Pinterest is something that I equate to flipping through a magazine and dog earring the corner of a page that you want to come back to. Like a magazine, I do not often find or make time to peruse Pinterest that often.
Near a holiday I always have this rush of motivation to DO SOMETHING and looking up boards and pins is fun.
For the last week or so I have been looking at Valentine’s day cards and making notes of which ones W and I could create for his classmates this week. Last year we had a lot of fun making super hero lollypop cards.
But here we are…tuesday. Valentine’s day is thursday. I have an overflowing work inbox, a million projects I want to do at home, and it would be lovely to read a book. There is simply no time to make anything.
I recently asked some friends of mine who are even more Pinterest involved than I am if any of them were actually making their cards this year. Only 2 out of 20 were getting their crafty on.
So who are the people making cards this year? Is Pinterest just a “someday” kind of lifestyle? Someday I will have plaid wallpaper, and someday I will learn how to braid my hair properly, and someday I will live in a beach house…
{My favorite board I pin to is called Captain Adorable’s Adorables.}
W has his very first dentist appointment later this morning and I am planning on making a stop at the drug store afterwards and letting him pick out his cards. And I will feel zero guilt.
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I didn’t get “crafty” with cards this year. I avoided store cards but ended up just printing something original for my daughter’s class. I posted on FB https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4290959478793&set=a.1054259763323.2009302.1430686310&type=1.
I could’ve gotten fancy with them but it’s for a class of kindergartners
I bought cards from Target. Something had to give, and it was homemade valentines. My boys love the ones we picked out, and frankly, care far more about the treats they’ll eat at their respective class parties than they do about valentines anyway.
I am so not crafty! This year we bought cards from Walmart that had a tootsie roll for each card. Its sweet to see my son Jamesen write the kids names on the cards. He even made a special one for a little girl in his class. Awwwww….
I am a crazy crafter, as you know. And I bought cards. For a buck. At Five Below. And they are a w e s o m e . And I don’t regret it. At all. The end. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8CDhJ8YtD-E/TS99ifBJhqI/AAAAAAAACoY/OZLkE0i9p3k/s1600/Oz%2BValentines%2B001.jpg
I’ve done a fair amount of stuff on my Pinterest board. Some of the things I pin though I just pin because I want to *look* at them later, not actually do them. I have probably made about half the recipes and about half the hair clips though.
One of my Pinterest boards is called “I made this”, but of course only about half the shit I make gets on there- lol. I make a ton of the recipes I pin, and one of my favorite things I say to my husband (who Facebooks too much) is, “when is the last time facebook gave us a mouthwatering meal idea that I then turned around and made…hmmm?” Snarky? Yes. But sometimes called for. Anyway, for 3 years in a row, the boy and I made homemade Valentines out of seed paper. We would get shredded paper and let it soak awhile to break down into pulp, then we would load the pulp onto a fine mesh screen and sprinkle it with flower seeds. When it was dry we would take it out of the screen and cut it into hearts, attach a ribbon with a poem about planting the seeds of friendship and away he would go! This year I found (on Pinterest) a free downloadable Dr. Who set of Valentines that some other super crafty mom created. We will be customizing those and printing them out. Easy peasy and still unique. Now if only any other child in this town even knew about Dr. Who- lol. My poor child, but he is an original!!
we do what we can, as we can, the best we can, and that is all we can do. Much love to you!!!
Oh and btw- no guilt!! Who has time for that?
We got our craft on this year also. Hannah (and I) made 88 butterfly w/suckers valentines, for her school party and EVERY.SINGLE. dancer in dance class! I do plan on blogging about our crafty Valentine workshop we had. LOL
Here is my LAST year Pinterest Valentine post!
http://minutestomemories-shari.blogspot.com/2012_02_15_archive.html
PS – Hannah got a Kindle HD Fire from Santa this year. She now has her very own Pinterest board. She is under DancerHannahFox if you care to look at all of her Pins. LOL Mostly they are Valentine posts.
http://pinterest.com/dancerhannahfox/
We made our valentines just as a thing to do during the blizzard! But we had to make 27 total and that was a royal PITA. It took Maggie 5 days to make 12. Five. Days.