Happy Valentines Day!

White Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Hi Ya’ll

I do apologize for not posting a whole lot this week; I’ve been busy with work! However, I have managed to make a wedding piece for a friend that has requested a few custom wedding decorations, I’ll post what I’ve made for her special day this weekend. And, I will be posting my super cute Valentines Day present from my man friend, stay tuned!

Today is Valentines Day! I’m wishing everyone a flower/chocolate filled, romantic night! I made white chocolate covered strawberries and my boyfriend’s favorite muffins. Tonight we’re having dinner and a movie! AND lots of chocolate! I hope everyone has a lovely day/evening!

Talk soon!

DIY Valentines Cards

One week today is Valentines Day! I have plenty of Vday crafts and recipes if you’re in need of any ideas for your special someone. You can find all my Valentines blog posts right here, VALENTINES.

Anyways, I’ve made some Valentines Cards for my west coast pals. The cards that I created are made out of all recycled paper that was lying around the house! I used red & pink construction paper, brown scotch wrapping paper, pink wrapping paper and newspaper. I also used old birthday cards for the background of my cards to prevent them from bending. I then cut out all shapes of hearts, glued them to the old birthday cards, and then I used scissors to cut a nice border around each heart card. Once each card was complete, I used black and gold sharpies to write Valentine messages on them. Super cute, super easy!

Enjoy my loves! 

Valentines Framed Candy Heart

As you guys have noticed, I am extremely into Valentines Day this year! I find that the crafts are so cute and not to mention so fun and easy to make. Sunday morning I headed to my moms studio still in my pj’s determined to make the Valentines Framed Candy Heart project. A few hot glue gun burns later I was admiring my finished project.  This crafts looks more expensive than cheap, which is inspiring! Together this craft cost me $7.

The Valentines Framed Candy Hearts look excellent placed against the back splash in the kitchen, hung, or placed on a side table along with some pretty flowers or some more Vday décor.

Items you will need:

Brown Wrapping Paper

White Picture Frame

Candy Hearts

Glue Gun

Cardboard

Step 1: Make a sturdy back page for your hearts. Meaning, where the photo would usually sit in the picture frame place a piece of cardboard there so that the hearts will have something strong to sit on because the hearts end up getting heavy. Once you have the cardboard piece ready, I used brown wrapping paper as a background for the hearts. Just glue a sheet of brown paper to the cardboard.

Step 2: With the background ready, trace a large heart in pencil onto the background. The heart outline allows you to fill the heart in with the candies perfectly.

Step 3: Time to start gluing! Now you can glue the hearts on in any pattern to fill-in the larger heart. Once the hearts are glued on make sure you rip off all the excess glue strings from the hearts. Once that’s finished, put the finished product into the frame and voila!

 

Raspberry, blueberry, yogurt and oatmeal muffins!

Brandy Melville Black Coat
 Brandy Melville Black T-shirt/slit top
Grandma's Cream & Black Knit

Hi All!

Before I give you my raspberry, blueberry, yogurt and oatmeal muffin recipe, I would like to chat about some vintage clothing I have recently inherited. As most of you know, my grandmother passed away a few weeks ago and it’s been my duty to help clean out her closet! While sorting through, I found tons of beautiful knitted cardigans, sweaters, denim button ups and plenty of vintage costume jewelry pieces. Today, I wore a one of grandmothers knitted sweaters. It’s black and cream, with some black beadwork on the front. The only thing I needed to adjust was the shoulders pads... ripped those things right out! Check out my newest vintage knit! --->

Raspberry, blueberry yogurt & oatmeal muffins.

Now back to the muffins! These muffins are the exact same recipe as the pervious muffins I just made. (Blueberry, oatmeal, yogurt and orange zest muffins) Click the recipe in PINK to make my newest muffins, But the only difference is to add 1 cup of raspberries instead of the orange zest!! 

ALSO, as you can see I added some pink & red sprinkles to the top of the muffins to give them a vday flair.

Good luck & happy baking! 

White chocolate Valentines Day Bark

Happy Thursday!

Today, after my workout I had a huge craving for chocolate… unfortunately, the craving won and I started looking on pinterest for a chocolaty desert. I came across this cute valentines themed chocolate bark, and had to try it. I then spent a small fortune just to get all my ingredients at bulk barn, plus a few more unnecessary treats.. MINI EGGS! I also headed into the dollar store in the search of a small heart mold. Unfortunately, my molds were a little large for my bark, but more chocolate the better! Below check out how I made these sweet treats!

Prep Time: 10 Minutes

Chill Time: 1 Hour

Total Time: 1 Hour & 10 Minutes

 

Ingredients: (Making 12 hearts)

3 Cups of White Chocolate Melting Wafers

Red & Pink Smarties or M&ms

Red & Pink Sprinkles

 

Step 1: Put the white chocolate in a small pot on low over the stovetop. Put sprinkles and smarties in the bottom of each heart mold.

Step 2: Once the white chocolate has melted, poor it on top of the sprinkles and smarties in each heart mold. Poor slowly, this step can get messy.

Step 3: Once all the molds are full, let sit for an hour or 30 minutes in the freezer. Then, when hearts are chilled, pop them out of their mold and enjoy your Valentines Day bark!

Valentines Day Heart Tree Tutorial

This heart tree is a cute valentines day craft,  it's also very easy to make!

Items you’ll need to create this craft:

Sticks

Krylon Spray Sparkles

Red & Pink Construction Paper

Brown Twine

Vintage Jar or Vase

Hot Glue Gun

Scissors

**You can purchase majority of these items from Wal-mart.

Step 1: Time to pick up sticks. I am very fortunate to have a forest on my mom’s property. Therefore, I was able to cut some tiny branches off some trees and use them as my sticks. Another way to find sticks is to take a walk/drive to a forest or park and cut some tiny branches off some trees. At this point make sure you have a jar or vase to put your sticks into, this way you can cut your sticks accordingly to your vases size.

Step 2: Lay your sticks on some cardboard and spray them with some sparkly Krylon paint. The spray makes the sticks look stained and sparkly, giving the sticks a girly touch.

Step 3: Now that the sticks are drying, take some red & pink construction paper and start cutting out little hearts. I used one piece of each colored paper and had plenty of hearts for my tree.

Step 4: When the sticks are completely dry, put them back into your vase. Now you can start gluing the hearts on your tree branches, the more the merrier! Once the hearts are glued on, I used my twine and wrapped it around the lid of my jar. The twine gives my jar a vintage look!

I hope you guys enjoyed this valentine’s crafts as much as I did!

Nail Polish Storage

Hey guys, unfortunately I won’t be posting any further crafts this week. My grandmother passed away today due to lung disease. This is an extremely hard time for me because my grandmother was like a mother to me and in fact a mother to all her grandchildren. She will be dearly missed. Anyways, I have gathered as many photos that I could of my grandmother today, and I’m putting a collage together that I hope turns out as beautiful as she was. I will post my finished product!

Here are some crafts that I have been working on over the weekend, a nail polish storage jar and using pervious valentines crafts on new items. I really liked how the nail polish looked in an old crown jar, looks great in your bathroom or makeup area.

Enjoy Guys!

Valentines Day Banner

I decided to decorate my condo for Valentines Day. I didn’t want it to look too cheesy, so I just made a simple heart banner. I cut out enough hearts that I was able to place heart banners in a few places. The banner looks very pretty strung across the fireplace mantel, bed headboard, windows or walkways.

The items you will need to create this cute heart banner are:

Red and pink construction paper

Brown Twinge (String)

Red Sparkles

Scissors

Glue

**These items can be purchased at Michael’s or any craft store.

Step 1: Cut as many red and pink hearts out of the construction paper as you want. You can than use the glue and sparkles and decorate the hearts as you wish. I put sparkles on every other red heart, and around the edges.

Step 2: Once all your hearts are cut out and glittered, use the scissors and string to poke holes through each heart. Then string the twinge through each hole and your valentine’s heart banner will be completed. You can now place it anywhere you’d like.

Hope this was an easy and fun Valentines Day project!