valentines day

February 11, 2016

JT + JIMMY PALENTINE CARD (FREE PRINTABLE)

Probably the most epic and most adorable bromance of our time: Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon. Is there anything better than watching them just laugh hysterically with each other? Ugh. so cute.

Here’s one last Valentine’s Day free printable for your fav PALentine!

1. Download the the card HERE.

2. Print on card stock for best results.

3. Cut using a PAPER CUTTER for perfect lines.

Download our other class Valentine’s Day designs below by clicking on the titles:

1. JT/Jimmy Fallon

2. Gilmore Girls

3. Nose Pencil Sharpener

February 1, 2016

GILMORE GIRLS VALENTINES (FREE PRINTABLE)

Anyone else marathon Gilmore Girls on Netflix? I just finished and pretty much cannot function. I miss my friends! All I can do is drink coffee and pretend I’m at Luke’s. All my Galentines (and my Valentine) will be getting these cards!

1. Download the RORY or the LUKE version.

2. Print on card stock for best results.

3. Cut using a paper cutter for perfect lines.

4. Count the days until the Gilmore Girls reunion comes out!

-L

Download our other Valentine’s Day designs below by clicking on the titles:

1. Balloon Valentines

2. Sticker Valentines

3. Harry Potter Valentines

4. Matchbox Car Valentines

5. Pirates Booty Valentines

6. Food Eraser Valentines

7. Nose Pencil Sharpener Valentines

8. Yoda Best Valentine

9. Valentines Nap Time Card

10. JT + Jimmy Valentine Card

January 27, 2016

YODA BEST CLASS VALENTINES (FREE PRINTABLE)

If your house is anything like mine, it’s Star Wars everything all the time! We found these mini glow sticks (light sabers!) and Yoda key chains at the Target dollar spot. You could really use any Yoda toy or our Yoda tattoos HERE.

Simply punch two holes for a light saber (glow stick) and thread through. Or if you’re tying a key chain, punch two small holes close to each other and use string to tie it on.

Download the Yoda Best free printable HERE

Cut using our favorite cutting board HERE

Glow sticks HERE

Find our Yoda tattoos HERE.

January 19, 2016

FOOD ERASERS CLASS VALENTINES (FREE PRINTABLE)

More non-candy class valentines for ya! We both stumbled on these erasers in the dollar section at Target at HAD to use them somehow! What’s more fun than everything in miniature?

You can also use our food tattoos HERE, food key chains, charms, or stickers. Or you could tie to a box of donuts because – duh. We go together like… burgers and fries, milk and cookies, peas and carrots, peanut butter and jelly… you get the idea.

Scroll down for sources and the free download!

The erasers don’t really stick with tape well, so we just threw them in a bag and taped the back with washi tape. Easy peasy!

SOURCES:

VALENTINE CARD: Download HERE and print on card stock for best results.

BAGS: purchase HERE or at craft stores in size 3″ x 5″.

ERASERS: purchase HERE

CARD STOCK: THIS one prints with super bright colors!

WASHI TAPE: purchase HERE

CUTTING BOARD: THIS is the easiest, because you can see right where you’re cutting

Download our other class Valentine’s Day designs below by clicking on the titles:

1. JT/Jimmy Fallon

2. Gilmore Girls

3. Nose Pencil Sharpener

January 11, 2016

NOSE PENCIL SHARPENER CLASS VALENTINES (FREE PRINTABLE)

I have a five-year-old boy, so these were really a no-brainer. If I could have only found a toy that would have gone with a poop-pun, I would have won mom of the year for sure. Butt but… this will do the trick until then.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Purchase nose pencil sharpeners HERE on Amazon – only $6.50 for a pack of 12!

2. Download the free printable HERE FOR COLOR or HERE FOR BLACK AND WHITE .

3. Print on card stock (THIS lets you print super well) or heavy paper for best results.
for the color download and red/pink/kraft paper for the black and white download.

4. Cut out cards with THIS our favorite cutting board!

5. Punch a hole in the top left corner of your card and cut a small slit from the SIDE of the card to the hole. Slip the hole through the nostril (the side without the sharpener). If you don’t have the right size hole punch or it’s just not working for you, you could always use BAKERS TWINE
or CLEAR BAGS and seal with WASHI TAPE

6. Hand out to your pals and make booger jokes. Nice.

See our other free printables HERE!

February 13, 2015

VALENTINE’S DAY SCAVENGER HUNT – FREE PRINTABLE

Here’s a fun activity for your littles on Valentine’s Day morning…

scavenger hunt slash Valentine’s Day decoration!

Ari is REALLY into “finding treasure”, secret clues, and going on a treasure hunt, (it’s really fun when he hides food…yikes) so I’m super excited for him to do this on Valentine’s Day! Make a scavenger hunt around your house with this free printable HERE and HERE. Just print on any paper, cut out, and hide the hearts all around the house!

You could even add toys or candies with the hearts.

When you’re done you can string the hearts up in a banner that reads “I LOVE YOU” for decoration.

Great practice for reading and letter recognition. Gotta sneak it in there somehow!

I actually got the concept of the heart scavenger hunt from Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood AKA the best show of all time (PBS kids). This show taught ME incredibly helpful ways to navigate through toddlerhood and taught ARI how to cope with change. Starting school, going to the doctor, help with transitions, potty training… there is literally a song for everything toddlers and parents experience. Plus, they don’t display negative behavior which is so rare in kids shows. I cannot say enough good things about this show!!

Hope your little explorers have fun with this!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

-L

February 10, 2015

VALENTINE THEMED WEDDING IN NYC

Leah and I happily obliged when asked by Friendors to be a part of a styled Valentine themed wedding photo shoot in NYC!! Who doesn’t love a New York love story? Such great inspiration if you are planning a city wedding of your own…. oh, and lots of pink and red. Our fav!

Here are just a few of the photos from the shoot that we absolutely had to share. So beautifully done….

sigh…. so romantic! We hope you all are getting in the V-day spirit however it is you do it. Leah and I will be over here trying to convince our husbands to take us to dinner or something! 😉

A list of all of the other amazing vendors that helped make this shoot possible:

Photography: Six Hearts Photography

Coordinator: Hoopla! Events

Custom Bridal Dresses: Synderela Story

Custom Groomswear: The Tailory New York

Flowers: Gotham Florist

Headpiece: Hushed Commotion

Hair and MakeUp: Dunique Wonderland

Hair :Michael Livsey

Balloons and Party Horns: The Sugar Confetti Shop

Custom Confetti: The Confetti Bar

Glitter Banner: The Bannerie

Custom Invitation: Nic Roc Designs

Custom Jewelry: Susie Saltzman

Models: Linda Ngo & Lulian Solomon

XOXO!

February 6, 2015

VALENTINE FOR THE HUBS – FREE PRINTABLE

Need a sweet mushy heartfelt card for your love? This ain’t it.

But naptime is my favorite time of day. I live for it. I die without it. So I’d say if I love you like naptime… that’s saying a LOT!

Download free printable HERE!

That’s true love.

-L

Download our other Valentine’s Day designs below by clicking on the titles:

1. Balloon Valentines

2. Sticker Valentines

3. Harry Potter Valentines

4. Matchbox Car Valentines

5. Pirates Booty Valentines

6. Nose Pencil Sharpeners Valentines

7. Food Eraser Valentines

8. Yoda Best Valentines

9. JT + Jimmy Valentine Card

January 20, 2015

VALENTINES DAY BREAKFAST AND CRAFTING FOR LITTLES: YOU’VE GOT MAIL!

Here is a simple Valentine’s Day breakfast and card making morning for your littles! We picked up most of these goodies from Target and Michaels Craft stores- just goes to show you what you can create with store bought items and just a touch of DIY.

Scroll down to the bottom for a DIY on this simple heart ornament.

We used fiber fill for the clouds and used THIS tutorial for the paper airplanes.

Straws, cups, plates, and napkins from Target.

Wooden scoops by US! Convo us on ETSY to purchase!

Michaels Craft store had the banner blank- we just added letters! We rummaged through our craft drawers and found lots of card-making supplies for the kiddos.

Fill mini shipping tubes from Michaels with crafting supplies!

Download “Special Delivery” labels HERE.

Have your littles decorate mailbags – tutorial HERE.

HEART ORNAMENT TUTORIAL:

First make a heart template: fold a piece of paper in half, cut out half of a heart shape. When you unfold it, it should be a symmetrical heart. Fold colorful paper strips in half, fold your template in half and trace on the folded paper strips. (All of the hearts need to be the same size for this to work).

Use double stick tape to put the hearts together back to back. We used 6 or 7 hearts per ornament.

Stop half way through to tape the string in the middle.

Voila!

We hope you and your littles have a SWEET and fun Valentine’s Day breakie!

January 16, 2015

CLASS VALENTINES FOR THE BABIES! (FREE PRINTABLE)

More class valentines for you!

Max’s classmates are all around 12-18 months, so no candy, no small toys aka choking hazards. Though… I think all the moms would appreciate eating the candy FOR their babies- or is that just me? Maxie’s favorite bribe crack snack is Pirates Booty. It’s easy to eat for littles, somewhat healthy, gluten free, and we happened to have a massive box of individual bags in our pantry.

This Valentine is a little cheeky…see what I did there? It might be inappropriate for older kids, but I think it’ll slide with teeny ones! Scroll down for the link.

Simply print the tags on card stock, cut right on the lines (a paper cutter is the easiest), punch a hole in the corner of both the tag and the corner of the Pirate’s Booty bag, and tie with string.

Click HERE for the Pirate’s Booty Download.

For the bigger kids, check out our other Valentine’s Day free printables.

1. JT/Jimmy Fallon

2. Gilmore Girls

3. Nose Pencil Sharpener

-L

January 15, 2015

DIY VALENTINE KEEPER

We wanted to create some valentine catchalls for our littles to take to school or simply hang on their door to collect all of the sweet valentines that they get from their friends and family. We wanted to do something a little bit different than the average shoe box that we all know (and love….. or do we?). I may have had too much fun doing this little project…. shhh!

Here is what you will need:

– 2 pieces of felt

– twine

– scissors

– craft glue

-heat bond tape

-iron/ ironing board

– 1 needle

– straw (if you are doing one for a boy)

– anything you choose to decorate your bag with! I chose ribbon and felt stickers

Simply lay out your two pieces of felt, cut strips of the heat bonding tape for 3 of the sides as shown and iron over each strip holding for about 6-8 seconds per section. ALLOW TIME FOR IT TO COOL!! Then, pull the paper part off of the tape. If it has not cooled, this part will not work!

Lay your second piece of felt directly on top of the piece with the tape.

Iron. Again, be sure and leave the iron on each second long enough for it to actually bond. Patience!

Allow for cooling time to ensure a good hold. Then, you should have a pocket that looks like this.

Next, string your twine through the needle, and poke the needle through both pieces of felt. It will be hard to get it through the heat bonding tape, so be sure to poke your hole just outside of the edge of the tape.

tie a double knot to secure the twine.

Do this on both sides.

Play with your design before securing everything to the felt. Lay it all out just how you want it.

Then, get to gluing. I only needed to glue the ribbon I used. I used Martha Stewarts craft glue, which worked fabulously.

The stickers were felt, and I got them at Target! They adhered to the felt bag extremely well.

If you are doing one for a boy, you can slide a straw onto the twine before you thread each side to create a carrying handle…. kind of like a briefcase. 😉

This is such a fast and super simple project that you can actually do with your kids!! We made a couple more of these bags, and I did the ironing and threading. Then, I just let Amara peel and stick (hence the upside down hearts on hers) as she pleased. Now, go fill this thing up with some V-day goodies!

-J

January 12, 2015

MATCHBOX CARS VALENTINES (FREE PRINTABLE)

Okay… Valentine’s day is more than a month away, but we can’t be the only ones seeing pink and red eeeeverything in stores, right? We’re feeling the pressure to get. on. the. ball. So let’s start off with a fun option for your kiddo’s class Valentines. One of your favorite posts from last year was our Valentines day card free printables. You can still download all of these- scroll down below for the links!

As much as our family is ALL about snacks and treats, I wanted to do another non-candy card. I never know if the other moms are like organic no sugar people (Ew. Jk. Not really.) and plus kids love toys, so why not? This year Ari is giving his little buddies Matchbox Cars which he collects himself! Get it? We’re the perfect MATCH!