Memories Found

Last week I was mentioning that I was stuck. I had looming homework deadlines and I was trying to create a valentine piece for “Valentine for Aids” hosted for the last 18 years by a funky, artsy coffee house downtown. I’ve been invited the last 4 years to submit. I should have said no, passed [...]

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14 days of love

I am creating a little valentine for each day until Valentines Day. This last year was the year that my husband and I were able to mend some of the broken fences in our relationship. Some of these were just the overwhelming reality of being married for 11 years and then BAM! we were the [...]

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Valentine Photo Cube Tutorial

Traditional photo cubes are a fun way to display family photos outside of a picture frame. Here’s a new version I created as a Valentine/spring decoration. You start with 2 in wooden cube. Wooden children’s building blocks would work and it would be fun to use the letters on the blocks for your project. But [...]

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Valentine Tin Tutorial

This is a great project because it’s an easy way to recycle a candy tin, fairly quick, uses scraps and other little bits, and is adaptable to just about any theme you’d like. Supplies: Altoids tin (or similar) 10 photos, corner rounder, paper punches, card stock, patterned paper scraps, paper trimmer w/scoring blade ribbon, stamps, [...]

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