The Phantom Moon

Hooked On You - Valentine's - FREE download

This year we are celebrating our first Valentine's Day as a cyber / homeschool family.  Although BB doesn't attend a brick and mortar school, her fabulous teacher has offered to put together a Valentine's Day craft for any of the kiddies who wish to participate.  The kids and their parents basically have to send in a Valentine card by the end of the week and make sure there isn't any candy, which is a-okay with us since she has an allergy to tree nuts.  I was thinking about re-printing last year's Dino-mite Valentine's cards but I also wanted to challenge myself and create something new if I had time.  And I'm so glad I did!  I loved how the new Valentine's came out and I thought I'd share it again this year.

This years theme was a fishy one!  I originally created just pink / purple fish to go along with a Valentine theme and of course after I printed and mailed them out, I had a change of heart and made them multi-color fish ... it's so much cuter now that way!  I also made a plain background option if that suits your fancy.

After cutting them out, I used my Martha Stewart rounnd corner punch on each of the ends, and punched out a small heart at the bottom as well.  Totally optional but I kind of like how they look that way.  I even bought a few packs of pencils and erasers at the dollar store and taped one of each to the back of each card.

I also wanted to do something nice for BB's teacher and included a super quick "friendship" bracelet using some red and blue twine I had on hand (it's really just a braided bracelet but hey, it's the though that counts!).  She's really super sweet and I hope she enjoys it.

I even printed out last year's Dino-mite cards for the boys in her class too.

Want to print your own Hooked On You Valentine's Cards?  If you do, click HERE for the regular Hooked On You Valentine printable, or HERE for the plain background version.

OH!  And remember the last year's Dino-mite Valentine's?  Well, I updated those as well to include super cute multi-colored dinosaurs vs just the original pink ones!  Here's a LINK to the updated files if you want to shake things up.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

(Just a reminder this file is for personal use only and not commercial.  Thanks!) 

Easter Spread

Happy Easter!  I hope everyone had a fantastic Easter with their friends and families, and had a chance to stuff your bellies full of delicious food.  We were able to celebrate with both my hubby's side of the family as well as mine which was perfect.  

During Easter we normally buy yummy sweets and chocolates for the kids / adults in the family, but since we've confirmed that BB has a tree nut allergy we decided to change things up a bit this year and make everything homemade.  It took a full day of baking, pounds of flour, sugar, butter and even some dyed eggs but in the end the results were super delicious ...

I managed to make 48 Dinner Rolls, 6 Easter Breads and 1 Casatiello.  Not bad considering this was the first time I made each of these babies!

This was the basket for my In-laws with the Casatiello which even got a thumbs up from my MIL (yahoo!).  I plan on tweaking each of these recipes ever so slightly and I'll post the updated recipes in the next few weeks or so.  Especially the Casatiello recipe, since it was a huge pain in the tookhes to find to begin with (plus finding it in English and not Italian was doubley hard).

And here are the cuties all wrapped up and ready to go ...

The goodies were devoured by everyone and I even snuck in a roll later on that night with a nice glass of milk.  Double yum, my friends.  I hope everyone had a blessed and happy Easter as well!

Dino-Mite Valentine FREE Download

While I was making some Thank you cards to give out from BB for a few special Christmas gifts she received (um, yeah, they're a wee bit late, lol), I decided to gussy them up a bit and make some Valentine's cards with the same "dino" theme as well.  Take a peek:

Cute, right?  I thought I'd also make a downloadable version as well for you too!  If you're interested, download your file HERE and print out your own Dino-mite cards for your special Valentines.  

They print 4 on a page with handy little cutting guides.  I plan on using mine to attach to some clear bags filled with heart shaped cookies that BB and I will be making.  Or chocolate chip cookies ... this child changes her mind more than I do, lol.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! :)

UPDATE: I've updated the Dino-mote Valentine's with multiple dinosaur colors!  If you'd like to take a peek and print this one out for yourselves, click HERE for your free download.  There's also a version with a plain background HERE.

(Just a reminder this file is for personal use only and not commercial.  Thanks!)