A short but good one…

Jan 14, 2009

If you would like to win a spot to join in on all the fun in my Cupid’s Work­shop just leave a com­ment telling me some of the fun things you do for your fam­ily on Valentine’s Day. Ans­ley will pick a win­ner tonight.

Be My Valentine

I am knee deep in a book dead­line right now so back to cre­at­ing I go.… but the good thing is I am more than half way fin­ished cre­at­ing and I am in love with every sin­gle project. I can­not wait for you all to see what I have been work­ing on. The not shar­ing is killing me.


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  • Cathy K.

    I cook my hus­bands favorite meal and bake a black for­est cake with a lit­tle red food col­or­ing in the whipped cream to make it fes­tive. I also make lit­tle gifts for my girl­friends each year — just because it makes them smile — this year it will be lit­tle scrap cov­ered notepads and pens with a pink and red theme.

  • http://wildrosestamper.typepad.com Jes­sica

    I make my mom and grand­par­ents Valen­tine cards and get my mom a lit­tle some­thing. This year, I altered a com­po­si­tion jour­nal in pinks and laces, since mom loves to col­lect jour­nals (tho’ not nec­es­sar­ily write in them!) Thanks for the chance to win!

  • http://weeinklings.blogspot.com LeAnne

    Unfor­tu­nately, we don’t do a lot for Valentine’s! Every other year we go on vaca­tion to Puerto Rico with my in-laws and it is a HUGE hol­i­day there, so we go out to eat and cel­e­brate that way. I guess I need to do some­thing a lit­tle more fun & fes­tive. I do send cards and give my DH a hand-made card, and if I have enough time, I send my down­line cards, too!
    Thanks for your beau­ti­ful cre­ative inspi­ra­tions!
    LeAnne

  • http://2stampis2b.blogspot.com 2stampis2b

    We usu­ally go out to dinner!

  • http://www.celebrate-the-journey.com/ Ginny

    My maiden name is Valen­tine so it has always been a spe­cial day for me. We usu­ally go out some­place spe­cial – as long as we are together it is spe­cial. We also exchange a hand­made card or gift. This year we are spend­ing Valentine’s Day in Paris!!! I am excited :razz:

  • http://kismetart.typepad.com/ kim a.

    I serve heart shaped pan­cakes for break­fast to my fam­ily, we hide Valentine’s around the house, and have a heart shaped pizza for din­ner. As much as we used to enjoy a roman­tic night out on the 14th we seem to have a lower pres­sure, fun filled night at home with our 2 kids! Also, my birth­day is the day before Valentine’s day, so my hus­band bakes and frosts (with our son) a heart shaped cake for me– we eat more of it on Valentine’s Day.

  • Sue

    WOW — let me begin by telling you your valen­tine is spec­tac­u­lar … love it! In our home, we don’t do a whole lot for Valentine’s Day other than exchange a mushy-gooshy card and try to be nice to each other. Ha ha ha!

  • bethanie

    Well, other than the exchang­ing of cards, and the promise to go to din­ner when the bring the jacked up prices back down to nor­mal (hmmm.… I think we still need to have din­ner out for the last FOUR valentine’s days) we don’t do a hole lot in my house… but with my daugh­ter get­ting older, I’m sure we’ll start doing some­thing fun in a year or two! Your valen­tine is just beau­ti­ful!!
    Thanks for the chance to win some­thing wonderful!

  • jules p

    The “not shar­ing” is killing me too! :eek:
    So..hurry!

  • http://monicaanderson.blogspot.com/ Mon­i­caA

    Well since our anniver­sary is a few days prior , we dont usu­ally do any­thing to grand, other than cards and a gift some­times. Always give the kids a small some­thing an d some candy and we end the day with going out to din­ner as a Fam­ily and usu­ally try some place new.
    Love your Valen­tine and thanks for the Give Away!!!

  • jules p

    I for­got to add the valen­tine comment..

    Our fam­ily goes and sees a movie together. But…we have to wear either red, pink or white. :razz:

    We have so much fun!

  • Melissa

    What a fab­u­lous sneak! Can’t wait for your book. I don’t usu­ally buy idea books, but yours will be a must-have I’m sure.

    We have a Valentine’s tra­di­tion that I love. When our girls were 4 and 5, DH bought them each a beau­ti­ful new dress and took all three of us out to din­ner. Between work and DH’s deploy­ments, we like to get in as much fam­ily time as pos­si­ble and love being with the girls.

    Any­way, as we were hav­ing our fancy-smancy din­ner, DH had the wait­ress deliver a dozen roses to me at the table. I felt like a princess and some of the husband’s at sur­round­ing tables joked my DH was mak­ing them look bad. I don’t know where he thought of the idea of hav­ing the florist deliver the flow­ers to the restau­rant, but I thought it was super sweet.

    Also, if it falls on a school day, the girls get a spe­cial hand­made Valen­tine from mom in their lunchbox.

    Hope your New Year is great!

  • lori p

    i usu­ally get each of our chil­dren & hus­band their favorite break­fast item from a local bak­ery and have it at their spot when they come down for break­fast. they receive a hand­made valen­tine and a gift (now it is usu­ally a gas card or a gift card to favorite eatery) my hus­band gets a hand­made card and usu­ally an altered item con­tain­ing his favorite candy.

    then for din­ner we have a can­dle­light din­ner where i have pre­pared chicken cor­don bleu, stuffed mush­rooms, twice baked pota­toes, salad, cheesy gar­lic bread and a yummy dessert. since it is on a sat­ur­day this year we just might get to eat all together between col­lege and work schedules…

  • Ivy

    Hi,
    I am new at this so I hope it worked. Love your blog and your work­shop looks amaz­ing. I like to dec­o­rate for Valen­tines and put out my favourite red qui­ilt and I also have a flower pot that has paper hearts and heart shaped lol­lipops that are the “flow­ers. Valen­tine cook­ies (hearts) are made, hand­made valen­tines for every­one and a spe­cial con­tainer to hold treats(a door hanger, dec­o­rated tin or loot bag) not sure what I will do this year, but hearts are my favourite and I love all things Valen­tine. My favour­tite is a book with vin­tage valentines..out on dis­play of course,
    Ivy

  • valerie myers

    I love to col­lect lit­tle sur­prises to gather up for each of my chil­dren up to age 17. It is usu­ally some of their favorite candy treats and some school related objects or other inex­pen­sive item they have been eye­ing. Bareets and rib­bons for the girls. Then I tie them up in cel­lo­phane with a bal­loon sta­tioned at their favorite spot in the house, by their bed or desk. On year i taped it to my son skate­board! For my hus­band it is usu­ally a card on his pil­low with a favorite choco­late treat!

  • Mel

    I give hand­made cards (already DONE! this year—can you tell I’m proud of that?) to my kids, along with a bit of candy and per­haps this year a small webkinz (they love those). My hubby gets a card and small gift…really sim­ple. Our big thing is usu­ally a nice din­ner at home, and I try to fix some­thing dif­fer­ent and a bit “fancier” than normal.

  • leonie

    valen­tines day is not as big in Aus­tralia as over there, but last year I filled my hus­bands lunch box full of punched out hearts & love notes tucked in his sand­wiches, he is a builder & I think he was very embar­ressed to have them fall out in front of all the rough tough build­ing boys, LOL!

  • http://paperpastorale.blogspot.com Carla May­field

    Not try­ing to get in on the free­bie, I’m already paid up, just want to say how much I am look­ing for­ward to this! I know the projects will be exquisite!

  • Deb­o­rah

    We have our favorite din­ner and I make a choco­late dessert. I make cards for my son and Hus­band. I loved the 12 days of christ­mas so I am hop­ing to win a spot in your Valen­tine work­shop. Thank you.

  • Saman­tha

    i love mak­ing cards for friends, fam­ily and my valentine

  • http://www.stampinwithalex.blogspot.com Alex Hughes

    I love to put treats in my chil­drens lunch boxes so that they have a pink and red sur­prise at school.

    And this year I thought I might send a cou­ple of friends some cute cards to give them a nice sur­prise in the mail. Every­one loves that right?

  • JeanFB

    We don’t do any­thing big, just lit­tle things.…. the kids and I come up with red and pink food to eat. This always involves at least straw­ber­ries and pink heart press cook­ies. Then we have to add some­thing nutri­tious, like red pep­pers on our salad and lit­tle red pota­toes quar­tered and baked in the oven. And for some rea­son.. Valen­tines Day means cup­cakes to me, so we make cup­cakes with pink frost­ing and red sug­ars. If my hus­band is home for the morn­ing, he makes heart-shaped pan­cakes. Other than that, we’ve always made our own valen­tines. I loved the 12-Days of Christ­mas — thanks for the chance to win this work­shop too!

  • Lisa J

    When I was a kid Valen­tines Day was big at our house. My mom always went out of her way to make sure we knew she loved us.….It was more about us than my parents.….I think we will start that tra­di­tion this year. My hus­band will be deploy­ing in a few weeks and I try to do some extra fun things while he is gone. So every­one will proably get a spe­cial lit­tle gift and it will just be another fam­ily fun day and we will do what­ever my kids want.

  • christi

    we make a roman­tic din­ner for two
    I’ve always loved Valentine’s Day even when I wasn’t “off the market”.

  • Moon69

    I like to make litle per­sonal presents or cards for the ones i love.

  • Jerri K

    I love to make things for friends and fam­ily espe­cially for the grown girls in my family.

  • http://vivlyndesigns.typepad.com Viv (Viv­Lyn)

    We really don’t do any­thing spe­cial but I love to make my son and his wife a spe­cial card…whether its funny or seri­ous, they know it’s from the heart. I would love to win a spot in work­shop! Sounds like fun!!!!

  • http://embraceyourbliss.blogspot.com gina g

    Oh, pick me, pick me!!! This sounds like such fun!!!
    xoxo

  • Sher y B

    On Valen­tines Day, I make home­made valen­tines and heart-shaped pink pancakes!

  • Wendy Lust

    Now that our chil­dren are grown, I always make a spe­cial card to send them. i know my hus­band appre­ci­ates this. With the two of us…it kinda depends on what else is hap­pen­ing. We don’t have a par­tic­u­lar tra­di­tion. But we always make it special.

  • Theresa Grdina

    I love Valentine’s Day! (My fam­ily thinnks I love it because my favorite color is red!) We will make our own valen­tines and then will cel­e­brate with a won­der­ful tea party! We will use our best china and then will have a won­der­ful selec­tion of mini-sandwiches, cook­ies, cakes and valentine’s treats!

  • Sandi in FL

    I’m prob­a­bly too late, but I’ll try any­way. :grin: My kids and I like to make cards together… for Grandma’s and Aunts, plus they make one for me and even for Daddy! Some­times we go out to din­ner, or just make some­thing spe­cial at home.