drowning in hearts.

Whew. Valentine's Day has come and gone. I took on a little more this year than I normally do. What do I typically do on this designated day for forcing love on one another? Nothing. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a hopeless romantic, just like any other girl, but I think the most romantic gestures happen unsuspectingly.  Am I right or am I right.   However, it's been brought to my attention in the last week or so, by me, that I am in a house full of men. And in my attempt to bring up these men, -making sure it's not too girly around here- I have lost my girly-ness!  So, in {another} attempt to bring it back, I dove head first into Valentine's Day crafts! Yikes.  Let me show you what I mean.

At the beginning of the month I made sugar cookies. Dozens and dozens of little heart sugar cookies. Then I realized there were still ten days until V-day, so I threw them in the freezer.

As this last weekend approached, it hit me that Valentine's Day was coming up fast and I needed to get going on things!  I saw on Pinterest, which, by the way, you can't really have a conversation with me without me saying that word, a super cute way to use bird seed. And I was trying to figure out a way to involve Roman in raising money for George. Enter super cute heart shaped bird seed feeders. 

To date, Roman as raised $58! Thank you to all who bought them from him!! That's just about two months worth of sponsorship!  God provides!  You can find the link to make them here.

The next project was super easy.  Candy Cane Hearts.  It took about 20 minutes to make and they're super cute!

And to finish it off, the frosted cookies! I was up until one in the morning packaging all these treats, and surprisingly made it through the day sans coffee. 

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We started the morning off right, yesterday. I woke up to a big box on the table from Zappos.com. Jeff spoiled me big time and got me my favorite kind of rain boots!

Yay for Hunter boots in the cheerful color of Lemon!

 And oh yes. Heart shaped pancakes and pink milk! Just one drop of red food coloring in some almond milk and you've got yourself a suitable drink! After breakfast the boys and I headed all over town to deliver our goodies. It took about an hour, as we had to literally drive to every corner of town. :)  I think next year I'll tone it down to just one craft. 

How was your Valentine's Day??

little bits

Well last week wasn't too eventful, so here's what the Barton's stayed busy with in photos.

Learning proper stretching techniques 

Walking around with hacky sack in your mouth

Crafing it up!  Saw this sweet Valentine's banner on Etsy and figured I could easily make it for zero dollars {I had everything on hand}, rather than spend $24.50 on it. I think it turned out pertty good! I didn't follow a tutorial. Just eyeballed everything. The most tedious part was hand stitching the paper hearts onto the burlap, but I got it done during nap time!

Roman helped me prepare some sugar cookie dough and we had fun with cookie cutters! He loves being the taste tester when it's all mixed together.

 These beauties are now in our freezer awaiting to be frosted and delivered. I'm debating on using them as a means for Roman and Viggo to help raise money for George. Thoughts?

This is how Viggo prays. It's.Adorable.

there's something dang cute about a three year old in his boxers...

....or naked in a Santa hat and Superhero cape. With a recorder. And a laser gun. 

Happy Monday!

I made that:: {ruler growth chart & burlap wreath}

Oh Pinterest.

I have been working on a few crafty things around here. I have no original ideas, just so you know. Both of these crafts came from Pinterest. Do you love pinterest as much as I do?

Craft number one.

DIY ruler growth chart.  The tutorial I used I found at 517 creations. It's stupid easy, really, and it only cost me about seven buck for the wood. I had the stain, paint pen and stencils on hand already.  I have yet to hang it up on the wall, but it will be six inches up from the floor when I do.  So excited to have something to measure the boys heights with!

Craft number two:

Burlap knot tie wreath. Tutorial found at farm house porch.  I had all the supplies on hand for this one too! Love when that happens!  Not sure where I'll hang it yet, but when I figure it out, I'll post a photo.

Happy Tuesday!

i made that {coat rack}

Okay, I didn't really make this one. My husband did. I, however, did have the vision for it. :)

Our entryway was b.o.r.i.n.g. and we needed a coat rack of sorts, but I wasn't finding anything I loved anywhere (yeah...even pinterest wasn't giving me anything!) Sorry, no before photo. Just imagine a blank white wall.  I had some old barn wood I got from a  friend of mine laying around waiting to be used for something.  Enter handy husband, plywood, drawer knobs, and barn wood.

 Jeff found some plywood at his parents house, we lined up the wood to our liking, he cut the plywood down to size, somehow fit the drawer knobs on there and screwed the whole thing to the wall.  Then he added the rest of the barn wood by nailing it to the plywood.

I am SO happy with the way it turned out!  We even made one by the back door for the boys' coats and hats too!

Now if I could figure something out for the rest of the walls on my main floor I'd be able to focus on the upstairs!

i made that {typography print}

Look what I just finished up.

I fell in love with this the second I laid eyes on it. I knew I had to have it in my home so I set out to make it! The tutorial is here.  Pretty easy peasy. The painting was the most time consuming, but you could easily spray paint it and it would be done much faster. This will find a home on the walls of our duplex when we move in just a couple weeks!

i made that {freezer paper stenciling}

Woo! Here is another series I'm starting. This will be a way for me to keep track of everything I've made, and get to share it with you all in the process! I hope you enjoy reading about it as much as I enjoyed making it.

To kick things off, in March I began to search crafty blogs for some inspiration. I found several. Let me tell you. There are tons of talented people out there! I wanted to start off with something I surely couldn't screw up...

Enter: freezer paper stenciling and fabric dyeing. I found the tutorial for dyeing the fabric here, and followed this one for freezer paper stenciling. SO.FUN.

 I found this image on my brother-in-law's Facebook page. They had their third baby in December and named him Oliver. I thought it would be adorable on a onesie!

I didn't dye this shirt. A friend gave it to me. And I saw the idea for the image somewhere on this blog, I think. I laughed out loud when I saw it and new I needed to make it for Roman. Because though he cannot eat butter, he is smooth like buttah. :)