Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Do you love it or loathe it?

Personally I can take it or leave it. Is it bad that I'm not that bothered? I've bought Rick a card and a present, but I don't know if he's bought me anything. I honestly don't think I'd be upset if he didn't. We sort have already celebrated, as we were sent a Donald Russell Ultimate Valentine's Box to review. It was seriously the most amazing steak that I've ever had at home!

This year we're kiddie-free for the Valentine's weekend, and with all the driving and visiting family that I did last weekend for half term, I'm just looking forward to a relaxing day in the house! We've got to take the kittens to the vet (the poor wee things have been neutered/spayed and have to go for a check-up) and then I'll be coming home to lounge in my PJs!

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In the past, I'd have been making little favours for my children's friends to celebrate Valentine's Day, but I've just not had the time (or the spare money). 

My son chose a card (with chocolate cupcakes on the front) to give to one of his girlfriends at school and he also decorated a few envelopes to hand out to some of the boys, which he did yesterday. I don't think any of them realised it was to do with Valentine's Day though! It was nice to see the reaction of one of the boys who was on the receiving end of an envelope. He was so pleased, and after my son had disappeared round the corner, he was waving it about to one of the other boys shouting 'look what I was just given by xxx'. I think he felt quite special. Very cute - it was just an envelope! It was my very own 'Secret Life of 5 Year Olds' moment. (I've just finished watching Secret Life of 4 Year Olds on 4oD and it was rather amusing - my daughter is going to be 4 in April and I can already relate to show!)

Anyway, have a lovely day regardless of what you're up to!

{The Pinterest Challenge}

I am so excited to be taking part in The Pinaddicts Challenge with Kerry, @thelovebump. Check out the rules here.

I was going to share the dress that I made for my daughter which some of you may have seen on my Twitter feed, but it wasn't from any of my Pinterest boards and I need a bit longer to do a tutorial for it... so watch this space.

In the meantime, I thought I would share two of the Valentine's craft projects I've done with my toddler.

The first is the Valentine's cards that we've made for his little chums.

I spotted on Pinterest that you could shape a toilet roll into a heart to make a heart stamp - what a novel idea!

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So my toddler and I set about making some Valentine's cards using this technique... Here he is in action!

Toddler, still in PJs! What a mess we made!!!

Our kitchen roll 'heart stamp' and heart stamp that I cut from an old sponge

The finished cards! Yay! (we added glitter heart stickers which I got from Baker Ross)

We've also made some little favour bags for his nursery friends which we filled with Starburst sweets and I made a personalised tag to seal the bag.

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And here's our version... I've blurred out my son's name which I put in the balloon shape and it reads "I'm bursting with happiness that you're my friend, Love XX" and on the reverse I put "Happy Valentine's Day". In retrospect I should have glued the tag but I was lazy and used my stapler which perhaps doesn't look as good.

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{Fabulous Finds: Valentine's Day Part II}

I've found a whole host of other Valentine's Day ideas on Pinterest that I'd thought I'd share as a Fabulous Finds post and also Piquing My Pinterest with Tina Gray. You can find my other ideas that I previously posted here.

Love is a Battlefield!

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You make my heart bounce!

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I'm bursting with happiness that you're my friend

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I've got my eye on you!

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Of all the fish in the sea I'm glad we swim in the same school

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I'm wild about you / I'm bananas for you Valentine

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I'd snap at the chance to be your Valentine!

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Will you o'fish'ally be my Valentine?

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I've had my eye on you!

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Thumb-body loves you!

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I Wheelie Like You!

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I'm nuts about you!

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Bear hugs

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I'm going to pop a corny question... will you be my Valentine?

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{Fabulous Finds: Valentine's Day}

I'm linking up with Tina Gray for her Piquing my Pinterest blog hop but thought I'd kill two birds with one stone and make this a Glasgow Mummy's Fabulous Finds post too :-)

Here are some ideas I've come up with for Valentine's Day cards and gifts for my toddler to give to his nursery chums! We did wooden hearts last year that had the recipients name on and I ordered these from a girl on FaceBook but this year I want to make something myself. So far I'm undecided as to which idea to choose....

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Check out the other bloggers posts over at TinaGray{dot}me here.