Our Mail Station for Valentine's Day

I am so happy with how my mail boxes turned out 

thanks to this idea that I came across the other day.

 I headed to the craft store to get wooden circle plaques (39 cents each) and a large dowel ($1.00).  I cut the dowel to different sizes, glued them to the circle plaques using E6000 and then painted them.  Glued the mail boxes to the top once dry and embellished with ribbon and stickers.

 They are now ready to be displayed as well as filled with little love tokens for the next 14 days.

My kids are super excited and so am I.

 Here is an idea if you do not have any of those cute mailboxes. (I found mine at Target a while back)

Turn a  bowl and candle stick into a candy dish or use it as your mailboxes.....they are still super cute and they can hold any love token that just might happen to be delivered from loved ones :)

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do you know that i love you? ( frame )

If you know me well, you know that I have a favorite thing to say to my babies....ok, kids as they get older :)

I say this as I kiss on them, hold them, rock them or as I wipe the crusted food off their little faces.

do you know that i LOVE you?

 So I thought I needed to make me up a frame with this saying on it.  

Especially with Valentine's day coming.

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Baby Boy Blessing Outfit

My Little Man

in his man suit :)

We first saw this cute outfit  (pictured below) and bought it.  It was cute.....but much cuter on the hanger.  When we put it on our little guy, immediately my husband and I thought that it just was not him, nor was it our style so we returned it and I went hunting for a different outfit.

Thank Goodness for Carter's.

This is the white hoodie outfit that we went for for our little guy's blessing outfit.

And take a look at that face.

I think he was much happier with this look.

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14 days of Valentine's for your HUBBY

Once again, here is what I am doing for my HUBBY for Valentine's this year 2012:

14 days of Valentine's

ok, so here is the real deal.  Both me and the HUBS have decided to do this together.  Funds are very limited these days so this was to help keep it "even" if you will. 

 But because I want some fun along the way I do not have what my hubby has put together for me.  So I am here to share my ideas with you.  The RULE's that we came up with something small for 14 days, to keep them simple and keep them under $20 total for the 14 days.  That is easy-peasy my friends.  Just hit any $1.00 bin in any store and you will be surprised what you can come up with.

 I made my Valentine's totally 80's like by hand writing each tag.  (remember the simple rule)

Here are the thoughts I put on each item.

 Here they all are, ready to hand deliver at work, sneak into his car, put in the shower....etc.  

I will give him one thing each day starting on Feb 1st and on the 14th I will be hand delivering him a pizza at work for lunch to go with the

 "you make my world go round" tag.

I did something similar to this last year (and it was a huge success) except it was a one time thing...meaning I made up a simple printable that included a lot of his favorite goodies and put them all together in a basket and gave it to him at work.  So if you like the one time gift idea you can find that HERE.

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Heart shaped Strawberry and Chocolate Marshmallow treats

Eat with your eyes first....

I found the heart shaped marshmallows at Walmart

(they had small ones like these as well as larger ones)

melt some chocolate, drizzle with a fork then sprinkle with pink crystal sprinkles. (I had my kids do these and they had a great time doing them)

The marshmallows are strawberry flavored so they make for a fabulous treat!

Check out my Marshmallow Pops from last year as well as my chocolate dipped cookies

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