Heart Shaped Crayons

This is a fun little gift to make your pre-schooler or kindergardener for Valentines Day (& It Only takes about 30 minutes!!) You need broken (I didn't have any broken ones so I just used some new crayons) A latex heart shaped mold or baking pan. If you use a metal pan, make sure you spray some PAM in it to keep your crayons from sticking. We peeled the paper off about 30 crayons (4-5 per heart), broke them into small pieces, and preheated the oven to 250 degrees.

This is what the crayons should look like before you place them in the oven. Then we placed them in the oven on a cookies sheet for support. Let them ""cook" until all the crayons are melted.

Remove them from the oven and use a skewer or plastic knife to stir them. (if you don't stir them the colors will separate). Let them cool, as they cool they will harden and become crayons again.

Be careful when removing them from the mold. Loosen all of the edges first & lift the heart out by the pointy end. (I broke a few heart tips removing them by the rounded edges first)

I made some Blue and Green for my Nephews and some...

Pink and Purple for my nieces... They loved them!!

Hope you enjoy this one as much as I did :)



Valentine's Day Votives

Valentine's Day is quickly approaching and we are all trying to think of ways to light up our loved ones faces. I decided to shine some light on Valentine's Day by simply decorating some pre-made votives with Valentine's Day ribbon. These are extremely simple:

I bought the following supplies from Wal-mart: a 12 pack of pre-made votives in holders and Valentines Day Ribbon. Total cost: $9

I already had a glue gun...

At first, I tried to glue all the way around the votive, but then I discovered it was easier to glue just the first and last parts of the ribbon. It's too messy & difficult to glue around the entire thing & this way the votive can be repurposed for another holiday :)

Here's the finished product!! Light up your loved ones Valentines!

Very Easy Heart Garland - For Valentine's Day

Hello Again! Today I wanted to share a very inexpensive, yet charming, Valentine's Decoration that I made. It was also very easy and took me a total of ten minutes.

The Supplies That you will need are: Paper heart doillies (I chose red, but they also come in pink and white), Some twine, and if you want to decorate your hearts, ribbon and embelishments. (I chose to leave mine au natural) First I chose where I was going to hang my garland and estimated how long I would have to make it.

I then used a hole punch to pucnh holes in my hearts to lace the twine through.

Then I laced the twine through the front of the doily on one side, going behind the doily and coming out of the other hole.

 I repeated this process for my desired length.

And wahlaa! A beautiful, yet simple, decoration!

It looks wonderful hanging from this shelf in my living room, but it would also look great hanging from a window or just along a wall.

Thanks For reading and I hope you enjoy!!