Free Valentine's Day Printables

Free Decor that you can change each holiday or season...or leave because you just like looking at it! 

Free Love Never Ends printable from Eighteen25


Design With Life designed this great Matt 22:37 print


BEE MINE!  Too cute from Pizzazzerie

Valentine's Card Round Up

Yes, yes its true!  V-day is right around the corner!  Here is a round-up of my favorite Valentines!



Printable Valentine's Postcards!  LOVE! via WeddingChicks

We all have a Geek in our life! These Valentine's Cards from GeekMom are perfect!


Attach this card to a pencil and call it done! via Purple Sage Creations

Googly Eyes Cards from ARMOMMY


Mustashe craze! Thank you

PlumAdorable!

These are my favorites this year...and you can find more Valentine card ideas on last year's Valentine post here.  These were my Simple and Quick finds. 
Still want more ?   I posted here a few more sweet ideas. 

 

Next post:  Valentine Decor to print!

2012 - Life Management in a binder

One of my goals for 2012 is to get all my to do's, schedules, cleaning, cooking, planning, commitments, etc gathered together in a neat little package so I can, from day to day, know whether I am coming or going.  I used to be completely organized, minute by minute in a nifty lil planner I carried around.  Then the world of smart phones and babies happened.  This past year was a whirlwind and flew by way too fast.  I don't want that kind of year again.  In steps the home management binder.  I have too many menus, calendars, check lists, and post it notes spread from here to there that I need to organize into one cutesy binder. 

You can find tons of information on building your home's binder online.  Just google Home Management Binder.  It really is a person by person thing, and needs to be coordinated to your lifestyle. 

Since I am on a quest to find my favorite printables for my binder, I thought I would share. Maybe its time for you to challenge yourself to creating some sort of binder too?

The Tool Box on Mommy Tracked has a large selection of printables:

                  

              

Get Buttoned Up has a large list of forms your can print, including lunch box notes and more!

                

          

    Printable pages for your Household Notebook available for free at Organized Home as well as more forms available from Organized home here.


Tons of printable spreadsheets for everything in life at Donna Young.  Great Homeschool forms as well!


You can also find plenty of printable bundles for a small cost.  I am debating on going this route.  I really desire a weekly planner with chores to tackle listed.  Of course I could fill in 52 weeks worth of chores on my own, but I did find this one already filled in. 
     The Project Girl 2012 Weekly Calendar with chores  ---  this site has an annual sale in Jan. so I am waiting to see if I can get a deal on the 1st.  It's only 12.99 now and would save me hours of creating my own documents...however, my "never pay retail" side is kicking in.

Filling your advent Calendar

What do you put in your Advent Calendars?  We are doing a filled advent calendar this year for the first time.  In years past we just had a countdown calendar that we moved the snowflake from number to number.  This year I am making an advent calendar with an activity or gift in each day. 

I love this Free printable from The Petit Cadeau!  Its full of ideas and premade cards ready to add to your calendar!  There are extras so you can pick and choose what you prefer.  I'm going to avoid filling it with tons of candy and gifts, and lean more on the activty side. 

 

Christmas Advent Calendars

I've had an Advent Calendar that we used for several years, however, it saw its last Christmas last year.  It was a simple, store bought countdown calendar.  You simply moved the snowflake to the correct date until Christmas day.  I loved having it for J, simply to avoid the 25 days of "how many more days?" question.  He knew he could go count it himself! 

This is year I am planning to DiY one.  I love the idea of adding little trinkets and gifts for each day.  We can deter not only the "how many days" question but also the "can we open a gift" one too! Lil Bug won't quite understand the concept yet, but I think its a great tradition to start with her....I love family traditions!

Here are some of the DIY countdown calendars I am pondering...

Simple pouches, made from Scrapbook paper from Kimberly Petersen

Bucket list Calendar made from Dollar Store items! Via Infarrantly Creative

UPDATE****
Our Advent Calendar 2011

I went with pockets made from scrapbook paper.  Inside each pocket is an activity from the free printable advent activities I posted about here. 

               

School Supply Birthday Cake

Teachers have birthdays too! In order to do something special for J's 3rd grade teacher on her birthday, we decided to make her a cake...out of school supplies.

Based on a tutorial I found on The Butlers blog I headed out to Walmart who is currently clearancing a lot of school supplies in order to fit in their Halloween products.  Armed with the following supplies, I began construction on the gift of the year! 

Rubberbands of all sizes
1 roll paper towels
4 composition notebooks
7 boxes of crayons
4 packs of pens

1 pack of mechanical pencils
3 bottles Hand Sanitizer
4 post it notes
10 glue sticks
Hat box lid
Ribbon
Tape
&Teacher Notecard by Janna Wilson 

Cover hat box with ribbon.  This is bottom of cake.  You could also use a cake round base, covered with pretty paper...or cut a circle out of cardboard. 

Attach notebooks to paper towel roll to create your center base. Secure with rubber bands. 

Add items, securing with rubber bands as needed. 

I used an empty paper towel roll to form the glue stick circle...then I stuffed it into the center of the paper towel roll to hold to the top of my cake.  Again...secure with rubber bands. 

Add Ribbon to cover up your rubber bands. 

Add a card...and other embellishments.  I would have loved to add some flowers but J was against that.   It still had to look like it came from a boy. 


Linking up:

Sip & See Baby Shower

Last night I assisted in hosting a baby shower for a sweet Lil Violet.  I've uploaded some pictures at Catch My Party.  However, there are a few ideas I think you'll love! 

Top Row:  Berry Skewers, Veggie Cups, Pudding Cups
Bottom Row:  Limeade Bar, Wishes for Baby, Cookie Favors

Berry Skewers:  I don't think I need to explain...berries + wooden skewers!  You could use ANY berries you desire.  Our berry of choice was anything in the purple family since our Baby Shower colors were green and purple.




Veggie Cups:  I love this idea and how now used it several time.  Just squeeze your favorite veggie dip into bottom of cup and add veggie sticks!  This works great for simple snacks for the kiddos too.






Pudding Cups:  We made a simple a chocolate pudding and poured it into individual tea cups to keep with our Sip & See theme.  Crushed oreos and whip cream on top.  Yum!  Leftovers are in my fridge calling my name. 

Limeade Bar:  Very popular!  Limeade (from frozen concentrate) and 7up, that's it.  Guests were able to customize their Limeade with a mix in...we offered cherries, strawberries, blackberries, watermelon & blueberries.  It's fun to see what people with try!



The last two were made possible by some wonderful FREE printables.  It wouldn't be a party by me without printables!



Wishes for Baby was provided by Lil Sugar.

Cookie Favors Printable came from Intimate Weddings.  They also have a good looking cookie recipe you could use if you don't have your own.  One day, I will share mine with you. 

Until then....

I linked my party to:

Tea Wreath

If you are looking for a sweet project to liven up your kitchen...or need a gift, this Tea Wreath from Kojo Designs is super adorable and was pretty easy!
Visit Kojo Designs for the complete Tutorial

Here's mine...

I went with fabric to cover the cardboard base, adding a ruffle to the back...and a fabric flower. 

There are many many many tutorials on making fabric flowers as well as covering clothespins with paper (or fabric). 
Tip Junkie has gathered up several Fabric Flower tuts here.
And This Mommy Loves shows you how to cover your clothespins here.

Time for Tea!

Linked up:
 

Father's Day 2011

Father's Day already!  2011 is whizzing by!!  I've rounded up a few of my "bookmarked" ideas I've come across...as always, my favorites are easy do it yourself and practically FREE ideas! 

Handprint in a handprint in a handprint in a...you get the point! Tres French Hens tells you how to do this one.

Breakfast in Bed?  Go to 733 blog and print one out for free and let dad fill it out.  Maybe do this one a day or so in advance, so you have time to go to store for any ingredients not already on hand!

Eighteen 25 has a great tutorial for Tokens for Dad along with a FREE printable. 

 AWESOME dad printable and tutorial at Nothing but Country.

Let the kids fill out these "all about my Dad" forms from Allison Waken for a sweet (maybe humorous) gift!

Have fun!!