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Heartfelt Valentine’s Finds

February 8, 2024 By Erica Deuel Leave a Comment

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, it’s time to spread some love and celebrate the special people in our lives! Whether it’s your significant other, family members, or cherished friends, there’s no better way to show you care than with heartfelt finds.

Creating Heartfelt Creations

I’ve made some new creations around my favorite shape for the shop-hearts! Each heart-themed item I hope warms the hearts of loved ones.

I love how the heart design/shape is a quick way to represent love, kindness, and joy. For this Valentine’s Day, I hope you are inspired to celebrate love in your own unique way. Whether it’s a special gift you’ve found or a heartfelt DIY creation, every gesture counts to show love to those you care about.

3 Ways to Show Love Within a Family

As we are in our busy basketball season as a family, it feels like we are all going in different directions and just scrambling to keep up with schedules daily. Even in this season, I want to be intentional with showing my family they are important to me. Often it is little gift pick ups or adding their favorite snack to my groceries. It is also just going back to the basics, so let’s take these ideas listed below, as going back to the basics for both you and I.

  1. Express Gratitude: Say “thank you” and show appreciation for even the smallest acts of kindness or assistance. When I only have to ask one time for the trash to be taken out, that means a lot. In the same way, when we get the text that a kiddo is ready to be picked up from a team dinner, and my 16 year old jumps up to be the chauffeur without being asked…I am super thankful, so I say it.
  2. Help Out: Pitch in with household chores or tasks without being asked, showing that you’re willing to lend a hand and make life easier for everyone. All my kids/husband are way able to pack their own school/work lunches, but I still do it. I know it means something to them, and I have the time. I just have written into our family values that is my love letter to them everyday. They know it. I don’t write cute lunch box notes anymore, but the lunch itself is their note. 
  3. Share Laughter: Find moments to laugh together, sharing jokes, funny stories, or just enjoying each other’s company. Lazy weekend days are my favorites. I look forward to them. Matt and I are drinking coffee in what we call our “snow room” and one by one a kiddo wakes, slips in, and we just are hanging out as we start our day.

There’s no better feeling than spreading love and making someone smile. I hope you too are able to be find windows to be intentional with those you love this Valentine season. If you need a card or small gift to help you, I have some good ones listed online.

In it with you,

Erica

 

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Wood Slice Valentine Art

January 31, 2023 By Erica Deuel Leave a Comment

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. What a great opportunity to either make a little handmade gift (or purchase a little handmade gift) to show someone you love that you care! In this post, I am going to show you how I made some wood slice valentine art, and you can do the same!

I first started with some wood slices I have been drying out in my garage, since the fall. If you saw my big 4-0 birthday celebration, you know what these slices are from!

I love buying samples of my paint colors before I paint a new wall in our house.

It allows me to test the paint, stare at it in all kinds of lighting, and then I reuse that paint on other projects. I used a dark, charcoal gray to be the base coat for these wood slices.

Once the base gray color was dry, I went back and painted a soft pink heart in the middle of each one.

The wood slices were still a little textured so I had to be careful to get my smooth lines. I used a small brush and some craft acrylic paint.

I Made a Lot of Valentine Art Signs

I was in assembly line mode making signs. The reason I created a lot was so I could list them in my shop. Although the signs are really fun Valentines’ gifts or art, they are also a powerful reminder to leave up year round!

If you have one scrap piece of wood, you could do this craft idea too. You can also purchase wood slices at most craft stores.

Painting the hearts was my favorite step, but waiting for them to dry was my least favorite step. I was so excited to stylize them up and get some product shots.

There are so many fun color options you could do with this same idea and simple steps. I think a neon version would be so fun too!

It doesn’t have to be a big expensive gift to say “i love you”. I recently sent my mom a little gift, but she said what meant the most were the words in her card. Think of how you could pair a simple gift like this with a card. That’s a gift with meaning that is sure to be the highlight of your receiver’s day!

If you want one of my hearts, you can pick it up in the shop today!

If you need some encouragement in your journey today, I am here to say…you have a strong heart.

No matter what we go through, there is always hope, ability for change, and endless possibilities. We just have to keep going. Small steps are still steps and movement forward. This heart is a reminder that the world needs what you got.

**If you need more encouragement, I’d love to invite you into my new course, Create More Connection.

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Kid Made Class Valentines

February 12, 2018 By Erica Deuel 1 Comment

Kid Made Class ValentinesAre you making Valentines with your kids for a class party this week?

Our kids’ school does their class party on Friday, so maybe you have a few days still to get ready. If you are finding stores picked over or want something kind of handmade, try making these fun paper valentine’s with your kids!

Kid Made Class ValentinesMy daughter is really creative. I gave her some paper, heart stickers, pipe cleaners and a hot glue gun and she ran with the supplies and made these all on her own. I stood back and watched her dream up fun valentines for each of her friends.

Her process was simple. She cut a heart out of fun papers and treated that heart as the body of a fun little valentine character. She’s been using a hot glue gun for years, so I wasn’t worried. You can also do this step for your child if you want to help teach caution with that tool. She hot glued pipe cleaners to be the arms and legs. She also used heart stickers to be the arms. My favorite part is every little character is different. It helped the process of making 23 valentines for her classmates not seem as tedious.

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Kid Made Class ValentinesI don’t know about you, but I don’t buy fruit roll-ups a lot. There’s something about that red, waxy substance that just doesn’t seem like food. Now, this was a fun opportunity to buy something my girl views as a “treat” yet it’s not candy. She’s going to be eating a ton of candy at her class party anyway…why not let her have/give something she enjoys as a special treat, but that’s a little bit different for some extra fun!?

Kid Made Class ValentinesI love that she glued her valentines to her fruit roll-ups to look like the guy was holding the fruit roll up or standing on it. Seriously. She is so creative!

Kid Made Class Valentines

Kid Made Class ValentinesShe worked really hard on these little characters and is so excited to give them to her friends this week! If you have some paper on hand, this could be an easy valentine to whip up with your kids this week.Part of the fun of creating with your kids is just the opportunity to sit and talk with one another. Enjoy!

If you have the opportunity to create these, tag me on social media, so I can see! #spoonfulproject

Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope you have a great week loving your friends and family well!

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Easy (non-candy) Kid Valentines

January 27, 2016 By Erica Deuel 1 Comment

easy_DIY_kid_valentineAre you still eating Christmas candy around your house?

It’s easy to get sugar overload at the holidays. I happen to love candy, so I gotta be careful or I’ll eat so many sours that my mouth hurts and I get canker sores. Whoa. Not responsible, right?

I am careful with my kids though. My trainer sister helps keep me in check too. When I thought through what kind of Valentines I could make to send my nieces way, I knew they had to be non-candy. Lucky me, they have the crazy crafting gene as well and love all things creative. I thought these little notepads would be a fun option, and maybe they will entertain all the kids for my sis for a little bit.

DIY_valentineYou can really use any kind of little notepad you want. I have a few from Ikea and then others from Walmart. The light colored notepads allowed me to color the kids’ names right on top. The darker pads I used scrap paper and tape to write the kids’ names on.

There are so many options here. You could paint the kids names, use stickers, or even glitter glue.

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candy_less_valentinesTo add even a little more fun, you could write a special message on the inside cover of the notepad to that child. I added little Valentine pencils to mine.

non_candy_kid_valentineThis Valentine can be given just like that or add a little bag of candy, flower, or stuffed animal to it. I definitely snacked on candy hearts as I crafted these up.

easy_kid_valentinesDo you know a creative kid that would enjoy his or her own mini journal to doodle in? Try making these Valentines. You really can’t mess them up. Send them in for the class Valentine’s party. I’m sure the teachers and other parents would love a change from candy too.

DIY_kid_valentineIf you like this Valentine you might like my Birds of a Feather Valentine or I’m Your Biggest Fan Valentine I made my kids a few years back.

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