Finally I can post Anya’s Valentine cards! She wanted to start making them when we got back from Christmas holiday. Somehow I managed to spread out the making of the cards over that following month, and we delivered the cards to her kids and teachers yesterday at her school party. (Ah, there’s another story there, which I will tell after I get back from the doctor this afternoon.)

To make Anya’s Valentine’s cards, we started with finger painting. When did finger paint start to look like Colgate gel? Anya and I were painting away and then we started sticking paper on top of our pictures, and the resulting prints were very cool. I cut up a bunch of little squares, and Anya bounced around making probably a hundred little prints.

A week or so later, she glue-stuck the squares to cards, and I made little frames for the squares and stamped “Be Mine” on the front of the cards. We sent a few out to friends and family, and then Sunday night before her party we wrote messages in the cards, Anya drew all over them with markers, and we put them in envelopes. All her kids and teachers thought the cards were super great, and one little girl even carried hers around the rest of the afternoon.

February is also my mother’s birthday month, and she got her present, so I can post about that, too! I made her a quilled picture, and framed it, and sent it, and it did not break in the mail!

I love quilling. I have been spending hours while Anya is at school working on quilling. I made about 25 pieces and took them to my scrapbook group this last weekend and offered them up for donations to Relay for Life (more on that…soon!), and my donation can had $26 in it at the end of the crop! Yay! I also made two custom pieces on site, a ladybug and an elephant. Too bad I didn’t take pictures.

And here is the last crafty fun for now…

It’s a Valentine’s jack-o-lantern! We made it from a pumpkin she got on a school field trip last fall. Better late than never! We cooked up the seeds, and I thought they were yummy…until a piece of one got stuck in my gums and plagued me for the next week.