Valentines Crafting

My friend Jessica has a craft night every month where she comes up with an adorable craft idea and a group of us make it. This month we made Valentine's countdowns. Here is how mine turned out....

It's a muffin tin & the little circles have magnets on the back of them, that way, you can put little treats or love notes behind each circle. I love how it turned out. Luckily my cricut helped cut all of the circles, hearts and letters. I imagine this would have taken me a lot longer without it.

And speaking of Valentine treats, I was at Target on Friday and I saw some of these....

I love them! They are my favorite v-day candy (yes, even better than conversation hearts :) ). So I bought a bag. I really tried to resist temptation, but I gave in. Dan and I ended up eating the whole bag by Sunday!

I've also been making a lot of cards lately. Here is one of the ones I made. I like how it turned out.


It's for... YOU. Thanks for reading my blog :) haha.

I think I'm going to put up all of my valentines decorations today. Hooray! I love decorating :)

Lately

hmm... what's been happening at the Deceuster household lately? well... last night Dan decided to try on my coat, it was pretty hilarious (hope he doesn't mind me posting this photo).

I love my husband, he always makes me laugh!

We also got a new faucet. Our old kitchen faucet was kinda broken. Here is Dan fixing the faucet... way to be handy, honey!


This is the old, broken faucet:


And here is the brand new, beautiful faucet (with soap dispenser!)


Other than that, not much else has been going on. Dan is still doing fabulous at his job and I am still unemployed! It is nice being able to sleep in and have lots of free time, but I am ready to start working. Yesterday I found a teaching job at a school right by my house, it would really be ideal! I am currently in the process of applying for the position. Wish me luck :)

new furniture!

Remember that one post when I talked about all the money we won at Dan's work party? Well now I am here to report what we bought with the money... :)

First thing we got was a love seat. We already had the couch, but now we have the set. Our old apartment wasn't big enough for both, but our new condo is.

Here is what it looked like before we decorated....

And this is after! Ta da...
It's funny because the love seat is much puffier than the couch. haha. We're trying to sit on it lots so they will match :)

And the second thing we got was a new kitchen table! We've been wanting something larger for a while.

This is what we had before... (now sold on craig's list for $50)

And this is our new table:
It's one of those extra tall tables- perfect for Dan. I love it, my feet don't even touch the ground when I'm sitting at it. It also has a leaf in the middle that folds out to make the table into a large square. I love the square table, but we keep it folded in when it's just the two of us. And I love the dark wood!

I swear I should be on HGTV :)