I have a linen closet at the end of my hallway that is packed to the point that you duck when you open the door and it is full of fall and Christmas. My Valentine's Day decor consisted of about half of a box combined with Easter. This year, I was able to find some awesome subway art, and some blog inspiration and I decorated the top shelf of my baker's rack with pink, red, and white.
On a different day, however, I decided to photograph my newest project. My Valentine Love Jars. I found these containers at the local Dollar Store and added some ribbon and hand made name tags to make them extra cute. Beside the jars I placed a basket of pre cut hearts. Through the course of February, the kids were able to choose a heart and write a note to someone in the family. By the end of the two weeks we had a whole collection of notes to read. I originally planned on writing notes every day of February, but, time got away from me and I think I actually only wrote about four notes for each person. I think the kiddos enjoyed it, especially Cameron who is learning to read and write. Tucker mostly just drew pictures and lost interest, the combination of being three and being a boy doesn't go real well with Valentine Love Jars. But you take what you can get, and hope that if I do enough cheesy love stuff with them, then someday they won't be afraid to show their wives how much they mean to them.
Oh, and if you notice my tags are made out of paint samples from Lowe's. Had time to kill while Matt was "Tooling" around the tool department, and noticed that lots of the shades of pinks and reds were titled things like "First Kiss", and "Cupid's Pink". I had a whole handful of them shoved down in the crack of Brody's carseat. They make great Valentine cards!
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