Valentines

When I was a child I LOVED making my Valentine box for school. Back then we could buy crepe paper by the sheet. First I would cut a nice size opening in the top of a shoe box. Then I would wrap the top and bottom of the shoe box separately with the crepe paper. I liked turquoise colored paper. My next step would be to cut apart paper lace doilies and tape or glue paper lace around the bottom edge of the top. My third and last step would be to cut out a variety of sizes of red and white hearts from construction paper. I would glue them all over the top and sides of the box.  Some would even be glued on top of each other. Sometimes I would glue some leftover doily lace around the edge of a heart. Making my Valentine box was a lot of fun!

Happy New Year

My New Years Resolution is to try to blog more. I am surprised how little I have done lately. I have been busy making candles! My daughter and I started a business about a year ago. I not only learned how to make soy candles but also how to create scents, which wax works the best etc. That has occupied my time. The holidays kicked in about the same time my daughter announced our candles. We are now selling in two local stores and have been approached to sell in two other stores in two different cities at opposite ends of the state. Update- a store in Griffin, Ga will soon be carrying our line and one in Savannah!
Here in the South we don't get much snow but  the weather channel is predicting the possibility of snow and ice coming soon. We go back to school on a Friday this year. The cutting out snowflakes is something all children love to do. The snowflakes are also a part of some math curriculums for teaching symmetry. Here is a product of mine that is an easy method for cutting out snowflakes and making art projects with the flakes:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Snowflakes-and-Symmetry-1007433