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Homemade Gifts and Decorations for Valentine’s Day
I asked boyfriend if he knew any romantic quotes and he came up with:
Phwoar you look well fit.
Which was very helpful… To be fair most romantic quotes are nauseating in their sentimentality, which I think he managed to avoid. Still I went for something a little sweeter:
If you live to be 100 I want to be 100 minus 1 day so I never have to live a day without you.
That’s Winnie-the-Pooh for you.
Anyway just a few crafty ideas for Valentine’s Day Decorations for you, some I did myself and some I found on Pinterest:
And a few Valentine’s Day Gift ideas:
How To Make A Soft Dino Rattle For Babies
My first project as an Aunt for my little niece is an attempt at a rattle (although it only has bells in it, so is it called a jingle?). She is going to be 5 months old when I give this to her, so I will let her parents decide if it safe for her to play with but the only I found online to copy was for babies.
I drew a template of a dinosaur (essentially a simplified Steg) with a separate template for the body and the spikes. I also created a piece for the underneath of the dino so it would stand up.
- Template
- T-shirt fabric
- Bells
- Toy stuffing
I used old t-shirts to but the pieces from. I cut out 6 circles in different sizes to use as spots and glued them to the body pieces. In the end I decided to sew them in place as well to make them more secure. I then moved onto the 5 spikes, cutting 10 pieces in total, pairing them up and sewing them right sides together. Then turning them out.
I took the body pieces and put them right sides together, I then inserted the spikes in-between the body pieces so they would be sewn in place. Before pinning in place I put a couple of the little bells inside each spike and a small amount of toy stuffing, and then I sewed the body together.
I left the bottom and then pinned in place the last piece of fabric for the underneath of the dinosaur and sewed almost all of the way around but left enough space to turn him the right way around. I then filled the dino with toy stuffing and bells and hand sewed the last little bit.
You need to make sure there are no holes or weaknesses to the sewing so the insides don’t come out when the child plays with it. But even if you’re not 100% convinced by the child proofing you’ve done I think it’s still a nice toy for you to jingle at a child even if you don’t let them handle it unchaperoned.
Homemade Face Mask/Scrub
This is a super easy face mask/scrub using things you probably have at home already.
Ingredients:
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil
- 1 tsp salt
I used oil and sugar because I don’t actually own salt!
Mix the olive oil and salt together and apply to face- it’s actually not that drippy! Either wash it off straight away to use as a facial scrub or leave on for a few minutes to use as a mask. That’s it!
I may look unconvinced but this was actually the best photo I took!
The Olive Oil is hydrating for your skin (my skin can be slightly oily and dry from time to time but pretty neutral so I didn’t find applying oil to my skin scary, it didn’t make my skin oily in a bad way but I could definitely feel it on my skin after washing and I wouldn’t use this more than twice a week max). I have also use olive oil on my hair- I put lots on and slept with it (again it wasn’t drippy, I put a towel on my pillow but the towel was dry in the morning) then washed it off in the morning. However, I never found that this did anything that exciting to my hair.
The salt is exfoliating, and salt is also naturally antibacterial. The mask is completely edible- although not that tasty but it defo doesn’t have nasty chemicals in it. A slightly yummier version is to replace the salt with sugar although has less antibacterial properties in it.
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