Animal Valentines....No Candy. Yeah!

I love Valentines that don't have candy attached to them and these are especially fun as all kids love animals to play with.  I got the idea from designmom.com but I wanted to make a few changes to their designs and here's why. 
1.  I thought the animals were a bit too small (my kids like the above),
2.  I had some animal card stock I wanted to use up instead of printing the pdf they had in colour and
3.  as I don't have a colour laser at home I didn't have to go anywhere to make this project happen.

So with all that what I needed to do was create the wording bubble sheet so I could paste them onto the Valentines.  Notice I did many orientations to allow for you to decide how to best display your animals.

You can download it here.

Please let me know what you think.

xox
Dish

Valentine Printable Stamps

To me it's the small things that are important especially when expressing how much you care about someone.  A girlfriend asked me to create some "stamp-like" embellishments for her to attach to her Valentines this year.  We were both so happy with how they turned out I wanted to make them available to you as well.   

You can download them here.

Special Note:  Due to their smaller size if possible try for a good quality colour laser printer to print these up.  I went to our local Printer and he also printed them on sticker paper for me which was perfect for attaching them to my envelopes (alternatively you can use double sided tape).

To be clear....these are not "real" postal stamps.

Hope you enjoy.

xox
Dish

Giving Melon Hearts

If you are at all like me you are very conscious about what your kids are eating.  I am fortunate in that I have never had to force feed my sons fruit (other foods i.e. veggies and meats are another matter) but I still like to make sure that I make the experience "fun".  Now "fun" in absolutely no way means playing with their food, although we are experiencing a battle of wills currently, above is an example of how I like to approach things. 

These Melon Suckers took 3 minutes to create.  I have a million cookie cutters but for obvious reasons it was the hearts that we chose today.  I personally use sucker sticks but popsicle sticks are just as good and you can work with many fruits to create these suckers. 

Valentine Note....strawberries when halved vertically look like hearts. 

Have fun.
Dish
xox