February Giveaway – enter to win!
Jan 31st 2009 06:08:41 am
This month’s giveaway is for a Doodlebug True Love Essentials Kit . Doodlebug is one of my favorite scrapbooking brands. Their stuff is always exceptionally cute! The kit includes one True Love Sugar Coated Cardstock Sticker Sheet, one Loopy Love accent satin ribbon, one package of Ladybug colored jewels, one package of Cupcake colored brads, one 12” x 12” sheet of Valentine Argyle accent paper, one 12” x 12” sheet of Heart Strings accent paper, one 12” x 12” sheet of Ladybug Picnic accent paper, one 12” x 12” sheet of Very Cherry accent paper, and six 12” x 12” sheets of assorted cardstock.
To enter the drawing for this giveaway simply comment on this blog post with your answer to the following question:
What is your favorite handmade valentine memory, given or received?
Each person can only enter this giveaway once. You must have a Swap-bot account in good standing (not suspended) with a valid mailing address to enter. You must include your Swap-bot username somewhere in your comment. You must comment on or before Friday, February 20th, to be entered in the drawing. The winner will be randomly drawn on Saturday, February 21st. Obviously, this lovey-dovey kit won’t arrive to the winner in time to make Valentine’s, but it would work great for scrapbooking the holiday or making love notes. If you have trouble commenting on the blog, you can send me an email at rachel [at] swap-bot.com. Good luck!
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Amanda D. on 31 Jan 2009 at 7:26 am #
Last year we went to a meeting at my step-daughters school and some of the older kids watched the little kids. They helped my daughter who was 2 at the time make me a Valentine. It was my first Valentine from her and I love it!
My swap-bot name is SewinScrapper.
Erika on 31 Jan 2009 at 7:32 am #
Hi, here in Brasil we don’t celebrate Valentine’s day as you do… only the couples give presents to each other (there is no celebration at school for kids, for example), usually it’s not handmade and the date is June 12th. But I always liked to make things for friends at their birthdays ans special dates. The one that comes to my mind and that was so fun to do was a BIG birthday card I made for my friend about 10 years ago. I also bought her a present – it was a cd – but I put in a BIG box so she would think it was a big present too
I’m erkmd at swap-bot.
sunnyblueskies on 31 Jan 2009 at 10:35 am #
One year when my daughter was young I helped her make pop-up Valentine’s day cards for each person in her class. It was a lot of work, but we had a fun time doing it. Thankfully she was in a small class!
joinokc on 31 Jan 2009 at 11:24 am #
When my daughter was in elementary school, we made cards for each person in her class each year. I think the most memorable card was the year we used foam stamps of conversation hearts (you know, the ones that say things like “Be Mine”) to decorate the cards.
I’m a little sad that she’s too old for this now. I saw some cute ideas in the latest Family Fun!
jukejan on 31 Jan 2009 at 1:18 pm #
I hand colored a Valentine with a picture of me surrounded by tulips with the poem inside that read, Mother Mother is so nice, Just like sugar, Just like spice. I think I was in third or fourth grade and she held onto it.
After she passed away, I found it in her bureau. So my mom was and will always be remember fondly on Valentine’s Day !
Cheryl Crawford (anrtist) on 31 Jan 2009 at 2:50 pm #
MY youngest daughter did a drawing and a poem with a dried pressed flower on it! It is so cute and is framed and hanging in my kitchen by a refrigerator covered in other drawings, pics & memories! IT SAYS: Roses are red, violets are blue, who could think of a better mommy than you! !!! SO PRECIOUS!
Sass on 31 Jan 2009 at 3:24 pm #
Last year I made a mini book for my boyfriend. It had photos of us together, things I had collected over the years and at the back of it a mixed cd of songs…He liked it, so I would have to pick that one!
lovelylunalovegood on 31 Jan 2009 at 4:39 pm #
Whenever this time of year rolls around, I remember my first time making hand-made valentines. I was in fifth grade and holed up in my room during a snowstorm to cut out hearts and doilies and make pretty, one-of-a-kind treats for my classmates. This memory sticks with me because while I made the valentines, I watched my family playing in the snow– that image has just always been a happy one for me.
Janine on 31 Jan 2009 at 5:22 pm #
One memory that stand out was four years ago, I came home from work and my husband had set up a Valentine Day treasure hunt for me. He had handcut the hearts out and wrote little clues and messages to me on each one directing me to the next destination. At the end of the treasure hunt he got me to play the dvd player and in was teh movie Love Actually. A movie we had seen a few weeks before at the movies. I loved the fact that my husband had gone into my scrap suplies to make the hearts and to plan the treasure hunt.
Dorothy on 31 Jan 2009 at 7:16 pm #
Anything handmade by my children is special. I have kept the valentines they made me when they were young. djmom11
Brenda on 31 Jan 2009 at 7:27 pm #
This is kind of funny — I remember giving valentines when I was a kid in school. We had to give them to every student so that no one felt left out. There was one kid that I didn’t like so much, and I had to give a card. This particular year, I got scratch and sniff valentines. They were on the same thought as scratch and sniff stickers. Well, I did the only thing that I could do — I sent the pickle scented valentine to him! Okay, they weren’t really handmade, but I did have to sign and address them! Does that count?
CSNYfan
Joanne *dizzyfromthis on 01 Feb 2009 at 3:43 am #
My favorite handmade valentine memory is making cards as a child from paper doilies and putting them in a decorated shoebox in my classroom to be distributed to the students on Valentine’s day.
Joanne (dizzyfromthis)
Amber *pipelinewife* on 01 Feb 2009 at 6:40 am #
My favorite memory is actually last years. My hubby is NOT a hearts, flowers, or candy kind of guy and I was tired of getting him the same old stuff. He had recently taught me to weld, so I welded our names and anniversary date into a big arch for him to hang in his shop. He was so blown away, and loved that I had done something so suited to his taste. It was worth every burn, lol!
Yara on 01 Feb 2009 at 9:00 am #
Hi! As a brazilian girl wrote here, in Brazil we don’t have Valentine’s day. But I have a good memory from a birthday: I called some friends to my house to a small party, and then they sing “happy birthday” to me. But, there was a boy who studies japanese, so, he sang it in japanese. There was another, who studies greek, so he sang it in greek! And they liked so much the idea that they totaly sang “happy birthday” in ten diferent versions! It was very funny…i really loved it =)
crescendo on 01 Feb 2009 at 9:06 am #
My mom makes handmade cards and sends me a handmade valentine card almost every year. I have kept every one of them as they are so special, lots of layers of lacy doilies and pretty things, so precious to me. I plan to make a scrapbook of just the cards she has sent me over the years.
swap-bot user “crescendo”
Jackie (jcm716) on 01 Feb 2009 at 10:31 am #
My best memory of a handmade Valentine. Was from an ex-boyfriend about 15 years ago. He was never the type to give cards. So for Valentines he bought me candy and there was a white piece of 8 x 11 paper with it. On it he wrote ” I Love You” From Chris. I thougth it was great especially the “from” But he used a red crayon and for him that was a real effort as he said he was no artist. I will always remember that
hoppyloo on 01 Feb 2009 at 10:34 am #
I made a very special valentine for my husband, years ago, with the help of the kids (then aged 2yrs and 6 weeks!) We got the paint out and Charlie (now 14!) put handprints on the sheet, along with some hearts cut out of red paper. Hope (now 12!) was a different matter! I wasnt thinking straight – as usual – and covered her tiny hands in purple paint – completely forgetting that at 6 weeks I wasnt going to be able to flatten her hands to get a print! Purplr aint EVERYWHERE! So, eventually it twigged and Charlie and I had even more fun painting her feet to make footprints! You can imagine the state of the kitchen when we had finished! LOL But we had such fun doing it – it cost nothing (we were skint, as usual!) and we have a real momento of that time, and I have some fab memories!
Needless to say, DH loved his present!
(hoppyloo on swapbot)
Cygni on 01 Feb 2009 at 12:44 pm #
I recieved some cute valentine presents from my friends when I was 15. One of them gave me a little cute plushy demon keychain (I still have it!) and the other a beatiful card and some bombons (delicious). I was really happy!
Sadly, Valentine’s Day is not something I usually celebrate, so those memories are great for me.
Barbara Brandt on 01 Feb 2009 at 1:38 pm #
My fondest memory of handmade valentines is what I did with children when I was still was able to teach school. About a week before Valentine’s Day each student in class would be assigned another student in the class to be a secret pal to for an entire week. For each day they were required to do something handmade for their secret pal, they would all turn their items in inside their homework folders and then at the end of the day before I went home I would pass them out to each student so that the next morning their gifts from their secret pals would be on their desks. One of the days they all had to make a handmade valentine, another day they had to write a poem about their pal using the letters in their pals’ names, another day they designed a valentine box for their pals to collect all their valentines in at the party on Friday, another day they wrote a letter to their pals telling them 10 things they liked about them, and on the Valetine’s Party Day they had to bring a lunch for their pals and this is when they revealed themselves to each other. This was one of my favorite things I did each year in February, not just including a card, but including handmade items over a week. The poem and list of 10 things had to be done creatively as well.
Ninou on 01 Feb 2009 at 1:43 pm #
My favorite memory is of a small heart pendant I got when I was sixteen… The pendant itself wasn’t hand-made but my mom (who gave it to me) added a small photograph and a pressed four-leaf inside. I still treasure it today!
Jessmarie on 01 Feb 2009 at 6:07 pm #
I inherited a shoe-box full of my great-grandpa’s valentines that he received in elementary school, in the era of the first world war. Many of them were handmade, with paper doilies and handwritten messages from his classmates. I think it’s cute that his schoolmates called him by his first and middle name combined, George Henry.
-jessmarie @ swapbot
Sheena Schmitt on 01 Feb 2009 at 9:37 pm #
My favorite memory of a valentine was when I was in middle school when our school would sell kiss shaped suckers to give out as valentines. Those things were DE-LICI-OUS!!! SPuppet23
babyamy on 01 Feb 2009 at 10:27 pm #
in Germany we don’t really celebrate Valentine’s Day like the Amercan do. My favorite memory is last year’s Valentine’s Day, when I recieved a little poem from a boy I was just chatting with via Internet. A few weeks later we met for the first time and now we are a couple.
My username is babyamy.
Bunnysmommy on 01 Feb 2009 at 11:56 pm #
I think my favorite memory of Valentine’s day is this year! My son and I made a Valentine tree together! It was lots of fun and we are going to hang the cards we get from Valentine’s card swaps on it along with cute heart decorations we made. I hope to do this each year with him now!
My username is Bunnysmommy….
Sarah on 02 Feb 2009 at 1:02 am #
I have been with my fiance for a few years now, and 2 years ago i decided i wanted to do something really special for V-day for him. He is a chef see, and he always comes home really late and he works really hard. So i went to the shops and pretty much bought out all their red shiny card stock. I spend hours cutting out hundreds of red hearts and sticking them to pop sticks, i then “planted them” and filled up our whole front yard. All you could see was a giant see of shiny hearts sticking up out of the grass and garden. I then lit the path up to the house with candles. On the inside i covered everything with rose petals and a million candles. i got some strawberries and champers and cooked him his favourite dinner, and waited in my sexiest outfit for him to come home. I wont go into details about what happened when he did make it home, but needless to say it was a very memerable night for both of us
and very romantic!
my username is HoneyBun
Mojo on 02 Feb 2009 at 4:38 am #
The first year me and my boyfriend were going out, he made me a valentines card. He is dispraxic and disgraphic which means that he has very little fine motor control, and can’t write. He made it with colouring pencils and it looked like it was made by a 5 year old. It was the sweetest thing because it showed me that he wasn’t embarassed of who he was around me, and it must have taken him hours to make!! I still treasure it, it is the most beautiful card I own!
Tigra on 02 Feb 2009 at 5:58 am #
Well, I actually never recieved anything specific for V-Day. But I did get a free trip to New York one year from an ex. He had recieved the free trip as a work promotion. It worked out good for him as he didnt have to buy me anything. LOL I know, pretty pathetic.
Gina Flores on 02 Feb 2009 at 10:06 am #
Hey Rachel … awesome kit, my favorite craft made on valentines day, mmm maybe it was a card that i made for my best friend at high school, I used many pictures of us and placed on a cardstock, i put stickers and stuff and many many other cuties, then i putted inside of a big envelope and gave it to her on valentine´s , it was so cute and i added some chocolate also, well i wish i have good luck, xoxo Gina (GinaPumpkin).
Erin T, thriftymermaid on 02 Feb 2009 at 10:08 am #
My favorite handmade Valentines were done in elementary school, I loved decorating the milk carton to make it into a Valentine’s Day mailbox and then delivering and recieving our homemade Valentines. I still have many of the old Valentines I recieved in school. My favorite is one that has a lace doiley with a smurf sticker on it, I probably recieved it in second grade. My best friend Luke made it for me and we are still friends today.
kawaiifiend on 02 Feb 2009 at 10:20 am #
My favorite thing was paper roses hand made by my boyfriend who turned around a few months later to be my fiance. he had to hide them under something and they were so lovely when i seen them. there were about 30 of them all different clolors, red, pink, purple. they even had stong paper covered stems! well made great looking origami roses!
He made me feel so special, he took days and days to make them all. Right now, a year later they are still in my vase on my computer desk, never going to give them up!
oh yeah he also made small butterflies to make it even more special……SMILES
Sarah Kooymans (SB: HazelHoney) on 02 Feb 2009 at 11:32 am #
HazelHoney
When we were still dating in high school, my husband wrote me a poem for Valentines. He then decorated the page with a picture of a fairy and a rose. I still have that picture, it makes me teary just looking at it and thinking about how sweet he is. I’m so lucky to have him!
Judy on 02 Feb 2009 at 1:45 pm #
My favorite valentines Day memory has to be of making homemade valentines from papers and ribbons. My mom and me decorated a shoe box and put a slit in the top for “mail”. We used ribbons and crepe paper and stickers. Then in school we all “delivered” our handmade valentines to each child in our class.My mom made cupcakes with valentines hearts on them. We had many treats that day! Some of the kids put suckers on their cards. I came home and put all my special valentines up on my wall to see. I wish i still had those. =) Our kids miss out on a lot. HUGS, Judy aka justj on swapbot.
Shalenna Pennington on 02 Feb 2009 at 2:27 pm #
My most favorite Valentines day memory would have to be when my little brother made me a valentines day card at school. It said “Sissy you’re awesome and Thanks for giving me candy sometimes” He was 6 at the time and He even colored little hearts and stars on it. His teacher gave them all stickers to put on the card and he managed to find ONE sticker of a piece of bubble gum so he circled it and put a smiley face next to it. It was really great because usually my little brothers just make cards for my mom but to have him think of me made me smile. I loved it and its on my fridge STILL. He is eight now. =)
Shayzilla on swap-bot
Nic on 02 Feb 2009 at 2:57 pm #
My mom has always celebrated Valentines Day with handmade cards and sentiments from the heart. Last year was my fisrt year of college…really the first time I had been away from home for an extended period of time. On Valentines Day I checked my mailbox to find a one liter bottle crammed full of goodies; a card, craft supplies, and some candy…from my mother. It really brightened my day and will be something I always remember. :]
Niklovas
April on 02 Feb 2009 at 6:15 pm #
When my now 21 and 19 year old daughters were about 2 and 4, I made the pretties heart shaped sugar cookies. I used white frosting on the cookies and then decorated them with cake decorating tips and then put the girls names on them. I sprinkled the cookies with a clear edible glitter. The girls loved them! I may have to make them again this year.
goatfeathers
Sabrina on 02 Feb 2009 at 7:55 pm #
When I worked as a florist I absolutely LOVED Valentine’s Day because it was a chance to work with so many gorgeous flowers and to make arrangements I wouldn’t normally get to make. On Valentine’s, a florist can really do things over the top, with a ton of ribbon and fun accessories. And I loved writing out people’s lovey-dovey messages to their sweeties on the cards! At the end of the day I would make little bouquets for my mom and friends using the leftover and broken flowers (which were still totally gorgeous!). Everyone loved them. It felt really special!
Sabrina on 02 Feb 2009 at 7:55 pm #
oh! i forgot, my user name is “dimanche”
camelsamba on 02 Feb 2009 at 8:56 pm #
My favorite Valentine memory is the year my boyfriend proposed to me. It’s a long story, much too long for this comment box, but suffice it to say his appearance was a complete surprise (I thought he was thousands of miles away) and it was totally romantic. [Tricia / camelsamba on swap-bot]
camelsamba on 02 Feb 2009 at 8:57 pm #
(and p.s., we’ve been married 21 years now :^)
camelsamba on 02 Feb 2009 at 9:03 pm #
and p.s. again, he handmade many of the elements used for this proposal, and I had sent him [at his thousands of miles away home] a picnic basket with a handmade card and other stuff]
Ruthanne on 03 Feb 2009 at 10:48 am #
My favorite Valentine that was made from me came from my daughter. This Valentines she will be 16 as she was lucky enough to share the holiday season. Near her 6th Bday my older son was hospitalized in ICU. I spent a week traveling back and forth and trying to split myself between the 2 kids. My daughter of course was excited for her own Bday coming because she was turning 6. Big deal to a little girl! I asked her to sit and make me a birthday list of everything she wanted to receive and what she wanted her party to have. Instead of doing that she sat down and created this elaborate card for me for valentines day. When she gave it to me she told me that I was the one that needed a card more than her because I needed to have the smiles. When I received it I couldnt smile it actually brought tears to my eyes. of course that made it worse because she wanted me to smile and she thought she made me cry! I still have it in her baby box and I cant wait until she has a child that will fill her with what she filled me with that day. It will always be my favorite valentine. Zipp0099
Christine on 03 Feb 2009 at 1:15 pm #
When I was in grade school we used to decorate a tissue box or shoebox for our mailbox at school and all the kids made thei own Valentines to pass out, too. I loved creating my mailbox and little cards every year. They don’t seem to do that anymore.
Hidnomen on swap-bot
Lorelei on 03 Feb 2009 at 2:15 pm #
Hi!
In our country, we don’t celebrate St. Valentine’s day. But most of the young couples started celebrate it.
So my best Valentine’s day is every year, when I’m with my boyfriend together and the best gift is a nice kiss
Lorelei
lv2stmp on 03 Feb 2009 at 6:25 pm #
My favorite valentines gift was a barbed wire heart made for me by my lover
Terry Franks on 03 Feb 2009 at 6:28 pm #
Many years ago I made a stuffed fabric heart pin for every member of my family, including the guys, for our Valentine’s dinner. It was so funny to see all these macho men walking around with frilly red pins on!
TerryF
Mekel Carrier on 03 Feb 2009 at 7:27 pm #
In Elementry School I loved makeing/decorating my own Valentine’s Day Box to put on my desk for all my classmates to put their Valentine’s to me in. I couldn’t wait to get home and look at all of them! Now I love making Valentine’s Day cards to send to my girlfriends and making something special for dinner and dessert for my hubby and I. I can’t wait until my kids are old enough to get to make the Valentine’s Day boxes again!
My swap-bot name is mommy2dylan.
JenMeister on 03 Feb 2009 at 9:34 pm #
My favourite handmade Valentine’s gift I received was a handmade card in High School… and my first Valentine’s gift!
JenMeister on 03 Feb 2009 at 9:36 pm #
(Oh, and my swap-bot username is JenMeister too
)
Miss N C Arney on 04 Feb 2009 at 2:35 am #
My boyfriend isn’t a crafter but he made me a beautiful handmade Valentines card, it was so much better than getting any present because of all of the thought and time he put into it. My SB username is natzini
Cara on 04 Feb 2009 at 7:33 am #
My husband is very not with the crafting. Ever.
But he likes to write. So he wrote me a list of 50 reasons why he loves me. It was so sweet!
Caranam
mag on 04 Feb 2009 at 7:42 am #
oh, i remember those days when we used to exchange valentines in high school! my favourite one (given and received) was a handwritten note on handmade paper in a bottle. we had just learnt how to make that in art class!
(mag on swap-bot)
Martha M on 04 Feb 2009 at 9:29 am #
My favorite handmade valentine was one that my mom and dad did for me. They cut a heart out of wood and painted it and added all the things that I loved written on it. Very neat little valentine.
As a gift last year I altered a frappaccino bottle and filled it with M&M’s it was so cute.
Kimberly on 04 Feb 2009 at 9:43 am #
My favorite Valentine’s memory is when my husband surprised me with an overnight stay in nice local hotel. We were too poor to go away anywhere but he still made it a very special holiday for us.
(molimo on swapbot)
Selena on 04 Feb 2009 at 10:42 am #
I haven’t made handmade valentines since elementary school, before the giving and receiving of Valentine’s gifts became charged and the popular and pretty girls were separated from the others. But I remember carefully cutting out different colored paper hearts for everyone in my class, putting heart stickers on them, and writing an individual message for everyone. Ah, for the sweetness of elementary school V day.
(Aneles on swap-bot)
Chanel on 04 Feb 2009 at 12:40 pm #
last year my daughter made me a flower vase. She used a recycled catsup bottle and glued on a TON of lace and beads to cover the whole thing. Then she used all her own money to buy some daisies at the flower shop-I think there was 6 of them. She hid in her closet for over a week working on it after school each day and I love it. It is still sitting on my shelf.
Christine on 04 Feb 2009 at 1:32 pm #
My 6 year old son is very smart! He was going to head start pre-school 2 years ago….and he was making Valentine’s cards for all of his friends at school…he told the teacher Miss Alison….I have to make something for my mom she has no one to give her a valentine! It was so sweet! He is my love! He made me a huge valentine card that was a red heart. The teacher put his picture in the middle. It truly was sweet! Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!!!!!
ArtGirl1 on 04 Feb 2009 at 1:38 pm #
My mother taught me how to sew and embroider when I was about 7 years old. As a surprise for Valentine’s Day one year, I went into her stash and cut a felt heart (using her pinking shears), stitched “Mom” on the front, sewed it together with some floss and stuffed it. I gave it to her for Valentine’s Day … she still has it neatly tucked into her top dresser drawer nearly 40 years later!
Tish (ArtGirl1)
Patrice on 04 Feb 2009 at 2:19 pm #
My most memorable handmade valentine would have to be any of the numerous ones I’ve received from my son when he was in elementary school.
Patrice (pinkpatrice)
Michelle Roulston on 04 Feb 2009 at 3:04 pm #
Greetings I am “whatsherface” and I believe this year will hold my best Valentines memory. After years of being alone on Valentines, sick on Valentines, or DUMPED on Valentines I’m finally having the best one of all. My boyfriend and I are taking a trip to Cuba and our last night there will be Valentines Day. A week alone in Cuba is more then a girl could ever ask for
I hope to make a scrapbook of the whole trip 
~whatsherface
TravelGirl on 04 Feb 2009 at 3:48 pm #
I love the idea of valentines day with or without a man. I send my family and friends cards and enjoy getting cards from anyone and every one!
Alicia on 04 Feb 2009 at 6:53 pm #
My favorite is definently this year. My son who is almost wo is making valentines cards. Yesterday he made two, and today when I let him do it entirely by himself he made 5. He is so amazing at crafts, today he just put glue (from an elmers bottle no less) where he needed it, then attached foam hearts and pink/red paper pieces, and snippets of pipe cleaners. When I ask him who each one is for he tells me, he doesn’t talk yet but he makes me go down the entire list of people we know until I get to who it is for. Today he made one for the lady that owns the local fabric store! Then we walked over and he hand delivered it. It just melts my heart.
Alicia on 04 Feb 2009 at 6:55 pm #
oops forgot my username– mom2blu
slamophile on 04 Feb 2009 at 11:24 pm #
Many years ago, Slamophile’s little boy,
gave me a picture of a Valentine.
It was made in school, and, made of beans.
He used poster paint to color the pintos red.
He was a pretty crafty little boy!
Of course, I hung it on the wall for all to see.
niecedenise on 05 Feb 2009 at 6:12 am #
As a little girl(I am 55 now) my grandmother kept scrapbooks for my mom, aunt and me. I found them a few years ago and the best thing- I was sitting on grandpas lap with a handmade valentine for him. He had the most glorious look on his face. I dont remember the exact time, but I do remember always making those glitter and glue valentines!
janeengland on 05 Feb 2009 at 9:12 am #
i would have to say my favourite self made valentines gift arrived last year it was my gorgeous son cayden who was born at9.01am weighing 8lb 10oz.
ArtsyAthina on 05 Feb 2009 at 11:56 am #
My favorite Valentines memory was last year actually. It was mine and my husbands first Valentines as a married couple!!! We went out to dinner, and then out for a movie. It was such a simple date, yet so perfect! It was everything I had ever wanted!
Beckster on 05 Feb 2009 at 8:30 pm #
My favorite valentine memory is making hand made valentines for everyone at work. They loved them! It wasn’t what I’d consider my best work; I had to make 60 of them; but the reaction from everyone was well worth the days of creating them!
This year I’m making them again but I started sooner!
Krista on 05 Feb 2009 at 10:44 pm #
oops.. “drummy” on swapbot
samantha on 06 Feb 2009 at 2:26 pm #
My favorite Valentines are from my 2 older children and Husband. They had made valentines out of wood from our
house. I will never forget how much the thought and work they put into their art! Lots of love to my family;-)
Vone on 07 Feb 2009 at 2:25 pm #
I made my boyfriend (now husband) a little stuffed bunny out of vinyl – since I was in my vinyl wearing stage. We just found it the other week when we were cleaning up – cute to see the little guy.
valentine69 on 07 Feb 2009 at 8:19 pm #
It’s sorta silly, but when I was about 10 yrs old my Great Aunt slipped a silver spoon ring into my valentine card.It was a simple jesture,but I loved it.To this day I hve and wear this ring.It gives me warm fuzzies and brings back great memories.It was just an all around GREAT day:)
hollyfly1 on 08 Feb 2009 at 11:20 am #
Well each year, I try to do hand made valentines with my girls for school. I think the best ones we have made so far was last year when we made little cards with hearts outlined with buttons. they were the best. And I was so proud of my girls working together to choose their favorite buttons on the special cards. My girls love to decorate the kitchen table with me. I go a little crazy with the hearts and red and now I get to put my valentine ATC’s, and mini matchboxes on the table too. Oh it is so pretty.
Laura (myrrhmaid) on 08 Feb 2009 at 5:56 pm #
My favorite was from my son when he was 6. It said ‘My mother is as beautiful as a rose garden’ and had roses he made on it. It’s so precious to me still!
Mia on 10 Feb 2009 at 4:51 pm #
Well we dont really celebrate Valentines day here in Denmark, but it is a good excuse to do something special for your loved ones
The first year my husband and I where together, I bought a valentines card that I wanted to give him, but early february we broke up, but I keept the card instead of throwing it out.
And thats 5 years ago now and we are married and very happy 
A month later we where back together again (oh that young love) and the year after I gave him that very same card
Ladybathory
kugusch on 11 Feb 2009 at 3:45 am #
My husband loves my chocolate/cornflake cookies and usually eats them before I ever get to gift any away. So one year I decorated a pizza box for Valentine’s day including our first photo together, a cupid and of course, lots of hearts, then made a pizza sized milk-chocolate/cornflake cookie heart and smaller white-chocolate heart that slightly overlapped the big one. He loved it so much he never ate it because he couldn’t “break my heart” LOL.
deanna on 11 Feb 2009 at 7:31 am #
I have two favorite memories. One was when I was a kid, my dad would buy my sister and I a mini heart shaped box of chocolates with like 4 chocolates in it and a card. My other memory is the first valentine’s day with my boyfriend. He got me a stuffed frog!
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Vanda on 11 Feb 2009 at 3:52 pm #
My favorite handmade valentine memory would be last year when me and my best friend made valentine chocolates for our friends! We used a chocolate making kit and made little chocolate heart lollipops out of them! All of our friends loved it and thought they were delicious! =)
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Mary Connelly on 11 Feb 2009 at 11:40 pm #
My name is WarLordsWife on Swap-bot. My favorite Valentine received was from my son David when he was 4 years old. He is now 34 years old. He found one of my magazines that I had not read yet and got out scissors and glue and made me a giant Valentine. It was beautiful! The only problem was that he had glued/decoupaged it to the top of the coffee table! To this day, I wish I had taken a picture of it!! He was so proud of his creation. How could I get mad.
stitchinwitch on 12 Feb 2009 at 1:54 am #
My favourite valentine I ever received was from my husband for our first valentine’s day together. He learnt how to cross stitch and bead to make it for me as one of my hobbies is stitching
Stacey on 13 Feb 2009 at 11:05 am #
My favorite Valentines was this year. My mom and I made cards together and sent them to everyone we know.
user6937 on 13 Feb 2009 at 4:52 pm #
I would have to say that my favourite memory would be the very first handmade card I made – I went over to a friend’s place in 1998 and she allowed me to use her material to make a valentine’s card for my husband. It was our first (married) valentine’s day together. Since then, I make cards for all occasions, but that was the beginning!
HeideC on 14 Feb 2009 at 8:27 am #
My granddaughter has been working on her valentines for three weeks. She made decorated heart shaped photo holders for the fridge. Last week we went to one of those photo machines in the mall and took pictures to put in the photo frames. She loved it and has unique valentines for her family!
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dBowie on 14 Feb 2009 at 9:35 am #
My daughter, who was born 3 days before Valentines Day was the “greatest” Valentine gift I’ve ever received (even though she was early!)
Carie on 14 Feb 2009 at 9:37 am #
Last year my niece made me a booklet of things that she loved me for and one was I date really cute guys and I drive a nice car. Keep in mind this is an 8 year old. lol. I thought it was too cute
Monica Kinnamon (Senhs) on 14 Feb 2009 at 2:17 pm #
My favorite valentine I got from a swap bot valentines card swap! She included tea and awesome stickers and made my card herself! she did a great job, I love it!!
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faithnbliss1 on 15 Feb 2009 at 9:40 am #
My Favorite Valentine was from my now fiance given to me yesterday. it was a box and on the outside a note that read ” when you open this box they’re is no turning back,it is written on stone by opening this box you are excepting the stones for life. one is round and other is out of shape both have imperfections ,both are from mother earth,both you can see and reflect on everyday happy valentines day” inside was a rock and inside the rock was a hole he drilled and put in a diamond (to be set in a ring) the rock stood for himself,because I always call him my rock ( he is always they’re for me) I said Yes!!
Tricia L. on 16 Feb 2009 at 11:48 am #
I remember making Valentine’s for my mom in grade school. We would cut out red hearts on construction paper and glue them to white paper doiles and write cute messages. My mom still has them
Christine Dee on 17 Feb 2009 at 2:44 pm #
I used to make chocolate roses for my younger sister’s teachers, I’d pour them into rose molds and leave them to set. One time I got back to check on them and they had the tiniest cutest teeth marks on them, courtesy of my little sister. It was frustrating then but…. now it’s sort of cute. It’s the gift of mischief!!!!!
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-xine
DeAnne aka dandelion on 17 Feb 2009 at 3:33 pm #
My favorite Valentines are the adorable handmade cards created by my grandchildren!
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sunnie on 19 Feb 2009 at 12:14 pm #
My favourite “made” valentine memory is when my sons decided to make me breakfast for valentines day when they were little ,they made cornflakes with banana milkshake instead of milk and to make it extra special they added strawberry syryp, chocolate syryp,and polo mints ,all at 6:00 am !, they then happily sat there while I ate it all, I now look back and smile at their excitment but ohhh! it tasted awful
Laurina aka lob on 20 Feb 2009 at 9:42 am #
My youngest son likes to make valentines with me. On valentine’s day, the two of us walk around the neighborhood handing out his handmade valentines to all the old people who live near us. Last year he even baked mini heart-shaped chocolate cakes (about the size of cupcakes in a baking tray he picked out himself) and gave those to the old neighbors, too. We handed out about 15 of those heart cakes and handmade valentines. We even gave one to the mailman as he stopped at our house.
The biggest surprise came, when one of the neighbors who has received valentines from my son in the past, was waiting to give him a valentine card with his name on it. Another neighbor was waiting to give my son a small bag of candy. He never asked for anything in return, but he was so delighted to see that a couple of the neighbors remembered him and were waiting to surprise him, too.
Debbie on 20 Feb 2009 at 1:40 pm #
My valentines I got from mykids when they were little. Precious.
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Keri Gortz on 21 Feb 2009 at 8:58 am #
Many years ago I recieved a handmade from my neice. On the front was a picture of her painting, and on the inside was a picture of her holding up her painting, which was a heart that said Happy valentines day…it was well done and so creative, I love it and have it still. So Happy Valentines day all, from me, Alleycat
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