Check back next week to see the full bridal suite.

{1. skateboard, 2. bakery logo, 3. dress, 4. typography, 5. patterns, 6. bouquet}

This year, instead of mailing out the normal Valentine’s card, I put together a little specialty Valentine’s Day kit filled with lots of love, sparkle, gift tags, notecards, and lip and mustache props for some unsuspecting friends and clients. Check out yesterday’s DIY to see how I created some of these pieces at home with items I found in drawers and closets.

Happy Valentine’s Day! Celebrate love today.

xoxo.

Have you made a potato stamp? So easy!

1.) Wash potato and cut in half.

2.) Draw your shape.

3) Cut around your shape until its about a quarter inch deep or until your shape is well defined and sticking up from the rest of the potato.

4.) Dip the potato in paint or an ink pad and press against paper.

I also created little color-dipped tags with a little puffy paint I found in the kitchen junk drawer.

1) Draw shape and cut out tags from cardstock.

2) Mix puffy paint with water in a shallow bowl until you get the color you want.

3) Dip paper and lay flat to dry.

Check back tomorrow to see the Valentine’s mailer I created by using a little imagination and some DIY; sprinkled with love love love!

It’s the last Friday of the Valentine free printables! There are three available today so make sure to visit our website to DOWNLOAD your free valentine…

All of the printables will be available on the website until February 15th.

{I’d love to hear your feedback… who used them? did they print correctly? would you continue to use this feature on the blog if more were available?}

This week I’m loving royal blue. Maybe I’m excited for spring and color again. The leopard print scarf… thats my “do one thing a day that scares you.” (if you read that post you’ll understand.) Don’t you just love the juxtaposition of patterns and the boldness of the blue… LOVE.

{royal blue cashmere sweatshirt, ankle cut skinny jeans, leopard print scarf, bangles, striped clutch, gold dipped flats}

Its something I want to remember. I’m not necessarily going to do the cliff jumping, extreme fear, sorta stuff everyday, but I want to apply it to the everyday little things like not being afraid to open up more, write an email to that person I’ve been meaning to connect with, put myself out there in the wedding industry, dance in front of strangers, wear leopard print, and fix sushi at home.

And then, yes, there’s always the bigger things like getting a tattoo, learning to surf, and cliff jumping…

This week’s free valentine printables were inspired by the kiss (or the smooch, the smack, the pucker up, the plant a big one…)

DOWNLOAD your free valentine right HERE…

Check back next Friday to see and download the last part of the full Valentine Printables collection. All of the printables will be available on the website until February 15th.

For the next 3 Fridays I’ll be celebrating the weekend with a happy Friday dance of course and more free valentines, so check back to see and download the full collection.

Ingredients

1 lb (4 sticks) of softened butter – she swears “Land of Lakes” is best

2 eggs

2 T molasses

2 t vanilla

1/3 cup water

1 1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 1/2 packed brown sugar

1 t baking powder

1 1/2 t baking soda

1 t salt

5 cups all purpose flour

12 oz package semi-sweet chocolate chips

Steps

1/ Cream butter, eggs, molasses, vanilla, and h20 in a big bowl

2/ Sift together the sugars, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and flour in a medium size bowl

3/ Combine the moist mixture and the dry mixture

4/ Add the chocolate chips

5/ Shape the dough in 1″ balls and place 1″ a part on an ungreased cookie sheet

6/ Bake at 350 for 8 min or until light brown around edges— the gooey-er the better with these!

My extra step

7/ Once out of the oven sprinkle/grind a little sea salt on top

The recipe makes a lot of cookies! I usually end up freezing some of them. In the summer we make ice cream sandwiches out of them…(is your mouth watering yet?) They also crumble easily when stored in ziplocks and tupperware so make sure to use the crumbs on top of ice cream or another favorite dessert— delish! ENJOY!