Simple Valentine's decoration

I wanted to share something I made for little DuoSis, but since the Valentine’s Day is approaching, I figured out it would be better idea to post something with hearts :)

OK, here is our ‘decoration wall’ (it is our seasonal and holiday display :)) for this Valentine’s Day.

Actually I wanted to do something like this, but when I cut all the toilet paper rolls and saw how many hearts I would have to color, I gave up (if your kid likes to color or play with colors I think you can still do it. Mine is not so interested in coloring). 

Anyhow, I changed plan and used red paper and stapler to make hearts like this: 

(please ignore different light on the pictures - I couldn't finish this all at once, so that's the reason for different color :))

Cut the strips (approximately 2 cm x 20 cm but you can play with the size), fold paper strip in half, curve them little bit with fingers, and join two ends with stapler. 

And there you have it, cute little red hearts. Just put them on the wall using double sided tape, or blue tack...

Here is another idea, play stamping with your kid and make cute Valentine's postcards. 

Here is the source for the instructions if you need them.

Of course that we had to try even more shapes, so we got this:

Next Thursday I will show you something I made few years ago, but I like it so much that I'm still using it for the Valentine's decorations.

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Challenge Day

Here is my first challenge day. As I already wrote, in the blog schedule description, I will challenge myself every week to do something very good, nice and kind, and you are welcome to participate. I will share my experience next Wednesday and you are welcome to share yours in comment section. 

So, here is the challenge for this week, it's easy one, just to keep us rolling: call or send sms/email to someone you did not contact in a long time, and you wanted to.

I already have a bunch of people on my mind but I will be happy to hear at least one of them.

p.s. few days after I wrote this post I found out there is this foundation "The random acts of kindness" which tries to inspires people to practice kindness and to “pass it on” to others. If you are interested to find out more about them please visit their website. It is really inspirational.

N is for Nora

I really liked this photo idea when I saw it long time ago and I wanted to do something like this with my kid.

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However, I wasn't thrilled with the idea of putting my baby on pavement, especially cos we don't live in house, so we don't own even smallest patch which I could clean properly. And, we took the photos during December, so there was no way to use pavement anyway. But I was't ready to give up on this idea, so here is what I came up with.

I bought big, thick paper (I have no idea what is the name in English for it, but here it is calles 'hamer' and I think it is A1 paper). I used chalks to write an N, and placed my sweet little girl on it and take a few shots. At home :) nice, clean and warm. I even got this funny face :)

Yes I know, there is no texture, but I'm happy with this result. Look at the right side of photo... see how she messed up the line with her feet? She is just always moving her legs like she is dancing, and I'm happy it is secretly showed in this photo :)

And of course, as soon as shooting was finished, the N become train tracks :) He sees some kind of connection with trains in almost everything :)

Just to mention that you don't need super fancy photo camera for this, any camera will do. I even think that you can get great photo just by using camera on your phone.

Oh yes, one more advice if you gonna try this: try to make a photo when the baby is really small. I wanted to, but it is like that when you want to make photos with your kids, always thinking there is time, but believe me, there is no time, they grow so fast.

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