I love when I get the opportunity to cook for others and I love to welcome people into our home so what does that lead to??? A party of course! Who doesn’t love a good party? I know that I certainly do. After being dumped with snow non stop the last week or so and being confined to the house, I decided that I am probably not the only one that was looking for something fun to do so I decided to throw together a little Valentines party for some of my stay-at-home mommy friends from church and their little ones. Last night I started to get a little worried that the party wasn’t going to happen because, go figure, it snowed! And snowed and snowed some more. Needless to say, the party still took place and we had a great time of fellowship all around! Us mommys got to sit and talk, the kids got to play nice and hard, get hyped up on a little (ok a lot) of sugar and then crash! Since Jay and I have started going to our church 3 years ago, we have been so blessed with a wonderful group of friends. Each one of these ladies and their friendship is just so special.

What’s a Valentines party without an insane amount of candy and chocolate?

And flowers too of course! Normally, I am not a fan of carnations but I couldn’t find tulips so I had to settle. They aren’t too bad though.

All the kids decorating their cupcakes. With a little help from their mommys of course.

Can you see the sugar high written all over his ornery face????

Joel debating wether or not he has anymore room in his belly for that cupcake.

What the heck! There’s always more room!

My Valentine #3. Crazy girl with some crazy hair. I comb it, and this is how it looks 2 minutes later. Boys are definitely easier in that aspect. I love initial shirts and saw one similar to this on another blog that I follow. After taking a closer look at it, I decided that it was something that I could make on my own fairly easily.

This shirt doesn’t require any sewing what so ever so if you would like to make one for yourself all you need is so scrap fabric (you can buy a small sample of fabric for a $1.00 or so at most craft stores and even Wal-Mart if yours has a fabric department), a solid colored t-shirt (I got this one at Wal-Mart for $3.50), steam-2-seem (found at Jo-Anns or other craft shops), floss thread and a cross stitch needle.

First you need to find the size of circle you want. I just traced around the edge of a bowl.

Choose your letter. For this, I just got onto the computer, found a font that I liked and blew it up to the size I needed (about pt.540) and print it off.

Trace your circle and letter onto your steam-2-seem paper on the side that sticks to the webbing.

Remove the sheet that easily removes from the webbing of the paper and place that side onto the wrong side of your fabric.

Steam with your iron for 15-20 seconds.

Carefully cut out your circle and initial.

Remove the other side of the paper from the webbing and place your circle in the center of the shirt.

Carefully steam for 15-20 seconds.

For a shabby look, take your floss (in an accent color) and stitch around the inside of the circle and the outside of your initial.

So there you have it! For about $5.00 you have your custom made initial shirt.

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