A week of Love and a yarn wreath...

Today starts a week of love in our home, we have many parties and events planned and are excited to share them with you. I get all sorts of excited when the stores start putting out the Valentine's Day inventory. And this year was no different, except I wanted to make all the stuff that I would have normally spent money one. This past Christmas I got into making yarn wreaths for my friends and coworkers started placing orders themselves. Last week I put together this wreath to go with all the other crafts I have been working on.

Start with a Styrofoam wreath and wrap in whatever colors you choose, I wanted all red and white to match my vases that I re purposed a few posts back. So half was wrapped in red yarn and the other half in white. The flowers are the most time consuming, but the most fun to make. Cut felt in different size circles and then cut a spiral shape into that circle, leaving a quarter size circle in the center.

Wrap the felt up, starting from the outside until you reach the quarter sized circle in the center. Then hot glue together. I added pearls to the centers of the flowers to jazz it up a bit and used different scissors for different shapes and textures. Use your imagination and have fun with it.

Once you have all your flowers done now comes the fun part of arranging them onto your wreath. I recommend figuring out the placement before hot gluing them down.

Have you made any crafts for your home or sweetie?

Valentine's Day Vase Repurpose...

I'm really excited about Valentine's Day approaching and have been making a slew of Red, White, and Pink crafts for the apartment. Not that its going to be romantic in any way for me, my love life is nonexistent and I should be at home watching slasher movies and drinking heavily. But I will be at work waiting on those that actually go out on the Day of Love, with a somewhat genuine smile on my face.

I get excited to share these days with Liam and teach him what the meaning is all about. One year he and I went on something I called the cupid run, we went and surprised all of my girlfriends at their jobs with chocolate's, roses, and balloons. It was really exciting to see the reaction on their faces! It was a great way of saying "I LOVE YOU" to all the girls that help me with my kiddo.


I bought these cute little vases at the dollar store with redoing them in mind. I had red and white yarn laying around from the wreath I just made. So I wrapped them twice and then once in the opposite color.

I love how they turned out and excited to share them with you. Hopefully you are getting an opportunity to make something cute for someone special. Homemade is always the best!

Thinking some mini carnations will go perfect in these cute little guys!