How to Rock your Valentines - Easy DIY and printable

It's time to get boulder with your love -

tell them they rock this Valentine's Day...

Fun and simple to make - the perfect craft to chisel out before the big day.

You can print a card like mine here

(use 4.25" x 5.5" card stock in the color of your choice)

then outline the heart with quick drying, tacky glue...

(like Aleene's)

cover with tiny pebbles...

and let dry about 20 minutes before shaking off the access...

and your love is set in stone.

Rock on!

Salty Dogs and Sweet Hearts - Valentine's Day Cocktail

I created my Sweet’N Low Salty Dogs and Sweet Hearts drink recipe, as part of a sponsored post for Socialstars #SweetNLowStars

Love is in the air and at the bar!
One of my favorite drinks
 is a Salty Dog and I've sweetened it up for Valentine's Day...

A simple cocktail of fresh grapefruit juice and vodka, 

poured up into a martini glass with a salted rim.

But the LOVE-liest part of my new version is the sweetened grapefruit garnish.

The hearts are so simple to make.

Cut grapefruit into slices about 1/2" thick,
make a slice in one side, pull apart slightly,

then cut into segments. 

(if the individual segments seem too small for a heart,

 keep 2 segments together)

Take your segment...

make a slice in the middle...
(but don't go all the way down)

and cut off the peel and pith 

You may need to round the corners slightly with a paring knife and

ta-da...

Now the sweet part -

sprinkle with Sweet'N Low...

and you have the perfect Sweet Heart...

The Salty Dog

fill a cocktail shaker with ice

add 2 oz chilled vodka and 2 oz fresh squeezed grapefruit juice

Stir then strain into a salt rimmed martini glass

Garnish with a Sweet Heart and enjoy.

I know you'll LOVE it.

Cheers!

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Sweet smell of Valentine's Day…a whiff of silly gifts

We always pick noses for Valentine's Day...

(read all about it here)

 I recently had a request to preform a quick

Nose Job 

and change them up just a little bit...

one for the stinker...

and one for the person that inflates your heart...

either way they'll be sharp...

available on Etsy!

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GIANT Valentines...

One of my favorite San Francisco friends,

wants to make sure all his classmates have a

GIANT 

Valentine's Day...

ORANGE 

you glad it is almost Baseball Season?

Stickers are available on ETSY

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Sequins for Sweethearts

Who doesn't love a 

Pink Sequined Heart?

Everyone in our town adores the fabulous boutique,

Kicks!

Shimmering Sequin tags,
Lee is giving to the

Sweethearts
that shop there...

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Clear CUT Valentines...

Are you OPEN with your heart?

Sometimes it is TRANSPARENT...

sometimes it is just BLACK and WHITE...

Don't beat around the bush...

let them know how you feel this Valentines Day!

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