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Easy valentine treat bags

by Allison on February 7, 2012 in Family, family_holiday · 3 comments

easy valentine treat bags

Valentine’s Day is around the corner, but you know that already.  You’re probably neck deep in chewy red candies at this point and I can’t say I blame you, we get as much Valentine’s candy as we do trick or treating loot around my house.  The kids already have it pouring out of their pockets and we’re still a week out.

There’s only so much a mother can do, you feel me?  And that is to say, not much. 

I’m pulling it out of the wash by the handful.

DIY favor bags

Anyhoo.

Abolishing vast amounts of candy from your life isn’t what I’m preaching today.  Today I’m here to share a quick way to make some easy valentine treat bags.  And by easy I mean you can practically make these bags in your sleep.  Make them for your significant other, your partner, your mother, your sister, your boyfriend, your kids’ class at school.

Make one for your nasty coworker, and one for each of your frenemies, it’s better to keep the sketchy ones close.

valentine's bag

Supply list for easy valentine treat bags:

  • heart doilies {you could use plain circle doilies but it’s for VALENTINE’S DAY}
  • plain brown lunch sacks
  • scissors
  • Elmer’s glue
  • hole punch
  • decorative scissors
  • 1/2″ ribbon

Let’s break it down {insert 80′s rap here}.

easy valentine treat bags

Step 1:

Cut heart doilies in half.

Step 2:

Use tiny dots of glue around the edges of the doily and glue it to the bottom 2/3 of the paper bag.

Step 3:

Use decorative scissors to cut off the top of the paper bag.

Step 4:

Now fill the bag to the brim {not really, fill it about 1/4 of the way full} with mouth watering Valentine’s candy.  I added a mascara and an eyelash curler to each of my bags for my friends because everyone should look hot on Valentine’s Day.

valentine's candy

Step 5:

Fold the top of the paper bag over and punch two holes 2-3″ apart.

easy valentine treat bagsStep 6:

Thread a 6-8″ ribbon from front to back through the holes you just punched, like so.

how to easy valentine favor bagsStep 7:

Get tricky for a minute and thread the ribbon across the back and through the two opposite holes.  Pull it through the front and you have some fancy business.

favor bags

Whaaaak!  How clever are you?

Bonus points if you get the Tina Fey reference.

easy valentine treat bags

You guys!  You just made the easiest Valentine treat bags in the history of ever.  Now go turn on some Randy Travis love songs and get your Valentine on.

Just kidding, unless you really love Randy Travis {I kind of love his old stuff, I’ll be honest} but this is your day of love, not mine.

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Happy Holidays!

by Allison on December 26, 2011 in Family, family_holiday · 0 comments

Happy Holidays! I hope you and yours are enjoying a wonderful season, no matter where you are or what you’re celebrating.  I’ve been missing for a handful of days so I can really enjoy some much needed downtime with my kiddos.  I plan to be M.I.A. until after the new year so I can rest and recharge and continue to bring you fun content.

christmas table decor

I have a bunch of fun guest posts lined up over the next several days; I think you’ll really enjoy them.  They’re a bit irreverent and not at all serious, which is just how I like it.

remote control truck

In the meantime, enjoy this photo of a remote control car Charming received for Christmas.  You’ll be happy to know he’s been filling the truck bed with cat food, chasing and banging around the house teasing the cat.

She’s not amused, our cat.

But things are all right in the world if Charming is harassing the cat.

Happy Holidays!

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Home » Family family_holiday » 2011 holiday card

2011 holiday card

by Allison on December 19, 2011 in Family, family_holiday · 13 comments

I almost scrapped holiday cards entirely this year.  They’re such a pain in the neck, and even though I ordered the postcards way back in October, I still addressed and personalized every last one of them {100 of them, in case you’re wondering}.  It takes time, money, and patience, all of which are running a little low right now.

But there’s nothing I love more than mail in the month of December, when I get buckets of holiday cards and photos from friends across the globe.  It’s literally my very favorite thing about the holidays.  I tape every last one of them to my coat closet door and spend a month gazing happily at all my lovely friends and family.

Christmas card

Since I can’t mail a holiday card to each and every one of you {although I’d love it if I could}, this is my 2011 holiday card to you.  This is the Czarnecki family in Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg, Austria this summer.  Although I’m sporting the most unfortunate hair in the history of ever, I’d give anything to be back in Salzburg with my little family; it was completely magical.

Do you send out holiday cards?  Email newsletters?  A holiday post card like me?

Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah!  Happy Kwanzaa!  Merry Festivus for the rest of us!

p.s. true story: my middle name is Merry; as in Allison Merry Christmas Czarnecki.

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Holiday gift guide for men #2

by Allison December 16, 2011Family
holiday gift guide for men

men’s shaving kit my favorite tea Michael Kors watch rc car biscuits for tea *disclosure Holiday gift guide for men #1 here.

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holiday gift guide for men #1

by Allison December 7, 2011Family
holiday gift guide for men

jawbone era bluetooth headset joby gorillamobile iPhone 4 call of duty: modern warfare 3 messenger bag fender guitar *disclosure

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How we celebrate Christmas Eve

by Allison December 1, 2011Family
christmas tree decoration

How we celebrate Christmas Eve with my little family of four is vastly different from how my family growing up celebrated Christmas.  I’m one of eight kids, so Christmas was an entirely different prospect altogether, but Christmas eve especially so.  Everyone’s holiday traditions are so different, and my new family traditions took a bit of [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

by Allison November 24, 2011Family
happy thanksgiving from my family

Happy Happy Thanksgiving!  Today I’m taking the day off to spend time with my family.  Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays of the year.  There’s no pressure for gifts, no celebration of gluttony {except maybe the gluttony of all the food in mah belly}, nowhere to go but on the couch next to the [...]

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On being full of thanks

by Allison November 1, 2011Family
thanksgiving craft

I know it’s early, but I’m ready to talk about Thanksgiving.  Sharing gratitude.  Being full of thanks. Especially since it’s cold and officially Fall in Utah. It’s hard for my children to fully grasp the concept of Thanksgiving past The Pilgrims + The Indians.  In fact, it’s really hard for them to see past the [...]

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Halloween round up

by Allison October 31, 2011Family
halloween potion bottle

There are a million and one amazing things on the interwebz, many of them made by amazing friends with mad skills.  Here’s a Halloween round up of absolute fun for everyone. Get excited, get very excited. Poison bath oil party favors from Hostess with the Mostess Pumpkin cream cheese spread from This Week for Dinner [...]

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