Handmade Valentine's

Alrighty, so here is my attempt at handmade valentine's day cards.
As you can see here, my table was pretty cluttered with all of my supplies, it took me about a week to finish all of them, so my table looked like this all that time.

It was a mess. My family couldn't eat at the table all week.

This is my handy dandy sizzix machine. I love this thing. It is so great. It allows me to cut out large quantities of paper is all sorts of different shapes, depending on which cutter I have.

It took me quite some time, but this is how they turned out. This isn't all if them. By the time I remembered that I wanted to take pictures of the final product, I had given most of them away already. These are the ones that I am most proud of.

I am really happy with the way they turned out, and I am even thinking about making more cards for all sorts of different occasions. And I really want to start scrap booking more, because I just love all of the different things I can come up with. We'll see how it turns out.

10 Reasons to Despise Valentine's Day

Ok, I love Valentine's Day. I know it's a "Hallmark Holiday" or whatever, but I have always enjoyed it. I love making heart shaped cookies, and decorating them. I love making cute little Valentine's Day Cards, but there are some parts of Valentine's Day that I despise. And here the are:


1. Single or coupled, if you didn't make a reservation in January, your options for going out to dinner are limited to the local fast food drive-through.



2. The hour of our lives we waste every year in the greeting card aisle, looking for the perfect one.



3. The overnight tripling of the price of roses, forcing your boyfriend to choose between getting you a bouquet of a dozen or paying his bills that month.



4. The 24/7 romantic comedy marathon on TV during the month of February either makes you feel like a loser for being single or makes you resent your boyfriend for not being John Cusack.



5. If you've had anything resembling a date in the past two months, it always prematurely launches the "where is this going?" conversation.



6. If you're single and lucky enough to have three close, single girlfriends, you can't go out for drinks with them without being a cliché.



7. We don't need another stuffed teddy bear holding a heart or a cheap box of "guess the mystery filling" chocolates, thanks anyways.



8. They don't make Valentine's Day cards for friends-with-benefits or "I think I like you but it's too soon to tell."



9. We just started paying off our credit card bills from holiday shopping — our bank statements can't handle another gift.



10. Those gross taste-like-sidewalk-chalk conversation hearts. Yuck.


Anywho...I really do like Valentine's Day, it's not so bad. Well, I got me and Nick these awesome T-Shirts for Valentine's Day. For some reason I couldn't get the picture off the internet, which I am still a little angry about. It's a black t-shirt, and it says "Nick and Laura" and then a red heart right below that, and then under that it says "est. 2006." It's so cute, and it just got shipped today. Yay! I'll post a picture when they arrive.
Well, thats about it. I know I haven't been updating this little thing, but I just never have anything exciting to talk about.