So the Valentine projects had to go on hold for awhile until I was feeling better. I was just feeling tired and just blah all week. One of my little dogs (weighs more like a medium-sized dog) decided to jump up on the dining room table and get into the remaining miniature Reese's cups that I was using for the candy iPod earbuds. I came home from grocery shopping one day after not going anywhere for a week, and found little gold foil wrappers everywhere. He ate I'd say at least a dozen of them, maybe a few more than that. I've made treat bags lots of times before on the dining room table and he's never done that in the 4-1/2 years that we've had him. But I think it was the smell of the peanut butter that made him do it. Plus one of the chairs had been left out just enough for him to jump up on. I called the vet because I was concerned about the chocolate. The vet said he would probably get an upset stomach from it but he should be ok given his weight and the amount he ate and because it was milk chocolate and not dark (dark is more dangerous because of the higher caffeine content). And sure enough, he did get sick - three times. Apparently he ate them wrappers and all. Ewwww. But he's ok now and I've started putting him in the laundry room with our other little dog or at least behind the doggy gate when I leave the house just so he stays out of trouble.
Needless to say, I had to go back out that day and buy more miniature Reese's cups so I could finish the iPods. I ended up staying up late the night before the party finishing those up and B.'s Valentine box. I have to say that this project took way more time than I initially had anticipated especially since there's almost 30 kids in B's class. But the kids at the party yesterday really liked them and thought they were cool, so I'd say it was definitely worth it. But I doubt I'll be making them again anytime soon. lol!
I used the Rock Princess cartridge and my Cricut for the toppers for all the bags. I used sandwich ziploc baggies to put the candy iPods in and cut the cardstock to 4x6 which I scored in half and folded lengthwise for each one. Then rounded the bottom corners of all of them with my Corner Chomper. I stapled them on the bags with my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher just because it's the only stapler in the house that actually has staples in it. The Tiny Attacher is a nifty hand-held stapler that uses teeny-tiny staples that are tinier than your typical mini stapler. It's great for scrapbooking and it's usually pretty good at stapling through multiple layers of stuff. However, for some reason, the darn thing kept jamming up on me when I was putting together these bags. I got the pink cardstock at JoAnn's on sale for $2 a pack (50% off). The black comes from Wal-Mart (Colorbok)....
I also used Rock Princess to make B.'s Valentine box with. She picked everything she wanted to cut and I let her push all the buttons on the Cricut and showed her how to use it. The Cricut sure got a work out that night between all these treat bags and the Valentine box. She put a huge pink & black peace sign with her name on a banner on the top of her box, a big glittery guitar on one side, a glittery skull with heart cut-outs for eyes, a pink, black and white checkered glittery sneaker, and some more peace signs. It turned out really cute. I love how this cartridge has the three different fonts - one with little hearts on the letters and both a girl and boy skull font (little bow or not) in addition to all the other cool girly rocker things that are on it.
B. insisted that I get Rock Princess after she saw me looking at the .pdf of the handbook online one day last month. It does have a lot of really cute girly things on it. And I'm really liking it a lot so far.
Well that's all for now....
Thanks for stopping by and if I'm not back on here before then, I hope you all have a Happy Valentine's Day! :^) We already had our Valentine dinner out last night - we went to our favorite Italian restaurant and had a really nice dinner since it was easier that way and plus it's too crazy trying to eat out on Valentine's Day itself.
Have a good evening,
