Recap of this past week

Wow! I can't believe it's gonna be almost a week since I last posted! I've been busy with a sick child at home and catching up on the laundry and the dishes. It still bugs me that after having done the dishes and several loads of laundry, those things immediately start to collect! I have yet to find the solution to that and other cleaning duties. I kind of want to dedicate myself to setting a cleaning schedule for myself (and maybe get my husband and my girls to pitch in!) but I think the same will come out of it as the other times I've tried; I either forget or give up. There's just too many other things I would rather do (crafting) but I can't allow myself to do until I feel the house is in a semi-good condition. So, as you can imagine, I haven't done any crafting since I finished my mini swap package. It's a never-ending cycle and so nothing gets done! Well, hopefully I'll get my act together soon so I can start on some projects I've been putting aside since before x mas. One of them being a purse or tote bag for myself. That was supposed to be my x mas present for myself. But like usual, I put everyone ahead of me, and I never got around to it. Another project I've been wanting to work on is an ipod cozy for the new nano my husband gave me for x mas. I've seen many examples of what I'd like to make, so I pretty much have an idea of what I want to do. Now if I can only get myself off this chair!

We had a nice valentine's day. I cut out small hearts out of felt and then cut small slits in each heart so that I can attach them to her shirt buttons. Its an idea I got from Martha Stewart, to decorate C's shirt buttons with little felt hearts. You can only see a small glimpse of what I'm talking about, through this picture. I didn't get close-up view. Oh well!

I made Kool-Aid play dough, using strawberry flavor to color the dough red and give it a nice, fruity scent. I then added glitter to make it more fun for the kids, divided it into five pieces, shaped them into hearts and wrapped each heart play dough with pink food wrap. These were the valentines I made for my daughters and my nieces and nephew. I then stuck the hearts into zip food storage bags, added a few small pieces of candy, attached a cute label/card to the top that read, “Dough you want to be my valentine?” and then put their names on the front. They came out pretty cute, if I do say so myself.

The two examples of the valentines I made there are for my nieces. The play dough hearts came out really big cause I accidentally doubled the recipe. Don't ask! But I like how they turned out!

After seeing all of the valentines C got in kindergarten, I realized that too many parents are sending their kids with candy for valentines and so next year I'm gonna try to be more crafty and come up with an idea that doesn't involve candy. I have nothing against candy; a piece here or there is okay, but bags full of candy!? I don't like that this holiday is getting to be too similar to Easter and Halloween.