweet Mother’s Day Gift Idea
Can you believe it is almost May? That means my kids will be out of school in just over one month…how crazy is that? Doesn't it feel like the just started? They cannot seriously be ready to move up to another grade level!!! May also means Mother's Day and Teacher Appreciate Week coming up right around the corner I thought today I'd share a fun and super easy gift idea with … [Read more...]
Pipe Cleaner Valentine’s Garland
I know it's only the middle of January, but in our house we cannot help but have hearts on the brain. We love Valentine's day around here and with that comes Valentine's crafting!!! My girls wanted to make some fun heart-themed decorations for their room so we came up with this fun idea, Pipe Cleaner Valentine's Garland! It is seriously so easy to make, even little hands … [Read more...]
Berry Basket Gift Idea
I know Valentine's day was this past weekend but I wanted to share this fun Berry Basket Gift Idea I put together for my littles' teachers. I've said this before and I'll say it again, we truly love our teachers! They work so hard and do so much for our children. I am amazed that in such a short time my kids learn to read, write, and gain some pretty impressive math … [Read more...]
FREE Printable: Valentine, you are all WRITE with me
This is the last set of class Valentine's that I made for my little ones, phew! I got them all done, the kids have signed their names to them, and everyone is ready to hand them out at their class parties on Friday. These ones are so simple to put together and very handy as I know for a fact that pencils are one of the most often used and lost school items we buy! We could … [Read more...]
Fruit Loop Cereal FREE Valentine Printable
I've been making my littles fun Valentine-y snack surprises to bring for their school snack time all week as V-Day is on Saturday!!! I have to live it up, y'know? I've only got a week left to get all my pink and red heart craziness out of me! Since we eat pretty healthy in our house, my kids find the rare times I buy sugared cereal nothing short of a miracle. So I thought … [Read more...]
Valentine’s Day Cookie Decorating with Bakery Crafts
This post brought to you by Bakery Crafts. The content and opinions expressed below are that of Smashed Peas and Carrots. Valentine's Day is right around the corner and if you didn't already know, we happen to love Valentine's Day in our house! It is a day just so full of love and hugs and happiness…we can't get enough..and we surely need more of all of those things in … [Read more...]
Gift Idea: Build Your Own Valentine Home Kit
Every year around this time I get a little overly excited about all the super cute pink and red candy decor in stores. I buy them up and hoard them like a crazy lady taking in stray cats. We have so much fun making things with them…and then of course eating what we made with them, haha. We typically use graham crackers and frosting (or if I can remember I will buy a … [Read more...]
Gift Idea: Chocolate Dipped Heart-Shaped Marshmallows
Yesterday I surprised my littles with a chocolate fondue party when they came home from school. Best. Surprise. Ever. They had a blast! And while they were having fun dipping and eating and laughing I melted my own little batch of dark chocolate and made some Chocolate Dipped Heart-Shaped Marshmallows to give as gifts to the lovely secretaries at my kids' elementary … [Read more...]
Valentine, You Take My Breath Away: FREE Printable
Can I get a holla! Yesterday I finished child number two's class Valentine's, woo hoooo! That means only one more to go! I think this valentine is just sooo sooo cute. Once again, we went with another funny play on words… "Valentine, You Take My Breath Away" and then we taped on a balloon with washi tape…get it? HAR HAR!! … [Read more...]
I Chews You: FREE Valentine Printable
With Valentine's Day only a few weeks away, the littles and I have been throwing around ideas of what they want their school Valentine's to look like this year. They love to have unique valentine's and I have to admit I kinda like creating them too! So I'm happy to announce that we have the first child's valentine's complete, holla! This year, our first official Valentine … [Read more...]
Valentine Bento Snack Box
I just love Valentine's Day, oh I do...day filled with love and happiness…it's right up my alley! And guess what? It's coming in just a few weeks! Well, since I love it so much we are already getting ready for it over here, pink and red all the things!!!! I've already started making cute-sy after school snacks for the littles using my heart-shaped cookie cutter whenever … [Read more...]
Happy 40th Anniversary Gift Idea
This past weekend my adorable mom and dad celebrated their 40th anniversary! So awesome, am I right!! We are super excited for them and all the years they've been married. It's definitely a pretty amazing milestone to meet, being married can be so hard, it's a lot of work to be a team and raise children together. They have been married for 40 years, have 4 kids, and 7 … [Read more...]
Valentine’s Day 2014 and a Few FREE Printables just for you!
Happy Valentine's Day Everyone! I hope your day has been sweet and filled with lots of love and happiness! I thought I'd share just a few more fun Valentine's ideas with y'all, just oooone laaaast time. I know, I know…these are totally last minute and I know that you might not be able to use them this year but hey, maybe next year? Are we still cool? Cool, I knew you'd … [Read more...]
Raspberry Hand Pie Recipe
I'm not sure why but I have been going crazy over making hand pies lately. If you follow me on Instagram you know what I mean (follow me here if you like!) I've been making heart-shaped ones, itty bitty baby ones on a stick and then of course the regular ol' circular variety. The flavor options are endless...blueberry, strawberry, cherry...although I think my absolute … [Read more...]
Handmade Valentine’s 2014 and a FREE Printable!
As Valentine's Day is this Friday (what whaaaat?) I thought I would share the Valentine's I made over the weekend for my littles to hand out to their classmates this year in case you may need a quick and easy idea! You might remember our other fun DIY Valentine's from years past seen here, here, and here. Man, it's fun to see how they've grown! … [Read more...]
Decorate Your Own Valentine’s Cookie-in-a-Box Kit
After my littles and I put together and delivered all our Valentine Candy-grams (from this post here) I thought how fun would it be to do a similar thing but with cookies! So we mixed up a batch of our favorite sugar cookies and went shopping for all sorts of fun cookie decorations so we could put together a fun "Decorate Your Own Cookie" kit for some more of our wonderful … [Read more...]
Valentine Chalkboard Love Letters
This is a sponsored post for the Elmer’s “Crafty Mamas” Blogger Crew. I have received compensation for this post, but the ideas and opinions are , as always, 100% my own!Here in Chicagoland we had a couple of "windchill" days off of school last week so all my littles were home from school. When it gets to be -30 outside with windchill our school district thinks it's just … [Read more...]
I Love You Because…Free Printable Notecards
With February literally right around the corner (ahem, Saturday folks!) I thought I would create a bunch of blank "love note" cards for my littles and Clif. My thought is that I will leave them out on the kitchen table each night so every morning leading up to Valentine's Day they have a sweet note to read about themselves while eating their breakfast. That should start … [Read more...]
Valentine’s Day Happy Mail Candy-gram!
As much as I dislike when the big box stores push one holiday's decor out the door to prep for the next before the last one has even had it's day in the spotlight I gotta tell ya I just love, love, love when all the Valentine's themed candy hits the stores. There is just something about all that pretty pink and red packaging. Those cute little heart-shaped candies. Gah, I … [Read more...]
Valentine’s Gift Idea: Conversation Heart Bingo
Since I have school-aged littles I thought a fun Valentine gift idea would be to give them cute Valentine-y Bingo cards where we could play number bingo and practice our number recognition at the same time. I'm always trying to find fun ways to practice our numbers and this one should work nicely for my preschooler, kindergartener, and first grader, holla for a game that … [Read more...]
Love Birds Embroidery Hoop
Here is a sweet little embroidery hoop I made for my sister, Annie, and her husband Nathan for their first Valentine's Day as a married couple. They moved all the way across the country to New York this summer so I thought I'd send them something all "lovey" and "cutesy" to decorate their new home. Everyone needs some fun initial cuteness for their walls, don't they? … [Read more...]
TUTORIAL: Washi Tape Love Art
Happy Friday Everyone! Here's another super easy Valentine's craft for y'all. I really needed some more fun happy heart decor on my mantle...maybe you do too? ;-) This craft takes only a few inexpensive items you can find at your local craft store and less then 10 minutes of your time, easy peasy lemon squeezy! Washi Tape 'Love' Art 4 mini wooden easels 4-2.75"x 3.5" … [Read more...]
Handmade Valentine’s Cards 2013
With only a week to spare, this year's Valentine's are done, can I get a woot woot! Have no fear if you are still deciding what to do, the ones we made this year couldn't be easier. In year's past we have done a similar style Valentine's Card, see here and here to see what I mean (PS. Dang! My kids look so tiny back then!) The kids really look forward to having me take … [Read more...]
The Sweetheart Dress: Pattern Review and Giveaway
What's more perfect for Valentine's day than to have a sweet little dress to wear to celebrate the day! I don't think much can compare whether you are 4 or 45, am I right? Well, if you have a little girl in your life between the ages 2-6 you are in luck because there is a pattern for the most adorable dress my good friend Shannon from Luvinthemommyhood created called the … [Read more...]
TUTORIAL: Valentine’s Advent Calendar
Yup, Yup. I did it. I made another Advent Calendar...Valentine's Style! I don't know about you but I've seen a few of these floating around the internet over the last couple of years and always thought they were a cute idea. Many of them are done as bunting but we just don't have a whole lot of wall space for that so I finally sat down and figured out a way to put it … [Read more...]
TUTORIAL: "I Choose You" Heart Art
Here is Day 2 of my "Heart Art" Valentine's decor ideas that the kids and I made using my super fun heart punch I found at Joann's last year (I knew that it would be a worthwhile purchase!) This one I like to call, "I Choose You" because of the little itty bitty heart that just happens to be a different color. Out of all those hearts, that little heart stole mine, haha! … [Read more...]
TUTORIAL: Layered Heart Art
Less than one month to Valentine's Day and I think I've got a good start on decorating our home in a pretty large dose of red, pink and all things hearts! There is just something cheery about those colors in the cold winter months, don't you agree? I bought a heart punch from Joann's a while back and pulled it out so the kids and I could get our Valentine's craft on … [Read more...]
Happy Heart Day to You!
Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I hope you are having a lovely day full of hugs, kisses and lots of love whether you celebrate it or not...everyone deserves those things every day don't you think :-) Our house is decorated with lots of cute hearts...as are our windows, remember this post! I made a whole tray of dark chocolate-covered strawberries for the man of the … [Read more...]
Dairy-Free Creme Brûlée-RECIPE
There once was a girl who met a boy and they fell in love. Not only did they love each other so very much but they also loved sharing their love of Creme Brûlée together. Oh, what a decadent and romantic dessert to share. So delicious that crispy burnt sugar topping combined with that smooth velvety custard. They loved it so. Then one day in this new year that boy … [Read more...]
Heart Doily Valentine’s Window-TUTORIAL
Just one week until Valentine's Day...are you ready? Our house seems to be decorated from top to bottom in hearts and all things pink, white, and red which consequently makes me oh-so-happy. I really like Valentine's Day decor. There is just something so happy and fun about decor full of love and kisses :-) I made this pretty fabric rose heart a couple of years … [Read more...]
Valentine’s Day Cards 2012
This past weekend we did the kids' Valentine's cards...Woo hoo for thinking a little bit ahead and getting them done a couple of weeks early! We did similar cards to the ones Noah handed out last year, if you don't remember just click here to see last year's. Noah wanted to give out chocolate hearts to his classmates so we came up with this idea! I just hot glued … [Read more...]
The One Where We Made Valentine’s Cards
First off... Happy Valentine's Day!! I hope you all are having a LOVE-ly day! Really quickly I just wanted to show you Noah's Valentine's cards this year, I think they turned out so cute! This is the first year we have officially done Valentine's since he is my oldest and this is his first year of preschool. I was originally planning on just buying those pre-made ones … [Read more...]
DIY Window Clings…for Reals!
The other week the kidlets and I were wanting to do a little decorating for Valentine's Day and I realized that we don't actually have much V-Day decor...weird. So we did our very best at making our own pretties for the house, we cut different sized hearts out of cardstock to hang on the walls, we stamped little red thumbprints onto canvas to hang on the wall, and we made … [Read more...]
Two Things…
So two things real quick I just wanted to share... First, today we had a fun little visit from the UPS man! My momma sent a box full of treats and other goodies to us...yay! I love getting packages in the mail!! I love my momma :) She always sends us goods in the mail just because...so sweet! This one was filled with all things Valentine's. Yes, a little late but … [Read more...]
Love.ly
Happy Valentine's Day!!! I just wanted to say I hope you all have a wonderful day filled with lots of LOVE! And, I also wanted to share with you a few things that I find love.ly! First off, I have a new blog button, yay! Yep, yep it's true! Many of you had emailed me about this and I was finally able to get around to having one made. Mission accomplished, woo-hoo! … [Read more...]
Fabric Rose {Valentine’s} Wreath Tutorial
Need something fun for your front door? How about a super cute Valentine's wreath made of fabric roses? Me thinks this is a great idea! And, super easy!!! Wanna see how cute my front door looks these days? Ok, go ahead and check it out: Romantic and Pretty, isn't it! So, I am finally feeling good enough to get some crafting done. Man, I miss it. What withdrawal … [Read more...]
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