“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
In love …
with life…
yourself…
one another…
Love is contagious and my 3 little girls LOVE for everything with hearts, candy and cuteness surrounded us weeks prior to February 14th.
Valentines Day is not about lovers when you have kids…. My husband calls it a hallmark holiday… My girls however were on a mission to decide what gifts to share with their friends at school.
When I was a kid, we made cards or if we got lucky, mom would get us a box of 100 at the store with all the Be Mines already written out.
This year these were the girls chosen ones…
“I cerealsly like you…”
mini boxes of cereal with ribbon and wooden spoon we found on etsy and homemade heart tag…
“I woof you…”
mini stuffed dogs from Oriental Trading with homemade heart tags…
goody bags with stickers and treats…
girls getting their craft on…
The girls Valentine bravado sparked my creative juices flowing when my friend Jenni Kayne http://ripplustan.com/blog/view/190/valentines-day-dinner/page=3 asked me to do the kids table for her V-day Dinner. She was inspired by gift wrap I had made over the holidays and wanted us to create a table cloth with the same LOVE and hot pink splatter paint.
Klara painting 14 ft table cloth for V-day Dinner…
My 8 year old suggested we should make gardens like Dr. Seuss would (we had recently seen Seussical the Musical).
So with the mighty Dr Seuss as our inspiration, we began creating with Pink Pom Poms…we ended up making birds and it all just evolved from there…. Effortlessly… like all done in Love is!
birdhouse made of cardboard, scraps of paper, felt, pom poms and lots of glue & glitter…
Birds made with feathers and lots of glitter covering some blue jays left over from Christmas wrapping….
We then needed someplace to put the birds and house, so we created magical, gardens of love in bark covered containers with live Kalanchoe, moss plants, curly willow branches to create trees with anemones w/ hot pink pomp poms glued in as center and fern green branches with painted tips hot pink and green moss.
Small glass gars were wrapped with strung pom poms and filled with Anemones with pom pom centers…
Tree of Love with party favor necklaces hanging…
Necklaces were made with hot pink sculpty and heart shaped cookie cutters with metallic hemp cord and glitter/silver bells (all supplies available at http://www.michaels.com/)
Love all wrapped up...
