Yay! It's Friday! I have so much energy today that it has lead to me being an organizing fool - so far I have balanced my checkbook, cleaned my classroom, finished report cards, planned lessons, and now writing this little diddy.

*I didn't number my pictures today so I am starting with the biggest and moving counter-clockwise

How was your V-Day? I was so surprised that Chris got me flowers yesterday (sometimes Chris just doesn't do presents - I think I have finally made him realize after six years that this girl LOVES her presents, I mean really, who doesn't love getting presents from the person they love? NO ONE, that's who!) I made him some delicious Gooey Butter Cookies which surprisingly he hasn't ate all of...yet.

Do my lips looks a little different? Gotta love co-workers who bring fun presents for the holidays, haha!

Chris has also recently been spending a ton of time on this website called TheChive. While I haven't visited it, I'm currently referring to it as ManPinterest because he texted me the Attila the "Hun-ey" card yesterday and posted the "Hungry" quote to my FB (Me + no food = no bueno). He is in denial that he is engaging in Pinterest like behavior.

My hair is getting sooooo long. My cousin, Lauren and I were discussing our hair problems while out on Saturday which lead to this exasperated pic.

Go check out the other wonderful Friday posts over at From My Grey Desk. Hope you had a great week and an even better weekend!

Chris and I are keeping the schedule of newborns lately, pretty much sleeping and eating. I think the only thing we did successfully this weekend was convert oxygen into carbon dioxide. So. Lazy.

6pm. Seriously.

How is it possible to be so tired all the time? And the sad thing is we don't even have anything to really make us super tired. No kids. One job between the two of us (for right now). Our evenings of making something to eat and watching television are literally sending us to bed early every night barely able to keep our eyes open.

Things should pick up in the next couple of weeks. Chris was officially hired at Wal-Mart today but unfortunately has about another two weeks until he can start. Guess I better put a "honey do" list together to keep him occupied. Ha! Maybe after Valentine's Day...

Speaking of V-day, got any great plans? We haven't even uttered the word around here so I'm not expecting anything grand. But I'm not empty handed this time (unlike Easter), putting together a little homemade present for the cost f-r-e-e. I am totally one of those people who loves homemade gifts no matter how cheesy or silly they are.

I remember Chris asking (jokingly) for a coloring book for Christmas so I printed off some coloring pages that I did a quick Google search for and made a quick card. He will get a kick out of it and maybe keep him busy during his downtime the next two weeks.

So how about you? Make anything for your sweetie? Or did you go the store bought route? Or did you get yourself something? Let's hear it!

The Martha Stewart Living magazine got into my hands this weekend with a pretty tissue paper pom pom heart wreath.


I thinks to myself, "Self...you can do that, no problem."

The name of the game around here lately for decorations is spend zero dollars, use what I have. Martha must think I'm a millionaire because she suggested using 24 3M adhesive hooks on my wall. 24! No thanks, Martha. So I started thinking what I could use to adhere the pom poms too.

I ended up using a piece of cardboard from a Christmas present that happened to still be down in the junk gym room. Using a sharpie, I sketched out a heart and cut it out with a box cutter.

So far, so free.

I am already well versed in the art of Martha pom poms. After discovering them on Pinterest earlier this summer I made some large and in charge versions for my classroom.



I feel like I could be one step away from having "NAILED IT" plastered across my picture.

Via CraftFail

I feel like I need to round out the left side just a bit more, but I'm fine with it for now. I'm sure Chris will come home and ask what threw up on the door.



Totally didn't think about my stained glass door. Yeah, it's a hot mess but I can live with it.

I've got one more crafty Valentine's idea up my sleeve that I hope to finish up tonight. Again, on the cheap for about $7.  Hope to back with that soon, happy Sunday!

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Valentine's Day is just around the corner and it is time to get some decorations up around the house. I feel a little weird putting up the hearts and such in January but V-Day is one of those holidays that doesn't get a whole month leading up to it to enjoy decorations so you gotta get 'em up early if you wanna enjoy them.


Bunting is just the cutest and being that I had two made by a friend for Halloween and Christmas, I thought I would try my hand at making my own for my "mantle".


The Cricut Magazine was the inspiration for this and I think it is adorbs, love the colors. I cut out almost all the shapes using the Tie the Knot cartridge on my Cricut...everything but the hearts. I wanted them to look a little imperfect. It's good to know that my 2nd grade heart making skills are still in tact.


The most difficult thing for me when paper crafting is layering patterns. My brain has a hard time wrapping around pairing together busy things. I tend to think in an organized structure, stripes must go with stripes, dots with dots, etc. Yes, I color inside the lines too.

Choosing the patterns for this banner almost had me in a panic, I mean take a look at what I've got going on here...dots, gingham, flowers, stripes...OH MY! But it works. Keeping the colors similar helps make the banner feel cohesive even when the patterns are a little cray-cray.


Did I mention the best thing about this l'il slice of V-Day decor was made for zero dollars? Yep, I was able to piece everything together with supplies I already had. Although it took me about an hour and half because I had to dig through all of my bins to find what I needed. My craft room needed to be put together like yesterday. But there are plans on the horizon...President's Day Weekend. Stay tuned!


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