Happy Valentine's Day!

What's love got to do with it?
Everything!

Nineteen years in to our marriage and we are still having fun!
We got married really young so I get asked alot how we are still be together after all this time.
Here's my advice to all you out there:

• Be besties - it helps if you can tell your partner everything without too much judgement
• Be polite - remember your please and thank you's
• Communicate, communicate, communicate!
• Have a life plan but be flexible
• Do stuff together but have your own hobbies
• A sense of humor! This is pretty much essential!
• Be good travel companions! Be compatible or travel separately to keep from ruining your vacations
• Oh - and having the same taste in movies helps too!

Enjoy your partner and remember to be kind and love each other!

Loving you is easy cuz you're beautiful! - JCoy

Hearts on the Line

On my way down to Jess's house a bit after new years, I hit Target in the hopes of scoring some cheap Christmas decorations. Imagine my delight at finding everything 90% off! Awesome!
I found some fun stuff that I'll share with you next Christmas but, I found these primitive wooden hearts that I knew I could repurpose as Valetine's decorations. And the best part? They were 10 cents each! Score x90% off!

Here's the before:

Here's the after:

I used all the materials I already had: pink metallic craft paint, red glitter paint, sliver and black sharpie paint pens and of course, glitter!!

I hand wrote "Love is all you need" about the hearts and then strung them up with pink polka dot ribbon on a retractable curtain rod. I hung the rod between our living room and family room/art space to add a bit of love.

Love is really all you need! Well, and hearts at 10cents a piece!

Stay crafty my friends - JCoy

Valentine's Day Heart in a Bottle

I believe that you should celebrate Valetine's Day every day!  After the lull of January, who can resist red and pink, and hearts and chocolate filling the stores? After all pink, hearts, and chocolate are three of my favorite things!

I decided to combine those three with glitter to share with you. Here is an easy project to add to your Valentine decor!



Supplies needed:
 - empty clean bottle
 - skein of funky yarn
 - glitter
 - craft paint
 - skewer
 - plastic lid from a disposable coffee cup
 - cardboard from the recycling bin
 - glue
 - foam brush
 - scissors

Directions

Starting at the bottom, use the foam brush to brush glue on your bottle an inch or so at a time. With glue still wet, start wrapping your bottle with the yarn. Keep gluing and wrapping until you get to the top. Set aside to dry.

Paint your skewer with your favorite pink paint (I am using metallic pink craft paint). Set aside to dry.

Clean the lid from your coffee cup and cut a heart from it. Cover one side with glue and sprinkle liberally with your favorite glitter (I am using the Martha Stewart line from Joann Fabric). Set aside to dry.  Cut a heart from your recycled cardboard. Glue and glitter this heart as well.

After everything is dry, glue the plastic lid heart to the front of the bottle (I had to use my glue gun for this part). Glue the cardboard heart to the skewer.

 

Fill your new heart bottle with candy and stick the skewer in (the candy will hold the skewer upright).  Give to your love and enjoy together!

Stay crafty my friends - JCoy