Showing posts with label valentine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label valentine. Show all posts

Monday, February 13, 2012


[credits to josh morales for the photo, i just edited it]
Here are a few of my top favorite sweet love songs on my list. Hope these tunes warm your heart. Happy Love Day!

1) The Way You Look Tonight -Frank Sinatra
2) Dance Me To The End of Love- The Civil Wars
3) Who Am To Say- Hope
4) No Ones Gonna Love- Band of Horses
5) If I Never Knew You- Disney Pocahontas
6) La Vie En Rose- Louis Armstrong
7) Brightest- Copeland
8) My Sweet Darling- Seth Gallen & Melody Gardot
9) Do You Realize- The Flaming Lips
10) I Wanna Hold Your Hands- the Beatles// Across the Universe version

Stylish photo frame DIY

Currently listening to The general specific by The Band of Horses


These days ive been tacking a lot more projects than usual. Its probably cause most of my projects are simple and don't take much time and effort, but they are still darn good to look at and appreciate.For those you who want to display your photos and other nick-knacks in a stylish manner, i think this project would be perfect for you. It really is a easy project that doesn't require much material and you can probably find most of the supplies in your household. For this tutorial I'm not gonna go into that much depth with the instructions, but Im sure you guys will get the idea, and possibly even expand and get extra creative with this project.


Get a good sized frame that can accommodate the photos you want to display. I used a 12x8 plastic frame, you can either use a wooden frame or plastic. Grab yourself a glue gun, scissors, string, and clothes pins.


Since its February, I wanted to be festive and incorporate hearts in this project. You can find these cute heart clothes pins at Michaels craft store for only a dollar, or you can just use plain tiny clothes pins


Turn the frame backwards and measure out the amount of string you'll need to glue to your frame.
  Try to  make sure you give tension to the string when gluing it onto the frame, and use hot glue on the bottom and top of the string to keep it in place. 


Once the glue has dried you can start hanging the pictures on the string with the clothes pins and space them out to your liking. I used a few of my instagram prints which I purchased a while ago and cutouts. It really is as easy as it sounds. Happy Monday all you lovely people! 

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Bowtie Pops



Yesterday we celebrated Valentines day in my Awana class, which is a children's ministry at my church for those of you who dont know. In my class, I have a good group of cheerful and energetic 3 & 4 year old kiddos, who by the way never cease to make me smile. It really is a beautiful thing to see these precious kids give their attention to God's Word and understand His amazing love. You may think these kids are too young to comprehend anything, but they honestly soak in what they hear, and I've observed them practice love through their actions. Its a joy to guide these kiddos in the path towards Christ and witness them grow throughout the months.


So to make the day festive, I put together some goodie bags for each kid in my class. The bags were filled to the rim with a bunch of goodies and surprises. Target had a bunch of  sweet and cheap stuff for Heart day, I had to restrain myself from buying too much cause I wanted it all! Anyways I purchased a bag of simple heart lollipops and made them more appealing by dressing those suckers up with bowties and smiles.
These bowtie pops are perfect for kids and are so easy to put together. Just cut out bowtie shapes from colored paper and use a hot glue to stick em in the bottom of each heart. Dont forget to give these pops some eyes and smiles, oh ya and probably a nose. Hope you guys like the idea and try it out for yourselves!



Thursday, February 2, 2012

currently listening to telescope eyes by Eisley
Im beginning to think that snow isn't coming our way this year by the looks of it outside. The weathers been awfully confusing, ya it sure is winter but the temperature says otherwise. Lately its been 50-60 degrees outside, pretty perfect weather and I really don't mind, especially since I'm not a fan of cold weather.
But for some reason I was really looking forward for snow this year, or even a blizzard. Usually I don't get all hyped up about the flurries and the snow storms but the idea of being snowed in with the people you love, relaxing, and watching movies makes me smile. Well who knows, the weathers been extremely unpredictable so who am I to say that there wont be snow this year. Anyways let me stop blabbing about the weather and greet y'all, Happy February guys! Hope you all had a fun and productive January cause I sure did. My January consisted of working, reading, and creating stuff. I've been designing a heap load of goodies and im super excited to share them with ya. A whole lot of crafting has been going on as well and this month I'll be sure to post up a few DIYs, which will mostly consist of Valentine crafts, so stay tuned! To end this post, I wanna feature a  few of my favorite Valentine items from etsy, and here they are..







For all you couples, I thought this was pretty funny, dual valentine gloves