Lotsa love

Hello! Is anyone still out there?? I wouldn't blame you all if you had shuffled along to another blog where there are actual posts!

To those who are still hanging on

Thanks for "bearing" with me ;)

As usual , life just seems to be hurtling along at a break neck speed and I can barely keep up! I hit the ground running , when I got home. last Tuesday and have barely paused for breath since.

Oh but how I miss this little corner of my life. I love settling down in the morning, cup of tea in hand and K playing away in the other room. Even if it is just to catch up on my google reader or blogroll. I haven't even had tine to do that! But I must make that time. I will make that time.

I wanted to share a couple of valentines crafts I have done this past week. We don't go all out for valentines, by any strech of the inagination.

But, I guess it is a celebration of love. And for all that is lacking in our home,organisation, regular mopping,the inability to keep pairs of socks together..... there isn't a lack of love. That deserves to be celebrated.

I have been pretty uninspired recently and haven't been able to think of many crafts/activities to do with the kids AND our oven has been broken for a week so no baking either!! Shock! 

So after a little googling, most of the inspiration out there is valentinesy. (ok not a real word but you all know what it means, right?) The kids don't mind the theme, so long as there is messiness, glitter and fun, they're in!

This website popped up and I LOVED it. I found a tutorial for making these sweet little string hearts.

I had everything (almost, I did pinch some wool from Granny Mary) so I pounced on it and we got stuck right in!

It felt great to be up to our elbows in glue!!

It is so easy, I did it with two 4ish year old girls and they loved it too.

First , you draw some hearts on freezer paper, I used greaseproof paper which worked out ok.

Mix some white glue with a little water. I put ours on our little kids Ikea plastic plates, so it wasn't too runny as it didn't pour off, so don't add too much water it still needs to set when it dries.

 dip your yarn/wool into the mixture and then follow the lines of your heart. Filling in the centre with squiggles.

(strange pose optional)

Leave to dry.

Once they are dry the glue has made them hard, so you can hang them.

I used a little ribbon to hang mine up with and then because we had quite a few we made a simple valentines garland.

I just threaded the little heart decorations onto a length of red ribbon.

I also made a little ribbon heart wreath to hang for some extra festivness (is that a word??)

This actually the back of it. I thought it was much prettier than the front!
You could only see the outline of the heart and all of the pretty ribbons that I used from the back, so I hung it up back to front LOL.

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Happy love day.

ps..I want to apologise to the person who runs the blog I linked to, my computer wouldn't open the page, I previously have een following by reading on my ipod. So sorry I couldnt put the actual link to the tuorial in there. My laptop is a little elderly and she gets very easily confused!