Valentine's Tea

Last week, my Tuesday morning Bible Study had a tea party. It was a delightful morning designated to bring encouragment and joy to the ladies that attend. My friend Steph and I were in charge of putting the tea together. . . one of my favorite things to do.

We went with a Valentine's theme and filled the room with red, white and pink. A great color scheme when you have everything tying together.

Our centerpieces were clay pots filled with my browned butter rice krispie treat hearts and a table number. The table number can easily be printed (for free) at Martha Stewart. I found these great place cards at Michael's on clearance, which was awesome, since we were on a tight budget. And of course, Hershey kisses sprinkled along the table just added to the delight.

Valentine fun

I love Valentine's Day! I love all the paper crafts and possibilities that paper and creativity can make! As much as I don't want my little one to grow up, I just can't wait to sit with him and help him make his own Valentine's.

I found this idea on a blog and just couldn't stand not making it. . . it was so easy! All you need are boxes of conversation hearts, printed scrapbook paper, and this printout. I didn't make the ear buds, but they looked cool too! If you search google images for Ipod, they have an awesome heart graphic that I copied to make bag cover for my treats.

Now, I needed a reason to make these cool valentine's, so, since my husband and I hosted dinner for our Sunday School class Progressive Dinner, I thought that they would make great favors for each of my guests.
So, I place them on the place setting like so. . . which in my opinion made it look finished.

I do also have to say that during the dessert portion of the evening, I was sitting on a couch talking with my friends Steph and Denise, and they pulled out there cameras to show off their nicely set tables. . . I could also pull out mine, because I, too, took pictures of my table. I was so glad that I was not the only crazy one who takes pictures of how I set my table for special events.
We had 6 other fun couples join us for dinner. I went super easy for dinner and made heart shaped raviolis that I found at Costco with white and red sauce, French bread and salad. Super easy, but I really liked the theme of Valentine's Day!

I hope you all had a great Valentine's Day!

Valentine Time

Happy Valentine's Day!

I know, the holiday has come and gone, but I am so behind on my blogging that the next few posts will be full of Love. . . just for you!

My mom bought this cool new set of stamps, called Sweetheart through Stampin' Up. With the use of the heart punch and these new heart shaped treat containers that fit right into the punched out heart, it makes the cutest card! I had so much fun playing. My mom let me have a few of her containers and I new that I was going to make something for the gals at my MOPS table. Instant inspiration! I decided I was going to fill the hearts with Red Hots (which by the way, are a bit harder to find than expected. . . Cost Plus World Market had them!). Then I decided to go with a red and Black theme. I kind of copied an idea out of the SU website, but used one of my Martha Stewart punches for the white strip and then a red and white polka dot ribbon. I had so much fun!

Now, I will note that there is a down side to this card. . . not very mailable. Thankfully, I just put them at there place at our last MOPS meeting. You probably could mail them, with extra postage and maybe a cushion-y envelope. . . but I probably wouldn't.

So, Happy Valentine's Day to you. I have a camera full of blogworthy posts to blog about that I just uploaded. . . so, I hope to catch up really soon. Have a wonderful weekend!