My Annual Girlfriend Valentine Party 2012

For the past few years, I have a Girlfriend Valentine Party. Each gal brings a Valentine Box, Valentines to give and a treat to share. It is such great fun to see all of the creative things that my "Gal-intines" put together for the party!

This year we had trophies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for "Best Valentine Box", "Best Valentines" and "Best Valentine Attire". Each year we change it up a bit...

I only got photos of about a third of my fabulous friends as I am always too busy jabbering away. I am so sorry to have left some people out of these pages, but if they will email or post their photos on facebook, I will make some more! I hope that you have a wonderful Valentines Day. XOXOXOXOXOXOX

My daughter Devan made this Valentine with her little darlings this year. This was the only shot she got with both of the glamkids laying down. What a creative daughter I have!!!! I am so proud!!! Happy Lovin those Glambabies Day!!!!

Girlfriend Valentine Party!

My photos are not the best, but the party was a HUGE success! I will insert better photos as I receive them. Thank you all for coming and being such good sports! It amazes me how talented and fun all of my friends are. Happy Valentines Day!

Valentines and Decorations

A few of my glamsons wanted my help with their Valentines this year, so yesterday we quickly put together these valentines and had them printed at our local Walgreens in an hour. Gotta love that technology! Slade's class is having a "Willy Wonka" party so I put his face onto Johnny Depps (I am not thrilled with my photoshop skills on this one, but what can you do with 20 minutes a valentine?!)
Xander does not like that Justin Bieber kid, so he had me put Justin's famous hair on his head and he made fun of one of the star's songs. And Cruz can not get enough of anything Buzz!

I hung the Ribbon Awards for my Girlfriend Valentine Party on my mannequins. It looked really fancy. I also have this really cool "Butler Frog" that is about 36 inches tall. I made him a crown and "Prince Charming" sash. He made a fun photo opportunity for the gals at the party.

I also hung these glittery Valentine hearts from the ceiling over the sink in my kitchen. I just love hanging things there. You can see them from the living room and it looks very festive.
I am still waiting on some more photos from the party. I can't wait for you to see all the fabulous and creative Valentines and boxes that the lovely ladies put together!

My Valentine Tree

As I was taking down the Christmas decorations, I knew I was going to miss the white lights on the white tree that I had in the kitchen. So I decided to keep it up and see if I could decorate it for the upcoming holidays. Valentines Day, St. Patricks Day, Easter, Forth of July- no brainers... I am planning on getting creative with some other holidays. Let me know if you have any ideas. OK? Not all of my glamchildren wanted to get paint on their hands to make the valentines for the tree. (they must have some weird recessed gene, everyone knows that crafting is messy!)

I just love sitting on the couch and looking at the tree, it's like a fireplace for me. Fun!

Sneak Peak!

This week I am hosting my annual "Girlfriend Valentines Party". Each gal brings a box/basket/bag that they have decorated and 24 valentines. This year we have 3 categories of "winners". For the Valentine Box, there are a 1st, 2nd & 3rd place ribbon rosette award ribbons (made by me). For the Valentines, there is a rosette award ribbon for "Most Creative", "Most Sentimental" and "Most Tasty" (a friend thought I wrote "Most Trashy" at first...that may be a category for next year!)... and the lovely ladies are encouraged to dress in their Valentine Best, so I have made awards for "Best Old School" and "Most Over the Top". I have to say that I am proud of these ribbons. Thank heavens for Hobby Lobby's many 1/2 price ribbon bolt sales as each award rosette ribbon took approximately 4-6 yards each of 1/2" to 3" satin ribbon.

I will post the winners with their ribbons on Friday. Yeah for Valentines Day! (for my "not-so" but dearly loved "creatively challenged" friends, do not despair, a brown paper bag with your name on it and a box of $1 store valentines will do...) I can't wait!

OK, So We're Wierd !!!

Yesterday, the Fam. and friends dressed up for a Valentines Party. Some of us met for dinner...

But the only place we could get in was IHOP'S. Even in that resterant we were "the attraction". Doesn't anyone like to dress up anymore ?!

Here's my youngest daughter Devan and her husband Preston dressed in what she labeled "Sophistication" ala Dinasty Days....

My oldest, Brooke pins on a buttonier on her husband Kevin. Good thing he wore a fake Chest because that pin was Big!!!! Ouch!

and lastly my husband and I. I had a much better outfit planned, but it just didn't work. Those PROM dresses at the Thrift stores are all size 0, I quess they are made for the gals in high school after all. DARN! But we had a great time dancing the night away (well till 9:30 pm as the babysitters had to go to school today, so there you go....) FUN, FUN, FUN and well worth the stares from people who don't know how to have a good time.

TARGET $1 bargain bins are the GREATEST!

Don't you just LOVE Target's $1 bins ?!!! They have the BEST stuff for decorating and small little gifts and object lesson goodies. I made this "LOVE" banner entirely with TARGET $1 bin merchandise. I bought 2 packages of paper (I wouldn't have needed both, but I messed up my measurements at first, no worries, those pieces of paper can still be used by my grand kids to make valentines). I bought 1 "LOVE" garland and took the ribbon off and cut it up to attach after I made each triangle. Oh, and I also bought 1 package of matching brads and 1 package of matching ribbon. I also have plenty of brads and ribbon left. One of these days, when I have more time, it would be fun to see how many things you could make with a few $1 scrap booking items. So BRAVO! TARGET, for seeing a need and making affordable fun items available for all our your patrons.