Boy Flowers

Every year millions of flowers are bought for Valentine's day, but if you're a girl like me, you often wonder "What can I get the guy in my life? Obviously flowers are so easy to get me, but what is the boy equivalent to flowers?"  Well I have the answer for you.  Finally, after 23 years of life, I have figured out boy flowers.

Ta-da! I give you boy flowers! Inspiration smacked me straight in the face Friday when I was walking through a local grocery store and saw a similar replica.  I thought, "What a genius idea for Mike!" Then I looked at the price tag - $20.  "Yeesh! No way that would break the V-day gift budget combined with what I already got him".  Then a blinding revelation came over me I could make one similar if not better than theirs and cheaper!  And so I did.

It was fairly simply and customizable because it has all of his favorites! Unfortunately, I was so wrapped up in how brilliant I was that I failed to take pictures of the process so I'll break it down for you.

Some sort of boxed item (I chose popcorn but it could be something like snack cakes, etc.)
Something to weight the box down (I had some decorative rock lying around but rice, beans would probably work well too)
tissue paper, 1-2 sheets
hot glue
wooden skewers (lollipop sticks or floral sticks would probably work well too)
CANDY! Lots of candy!

All in all this cost me about half of the grocery store's price.

1. Empty the box of its contents
2. Put weights in the empty box - about 3/4 full
3.  Attach skewers to the back of the candy/goodies you purchsed
4.  Stick skewers into weighted box; adjust height if necessary
(I tried hot glueing the skewers to the side of the box and it was a big fail but hats of to you if you get that to work! You have great hot glueing skills I do not possess!)
5. Insert tissue paper to cover up the skewers that are showing - hot glue in place if necessary
6. Surprise someone you love with all their favorites!

From beginning to finish it took me about 30 minutes! Easy peasy and Mike was SUPER surprised; I've actually never seen him look so shocked! Enjoy all the V-day festivities!

I'm crafty

This summer I had lots of free time - I mean lots. So I channeled my inner Martha Stewart and made a couple things, which was perfect since we just moved into a new house and have tons of wall space - so much in fact that our living room (still) echoes.  So I started by making this beauty

It is simple; however, power tools are involved so if you don't have them handy, it may be a bit trickier.  Basically, you get a piece of wood (Hob Lob has them for cheap), get a vase or mason jar, some wire and a drill.  You center the vase on the wood.  Draw two holes on the sides of the vase where you want the wire to go and two holes at the top equally spaced for a hanger.  Then just drill the holes.

Run the wire through the middle holes snugly around the vase and tie off tight in the back.

Then make a hanging mechanism by running the wire through the top holes and voila! You're done.  Pick some pretty flowers and you're done!

I would tell you that it only takes an hour but I kept forgetting to get Mike to help me drill the holes and it actually took me about 2-3 months to finish this.  Hopefully, you will be more on top of things!