Fruit Barrel Valentine Printable

As a mom I feel like it is way too early to start thinking about Valentine's Day. However, as a blogger it looks like I am weeks behind. So here I am posting about valentines in January. Don't hate. ;)

LEGO Heart Necklace

A few months back I saw this idea on Squidoo for a heart necklace made out of LEGOS and I knew I had to have one. Jer has been working on a giant lego village so we had the big box of parts out and it seemed like a good time to rummage through for the pieces that I needed. 

Conversation Heart Cake

I'm not a big fan of Valentine's Day so this is probably the only post you will find here on the topic this year.  The one thing that I do like about it is the conversation hearts!  Not the sweettart kind though - it has to be the old school necco wafer kind.  

Cookie Cutter Painting

I originally saw this project last year on Totally Tots and it sounded like a fun one to try with Jeremy.

Paper Quilled Valentine's Card

I'm amazed by all of the traffic my little blog has been getting the last few days! I have really enjoyed reading all of your sweet comments and I am so happy to have my first five "followers"! It really means a lot to me that you enjoy my blog enough to want to keep checking back in. I have a renewed motivation to keep up with this blog and to try and make it as fun as I can. There for awhile I was starting to feel like I was just talking to myself here. :-)

Now for my blogging question, what do you find to be the best way to respond to comments? The only thing I don't like about Blogger is that the comments aren't done in a thread form where I can just comment below the person and have them receive notification of it. I would love to respond to each individual commenter and at least thank them for stopping by, but trying to get to each person's blog in a timely manner seems a bit daunting and the more comments I receive, the more responding to each one will take time away from working on new projects to post on here. Besides, I feel a little weird taking about my blog in someone else's comment area. So how do you respond to comments? Do you respond to each one or only when they need an answer to a question? I'm still fairly new to Blogger so I'm not quite sure what the proper "blogging etiquette" is. Any opinions on this matter would be greatly appreciated!

On to my latest project...Today I made a Valentine's Day card for my husband using paper curlique art. It was my first time trying this so it didn't turn out quite as I envisioned but hopefully you will still enjoy it.

Conversation Heart Cake

Valentine's Day came a little early at our house this year. I had this cute idea for a cake and I wanted to share it with all of you while you still have time to make one for yourself. Well...that and we kept eating the conversation heart candies and I was afraid we would run out before I got to make the cake!

Valentine's Paper Heart Link

I got back to crafting for a bit today and decided to start on some Valentine's Day decorations!

I started out by tracing around two different sized heart cookie cutters, one inside the other, onto colored cardstock.

Paper Roses

These paper roses are so easy to make and the best part is that my black thumb can't kill them!