Valentine’s Round-Up

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The other day, I was talking to a friend who needed a last minute Valentine’s card for her kids’ classes and I suggested my printables. I tried to search on this here blog and realized how terribly disorganized my categories are. Must do something to rectify that.

In the meantime, what with V-day coming up, I figured I could at least round-up the printables I’ve created. I’d completely forgotten about the word search one! Bookmarks seem to be my go-to; at least there’s a variety…If you too are looking for some down-to-the-wire options to spread some Valentine’s cheer, feel free to download away. I’ve included links to the original post, just because, but you can simply click on the images below to get the printables (it seems to work best to download the image onto your desktop by right-clicking and selecting the “Save images as…” option and print from there vs. trying to print directly from the browser).

Sweet Valentine Bookmarks:

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Dinosaur Bookmarks:

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Animal Bookmarks:

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Word Search:

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Happy Thanksgiving: Free Printable

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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and despite my best efforts to ignore it, it seems that the holiday season is in full swing. I’m thankful for so many things, and you, my friends, are on the short list. As a small token of my appreciation, I have a holiday printable for you: Dala horses! I’ve always loved this Swedish holiday motif, and I doodled some up and thought they would make sweet tags/cards. Here’s what the whole sheet looks like, printable on 8.5 x 11″ paper:

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I still haven’t mastered the whole downloadable/printable thing, so if you run into any issues, please let me know, yes? I believe the file seems to work best when downloaded onto your computer rather than trying to print directly from the window…

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If you are celebrating turkey day, I hope it’s filled with loved ones and enduring, good memories. And if you’re not celebrating this All-American holiday, well, I still hope it’s filled with loved ones and enduring good memories.

I’m taking Friday off to party like rockstars with my little nuclear family, and I’ll see you back here on Monday, with a giveaway. xo!

Father’s Day Free Printable

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Just a quick printable for you today — can you believe it’s almost Father’s Day? K and I are plotting to make this an extra special one for M, though we tend to be better at planning than executing…

My own dad will be receiving one of these lovelies that I whipped up in the mail (maybe the hipster one — my dad’s pretty on-trend). I tend to make stuff for my own purposes and then share them here in the off chance others can get some use out of them.

I kept things simple and graphic for these little Dad’s day printables. Use them as tags, cards, paper airplanes, whatever. Click here to download, and enjoy!

 

Free Mother’s Day Printable

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I’m still on a poppies painting rampage, and I figured they might make a rather sweet Mother’s Day card/tag/whatever…what do you think?

It could be a bright little embellishment to your Mother’s Day gift or print on some sturdy cardstock and write a message on the back! It’s up to you. There are four per page, which is probably more than you need, but it’s always nice to have extras, right?

To download the printable for personal use, click here (P.S. if your printer is funky like mine, you might have to select “Scale to Fit” to avoid cutting off the edges). Enjoy!

Happy Friday + Randomness

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Happy Valentine’s Day!! My goodness, with the way I kept going on and on, you’d think it’s the only holiday that matters to me. Case in point: I can’t seem to stop making bookmarks, though my excuse is that I’m practicing my digital painting. So these are the ones we ended up assembling for K’s class (K helped punch holes, though she quickly lost interest; she did, however, write out all her classmates’ names for each bookmark bundle).

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K said that the animals looked too girly and was afraid all the hearts would make the boys in her class think that she’s in love with them so I whipped up the dinosaurs. I’m pretty smitten with these dinos. I found these little glassine bags in our kitchen drawer and they’re perfect. Each classmate got four bookmarks and a handwritten note from K, and done and done! We’re all set. If you are a last-minuter or if you might want to use these for future v-day cards, feel free to download below! (I didn’t include a download for the “i heart books” tags though -sorry).

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So today is the day!! Ute and I hope that the Secret Valentine Exchange gifts have arrived safely and soundly around the globe. If you’ve received your gift, it would be lovely if you have time to upload photos of them in the Flickr pool in the next few days, if you haven’t already. Or, if you don’t have an account, feel free to email photos to the secret valentine email and we’ll post the photos for you! I’m planning on doing a big wrap-up post next Wednesday and would love to include as many photos as I can on the blog. If you haven’t received your gift yet, please kindly let us know by emailing us at secret.valentine[at]gmail.com. So far it seems like the majority of you have had a successful exchange!

I literally just received my gift from the very sweet Sonya, and I am incredibly touched by the care and consideration that went into the gifts. Thank you!! I need to take some photos, but it will all be part of the wrap-up next week.

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In the meantime, in addition to my SV parcel, I opened the door to another unexpected package this past week. My partner in crime, Ute, delivered the most gorgeous scarf wrapped in an equally gorgeous handmade pouch. Friends, this exchange would not have happened without Ute. She did ALL the heavy-lifting while I squawked away on this space. All those emails signed “Sanae and Ute”? Almost all of them from the kind and generous Ute, making it all work smoothly and effortlessly. Three cheers for my wonderful friend!

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I loved that we got to celebrate creativity and the joy of handmade among like-minded women for Valentine’s Day. I had the most delightful time, and I hope you did too! I am forever talking about how amazing this community is, but it keeps getting reinforced. Thank you.

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Overheard K telling M:

Come on dude, listen, or there will be coincidences*!!

*aka”consequences” in K parlance.

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Divisive it is
this day of saccharine love
But I am a sap

Have a fabulous weekend, everyone! My Monday post will probably be a little late – K is on mid-winter break next week, but I have something in the works to show you!