Lisa In The Sky With Diamonds...: I Love Love Day !

Some people think V - day is ridiculous , over - rated and CHEESY . Which it is , but I don't care . I love it anyway! I love candy hearts , flowers , stuffed animals and most of all stopping to smell the roses are red , violets are blue . You don't need one day of the year to tell the people you love that you love them , but don't you think it 's nice to take one whole day and delicate it to Love . Why not ? it's the best thing there is ! Now I know I am a day late , but I wanted to blog my about V-Day yesterday because it ruled . And because I made something for my hubby that I was really proud of because it made him happy . Besides , it was too cute of an idea not to share. I was slackin in the gift department and waited until the last minute to make his gift , well , for one we were on vacay last weekend and I didn't have time before then . So I did this all in one day .

I LOVE YOU BECAUSE JAR

One of the best things about being a crafty hoarder is that you don't need any money at a given moment to make someone a special gift . I had all this shit laying around ! I happened to have a clear jar and I just ran with it. I filled it with scrabble pieces spelling out something special that he had to figure out , memory stones , rose quartz , seashells from some of our beach vacations, scrolls all written with all the reasons why I love him the most. (It was hard to not make too many because as I wrote them out, I kept thinking of more !) I put candy in it and made some mini painted clay mushrooms to put in it also. ( my husband is a big mushroom dood ) if you read my other blog I talked about that a little bit. I always loved them because I thought they were pretty and mystical , now I love' em cause they are effin delicious ! So It's an interest we both share , hunting wild mushrooms : ) Then I glued our picture to the outside and decorated it with puffy paint , pearl x pigments mixed w gel medium , rub ons and scrap book paper cutouts.

MEMORY STONES

I picked up these fish bowl thingy- majigs at goodwill a few weeks ago for a totally different reason. 2 bucks , huge bag ! This idea just kinda popped into my head valentines eve and I was like "oh cuteness!" very excited , anyhow .. I remembered that in my old picture box I had all these tiny photo sheets from when I would get pictures developed . I had used a few of the tiny photos for lockets before.

Ta da ! memory stones. I trimmed all the tiny pictures ( they ain't perfect ) and glued them to the glass fishbowl beads with gloss medium . Had to let them dry for a bit. Some of them I wrote words on the back of the pictures so it shows on the other side.