Valentine's Day...

Okay...I know this is a crafty blog, but I don't have any other, so I have to post these sweet Valentine Pictures.  I really love my family!  My sweetie sent me flowers to work!  Then he made steak dinner and later we had dessert....oreo kisses seen somewhere in blogland AND chocolate covered strawberries.  Devine! 
My kids had some goodies to sort through and they so thoughtfully had things for Mike and me too!!!  :)'
Enjoy the pictures!  :)

Beautiful flowers from Mikey <3

To my son

To my daughter

To Mike

To Mike from my son...Alex but Mike likes to teasingly call him Albert b/c Alex wants to be called Al. 

Awww!

Awww!

Be still, my heart!

From my Chick...awww!

Kaity made this candy holder for me!  :)  Crafter indeed!

From my girl

Awww!

Kisses for my babies!

Straight up delish!  :)

Hope you had a great day too!
Tammy

Happy Hearts Day!!

Happy Valentine's Day to you and yours!!!! 
We will be doing a little celebrating for sure....our annual red dinner will be easy this year.  Spaghetti, sparkling wine/grape juice, and heart shaped bread.  Dinner will be served by candlelight.  :)  Fun!  I know the kids will appreciate it.  They will also have their goodies...candy and a T-shirt.  It will be a fun evening!  Mike and I celebrated last week with dinner at a Brazilian Steakhouse.  OMG...it was ridiculously good.  If you have one close to you, you should definately check it out, but go hungry.  You get a ton of food!  The steaks are amazing and lots of different cuts to try.  The salad bar.  OMG, that salad bar!!!  I could fill up on that!  Asparagus so big it was as round as my thumb!!!  Smoked salmon, cheese, greens, everything you would want....amazing!!! 
Well, I don't usually do a lot of decorating for heart's day, but this year, with my cricut I had to kick it up a notch.  Just a little, not a lot.  I made a fun banner for the fireplace mantle.  Sorry the pics are crazy, but I think you'll get the jist.  :)

Happy Hearts day!!!!  :)
TTFN,
Tammy

iLove

Good afternoon friends!!!  I have a complaint...the Family Fun magazine is sometimes too much for me.  Too cutesy, too hard, too complicated, too baby-ish.  I know people that love it, and that's fabulous, but I stopped my subscription more than a year ago.  HOWEVER, I do still look at the website occasionally and do like some of the projects.  I found this there earlier this year.  I apologize, I didn't keep the exact web addy, but if you go to their website, you can search it, I'm sure.  I printed it when I found it and put it in my file to make closer to Valentine's Day.  Well, guess what???  It's closer!  :)  I made these iPod - like treats for my kiddos.  I don't remember what they suggested....junior mints maybe?  I used Eclipse mints cause I found a two-pack when grocery shopping. 
Just cover them in cardstock, cut out a cirle and a square and write your playlist... 
I used embroidery thread and taped it to the outside of each mint container and then took it up to a hershey kiss - and taped it there and then covered the kiss with silver foil to look like earphones.  I think they turned out pretty cute and my kiddos will surely like them. 

Enjoy today!!!
Tammy

Fun Challenge!!

Hi all, just a quick blog for a fun challenge....! http://stayingcrafty.blogspot.com/ Trying to do more challenges to increasse my 'following' so....if you like what you see please consider following me!  Thanks! :)

Challenge was to make something with Love as the theme that was not a card.  I got the mailbox and supplies at Archivers, but I recently purchased more mailboxes at Target for $1 in their dollar bin!!!  YAY!  More fun to do!  :)
Tammy

Hedgie and Puppy Valentine

Hi pals!  :)
I decided to pull out some stamps this weekend so you will see a slew of posts with stamps.  How fun are they?!!  I go through phases as we all probably do and although I love my cricut, I love my stamps too!  I had fun coloring and cutting.  :) 
The first card I want to show you is one of my faves....a sweet hedgie!  I just love the little guy!  I think I'll give this card to my daughter for hearts day.  The second is a pup one from the same set.  I think I got them from CTMH.  Not positive though.  They are either SU or CTMH though. The dog one will be for my son. 
I don't do much for Valentines usually.  Couple decorations.  Candy.  Red dinner - i use food coloring on whatever I can to make it pink or red.  Fun.  That's about it.  This year I will probably do a bit more decorating with my beloved Cricut!!! 
More to follow.  :)

TTFN,

Tammy