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February 16th 3:01 :28 pm by
Cid
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Posting my Thing a Day for 2/14 a day late. My apologies; was out late last night and didn’t have time to post during the day because I was in a zombie-like state. I’d gotten up balls early to bake some madeleine cookies as a Valentine’s gift for my boyfriend:
They were kind of tricky and I had to spend ages whipping the batter into a perfect ribbon consistency, but they actually turned out well! I was mega, mega stoked. The little, buttery shell-shaped cakes got wrapped up in a homemade gift box and delivered as fresh as possible to his work.
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February 14th 11:51 :36 pm by
Marna
I was in the card shop recently perusing the Valentines, wondering, “who designs this stuff.” Cards wiggle and make noise and play music and are mushy and tear-jerky and silly and even off-color and offensive. I still think there is no better Valentine than one that is hand-made by little fingers with innocence and unabashed emotion. These are the keepers…
Construction paper,
Red, pink—and paper doilies,
White glue and glitter.
Cut out a heart shape
Write a message in crayon.
Capture mama’s heart.
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY ALL!!!!
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Today I attempted Red Velvet cupcakes. I hadn’t heard of them until recently. They have a pretty interesting history it seems. I underestimated how much red food colouring I would need…so they ended up a pinky brown colour.
My bf is a fan, I however was not. They weren’t sweet enough for me. Mind you the icing was tasty.
For day 15, I will try my hand at Calligraphy!
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I made these for some of my coworkers. I like to spread the Valentine’s love.
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February 14th 6:04 :03 pm by
Djinn
‘Nuff said.
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February 14th 5:33 :47 pm by
ejcrewe
A day behind again. I got my feverish kids to make some valentines yesterday. They pressed designs and messages into thin styrofoam and then printed it on paper. Messy and fun.
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These socks were a gift from my sister. Inspired by this post by dyslexia, I decided to use the cute valentines socks my sister gave me as arm warmers as well. I like them better as cuffs. I simply cut and hemmed the end.
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Daily Photo:
Today I made something other than just a photo. I did the first draft of the script for the March episode of our monthly podcast. Apparently I don’t know how to spell “insert.” Oh well. Spelling isn’t everything!
I took another photo when I went out to lunch with my husband. They had pretty red roses on the tables for Valentine’s Day, and I thought it was an interesting shot of just his hands and the flowers.
And finally, last night my 9-year-old daughter made all her valentines to hand out to her class.
They are really cute so I snapped a photo. She use horse stickers for most of them and had some sort of horse-themed cute saying on each one. She’s an over-achiever that one.
Does it seem like I am trying to make up for my lame attitude yesterday? Yes, I believe so.
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February 14th 9:50 :42 am by
rakka
it’s the last day of my valentine theme. hooray for worms! hooray for hearts! hooray for heartworms! (unless your pet has them. then, you know, that’s not fun.)
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February 14th 8:40 :32 am by
Moi
O.k. . . . last one. I sent this one to my little brother.
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February 14th 12:21 :37 am by
Becsta
Saturday the Ninth: Long overdue, I worked on a mitten meant for someone for (last) Christmas!
Sunday the Tenth: I started making mugs for my valentines to go in.
Monday the Eleventh: Piper and I dyed tissue paper, after I saw the idea in an old Martha Stewart Living mag I found at the self-help for 25 cents. The colour turned out totally pastel, and I was a bit grumpy while we were doing it, cos I was trying to keep Jasper from tipping over the bowls of dye (ridiculous, I know, to attempt projects like this with a crawling baby around, but oh well!), but Piper seemed happy enough when I took the photo (admittedly a day or two later!).
Tuesday the Twelfth: I worked on the mitten.
Wednesday the Thirteenth: I finished the valentines for girlfriends that I began on the weekend. Hearts sewn onto teabags, fitted into cardboard mugs, with name/note attached. I’m happy with them, even though they’re a bit over the top! If I’d had smaller stamps, I would have made the names smaller, but oh well…
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February 13th 10:45 :32 am by
rakka
“cheese” was written with a fine point sharpie ’cause, come on, it woulda’ been crazy to do that with a blade.
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February 12th 10:55 :49 am by
rakka
i never used to think about clouds so much until i moved to seattle…
anyway, i made the shrinky dink using these directions.
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My school’s choir does “Singing Valentines” every year - students buy grams for their valentines or just their friends and write their class schedule on the card. The choir splits into 2 groups of girls and 2 groups of guys, and we find them in their classes and shower them with obnoxious affection in the form of song and dance while wearing ridiculously pink outfits. Oh, high school.
My group of 8 girls’ outfits consist of pink and red plaid pajama bottoms and white wifebeaters with candy hearts with different phrases (QT 3.14 might be the most creative, ever) ironed onto the front. The back has the name of the singer and the year. I ribbon-ed the shirt/pants up and made tags with washing instructions. (I should probably be doing my homework, haha).
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On Day 9, I baked cookies. Some heart shaped and others flower-shaped. Oh, no! There’s a cookie missing! Where could it have gone?? munch… munch…
On Day 10, I decorated them with rolled buttercream.
Today, I made this bangle bracelet. I think it looks fun.
And for my next trick, I will be making cupcakes from scratch!
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February 11th 11:00 :35 am by
rakka
alternately, it could be called a “satellite (dish) of love” drawing. 
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