DIY: Valentine’s Gifts

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Birch Candle

I love, love, love this candle.  It does require being able to drill the hole for the tea light though.  Hubby and I are going to attempt these.  We have tons of birch trees around!

Equipment

Knife

Drill with drill bits including 1 3/8″ spade bit or slightly larger

Materials

1 section birch wood

Tealight candle

Colored pencil(s) light brown

Pencil

Instructions

Trace the tealight in the center of the birch wood piece using a pencil.

Begin drilling with the spade bit, placing the center of the bit in the center of the tealight circle. Rock the drill back and forth a little while drilling to get a good hole.

Sketch the design you want on the front of the birch pillar using a pencil.

Carve the design on the pencil lines using a knife.

Shade in the design using a light brown colored pencil.

Put a tealight candle in the top of the birch candle holder to finish.

Heart Bookmark

The instructions for this bookmark use a cricut machine but I think there’s an abundantly easier method for those of us without those machines.  Simply cut a heart out of construction paper.  Cut a second heart the same size, but add ¼ inch tabs to the sides of the heart.  Place the 2 hearts together, fold and glue the tabs around to the back of the second heart.  Write your message on the top.  Easy peasy. 

SOURCE: THEPIONEERWOMAN.COM

The gift basket in the opening picture is my idea of the perfect gift for Valentine’s Day: a mug, a little Styrofoam, whatever candy the giftee loves the most, some ribbons and doodads from the dollar store and BOOM! A happy valentine!

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      1. Some kind of Pelican, I think and we disagree about dogs on the bed! LOL – you would have liked Shelby, my yellow lab – she had been punished severely for that and I couldn’t even coax her onto my bed. I covered my loveseat with a quilt and eventually convinced her that was her spot. That was the only furniture she would get on.

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              4. i agree.
                i loved my daughter’s first dog (he passed away). i or anyone could say “feed the dog” and he would run down the basement steps (it’s a finished tv room/ laundry room/ spare kitchen basement) and sit inside his crate and wait for someone to come down and fill his bowl. when you’re ready, you’d say eat and he’d come out and eat. great dog.
                their new dog is still a growing and not at all like the first…LOL

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              5. A lot depends on the breed/breeding. Some dogs are really smart and pliable while others are just plain stupid and/or stubborn. But, independent of breed, what’s most important is the early training from the time they stop nursing.

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