Chocolate Covered Cherry Hearts

Valentine's Day is almost here. Like, tomorrow almost here.

Here is a really quick and easy Valentine treat you can make for someone you LUHVE. Plus these Chocolate Covered Cherry Hearts are super yummy.

These are ridiculously easy to make. All you need is--

cherry hearts
milk chocolate chips
wax paper
toothpicks

First melt the chocolate chips by the double broiler method. Put the chips in a bowl and then place the bowl over the top of a saucepan of shallow simmering water. The water and the bottom of the bowl should not touch. Stir the chocolate constantly until melted.

Use a toothpick to dip the cherry heart into the chocolate.

Cover the heart with chocolate and shake gently to remove excess chocolate.

Using a second toothpick, remove the chocolate covered heart from the first toothpick onto a sheet of wax paper.

Repeat until all the hearts are covered.

Let the chocolate cool and harden for at least 3 hours and up to overnight.

Now they are all ready. See how easy peasy it is.

You can package them up all pretty and give them away or you can just eat them right off the wax paper and say Happy Valentine's Day to yourself.

Or you can do what I did and give some away and eat some. A win win.

So Happy Valentine's Day and happy chocolate eating.

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Brownie M&M Cookies

My brownie obsession has now crossed over to the Brownie M&M cookies. If someone were to ask I probably would only admit to eating one or two, not the seven I have eaten in two days. These cookies are chocolatey, obviously. They are chewy. They are brownies in cookie form. Then of course there are the M&M's. What I am trying to convey is that these cookies are good. Like really good.

I do not make cookies often. Heck I actually do not bake often. However, when I do most likely it will involve brownies and milk chocolate. Heavens I love milk chocolate. My poor Hubs is inflicted with Dark Chocolateitis. Poor, poor husband.

These cookies also make great holiday, party, or everyday cookies because you can switch out the M&M's for the specific event.

Man, don't they look yummy?

I hope you didn't just lick your screen. That can't be good for your computer. So try to avoid the licking of technology and go ahead and just make yourself some Brownie M&M Cookies. Your computer will thank you.

printable recipe HERE

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Amaze-BALLS Teacher Valentine

Saturday is Valentine's Day. That means that Friday is the day that Valentine's gets celebrated at school. So it is time for Teacher Valentine's. Every year I try to come up with a little something for the Little Men's teachers. Last year I even had to come up with something for all the teachers since I am over Teacher Appreciation for our school.

Last year we did the CRUSH Valentine's for the teachers. They were probably one of my favorite teacher Valentine's to date and I was totally figuring that I couldn't come up with something for this year that I liked as much.

Then I realized that I love gumballs, I love the made up word amazeballs, and I love teachers. So the Valentine pretty much wrote itself.

To make these I gathered a couple of glass milk bottles and some gumballs. I opted for these sweet pink gumballs.

I gathered a helper or two and filled the bottles with the gumballs.

I made these tags in PicMonkey. Then I printed out enough Amazeballs Tags for each teacher.

 Download Amazeballs Teacher Valentine's HERE

I tied on the tags with a bit of fabric. There ya have it. A fun, delightfully fantastic way to say Happy Valentine's Day to your kids' teachers.

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Skip To My Lou's Print Your Own Valentines Series {Guest Post}

 

Today I am over at Skip To My Lou sharing this pretty awesome non candy classroom Valentine as part of the Print Your Own Valentines Series.

Head over to get the printable. While you are there check out the other Valentines in her series! There are a lot of awesome ideas.

Also, make sure you come back on Friday for another Classroom Valentine Printable ideas!

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Love is in the Air Valentine {printable}

 Today I have another Valentine idea for you.

This is a great one for a class valentine or a teacher or a girlfriend.

They come together really easy and involve Airheads, which I am really rather fond of.

I made the Love is in the Air printable using PicMonkey. I have made it a PDF so it is easy to download and print off.

Download Printable HERE

The printable includes a valentine and a coordinating paper wrap to go around the Airhead candy.

Just print off the printable. I always recommend using card stock paper and to print at least normal setting, if not the best setting possible.

I used regular sized Airheads, but the smaller sized ones would work too.

Wrap the paper wrapper around the Airhead making sure to cover the "head". That way the word "air" is what shows. Tape the wrapper in place.

Tape or glue the Airhead in place. Love is definitely in the air.

Look for more Valentine ideas to come. I kind of went Valentine crazy this year...well crazier than normal. 

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Minecraft Be MINE Valentine T-Shirt

Another installment of Valentine's Day T-shirt  Palooza. Woohoo!

This may or may not be the "cooler" shirt Oldest wanted. You know the one I referred to in his Hashtag Valentine's Day T-shirt.

Even though I am in love with the Hashtag Shirt, I can't blame Oldest too much for being jealous of his brother's shirt.

After all, what video game loving boy doesn't think Minecraft is the coolest game ever?

So to have a Minecraft Valentine's Day shirt is kind of the best thing ever...at least in this house.

To make this shirt, I used the image I made for the Creeper T-shirt party favors for Middle's Minecraft Creeper Birthday Party a couple of months ago.

I changed the text on the first T-shirt to say BE MINE...hahaha get it...be MINE...MINECRAFT...anywho...

I also created an old school looking graphic heart image using PicMonkey to go along with the whole Valentine's Day theme.

02.11.15 UPDATE
***I have now made available the image for this shirt. GO HERE to find the image I made for this shirt.***

I cut the images out of red and black flocked heat transfer vinyl from Expressions Vinyl with my Silhouette. I used a soft lovely...er I mean manly...gray heather tee from Target.

A fun boy-approved Valentine's Day T-shirt for my Minecraft lovin' Little Man.

Not shocking this is the favorite t-shirt in our house right now. It is Minecraft mania around here I tell you.

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Hashtag Be Mine Valentine T-shirt

Who doesn't love a good hashtag? Okay there are some people who could take or leave hashtags. Me, well I think they are hilarious! Love them.

I love when they are ridiculous. You know like  #imtherealcookiemonster #nomnomnomnomnomnom #ididitallforthecookie #lololololololololololololololololololo.... Name the skit...

Hashtags are great.

So when I was brainstorming for Valentine's Day shirt ideas, this Hashtag Be Mine Valentine T-shirt just came to me. #lightbulbwentoff #iamagenius

Kidding...about the genius thing that is.

Now here is the thing, I don't really have a hashtag savvy child yet. Oldest is almost ten. He is years away from getting what a hashtag is. #geezgetwiththetimes #kiddingheis9

He, much to his dismay, is also years away from having a phone. I mean seriously, he is so not getting one for awhile. After all his own mother has had a smart phone under a year and I only have one because my lovely sister went on a mission and left her phone behind. I am going to ignore the panicky feeling I have at the thought of giving it up when she gets back...breathe...just breathe. Fingers crossed I will get one of my own.

He was happy to use mine for the photo shoot. He looks pretty legit.

I will openly admit, this shirt is pretty much for me. Don't get me wrong, he will wear it. Oh, and he will like it. BUT I am pretty sure none of his 9 year-old friends will get it.

He will probably show up at school and it will go something like this--

Friends: "Uh what does that say?" "Why is there a number sign?"

Oldest: "It is called a hashtag. My mom thinks they are funny. My mom is weird."

Friends: "A hashtag?" "That is weird."

Cole: "I know."

Friends: "Your mom is weird."

Cole: "Tell me about it. My brother got a cool shirt and I got stuck with this hashtag one."

He likes to mock me. #igetnorespectaroundhere

He thinks it is rather funny that I am weird. At least I don't embarrass him...yet.

Seriously though guys, I love this shirt. #thisteemakesmehappy

This shirt is easy to make. I always get all my tees at The Mart (aka WalMart). I bought some flocked heat transfer vinyl from my favorite store Expressions Vinyl. I used my Silhouette to cut out the words. Since the design was like insanely simply, the shirt start to finish took under 10 minutes.

Short projects are lovely. #leftmetimetodothelaundry

If you don't have a vinyl cutting machine, you could do this shirt using freezer paper and fabric paint. The project would take a little longer due to having to stencil and then cut out the letters. Then the paint would also have to dry.

Whatever way you make it, it is still pretty easy. Whomever you  make it for, your kid or yourself, it will probably be like the best shirt ever. #bestshirtever #makeeveryoneelsejealous

Hashtags not your thing...

First of all, then I profusely apologize for my hashtag antics in this post.

Second of all, I have lots of other Valentine's Day Shirt ideas. Go check them out and see if they are more to your liking! Also, I have a few more shirts coming up soon, brother's cooler shirt previously mentioned is one of them.

Other shirt ideas--

Love in NYC

Heart Stopper

XOXO

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Thirty Handmade Days, The Idea Room,
Whipperberry, The 36th Ave

Meant to BEE Friends Valentine {printable}

I love myself some fun Valentines and I am pretty excited that it is time to start creating and making Valentine's.

I actually created this Meant to BEE Valentine for my girlfriends. I love Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm. Like...love it, love it.

When I decided I wanted to give a little gift to some of my girlies, some Burt's Bees seemed perfect. Especially once I paired it with the oh-so-familiar "meant to be" phrase.

I used PicMonkey to make this Meant to BEE Valentine. The file is a PDF and is available for your download valentine fun.

 (download HERE)

All you need to make this Meant to BEE Friends Valentine is the printable, some Burt's Bees Lip Balm, ribbon, and hot glue.

After I printed and cut out the Meant to BEE tags, I tied little ribbons around the lip balm tubes.

Then I used a small amount of hot glue to adhere the lip balm tube to the tag.

Done and done! So easy. All I have to do now is give them to my girlfriends.

Happy Valentine's Day planning and prepping. Love myself some Love Day.

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52 Reasons I Love You Printable (A Pinteresting Wednesday)

We have been married 12 plus years. That is a lot of married happiness right there. You know how in the first bit of marriage it is all ponies, glitter, rainbows, and lot and lots of....

...giggles...

More years follow. Some of the newness wears off. Marriage changes a bit, but change is good.

Marriage is work, but anything worth anything takes work.

Sometimes work is fun.

You know what is fun? Taking a little extra time to do something special for the person you love mostest. Or finding ways to let them know you appreciate them.

I have been trying a little extra hard to show The Hubs how much I love and appreciate him.

Which made this A Pinteresting Wedenesday project a no brainer. I had this Love Card Deck project pinned from DIY IYD to my Romantic Pin Board.

I made my own version along with a printable. Fifty-two Reasons I Love You.

I started with a red deck of cards. I prettied up the card box a bit with some stripped paper.

I made a printable using PicMonkey. The heart overlays are perfect for any love or Valentine's Day project.

Here is the printable for you. You will need to download it to your computer and then open it in a Word program. Make sure you shrink it down to about 3 1/2 by 2 1/2, which is roughly the size of a card box.

On each of the 52 cards of the deck, write reasons you love your spouse.

Just keep writing until you have a little message on each card.

Glue the printable onto the front of the card box.

All that is left is to put the deck of cards in the box.

Then you just deliver it to the lucky person.

I may or may not have left The Hubs this token of my affection on his pillow. Forget the mint. Fifty-two declarations of love and affection is way better.

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