Día de San Valentín

I am a sucker for love.  Or at least all things that represent and celebrate love.  Yes, I am that girl that LOVES LOVE and I am not afraid to show it.  So when February comes around I get EXCITED for Valentine's Day!  You would think that I would be more excited about the fact that my birthday is in February, but nope.  I started crafting and crocheting gifts for my family and sending cards to people early.

I described my excitement to a friend on Facebook like this, " I'm such a little girl, I love Valentine' Day. In my head, I am the girl who still gives out cards to everyone in the class to make everyone feel good today. I even made myself a glitter heart shirt to wear when I am not going anywhere today. "  So what does a girl like me do for Valentine's Day--nothing.  My husband I have never really celebrated Valentine's Day.  He used to work at a restaurant and that was a big money day so I never needed us to celebrate that day.  Instead, we do little gifts and I spend the rest of the day making sure that I make everyone in my life that I love know it.  I sent gifts to my new nephew, I watched some sappy movies, and I made my husband dinner.

But since I am that little girl in my head who loves Valentine's Day, I needed something festive to wear for the holiday--even if my only plan for the day was to work out.  While reading my Glamour magazine last month, I saw that shirts and sweatshirts with glittery hearts on them were all the rage.  I thought PERFECT, but spending $45 on a sweatshirt is not my idea of money well spent.  So out came the paper stencils, glue, glitter, and $7 thermal from Wal-Mart.

I made stencils out of paper and my favorite heart shape.  Taped them to the shirt with paper tape.

I mixed the glitter and some glue and pained it inside the stencil.

 While the glitter glue mixture was still very wet, I added extra glitter.
I then removed the extra little hearts and placed them around the big heart and repeated the process.

 I let the glitter and glue dry a little more and removed the stencils.  Then I let the whole project dry for 24 hours, and followed up with an extra layer of glue to set the glitter.

See, I didn't do much for Valentine's Day but work out, but I was still festive.  (excuse the pic, I really took it right after I worked out).











Other Valentine's extras:

Instead of my usual high bun, I wore my hair with an upside down french braid with a bun on top. And my husband surprised me with a little Valentine's Day chocolate.  So sweet.