Valentine's Day fun....

This year I decided I was going to do a lot more creative gifting

What happened to making cards at home for the different Holidays?

Making your own Halloween Costume?

When did everything have to be bought at the store?

I remember making birthday cards as a kid

Drawing or tracing my favorite Disney characters myself

being creative

Even if my friends couldn't draw

We could cut and paste the heck out of anything

Glitter, magazines, markers, paste and scissors were all you needed

Hours of fun!

My son and I spent Saturday morning making cards

I cut everything out and he helped me put all the stickers on

Who cared if they were straight?

He's 3

I know I'd keep those cards vs. a pre-fab any day

Here's one

He's really into dinosaurs at the moment

I also decided to use all the cookie dough in the freezer

and

use up a bunch of bakery boxes I got super cheap

They were Martha Stewart I got on clearance at a T.J.Maxx

 $2.99 for a set of 6

Since we are trying to watch what we eat

It helped us get rid of the temptation

and

We made some really nice gifts that didn't cost us much

The more important thing here is not just being thrifty

But that we got to spend some time together

Hopefully the recipients appreciate the time we took

to make something Special for them.

I 'm not saying something is not special if you bought it from the store

but slowing down and taking some time

to do things the old-fashioned way

benefits not just the receiver but also the giver

Hope you had a great Valentine's Day

Now I'm going to get some Milk...