Can you believe tomorrow is Valentine's Day!?

Sure snuck up on me!

Today, is also my one year blog anniversary! 

One year ago today I published my first post that was about making a Valentine's Day gift for L!

So in honor or a full year of blogging, I bring to you this years Valentine's Day craft!

Each year, I try to make something handmade and crafty for L. While this is our 5th Valentine's Day together, I can not for the life of me remember what we did for out first two together. Isn't that sad? We were in high school. There is only so much that can be expected.

I do remember that for V Day 2012 I made the "52 Things I Love About You" card deck, and V Day 2013 I mod podged basically every picture ever taken of us onto two huge wooden letters that read "L & K". So in an effort to keep the crafting alive, I whipped up a fun framed project that commemorates the two places where we have lived.

Inspired by Pinterest, I printed out maps of the states we had lived in together, and cut them out.

I got about halfway around the Cape when I realized I should have used my Silhouette to cut these out. Lesson learned.

I used an 11" x 14" floating frame to display the states.

I used my labeler to print out the city and state of each location as well as cut out small hearts and a mount for the labels. 

Happy Valentine's Day! (tomorrow)

To eat… or not to eat

I wanted to bake cookies today, so that I could have a decent excuse to chow on some cookie dough, so I found a store with some Pillsbury Cookies Dough, frosting, and sprinkles and went to town with it.

While I was trying to cut the dough into heart shapes and failing miserably, I thought… why don't I just turn these into fruit pizza's!? So I ran back outside and all over the North End to 4 different produce/grocery stores until I finally found what I needed. Good Times.

So basically I did a little rendition of these AMAZING fruit pizza squares that I made in the summer, just Valentine's themed.

All You need is:

1 - Roll of Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough

1 - 8 ounce package of Cream Cheese

1/3 cup of Sugar

1 Tsp. Vanilla

Fruit of your choice

Food coloring if you want to get creative!

Directions:

Bake the cookies as directed on the package.

Mix together the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla and then let cool.

Once both the cookies and cream cheese mixture is cool, frost the cookies and top with fruit.

My absolute favorite fruit to use for these are strawberries! Strawberries and kiwis! Delicious!

Once you're done "decorating", throw those suckers back into the fridge to cool!

I went for the Valentines Day theme for these ones today, and colored the cream cheese mixture pink!

Enjoy!