My crafty Valentine, sweet recycled Valentine...
February 14, 2009 5:51 PM Subscribe
You forgot all about Valentine’s Day and now must come up with an extra special momento to pacify your beloved. Or you are sitting home alone with no way to celebrate V-day. In either case, it’s crafting time! You can recycle things you probably already have to make Valentine’s Day trinkets. You can start by making a card with scrap yarn, or from wrapping paper. You can make gift bows or a heart-shaped candy basket from recycled magazines, and a gift bag from a newspaper. You can make a love letter box from an old box. The kids or the artist in your life might like to get heart-shaped crayons, made from stubby old crayons.
If you’ve got nice former Valentine’s Day souvenirs sitting around, you can use the old candy boxes to make a picture frame or a Valentine clock, or make Valentine mobiles from old cards. You can make heart shaped pillows from old linens, napkin rings out of cardboard tubes, or plain old glass jars to make vases. If you cherish memories of your exes, you can decorate with your old cards. Or, like artist Gila Rayberg, you can make mosaic Valentines. If none of these ideas inspire you, you could just take some advice from irrepressible romantic Jean Teasdale, who has lots of creative ideas for how to celebrate February 14th, with or without a sweetheart.
If you’ve got nice former Valentine’s Day souvenirs sitting around, you can use the old candy boxes to make a picture frame or a Valentine clock, or make Valentine mobiles from old cards. You can make heart shaped pillows from old linens, napkin rings out of cardboard tubes, or plain old glass jars to make vases. If you cherish memories of your exes, you can decorate with your old cards. Or, like artist Gila Rayberg, you can make mosaic Valentines. If none of these ideas inspire you, you could just take some advice from irrepressible romantic Jean Teasdale, who has lots of creative ideas for how to celebrate February 14th, with or without a sweetheart.
I made a nice little mosaic out of the FRACTURED SHARDS OF MY BROKEN HEART!!!
posted by orme at 6:19 PM on February 14, 2009
posted by orme at 6:19 PM on February 14, 2009
I love (really!) that you wrote "momento." I like to call them that, too.
posted by HopperFan at 6:25 PM on February 14, 2009
posted by HopperFan at 6:25 PM on February 14, 2009
You know who I love? orangeswan. Yes. I love you, you regal vermilion water foul.
posted by Jilder at 9:58 AM on February 15, 2009
posted by Jilder at 9:58 AM on February 15, 2009
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