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Another sign for another wedding!  This time I embossed two of the tags to add dimension.  

A little Valentine treat

I found these tiny heart containers in the dollar section at Target.  A bag of 8.  They don't fit much, but I thought they would be perfect in a goodie bag full of other items.  But first I had to personalize them with vinyl.  

Then I found these cute colored, heart slinky's and in the bag they went.

I found that inside the little hearts, fit perfectly, three little kisses.

Our little "thumb bodies"

Here are the ones I created with my free printable.  My cute little family represented by our thumbs :) I'm sure their Grandma's will love them! 

Don't forget to snag your own in my last post.  Enjoy, and happy crafting.

FREE Valentine Printables

 I saw this picture on Pintrest, and LOVED LOVED LOVED it! HERE is where I found it.  She has a printable, if you prefer hers, but I thought I'd whip up a couple with different number's featured.  And then I wanted to add aqua.  I love aqua with pink, and for Valenties Day, SUPER CUTE!  I started with the number three because I figured if you only have 1 or 2 kids (like me) their prints alone might be too lonely, so you have room to add parents.  So hopefully this accommodates most everyone.  Above 7 I'm not sure would fit!  But let me know if you need a different number, I'd love to email you one.  Right click until you have the largest size and save to your computer.  Add names, thumb prints, and any embellishments you want.  Two will print on an 8.5'' by 11'' paper and each one measures 4''x5''

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We just had a little bash this year.  4 of us. I set up a tiny table with munchies, and we toasted in style.  

I got all my printables from Tom Kat Studios.

Fixing a swimming suit

My pile of "fix it's" grows too fast too often.  One I've had in the pile since after summer is my daughter's two swimming suits. She has a couple with clasps like this:   

However those clasps don't seem to hold up too well with my little fish.  You can see the crack, and once that little piece of plastic breaks, the swimming suit no longer stays up! 

So....I went to Wal-Mart and bought this kit:

I cut off the ends of her suit, 'cause the snaps I got were not heavy duty, and would never make it through all that fabric.  Doing this will cause you too loose some length in the neck hole.  So you may need to get heavy duty snaps to go through the thick part,  if you don't want to loose any length.  My daughter is actually very small through her shoulders, and neck line so I choose this option as it will end up fitting her better anyway.

Make sure you cut it just outside the hem line so you don't have to sew anything.  It will leave two raw edges, but once they're trimmed they look fine :)

Then follow the directions on your snaps to properly apply.  The pack I got required you to hammer the pieces together once to tool was in place.  I found out however that my cropadile fit perfectly over the tool so I used that instead.  I did everything else according to the instructions.  If you want to use your cropadile too, here's how I set it.

The bottom of the cropadile is the "base" I just used the flattest setting on there. And it worked great.

Then on the top, there was a blank side available, so the top was completely flat, and the base was almost flat.

Here's the tool (with the pieces inside ready to push through the fabric) and my cropadile fitting over it nicely.

Do it to both ends and then you'll have a new, sturdy, snap for her to keep swimming!

Mistletoe

My friend found THIS cute tutorial. And I thought it would be a fun way to hang some mistletoe in my house.  I originally tied it with red ribbon, but I didn't love it.  So I found some baker's twine in red and white and used that.  I LOVE it now.  I was able to use all materials on hand, so it didn't cost anything and it was really easy and quick.