Valentine Candy Bars...

Last fall my friend Tonia and I were in Park City at a darling little boutique

& saw some specialty giant candy bars.

I was all over them... loved them... until I turned one over and saw the price...$15.00!

I just about died... so I took a mental picture and have been duplicating it for just a few dollars ever since.

They make the greatest little gift or party favor.

Here are my first few for Valentines Day...

A few scrapbook supplies from The Girl's Loft...
A giant candy bar from the grocery store...
a little creativity...

& TA-DA... A Giant Valentine Candy Bar...

XOXO...

I am going to do a Valentines Give-Away...

So leave me a comment with your favorite Valentine idea and I will send you a special

Valentine Box of goodness...

1 comment per person...

Shout me out for one more name in the old Valentine hat...

Happy Day!

Have a heart...no wait, don't!

This week I learned a new word... TABLESCAPES!

To think for all these years I have been calling the crap on my tables...business.

Tablescapes is such a sophisticated word.

Friday I was trying to get motivated to clean my house and I saw a jar of peppermint candies with a messy bow from Christmas that I needed to take downstairs to storage... I incorporated a bit of red this year and I guess I was still incorporating it.

I thought "that is cute ribbon... if it had pink in it? I wonder....hmmm..."

I need to state that I DON'T love hearts, therefore, I have never decorated for Valentines Day.

Well... I got the idea to add a little pink ribbon to my Christmas stuff and buy a few thousand dollars worth of pink M&Ms and I would maybe put out a few holiday seasonals.

I only spend $20 dollars or so ( besides the M&Ms) and have a new Valentines Day TABLESCAPE!
I decorated my entry table and my kitchen table in pink and red.
I didn't buy one thing with a heart and I still pulled it off!
( I had a few things given to me with hearts... but I haven't bought one)
A few red frames and some pics of my little loves... easy peasy.

Candles and apothecary jars with candy...done!

I am not a pink lover...so I used hot pink and red.

I used lips and other items instead of hearts.

I think this is going to be a good thing & it took my mind off of cleaning my house.

Once I start to decorate I want to clean so it all looks so nice.

I killed two birds with one stone!

So... Have a heart, no wait... don't.

He's a keeper!

My Man! He is such a keeper! He is a profound hater of Valentines Day...thinks it is a commercial scam man that sometimes forgets Valentines Day. Last Sunday he had a a total surprise for me... an early Valentines Day gift! Needless to say, I was surprised about more than one thing! He got me an ipod touch and had loaded all my music onto it! So sweet!

My family all got these for Christmas, but I am not really a music junkie... I have my XM in my car and that is good enough for me, so... I just kept my little vintage nano rockin'. The boys have loved theirs and Caylor has become a facebook fiend now thanks to the ipod touch. ( Mindi teases him calling it his blog-lite. He does have a blackberry touch phone, but it doesn't float his boat like the ipod does)

So I have started playing around on it... it is fun and way different than my other ipod. Mitch told me about Pandora Radio and it has rocked my world the last few days. It is like having a massive music collection on shuffle. Songs that I had forgotten about, but loved are the little surprises that just pop right up! Let me tell you... Cyndi Lauper radio is pretty darn amazing! I know I am probably the very last person on Earth to know about this...for I am NOT a techie, but it is the best ever!
So... back to my man... He is the best and I love it when he can pull a little surprise out on me. I am usually a little snoop it takes alot to surprise me- I guess you could call me a busy-body. Caylor is definitely a keeper!