A Little Door Candy by Tomato Mama

Good Conversation by Tomato Mama

Love is in the air! Valentine's Day is a week away and I'm beginning to bedeck my house in pink, red and hearts! I know a lot of people do not like Valentine's Day. Some say that it is a holiday made up to sell more greeting cards and that it should not be necessary to have a holiday to remember the ones you love. I disagree. I love Valentine's Day. I have so much love in my life that I welcome a day to spoil the people that I love just a little bit more! On top of that, it's such a cute holiday.

Conversation hearts are a Valentine's  Day staple. I usually put out a bowl of the candy variety but this year I thought I would add to my V-Day decorations with a bowl of felt ones as well.  I love to sew with felt. I love the bright colors and patterns. I have a ton of it stashed in my craft room so I pulled out a variety of colors to make these little cuties out of .

I used a heart shaped cookie cutter as my pattern. Cut two for each conversation heart out of the felt. 

I like to choose a contrasting color of embroidery thread to stitch with and use a blanket stitch around the edges.  Stop before completely closing it so that you can stuff it with poly-fil.

Close and stitch on  "conversation heart" sayings on them. I'm not sure if I am going to hang them up or leave them in a bowl. I think that they will look pretty cute either way!

Ghost Footprint Valentine's Day Card by Tomato Mama

Pickle and I have been hard at work making our Valentine's Day cards for the Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles for a couple of weeks now. We did some cookie cutter painting ( more on that in another post) for most of the family, but I wanted to do something different for my sister and her husband.

My sister needs a special card for a few reasons.

1. She's special!
2. She hates Valentine's day ( but does love to get cards from her favorite Pickle nephew.)
3. She hates feet. I love to exploit this fact any chance I get!
4. She is a ghost hunter. Really! Check out her and my brother in law here http://www.indianaghosttech.com/

This is what we made

The card reads, "I love you so much... It's scary!"

Here is some pics of the process of making it.

Love how these turned out! I'm going to have to frame one of the extras for me.