Love is in the air

Coming to you from Pullman

Valentine's Day is coming up.  I'm sure you can expect an awesome blog post from my sister since yesterday I received a package full of clever Valentines from her.  They were so punny.  :)  (punniness runs in the family).  I also have a couple of Valentine's "parties" coming up - making cards, baking things shaped like hearts, painting hearts on our nails...i also have a heart shaped egg ring if we want to get really crazy.  remember last year?

that was a cluster.  still fun...but my crafting has become much more organized since this time last year.  Valentine's Day is such a good opportunity to do crafts and to randomly give all your friends a cute little card.  Even though I love making Valentine's Day cards, I have only actually celebrated Valentine's Day conventionally once; most years it's just another day of the week or a night to go out to dinner or drinks with my friends (last year a guy from the Globe Trotters asked me out at Rico's...haha).  When I was little Dad would get us baskets with candy and sometimes a little gift like a movie.  One year I got the movie Happy Accidents, which has turned out to be one of my favorite movies.  Anyway, here's a little taste of what this weekend may entail...

Courtesy of Pinterest of course.  I think I'm supposed to link each individual item here, but it's late and that would take so long.  Sorry Internet etiquette.  That "pinterest" link is to my Valentine's Day board so you can access all these projects.  Anyway, so much to be excited for this weekend.  And maybe I'll do some homework too. Have fun crafting this weekend :)

Recipe Box Wedding Gift

Coming to you from Portland

Hopefully Mo and Nora have already opened their wedding presents, because I wanted to share this project, but I don't want to spoil the surprise.  They registered for a Martha Stewart recipe box at Macy's and I wanted to include Martha recipe cards, but I couldn't find any.  Instead I just bought some rainbow colored index cards from Fred Meyer that fit perfectly.  The colors are a good way to sparate the recipes between the different tab categories that are included in the box. 

I picked about a dozon or so of my favorite recipes and copied them onto the cards to include with the gift. 

Then I made all of the recipes, and took a picture of them to print off and put on the back of each recipe card.  I know I am much more likely to make something if there is a picture of it so I thought those would help.  I'm always looking for a way to do something beyond the registry and this was a really fun way to personalize and put a little extra thought into something they asked for.  Michelle did a great personalized gift for them as well using her magnent idea that she posted about before.