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Valentine Felt Heart “Love Bombs”

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One of my favorite things to do in the month of February is to shower my kids with words of affirmation leading up to Valentine’s Day. I have done this several different ways over the years, but “LOVE BOMBS” are my favorite. I started this tradition last year and I loved the concept so much, that I decided to make a bunch and sell them. I made a new batch this year and you can find them in my Etsy Shop. But if you are crafty like me, and want to make some “LOVE BOMBS” of your own…

Here’s what you will need:

Felt in Valentine colors

Ribbon

Buttons

Embroidery Floss

Card Stock

Poly-Fil

Needle

White thread

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Love Bomb Printable PDF

love-bomb-templateDownload

Cut out the three pieces of felt using the free PDF printable that I included. Then cut 2 pieces of ribbon, one about 5 inches to sew to the top of the 1/2 heart pocket, and another piece about 11.5 inches to use as the loop on the top of the heart. Cut some flower shapes if you want make a flower. I used my Cricut Maker 3 to cut these, but you can just cut some simple daisies in various sizes to layer for the felt flower. 

Use a running stitch to attach the ribbon to the top of the pocket. Depending on the ribbon you choose, you can place it behind the pocket or in front of it. Next, sew the button to the center of your flower and then sew the flower to the pocket and front piece of the heart. 

Loop the longer piece of ribbon, and add a couple of stitches to the inside of the back heart piece.

Now put all three layers together and use a blanket stitch around the entire heart with your embroidery floss in a color that closely matches your felt. If you don’t know how to do a running stitch and a blanket stitch, you can find many helpful tutorials on youtube. Be sure to leave about 2.5 inches of your heart open to stuff with the Poly-fil. #commissionsearned

Once you have stuffed your heart, complete the blanket stitch the rest of the way around, and your VALENTINE LOVE BOMB is complete. Hang it on your child’s bedroom door on January 31 and place a note in the pocket each night leading up to Valentine’s Day to fill their love tank to overflowing. Or you can start your LOVE BOMB on Valentine’s Day and continue leaving notes as many days in a row as you would like to.

I’ve included photos of the various styles of “LOVE BOMBS” that I created this year.

I also used my Cricut Maker 3 to make the little cut out heart cards, but you can just cut pieces of card stock in Valentine colors to fit inside of the little pocket. 

Be sure to subscribe to my blog and leave me a comment to let me know if you make some “LOVE BOMBS” of your own, or you can purchase one of mine from my new Etsy Shop.

DIY “My Little Pony” Capes Tutorial

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My Little Pony Capes Template

This week I finally made the time to create a tutorial for the My Little Pony Capes that I make for my daughter’s ponies.   While she was in school the other day,  I made 3 new capes and when she came home she was thrilled!  Just a couple of scraps of material, some pretty embellishments, and a little bit of my time has led to hours of imaginary play with ponies the past 2 days.  Definitely time well spent!

To see more ideas for “My Little Pony” Capes, you can read my original post here.  To learn how to make some of these tiny capes for your child’s own My Little Ponies, watch my tutorial above.

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DIY Tinkering Workshop for Kids

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My son Micah is that kid who is always trying to figure out “how things work.”  He absorbs information like no one I know and often amuses us with the most off the wall, interesting facts that he “read somewhere in a book.”  He also loves science and technology.  We always say that he’s going to be a famous inventor someday!

For the last couple of years, Micah would often say, “Mom, I wish I had a workshop of my very own!   I wish I had a place that I could just go and build stuff.”  Whenever he said this, I was left feeling like I didn’t even know where to begin, so I’d look up a project on Pinterest or try to get him engaged in a creative activity.  I never really thought it would be possible to make his dream a reality.

Recently,  I started talking to Micah about what he wanted for his 11th birthday.  He didn’t have a specific gift in mind.  Then inspiration struck!  I started dreaming about how we could make a special workshop just for Micah in our house.  We have this random, small utility room between our living room and garage that had basically become a storage space for all kinds of  random things.  I realized that this could become a perfect tinkering space for Micah.

I knew that I wanted to start with large pegboard on one wall, so we took a trip to Lowe’s to see what we could find.  In a matter of days, Micah’s workshop came together, and I was very pleased that we were able to keep the cost down to under $60 by using a bunch of thing we already had in our garage and in our house.

I put together this little video (below) of “The Making of Micah’s Tinkering Workshop” which includes a cost breakdown and a few fun moments with Micah too!  Micah is thoroughly enjoying his “place to go build stuff.”  The first day it was finished, he spent over 4 hours in there working on building a robotic arm that was given to him by a friend.

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We would love to hear from you!  If you know of any cool building projects for kids or ideas of what Micah could do in his workshop, leave us a comment and let us know!