Poker Night {Adult Party Ideas}

Aces up for this red and black themed poker party!  There’s a fun banner using a deck of cards.  Also, a mobile with playing card symbols (a free pdf is provided).  Keep your sugar levels high for games and fun with this fabulous dessert table.  Make sure you check out the easiest and most unique cake.  Oreos.  Layers and layers of oreos.  

Safari Baby Shower {Boy Baby Shower}

This safari themed baby shower gets a fun and modern twist with this AMAZING blue and brown dessert table!  Giraffe and zebra print cupcake wrappers and toppers join personalized tags for a special touch.  The jars of milk with blue and white striped straws are fabulous!

John Deere Tractor Party {Kids Birthday Party}

Green and yellow, hay and tractor rides equals loads of fun!  If you are fortunate enough to have access to a ranch your venue is set.  If not your own backyard is perfect too.  Did you know that you can rent hay for the day?  Call your local feed stores.  It’s actually pretty inexpensive.  Click on the link to see more fantastic ideas for food, games and decor ideas.

Fiesta “Forty” {40th Birthday}

A big milestone deserves a full blown celebration!  Fiesta style, hot pink, turquoise, yellow and orange.  Homemade pom poms brighten things up and a mariachi to liven the party.  A taco bar with tacos made to order.  To top it all off…a homemade Tres Leches cake.  The recipe is available when you click the click.  {wink}

Frog and Turtle Party {Kids Birthday Party}

This green frog and turtle party is fantastic!  Every detail was in green.  Decorations. Cupcakes.  Green jell-0 and water.  Wait until you see the homemade turtle cake.  It is hands down AMAZING!  Ribbit ribbit, hop on over to see for yourself!

Construction Party {Boys Birthday Party Ideas}

Bob the Builder can we fix it?  Yes we can!  This amazing construction, Bob the Builder, party has everything.  Hard hats, tools, caution tape, sand and dump trucks.  A homemade banner and fabric caution tape garland.  A sand table for lots of digging.  Fun food ideas.  A special guest arrived… You will just have to click the link to find out who!

Happy Trails {I’m Going Away}

Happy Trails, to you, until we meet again!  This is such a perfect theme for a going away party.  There’s bales of hay, pennant banners, gingham, cowboy grub and trail mix.  A terrific send off for your friends or family!

Vintage Tea Party {Children’s Party}

This vintage tea party is absolutely precious!  Sarah planned this amazing party over a course of 6 months.  It definitely shows!  Bird cages.  Mason Jars.  Vintage handkerchiefs.  She also handmade all of the decorations,  tea cup stands, party favors, and party hats.  There are also some fun game and activity ideas.

Nursing School Graduation {Dessert Table}

A party is definitely in order after many grueling years of hard work!  A medical/nursing school themed party will do the trick and this dessert table will knock your socks off!  How about lemon “urine” samples, cherry blood bags, and chocolate band-aids.  All of these are edible!  Not to mention the theme color, red!  How fitting!

The Incredibles Party {Birthday Themes}

Calling all superheroes!  Mr. Incredible needs all of his superhero friends to come out of hiding.  The invitation was made on photoshop, wrapped like a newspaper and delivered.  All of the images were printed from the internet to make the awesome decorations.  Make sure you check out the game ideas too.

This quaint decoupaged chair went from trash to treasure!

This super brilliant tutorial will show you how to make a dresser from pallets! Perfect for the bedroom, under the TV, extra storage in the office, virtually anywhere!

Get inspired by this fun laundry room makeover, with before and after pictures!  A charming floor and clever solution to a door that won’t close…

Hack these intricately smocked window treatments, inspired by Pottery Barn!

Wouldn’t this gorgeous ombre lamp shade made with yarn look wonderful in your house?

Accessorize your room with rustic herb crates that can store the not-so-pretty things!

Make a DIY trundle bed these plans! And extra bed is always helpful for slumber parties!

Fun centerpiece made with repurposed jars and paper! Swap out the paper for different parties and themes!

Unique and exotic, juju hats are all the rage–get yours by using this step by step tutorial on how to make a Juju Hat.

Timeless neutrals give elegance to this decorated dining room. Gorgeous!

These Gumdrop Roses are super easy to make and turn out very professional-looking.  They would be wonderful as a party favor or a gift.  Much cheaper than buying real roses around Valentine’s Day and sweeter too.  {whaa-whaa}

Your kids will have a blast helping you make and wrap these homemade tootsie rolls.  Pu them in a cute container for a great neighbor or teacher gift.  Just don’t forget to save some for yourself.  {wink}

Doesn’t the very name of these make your mouth water?  These yummy treats would be a great gift for your special someone or perfect party food for your Valentine’s Day shindig.

Whether you are feeding kids for a party or just wanting to spruce up their lunch, these little Monster Sandwiches are sure to be a big hit.  They look especially cute (uh, I mean scary) bunched together on a tray.

A potato bar is a unique way to feed your party guests, especially if you serve them up in martini glasses!  This post includes several suggestions for different topping and combinations.  Great for a Bunco or craft night.

Here is another fabulous tutorial on making your own homemade rock candy.  The kids will have a blast setting this up and anxiously watching their creations grow.  A fantastic science experiment too!

Yet another sneaky way to hide some veggies in your kid’s food.  Most little ones like anything they can eat on a chip, especially if you serve it in a fun container.  So if you are having trouble getting them to eat their broccoli, I would definitely give this one a try.

Custom colored candy can make all the difference, especially if you are serving a dessert or candy buffet.  But special ordering certain colors can get expensive, if you can find it at all.  Use this tutorial for coloring your own candy to match your party.

Ever wonder how those food tutorials have such great photos, especially the “action” shots?  Well, you can do it to by following the simple steps of this photography tutorial.

These homemade football oreos are cute and delicious and the best part is…?  You don’t need any special cookie cutters or pans to create this festive Superbowl treat.

Gift Card Holder Tutorial {Envelope}

Turn a standard A2 envelope into a gorgeous handmade gift card holder with this simple envelope tutorial.

DIY Favor Boxes {Party Favors}

Let your our guests know how much you appreciate them with these cute little DIY party favor boxes. Guests will love the sweet little thank you treats inside, and the party favor boxes will look simply stunning lined up along your party table.

How to Fold a Treat Bag Video Tutorial {Paper Craft}

Do you ever find yourself in need of a treat bag without notice? Never fear, now you can learn to create a treat bag out of one simple sheet of paper.

Simple Kraft Treat Bag {Easy Paper Craft}

Guests will love to get a special treat in this adorable kraft treat bag. This easy paper craft is a perfect craft when you need to create multiple treat bags for one event. With only three simple steps, you’ll have your treat bags finished in no time.

The Dwelling Place {Free Digital Scrapbooking}

A perfect kit for scrapbooking all those indoor winter photos, this whimsical free digital scrapbooking kit comes with 18 papers and 37 embellishments, and features a beautifully versatile color scheme.

Gift Pocket Wallet {Card Idea}

This adorable card idea is a creative way to send small gifts for any special occasion. When you open the gift pocket wallet, you have a little folder that has pockets for all kind of things, and a place for a nice hand written note.

Create Your Own Artwork {Art Painting}

Create your own inexpensive art painting with this simple tutorial. This artwork can be made in any color to compliment any room, plus you can get the kids involved too.

Dollar Store Party Hats {Easy Paper Craft}

Transform those plain ‘ol party hats from the dollar store into gorgeous party hats fit for a princess with this easy paper craft tutorial.

Custom Shaped Card Base {Silhouette}

Give your handmade cards a unique touch by creating a custom shaped base using your Silhouette cutter.

Mixed Paper Journal Scrapbook {Scrap Book}

Create a mixed paper journal scrapbook that holds all of your pictures, tickets, brochures, and other mementos from your favorite trips. This scrapbook tutorial will also give you tips on how to organize your mementos while still on your trip.

Chocolate Caramel Candy Oreo Pops {Valentines Day Food}

These delicious Oreo truffle pops are easy to make with all store bought ingredients.  Dipped in caramel, rice krispies and chocolate, they will be an unforgettable Valentine treat.

Chocolate Love Notes For You Valentine  {Valentines Printables}

A tutorial for a fun way to not only tell your Valentine you love them, but all the things you love about them.  And the love notes are wrapped around yummy pieces of chocolate too, making the perfect sweet, edible valentine.

Love Bugs {Kindergarten Valenties Craft}

Kindergarteners will love turning empty toilet paper rolls into cute Valentine’s Day love bugs.  With basic classroom craft supplies your little love bug will be able to make love bug valentines of their own.

I Heart Rice Krispy Treats {Valentines Day Treats}

This cute treat is an easy and fun Valentine’s Day twist on a the popular Rice Krispie treat.  With the help of some food coloring and your heart shaped cookie cutters, you will have an edible gift that kids of all ages will love to receive this Valentine’s Day.

Valentine Postmarks {Valentines Day Fun}

Have you Valentine’s postmarked with one of thirteen different love themed postmarks in Valentine’s Day designs.  Your special valentine will come from places like Loveville, MD, Romance, AR, or Valentine, AZ.

a gift idea for your honey. A 100 reasons you love your spoouse pillow.

Candy Bar Love {Valentine for Him}

Declare your love for your valentine in chocolate and candy with these fun valentine candy puns.  You can use them individually to leave sweet treats for your valentine all day, or create a poster to display as one giant valentine card.

Photo and Candy Valentine {Valentine Pictures}

These fun DIY photograph valentines are perfect for your kids to take to their friends at school on Valentine’s Day.  You can check out the peanut butter cup and chewing gum photo valentines over at Craft-o-Maniac.

Heart Tattoo T-shirt {Valentine Craft}

This fun printable Valentine’s tattoo design is a great way to personalize a shirt for your kids on Valentine’s Day.  You might even be able to get your big kids to wear this fun design.  These printable heart tattoos can be ironed on to shirts, onesies, or even totes.

Collect all your special dates, reminder and mementos each month all within this cute little container calendar. At the end of year, you can remove the mementos (put them in a scrapbook etc.) & then reuse the CONTAINER CALENDAR year after year!!  A fun gift idea for a January birthday.

Dot painting an enamel pet food bowl gives is a custom look and adds a personal touch.  This is a fabulous gift for a pet lover, or make one for your own furry friend.

These sweet little printable would be a treasured gift for any teacher.  Use the smaller printables to decorate his/her door or room for teacher appreciation or birthday.  They are sweet and personal and are sure to bring a smile to their face.

A cute idea for adding some personal flair to an existing or store-bought wreath.    Great for a new neighbor, or a housewarming or wedding gift.  You could even give them some additional bows in holiday colors that they could change out throughout the year.

You only need 4 fat quarters to make this art pack, so it’s a great project for using up some fabric scraps.  The kids will love this on-the-go art pack for church, the car or on the airplane.

A great way to use that old college t-shirt or your favorite concert souvenir.  You could make this for a best friend’s baby shower using a shirt with her favorite boy band or tv show growing up.

LOL!  A hilarious (and practical) gag gift for a bachelorette party or bridal shower.  One side of the pillow is blank, but when she’s not in the mood – just flip it over and send the message loud and clear.  {blushing}

An easy and affordable teacher gift made from an acrylic picture frame.  Blog post includes the free printable to put in the frame, as well as a matching gift tag.

Find out how to make a FLIRTY RUFFLED APRON. Then tie it on, bake a cake and look super cute while you’re at it!  They are simple enough that you could even do a whole batch of them and use them as a party favor.

These little hand-sewn baby booties are so precious.  And don’t be intimidated – they are super easy to make with the free printable templates.  Use ric rac or bows to add trim for a professional finish.

These printable cupcake toppers and colorful and cheery.  A perfect addition to your baby shower dessert table.

Here are some fun printable jokes you can stick in the kid’s lunch boxes.  They are designed to be pasted together and cut with an Exacto knife so that they lift up a little flap for the punchline.  Check out the tutorial for all the details.

These sweet little tea bags are not only functional, but they double as a beautiful topper for your gift.  Download the PDF file and make your own little tea bags.  They would also work filled with coffee or hot cocoa.

It can be hard to find cute Valentines for boys that aren’t totally cheesy.  These paper airplanes would make  great valentines for girls and boys.  Print includes colored stamp image and writing lines.

This chore chart is designed to be printed, placed in a page protector (or laminated) and filled and and checked off with dry erase markers so you can re-use it over and over.

This darling Valentine card reads “Being your friend makes me BURST with joy”.  You could attach a tiny bottle of bubbles as shown, or even a piece of bubble gum.

I think these are the perfect blank recipe cards.  I like having a spot to list all the ingredients off to the side, and I love the colors and patterns.  They are simple and clean and don’t make the card too busy.

You can download this cute printable and attach store-bought or handmade (my preference) friendship bracelets to pass out to friends at school.  Perfect for Valentine’s Day or even the end of the school year.

These charming printable bookmarks are a great alternative to passing out candy at school.  They feature adorable owls with adorable sayings like “Owl be your friend forever”.  Cute!

This is a super fun alternative to traditional valentine candy.  Print out the free bag topper and place atop an Uncrustables sandwich.

Hi Everyone – Lowri here again to share some fabulous Valentines / Flower Papercraft Tutorials.

Clicking on the picture shown will take you right to the original post and each and every one of these links has step by step instructions for making the projects shown. There is still plenty of time to try out these fun ideas so take a look and don’t forget to leave us a link back with your finished project!

1. This fabulous “52 Reasons I Love You” deck of cards makes a wonderful Valentine’s Day gift. There are detailed step-by step instructions as well as links to where you can purchase all the supplies too. This would make a great gift for the Groom on his Wedding Day or a gift from the kids to the Grandparents!

2. Cheryl has created a video tutorial showing how to make several elements of her wedding bouquets. In the video, you can see how to make 2 types of paper flower and a gorgeous lace flower too. This is a truly amazing work of art not to be missed!

3. Monika uses several paper punches to create this charming paper flower .  By securing the center with a brad and layering the paper, you can create a wonderfully textured flower that would look stunning as a gift decoration or scrapbook embellishment.

4. A full and detailed tutorial from Sandy shows exactly how you can create these adorable boxes. This is a pattern you will want to keep as you can adjust the paper you use to make a box for any holiday occasion.

5. These adorable little treat containers hold a sweet secret inside – a mini packet of Mentos. These would be fabulous for a classroom Valentine’s gift and you could easily get the kids to help out while making them.

6. A stunning Valentine’s card idea here using beads for some elegant, simple but oh so beautiful decoration. Once again this fabulous tutorial shows how you can re-create this card for yourself. This would be wonderful with tiny green, red and gold beads for Christmas too!

7.  The combination of book pages and red paper make these flowers absolutely perfect for any Valentines table decoration. You could also string them together for a gorgeous themed garland.

8. Who wouldn’t LOVE some of these flowers on Valentines Day?   These would be so perfect to giving someone as a gift to keep, reminding that you love them all-year-round – maybe your Mom or Mother-in-Law.

9.   These adorable paper cones could be used to hold some Valentine’s Day treats, or as party favors, or maybe even to contain a super-special gift for someone. Cake-Journal shows us how to make them very simply with basic scrapbook supplies.

10.The hearts in this garland are made from double-sided scrapbook paper and what a perfect way to show off your favorite prints. This project is also excellent for using up some scraps and could be adapted easily to be larger or smaller.

11. Another wonderfully elegant and slightly different flower to create here. These would look fabulous grouped on a card, or you could even create a little posy to present to someone on February 14th.

12. I ABSOLUTELY love this idea for a Love Message Board. How sweet would it be to leave a different message each day for your loved one?   This is one idea I will definitely be trying out this year. It is made from a picture frame and scrapbook paper and is one of the most romantic ideas I think I have ever seen.

13. Using book pages in all sorts of ways is such a hot scrapbook trend right now and these flowers show exactly why! Any color can be used to accent the base print so as to match in with a wide variety of projects.

All of these fabulous ideas are perfect for decorating all your Valentine’s Day papercrafting projects or making some wonderful decorations to make your (or someone else’s!) day special. Most of them can easily be adapted to other Holidays or occasions too. We would love to see any projects you create using these ideas – so leave us a link when you have done so. I will be sure to visit your blog and take a look. ~  Lowri

More Papercrafting Ideas:

• Wanting more paper crafting ideas? Then be sure to check out Tip Junkie’s  Paper Crafts site!
• Wanting some Valentine Day ideas?  There are a bunch on the Tip Junkie Valentine Day site, too!

About the Author:

Lowri has a blog at PaperVine which is packed full of great papercrafting ideas and tutorials with the odd kids craft and cooking tip thrown in!  She lives on a vineyard in Marlborough, New Zealand with her husband and three young children.

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Valentine’s Day Menu Ideas

Valentine Breakfast

1.  Love Note In A Pancake - Start your children’s or sweetie’s day off right with these fun pancakes.  This special breakfast will surely win their hearts.  Aren’t they fantastic?

2.  Love Buns and Pink Hot Chocolate - Make these quick and easy love buns with a little help from Pillsbury.  You can also add some cute heart sprinkles on top.  Add some red food die to white hot chocolate and voila, pink hot chocolate.

Valentine Dinner

3.  Valentine Heart Pizza - Make a special Valentine’s Day dinner at home for your kids (or your sweetie). Add some heart-shaped pepperoni’s to a store bought or homemade pizza. It’s so easy. Just buy sliced pepperoni, cut heart shapes out with a small cookie cutter, and add to the pizza before cooking. This would be a sweet addition to any Valentine’s Party as well.

4.  Valentine Pasta Dinner – Start your lovely dinner off with some olive oil and heart-shaped tomato paste.  Then, for your main dish, heart-shaped vegetable pasta.  Delicioso!

5.  Heart-Shaped Pizza – I love the idea of children helping in the kitchen!  They will have so much fun decorating the pizza.  This would be a fun annual tradition!

Valentine Sweets

6.  Chocolate Ruffle Cake – I have just gained 10 pounds looking at this delectable cake!  It’s 3 even layers of creme fraiche and pure sin!

7.  Homemade Marshmallows – You can gift these homemade marshmallows on a stick, on their own in a bag, or with a yummy s’mores kit.  Either way, everyone enjoys heart-shaped sugar!

8.  Raspberry Lemonade – Quench your thirst with a perfect balance of sweet and tart raspberry lemonade.  It just might give you a little pucker.

Valentine Cookies

9.  Strawberry Lemonade Cookies with Pink Lemonade Frosting –  Pink cookies with a sunshine lemonade taste!  Made with strawberry cake mix and pink lemonade mix.  A perfect treat for someone you love this Valentine’s Day.

10. Valentine Sugar Cookies – The best sugar cookie recipe.  You may end up eating them all yourself instead of giving them away.  There’s nothing wrong with that, right?…

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Also, If you have a tutorial  you’d like featured, feel free to submit it to the Tip Junkie site. It just takes a second. {wink}

More Food Recipes from Tip Junkie:

• Pancake Recipes ~ 8 Yummy Breakfasts
• 6 Delicious Chicken Recipes
• 8 Gourmet Grilled Cheese Recipes

What recipes will you be making for Valentine’s Day?

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Laurie

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These are just the 10 tutorials that I had time to highlight right now, you’ll see many more on this and the other Tip Junkie sister sites as well. So a huge thank you for those who took the time to link up their fabulous tutorials!

50. Fancy Mason Cups – These pink lemonade fancy mason cups are simply adorable!  Adding pretty lace and ribbon does wonders to mason jars.  They would be a perfect drink addition to almost any party.  Just change the ribbon and lace colors.

111.  Slipcovered Barstools – These knife-pleated barstool skirts are fab-u-lous!  They dressed up these goodwill store stools perfectly don’t you think?  What a brilliant idea!  I LOVE them!

219.  Red Velvet Crepes – These red velvet crepes not only look beautiful, but delicious!  This would make a great addition for your Valentine’s Day meals.  Breakfast or dessert?  Or Both?

390.  Organize Your Jewelry – These jewelry organization ideas are beautiful and functional.  Not only is the jewelry displayed beautifully, it will be easily accessible and not tangled in a jewelry box.

420.  Pressed Penny Bracelet – This pressed penny bracelet is such a fantastic idea and amazingly cute!  It seems like our children always like to collect these from various places that we have gone to.  Since the pennies have been pressed down they are thin and easy to punch a hole in.  You don’t have to be a jewelry maker to do this one.  Yay!

538.  Funky Shoelace Tutorial – These handmade shoelaces are so stinkin’ cute!  They are definitely going to be a hit with the kiddos.  This would be a great way to use up some of your fabric scraps!

659.  Mod Podge Manicure – Don’t these nails look amazing?  Fabric and mod podge.  Who would have thought to put mod podge on your nails?!  It’s a fabulous idea.  I’m already thinking about what I’m going to put on my nails.   I’m sure my daughters will recruit me on this project too! {snicker}

789.  Cream Side Table – This newly painted cream side table is divine!  It used to be French Provincial, now it’s updated and fresh.  A simple chalk paint recipe is provided.  What will you be painting this week?

824.  Love Note Pillows – What beautiful love note pillows and a question!  There is a pocket on one of the pillows so you can put love notes in.   Using a sharpie you can write your favorite poem or song onto the fabric and then sew it together.  Voila!

957.  DIY Angel Wings – Aren’t these angel wings precious?  Get your little cupid ready for Valentine’s Day with these easy and quick wings.  No sewing required.  After Valentine’s Day you can reuse them for Halloween.

Wondering what was the most popular {or most clicked on} idea from the linky party? Well… it was DIY Giant Canvas.

Thanks Ladies. I just adore these ideas! Feel free to grab my “I was featured on Tip Junkie” blog button. You earned it! {{knuckle bumps}}

You can view all of the 989 ideas linked up HERE. If you have a blog, be sure to check in on Tuesday when you can link up your favorite or most recent handmade project like something you made, party you hosted, a recipe, or fun tip. Also, don’t forget to check out the Tip Junkie Facebook page for even more creative ideas and tutorials.

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Laurie

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As you may know, I just moved my family to Ohio and as we’re signing up for music lessons and tutoring… life is getting crazy. {again}  Therefore, I’m in the market of re-doing our family schedule and here are a few of the things that inspired my command center!

Plan The Family Schedule

Be sure to include everything you need for your family schedule into your command center, including but not limited to:

• 2012 Printable Calendar
• Sports, school, lesson, and church calendars  {practice pages}
• To-do lists
• Chore charts and reward charts
• Cleaning Schedule
• Grocery list and/ or Menu Planner
• Lunch Box Jokes & Notes
• In/out boxes
• Bulletin board
• Home Property binder
• Executive Homemaker Binder {home management}
• Photo Checklist

Command Center Ideas

1.  Pottery Barn Command Center Knock-Off ~ She how this talented mama took her familie’s activities and goal and created her own inexpensive look that meets the needs of her family.

Child Organization

2.  Bag & Chalkboard Child Organization ~ Each child has a tote bag with their clothes for the day, lunch money and special notes from Mom. The chalk board reminds them of their daily responsibilities.

3. Kitchen Family Schedule ~ This Kitchen Command Center features a Meal Planning Board, Dry Erase Note Board, Magnet Boards and Chore Charts … it has everything we need to plan out the week.

4.  Children’s Homework Message Center ~ 16 x 20 Child Message Center PRINTS and framed to use as a dry erase boards writing directly on the glass with a dry or wet erase marker.

My Family Storage

5.  My Family Storage System ~ Use the area to corral artwork, homework assignments, forms, and magazines as soon as they enter the house. At each week’s end, go through the contents of each box; discard old material and file away things you want to keep.

6.  This Week and Next Week Boards ~ A week at a glance wipe-on wipe-off boards using the Ribba frames from Ikea.

7.  Art Supply Organization ~ I just adore this home office with it’s own art supply storage space.  I had to show it to you because it’s so pretty and would also make a great command center layout.

Family Organization

8.  Use Three Bookshelves as Family Organization ~ The great thing about bookshelves is the amount of storage and decor they can hold.  They even turned one of them the other way and created a chalkboard!  {brilliant}

Family Organizer

9.  Sheet Metal Magnetic Family Organizer ~ Complete with menu list, mail organizer, note cards, markers, and a recycle bin.  This is a great place to quickly grab commonly used items.

10.  Four Must-Have Areas of a Family Organizer ~ Another way how to transform the boring end of your kitchen cabinets―or any empty wall―into an information station.

I have a fun freebie for you.  Click on the “Like” button on the Tip Junkie Facebook Page and you’ll be able to download a free copy of the Executive Homemaker Planner.  {{squeal}}  It includes fill-in-the-blank worksheets to help you organize life.

More Family Schedule Ideas:

• GET ORGANIZED FOR SCHOOL {8 DIY IDEAS}
• 50 Free Printables For Your New Year Resolutions
• 10 Beautiful Home Offices and Ways to Organize It

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Valentine’s Day Free Printables

Valentine’s Day Printables

1. Printable Heart Collage – I love this free printable heart collage, heart tags and word art.  It’s perfect for classroom Valentines or food decor {cupcake toppers, anyone?} if you are hosting a party.

2.  Valentine Treat Bag Toppers – Make adorable Valentine’s treat bags with these free printable toppers. Notice the space for your kiddos to write in their own messages?

3.  Fried Pie Printable – Why not try something different this year and make your sweetheart a fried pie?  This printable is perfect for pie.  {recipe included}

4.  Valentine Bag Topper - Those little valentine envelopes never have enough room for a real treat.  Solution?  A bag with a cute topper.  Fill up a sandwich bag with kisses and top with this matching card.  {so cute}

Printable Valentine Cards

5.  Printable Valentine Cards – These valentines are adorable and original {and not just for kids}, some will make you laugh out loud.  Mail them to your friends or let the kiddos pass them out at school.

6.  Cute As A Button – Love this “Cute as a button” Valentine’s Day printable.  Add a pair of covered button earrings for someone extra special!

7.  Robot Valentine’s – This printable contains a set of Valentine Cards and Memory Game. Pieces can also be used as toppers, tags, banner. {score!}

8.  Owl Valentine - Owls are all the rage and this printable Mini Owl Valentines and bookmarks is sure to please!

Printable Coloring Activities for Kids

9.  Valentine’s Day Cards to Print and Color – It’s easy to print out these darling Valentine cards and then have your child color then to their liking.  It’s a coloring activity as well as a free printable Valentine.

10.  Pirate and Princess Coloring Page -  This is such a darling coloring page.  I love that both boys and girls will enjoy it.

11.  9 Valentine’s Day Coloring Pages – Choose from nine different coloring pages for your kiddos. {love the variety!}

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More Valentine Gift Ideas from Tip Junkie:

• 8 Valentine Box Ideas
• Valentine Party Favors {Valentine’s Day Crafts}
• Valentine Crafts ~ 14 Gifts For Your Homeroom Teacher!

What Valentine’s Day craft are you making this week?

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Home Office Organization Systems

1.  Mod Colorful Bulletin Board ~ This colorful bulletin board has some fabulous ideas.  You can mount squares of fabric-covered  for posting notes, pegboards for hanging supply cups and bins, and whiteboards or chalkboards for jotting down reminders.

Office Solutions

2.  Office/Guest Room Renovation {Before and After} ~ An attic space is completely renovated into a gorgeous shabby chic office which doubles as a guest room.

Cool Home Offices

3.  Turquoise and Chocolate Home Office ~ Everything in this office was from repurposing old items or handmade.  The floating shelves are from picket fences and the armoire now stores a computer.

4.  Chalkboard Wall Home Office Reveal ~ What a great idea to make the entire wall a chalkboard.  The dark wall also camouflages the cords from the sconces.  You can keep your children busy while you work!

5. Closet Transformation into a Home Office ~ Do you have a closet or nook that would be the perfect place for a small office?  Take a look at how Robyn turned her unused space into the perfect home office.

Ways to Organize It

6.   Standing Shoe Cubby to Organize It ~ Learn clever and unique ways to store and organize crafting supplies and do-dads.  These shoe cubby’s are great alternatives.

7.  Clipboard Bulletin Board Organization ~ Personalize your organizational needs by adhering scrapbook paper or fabric to a plain clipboard.  Hang your finished clipboards on the wall and voila you have beautiful clips ready to use!

Home Office Setup

8.  How to Create a Command Central Wall ~ This is a brilliant example of how an often unused area in your home can become a functional and beautiful office space!

8.  Hidden Office Setup in a folding bookshelf ~ This compact, self-contained craft nook is a genius idea!  At first glance it appears to be an unconventional armoire.  In actuality it is two bookcases attached along one side.  The idea of closing it and hiding your workspace is fabulous.

10.  How to Create an Office in a Small Space {office setup} ~ If you are short on space that shouldn’t prevent you from creating a proper office for yourself or your kids! This photo gallery contains some fabulous small space office inspiration.

More Organization Systems:

• 5 Ways To Increase Storage in Your Home
• Remove The Shoes! {10 Creative Signs For Guests}
• 8 Ideas To Conceal An Ironing Board

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17 Valentine DIY Home Decor Ideas

Valentine Crafts For The Home

1.  Valentine’s Count Down Advent Calendar – What Valentine Decor is complete without an advent calendar?  This “Count Down to Kisses” Advent Calendar is to-die for!

2.  Valentine Advent Calendar – This hanging Valentine Advent Calendar is not only ADORABLE, it contains notes and things to do rather than candy.  {score!}

3.  Valentine’s Day Mini Canvases – The adorable mini canvas’ are the perfect Valentine’s Day decor.   The little elements like glitter make it definite eye candy are are sure to draw some attention.

4.  Love Tag Decor:  These embellished {with scraps} and framed tags make a fantastic Valentine Day Decor piece!

Wall Decor Crafts For Valentines Day

5.  Valentine Banner {Free Printable} – This free “Be Mine” Valentine Printable will add a sophisticated touch to your DIY Valentine home decor!  The fire place mantle looks so festive.
6.  {Love} and {Be Mine} Banners {Free Printable} – These Valentine’s Day banners will add just the right amount of bling to your mantle!

7.  Valentine Craft Heart – Have you tried your hand at papier mache?  These hearts are mod podged with fabric and scrapbook paper, then embellished for a cute Valentine’s Day or every day decoration.

8.  Valentine Wreath – This “sticky” but easy DIY Valentine Day project was made with a empty cereal box and tissue paper!

9.  Valentine Wall Art – Ribbon, Mod Podge, and cute scrapbook go a long way, don’t you think.  This Love Wall Art would also look great hanging on a front door!

Gifts that Double as Decor

10.  Carved Branch Photo Holder - Not only with the recipient of this carves branch photo holder love it, your guests will be drawn to it when you use it as part of your Valentine Decor!

11.  Love Note Pillows – This is such a romantic gift and doubles a decor.  Alisa used actual love notes between her and her husband by scanning them into her computer and printing them onto fabric transfers.  See her tutorial for the full how-to.

Valentine Craft Decor to Make with Kids

12.  Valentine Craft Mobile - Grab the kids and get crafting.  This is a perfectly sweet project to make with your kiddos!

13. Snowflake Heart Valentine Garland – String, poms, and  old wrapping paper can be turned into valentines decor that’s perfect to make with the kids.

14.  Valentine Mail Pouch – Can you believe these mail pouches were made with fabric scraps?  They are so adorable!

Valentine Craft Decor for the kitchen

15.  Candy and Cake Stands - You will swoon when you see how easy it is to purchase or repurpose items around the house to make these lovely decorations!

16.  How to Decorate the Table for a Romantic Dinner - You’ll love these easy steps to make an at home date night SUPER special. So perfect for Valentines Day!

17.  Valentine Dish Towels – Every kitchen needs these feminine, ruffled kitchen towels to remind them that Valentine’s Day is coming.  I’m just saying’!

Thanks Ladies. I just adore these ideas! Feel free to grab my “I was featured on Tip Junkie” blog button. You earned it! {{knuckle bumps}} Also, don’t forget to check out the Tip Junkie Facebook page for even more activities for kids, creative ideas, and free tutorials.

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More Decorating Ideas from Tip Junkie:

• 15 Great Throw Pillow Tutorials
• How to Spray Paint Furniture {5 Easy Steps}
• Home Design:  5 Steps to Use Photos to Create Your Look

Are you doing any fun DIY Home Decor Projects this week?

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And, because I adore you all so much, THREE  fabulous Tip Junkie readers will win  $50 Gift Cards to make their own swoon-worthy Valentine Day Photo Cards! {See below}

6 Valentine’s Day Cards to Adore

1.  Golden Pear Valentine –  The Golden Pear Valentine Collection is the best of the best.  All the cards you’ll find in this collection are unique and absolutely send worthy.  When you see a little Golden Pear™ next to their cards, look for the fabulous folds, ribbons and cut-outs that make the Golden Pear Valentine’s one-of-a kind.

2. Valentine’s Day Photo Cards –  Are you like me with a lot of photos to share?  Then Pear Tree Greetings uniquely folding Valentine Day cards might be right up your alley.  It’s like a little photo album that’s easy to store!

3.  Kids Photo Valentine Day Cards – What child wouldn’t want to give a fabulous card like this?  Notice the awesome customization!  If my boys swooned, they just might over this one.

4.  Valentine’s Day Post Cards -  I love the idea of a Valentine Post Card.  Not only is the shipping cheaper, you know it’s going to brighten both the mail carriers and the recipients day!

5. Kids Valentine’s Day Cards –  I love me some fabulous interactive kids cards, and these are no exception.  The kids cards are not like just any common Valentine!  ”it’s a puppet; it’s a plane; it’s a lollipop holder!”  Your kids are going to love to give these to their friends.

6.  Valentine Gift Tags –  I like cards, my kids like sweets. These gift tags make the perfect solution to what to give kids at school.  My kids can give out a sweet, and top it with an adorable customized Gift Tag Card.  Not only does it amp up the sweet, it’s already pre-printed so the work is taken out of writing the card for me (I mean us).  {snicker}

Valentine’s Day Card Giveaway

I’m thinking that these $50 Gift Cards to Pear Tree Greetings will be a real score for three of you, since everyone needs Valentine’s Day cards, right?  I love a great Valentine’s Day card, and the ones sold at Pear Tree Greetings are wonderful and unique.   So, in celebration of today’s  6 Valentine’s Cards to Adore round up, I’m giving three of you $50 to spend onValentine’s Day Photo cards in the Pear Tree Greetings store!

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I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ve used several of their adorable cards and these images don’t do them justice!  Pear Tree Greetings makes the cutest cards in fun shapes and amazing quality.  In fact, I used them for my own Valentine’s day cards!  I’m expecting some seriously swoon worthy custom cards in the mail any day now!

As always it’s so easy to enter to win one of  THREE $50 Gift Cards to Pear Tree Greetings.   Simply Comment below!

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Let’s give Pear Tree Greetings a huge thank you for sponsoring this post and sharing their images and ideas with us so that we can make some rockin’ and unique Valentine’s Day cards!

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Valentine’s Day Projects

Fabric Flower Valentine Wreath {tutorial} - Follow this tutorial to make a beautiful Fabric Flower Valentine Wreath.  Beginner sewing skills are required, and anyone from a new crafter to a “Martha” will enjoy this project.

Valentine’s Day Kisses Advent Calendar {tutorial} – This adorable advent calendar holds chocolate kisses that you can eat as you count down to the big kissing day.

Romantic Dinner and Decor – Easy steps to make an at home date night a five star special. Perfect for Valentines Day!

Crepe Paper Rose Centerpiece {tutorial} – I love these crepe paper roses.  They are a smaller version of the hanging flower balls which are placed in a glass vase to create a Valentines Day Centerpiece.  Follow the tutorial to create your own.

Valentine’s Day Crafts for Children

Love Blossom Tree {Valentine’s School Crafts} – Mom and Dad will love receiving this keepsake valentine from their littlest love bug.  This blooming heart tree is a great craft for preschool and kindergarten aged children to create for their parents on Valentine’s Day.

Valentine’s Day Cards To Print & Color – It’s easy to print out these darling Valentine cards and then have your child color them to their liking.  It’s a coloring activity as well as a free printable Valentine.

Crayon Heart Pencil Toppers – These crayon heart toppers make perfect pencil toppers or party favors for the classroom.

Embellished Valentine Boxes – A fun paper craft to add love notes to.  The mailboxes were purchased in the $1 bin at Target and then embellished by children.

Valentine’s Day Craft Activities

52 Things I Love About You {Valentine Printables} – This free printable will help you turn a deck of cards into a customized book of 52 reasons why you love your Valentine.  What a great gift idea!

Valentine Dish Towels – Adorable Valentine dish towels embellished with cute coordinating fabrics and ribbons.  So cute you might want to leave them out through Spring.

Felt Heart Bouquet {tutorial} – This felt heart bouquet is fabulous!  A perfect alternative to fresh roses.  You can make your own for under $10.  Follow the tutorial to make your own.

Dressed Up Valentine’s – With a regular old box of conversation hearts you can take them from drab to fab.  Melissa shows you four different options.

Homemade Valentine Cards

Sewing Card Valentine {Homemade Valentine Cards} – A fun and easy lacing or sewing Valentine craft.  Using minimal supplies, children can fill them with candy and then lace them together with a pretty ribbon.  A cute gift for parents or classmates.

Ladybug Valentine {tutorial} – This cute ladybug valentine has wings that open to reveal a message and uses a lollipop for the head.  There’s a free pdf file to download. {wink}

Stick ‘ Em Up Valentine – These paper guns and holsters are so cute!  They are perfect to pass out to both boys and girls.  There is a stick of gum attached to the gun that says, “This is a stick up”.

Thanks Ladies. I just adore these ideas! Feel free to grab my “I was featured on Tip Junkie” blog button. You earned it! {{knuckle bumps}} Also, don’t forget to check out the Tip Junkie Facebook page for even more activities for kids, creative ideas, and free tutorials.

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More Valentine Craft Ideas from Tip Junkie:

• 10 Valentine Party Favors {Valentine’s Day Crafts}
• 16 Crafts and Activities for Valentine’s Day
• 8 Valentine Box Ideas {pre-school and home}

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