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Chic & Simple Narhwal Valentines [Free Printable]

After last year’s amazing Tea Valentines, Bea decided that she wanted to have a very simple Valentine card to give to friends. So, I decided I would go out of my comfort zone by trying to sketch one of her favourite animals, a narwhal. “Wait, a minute? What? You don’t draw?” ARGH!!! No!! I make […]

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Homemade Free Printable Digimon Style Valentines

You’re not going to believe this… After having created such awesome looking Sonic Style Valentines together, Toby came home last night, hinting that he’d changed his mind. “Have you printed all of the Sonic Style Valentines out yet?” he asked. “Only the first 9,” I said. “Good thing,” he replied. “Because I’m pretty sure I want Digimon […]

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Free Printable Sonic Valentines

After the success of our Skylanders Valentines and our Toy Heart Photo Valentines, Toby wanted to do another video game valentine for his friends at school.  He’s been playing a lot of retro Sonic games lately, so he wanted to do something Sonic related. We looked for pre-made valentines in shops and couldn’t find anything. And, […]

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Homemade Printable Skylanders Swap Force Valentines from The Lunchbox Season

Homemade Printable Skylanders Swap Force Valentines

It’s Toby’s first year at an all-boy’s school, and so we wanted to start off on the right foot with some super-friendly homemade valentines. Last year’s Toy Heart Photo Valentines with Skylanders, Lego, Stuffies and Monster High Dolls were such a hit that we decided to do something similar with photographs of out favourite toys. This […]

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Valentine’s Treat: Cream-Cheese Sugar Cookie Conversation Hearts

I wanted to make a festive weekly treat for the kids a bit before the sugar rush of the actual holiday…so here they are, and a week early…our cookie Conversation Hearts! You’ll want to save this sugar cookie recipes. It’s one of the best I’ve ever come up with. And the icing…let’s not even get […]

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Looking Backward, Love

“If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.” – Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward While it may have appeared as if we’ve been off hibernating since our marathon Advent Shadowbox Calendar project at the end of 2012, we’ve actually been out flexing our muscles in the winter weather. Plenty of snow […]

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Handmade Holidays: Valentines for School

February 12-14, 2012 It’s time to disseminate Valentine Cards in the classroom. This year, when the kids received their lists of names from school, we decided to go ahead and make our own little cards. It took us about an hour from start to finish… Supplies: Plain paper, Pencils, Markers or Gel Pens, Scanner, Computer, […]

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