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How to Have a Crafty Valentine's Day
- by aliciak
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- February 16, 2009
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It was great when you were a kid and were practically forced to bring Valentines to school for each and every classmate of yours. Forced love--it's the best! No one gets hurt, a tiny piece of paper is a sufficient gift and you got to decorate the hell out of a shoebox that did not involve a Pilgrims-Indians diorama scenario. Sigh. Childhood was great! Now it's all dinner reservations, gourmet chocolates, and tennis bracelets. Well, I still love receiving homemade and handmade gifts from children and adults alike. Cut me out a felt heart or copy down a poem on pink paper and I'm yours. Let's get back to those crafty Valentine's Day roots, and if you never had any, well it's time to plant some--do not head to the nearest Jarrod's or Godiva, stay RIGHT HERE!
The Valentine's Day Shoe Box
If I can get my ducks in a row by NEXT Valentine’s Day, I am having an old-fashioned Valentine’s Day party where you have to decorate a shoe box and bring enough Valentines for everyone. This year, putting the plan in motion via guide will have to suffice, but I think YOU should do it if you’re already planning a V-Day celebration for lots of peeps, single or not.
The only part of the Valentine’s Day Shoe Box assignment that I didn’t necessarily like was that it was a contest, a contest for the best shoe box! Why didn’t I like this? Because I didn’t win! Obviously. I really thought a tissue paper-fabric-wooden-heart combo would take 1st prize in 3rd grade, but nooooooooo Vincent C. had to make a big love robot shoe box that stood vertical, covered in aluminum foil and shiny red paper. I’m totally over it, not bitter, it’s fine, whatever, robots beat wooden hearts then and now, I get it…
Slap your name on that sucker because you should be proud of your handiwork!
Now your crafty Valentine's Day juices should be flowing...
Hmm that sounds wrong. BUT, that was to transport you back to your safety scissor and glitter days so that you can block out the fact that Valentine’s Day is commercialized-only-for-couples-Hallmark-holiday blah blahness. NO! It’s whatever you want it to be, so make it fun! Now let’s get crafty.
Martha’s felt fortune cookies
Cut Out + Keep's Valentine's Day Projects
My new favorite craft site! Filled with patterns, tutorials and crafty goodness. I usually don’t get excited about “site design” and things of that tech. nature, but, well, I loooove the site design. :)
Robots again!
HOW TO: Fiber Optic LED Rose
For you tinkering nerds out there, does it get better than fiber optic + LED? Don’t think so.
Hand-sewn (Personal Ad) Hearts
Easy Peasy HOW-TO:
You need small amounts of pink felt, red embroidery floss, needle and stuffing. These were very free-handed: I traced a cookie cutter shape with pencil onto the felt and cut the pieces out. I embroidered by hand the letters and numbers (yes, I’m that good) and then hand stitched two pieces together, stuffing when almost closed.
Smitten? Smitten!
Knit up this hand-holding heart-shaped mitten and no one will fault you for your PDA—it’s too fantastically DIY!
Hearts are required, so start there if you’re short of ideas.
It’s either a blank canvas or a Valentine’s Day shoe box fail.
Staring longingly into each other’s eyes…
Get crafty elsewhere...or just let someone else do the work!
Not everyone is like me and can craft by myself for hours on end—go make things with other people! Or just buy things that other people made.
Get your SNAIL MAIL Valentines for Charity!
Fred Flare used to be just an amazing website but now it’s an amazing website AND brick-and-mortar shop in Brooklyn. Kooky, brightly-colored, fun. And for Valentine’s Day, they asked for Valentine card submissions that they are selling online and in the store, with proceeds going to Elder Craftsmen, an org. that brings the crafty to the elderly. Buy some if you don’t feel like getting crafty yourself…while still supporting the crafty cause.
One of the Fred Flare cards. I am a sucker for the undeniably adorable combination of personified food + clever sayings/puns!
Spacecraft Brooklyn
355 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211
The Sassy Craft Party
Spacecraft, the crafting boutique is joining creative forces with Brooklyn Based, the email newsletter to throw a Sassy Craft Party 2 days before V-Day. You can: decorate some panties, make pasties, create cards…or just shell out some money for snacks and beer and scope the room for potential dates.
CRAFT's Valentine's Day Contest
Get crafty for Feb. 14 and win something other than your recipient’s loooooove.
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Those mittens are incredible, now I have lots of ideas for V-DAY, THANK YOU!!
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