color your own valentines

hello, lovebirds.  Don't you just love celebrating LOVE?  It's such a happy thing.

Unless your lovah gives you nasty chocolates instead of nuts and chews.  (hint, hint.  wink, wink.) 

I always like something nice and simple like tulips.  I don't need all the bells and whistles; I feel lucky in love and I have my awesome Mr. Soucy to thank for that.  He is the best and I'll just stop right there because he doesn't like when I talk about him here.  He's a little shy that way.

What do you guys like to get for valentines day?  What do you get for your valentine?  Do you have a tradition you'd be willing to share in the comments??



Here's one more installment of "color your own valentines" for you.  Less tha week left!  Remember you can go here to print any from the whole collection.  (Only for your personal use, please;)

xo
Britt

creative juice and color-your-own valentines

I’ve had a lot of creative juice flowing lately. So much that I am annoyed with all the things getting in my way. Like sleeping and eating and bathing. Besides the fact that I have five children to take care of. I have been painting during nap time (any other time just doesn’t work—they all want to join in, and that just doesn’t work!), and in between all the rest of it, I’ve been carrying around yarn and hooks, cutting and ripping and sewing fabric (I have had a bunch of fabric set aside for at least five years thinking that I would like to make a quilt for our family room and I couldn’t wait any longer), drawing and journaling, making baby gifts for the next round of babies in my life, and I’m a little obsessed with the idea of “restyling”. I’ve always loved the idea of using what is available; non-consumerism, getting creative with decorations around the house, making what I can out of what I have, but the idea that it’s actually the trendy, “green” thing to do means that there are ideas flowing all over the place. Now that it’s hip and cool to re-use/up-cycle/alter/make-do/whatever you want to label it, the sky is the limit;) It also means that there are millions of ideas on the world wide web and it’s too much awesome-ness.

So of course I haven’t had time to do it all, but I’m bursting with readiness. And for every single thing I’ve started, I’ve had a bunch of inspirations. What’s a girl to do? How will there ever be enough time?

First things first: I have the first color-your-own valentines of the season for you. Click on it, print it out on card stock, have a color fest. I tried to keep them a bit more simple—last year they took forever to color in, but they were fun! They are still available here.




I have lots of ideas still, so we’ll see which ones make it onto paper and into the scanner.

Happy creating, people!

xo
B

spooky

My Grandmama is joining us for Halloween this year.  She's wearing a mask.  Her late husband is joining us as well, just across the way.  My grandparents in black masks has been strangely satisfying. 

I scanned another color-your-own project for you.  I left the bottom blank so you could make your own scary scene.  (My finished version is on the mantle next to Grandmama.)  I had a million things I wanted to do, but in between searching for lost binkies and forcing children to eat, I just couldn't get it done. 


Just click on it and it should take you to flickr where you should be able to download it and print it.  If you have problems, let me know and I'll see what I can do to fix it:)  Have fun!



The little pumpkin painting on my mantle is an original mixed media on stretched canvas (6x6) and is for sale on etsy here.

XO

color your own valentines

I have been doing some coloring pages for my daughter and she enjoyed them so much that it gave me an idea...color your own valentine pages! She was very excited about it and the other kids jumped on board.

They gave me some ideas.

My 5th grader was worried about what she could give to the boys--nothing too mushy. She liked the "u rock" idea.



My 2nd grader said he wanted to give the girls "hugs".
I thought that was cute.

I put them on my flickr page in thier own little set so that you could print them off and have some fun with them too. Just print them off on some white card stock and get out the crayons, colored pencils, markers, glitter...choose your poison. I still may do some more, if I do I'll add them to the set as I go.