Valentine's Day Boxes 2012

Happy Day of Love, everyone! :)

I have always gotten excited over the big V-day, if you will. I think since it is so close to my birthday that it's always been special to me. Plus, I loved getting to deliver little envelopes to every one's little mail boxes.  Speaking of which, we made ours! I asked Heath, "Are you going to make Valentine's Day boxes with us?"

His response? "Well, I don't want to break tradition."

I had to laugh. I could tell her wanted to.

So, here they are. For Lucy, I kept my cute, little house Kleenex box from Christmas. For me, Heath kept a regular Kleenex box.

For himself, Heath saved a Welch's fruit snacks box. He never uses the Kleenex box opening anyway...

Heath worked on his, while Lucy and I did hers. I let her pick out all the patterns, colors, stickers, everything. I just helped her glue and tape. She put on all the stickers by herself though, and colored it! :) She had a blast.

Heath was done next. He wrapped his in white and added some cute letters from the newspaper.

The spot for putting in valentines was on top.

And, he even included a little picture of us that we had cut out from our wedding invitations.

I loved it Heath; but, your circle cutting leaves a bit to be desired. :)

I was in a rut and couldn't decide what to do. So, I decided to turn my Kleenex box inside out.

The shiny inside looked a lot prettier!

I then covered the top and bottom rim with satiny, maroon ribbon - also from our wedding invitations. Then, I added a few stickers, here and there.

We had a great time and had wonderful pieces to show for it!

I hope that we have started a tradition that we will continue for years to come! Again, Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you have a love-filled day!

My Valentine

 

Happy Valentines Day to all of you lovers out there! :)  I like V-Day, if you will.  I always enjoyed making my Valentines Box, getting cute notes and candy, and picking out the perfect Lisa Frank valentine for my elementary crush, Jed.

I would read my valentines at school and then read through them again, a couple of times, at home. I took the words so literally. "Yay! Bridget thinks I'm Bee-utiful!" :)

Today, it is wonderful to still be able to take Valentines' words so literally.

Heath makes the sweetest notes.  He always calls me his Sweetheart. And, he never fails to tell me that I mean the world to him. I can't do anything, but thank him. I try to thank him everyday, for picking me to spend the rest of his life with.

So, for Valentines Day, I thought I would share a bit more about me and my forever Valentine, Heath.

• We have been together for 1 decade, this year. Wow! 10 years! It doesn't seem like that long at all.
• We started dating in high school at just 15 and 17 years old.
• Our first date was spent cruising around town. haha.
• He was my softball coach when we first started dating. In fact, I felt like he was always a little tougher on me because of it.  Talk about pressure!
• The night before he asked me to be his girlfriend, I was ready to bail; I thought he was just yanking me around.
• The first time I told Heath I loved him, we were arguing and I yelled it at him. haha.
• We were moving into a house together when he asked me to marry him.
• When he asked, he was wearing a suit and I was wearing gym shorts, a t-shirt, and was in need of a shower!
• We claim that he 'adopted' my chihuahuas.  Their names are hyphenated, with both of our last names.
• I let Heath pick out our wedding date, It's okay; he let me pick out the honeymoon.......and everything else practically! :)
• We are that corny couple who dances to slow music, on the weekend, in our living room.
• We are also those parents who have random dance breaks to Usher while cooking supper and feeding Lucy.

I thought I would leave you with some pictures of Heath and me. First, as kids - yes, we were just kids then!  I was 16 and he was 18.  Aww.......the prom. :)  And, then, 6 years later, at our wedding.

Again, Happy Valentines Day to everyone, and especially to my Hunny! :) I hope it is wonderful for you all.

 

High  School Prom

 

Our Wedding Day

Valentines Boxes

When I was in elementary school, we would always make the funnest Valentine's Day boxes. I think we usually used boxes from home, or perhaps we used Kleenex boxes; I can't remember for sure. Whatever we used, I remember it being so much fun! I liked to think I was creative back then. haha.

Well, one weekend I just happened to have two empty tissue boxes that needed thrown out. I looked at the opening and realized how perfect they were for Valentines boxes. So, I gathered Heath and Lucy, and lots of crafty supplies, and we sat down on the living room floor to make our V-day boxes. I would work on Lucy's and Heath would make ours (mine and his).

We started with the empty boxes. They were the vertical boxes, like this one.


Both boxes were designed for Christmas - one was red with reindeer on it and the other was green with ornaments. So, we chose to wrap them in paper. I wrapped mine, like a present, in red paper. Heath wrapper his in white paper.

I left the oval opening in mine; I just removed the plastic. Heath decided to go a different route and covered his top opening (defeating the whole Kleenex box purpose; but anyway...). Then he put some decor, including a 'lips' sticker.

As you can see, he went all elementary school on us and put the 'H + C' on it too. :) It made me smile. So how does he access his valentines?

Of course, he made a real mail box.

It included a black door and he tried gluing a sweetheart for the handle; but, it kept sliding off. So, I busted out the glue gun for him and it stuck.

I decided to do more of a collage style. I had a lot of these little mulberry scraps. I got them for scrap booking and hadn't really used a lot. So, I decided to overlay them, gluing them on with good'ole Elmer's.

With the red paper behind, it came out really neat. This is what it looked like when it was dry.

For the opening, I needed to make it look more 'finished'. So, although it didn't match perfectly, I decided to trim it with sweethearts.

Here are the finished boxes. They are ready to be filled with candy and sweet nothings. :)

This was a really fun project. Lucy wasn't able to help much; she really doesn't even color yet. She just chews on the markers or crayons. So, she played with the paper and then fell asleep. Heath and I had fun though. It is always nice to do something on a winter day, besides watch TV or clean.

I was really happy that he indulged me too. What a sweet guy I have! And, what a cute v-day mail box! :)

This is one tradition that I would LOVE to continue! I recommend it for any mommies out there - and, to be honest, anyone else who wants to be creative!