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DIY Holidays

DIY Valentine’s Day Sugar Scrub Favors

Happy Friday! Together with Places for Faces, we created a personalized favor that your valentines are sure to love. Here’s how to make your own delicious Valentine’s Day sugar scrub…

DIY Valentine's Day Sugar Scrub | Places for Faces | Vicky Barone

Ingredients: 1 ½ C white granulated sugar, ¼ C coconut oil (melted and cooled), 6 drops red food coloring, 5-10 drops essential oils.

Directions: Mix all ingredients together in a bowl until combined. Transfer to glass jars (ours are from the Target Dollar Spot!) and tie with baker’s twine. Use Places for Faces to create customized favor tags! Print, cut, hole punch, and tie onto each jar with the twine. Give jars to your sweethearts or keep them for yourself!

DIY Valentine's Day Sugar Scrub | Places for Faces | Vicky Barone

Places for Faces is the best way to customize your valentines, favors, desserts, and so much more. Click here to get started!

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

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Holidays Things I Love

Holiday Gift Guide 2016 : For the Host

Happy Monday! We are back with another Holiday Gift Guide, this time to celebrate the host! As you head off to countless holiday parties, you may be searching for the perfect gift to bring along as a thanks to the lovely host. We have gathered some of our favorite items from around the web and we hope you like them!

Holiday Gift Guide 2016 | For the Host | Vicky Barone

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For ever more holiday gift guides click here!

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Kids Printables

Teacher Appreciation Gift Idea

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week! Let a teacher in your life know how grateful you are for them with a DIY gift! For my sons’ teachers, I got some fresh new Sharpie markers in lots of bright colors, placed them in a mason jar, and attached a gift tag.

Teacher Appreciation DIY Gift Idea | Vicky Barone

You can print these gift tags too! Click on the printable below to download it for free!

Teacher Appreciation DIY Gift Idea | Vicky Barone

Download, print, cut, and hole punch! Use a ribbon or twine to attach the tags to a jar. This printable has two options (the top two have a space to write your name or your kid’s name!).

Teacher Appreciation DIY Gift Idea | Vicky Barone

Looking for more Teacher Appreciation week ideas? Click here! Bonus points if you include a gift card!

A huge thank you to all teachers! We appreciate you so much!

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DIY Holidays

DIY Valentine’s Day Coasters

Here’s a little mid-week pick-me-up for you and your coffee table! Only the sweetest of words make up these Valentine’s Day coasters. They make great DIY gifts too! Here’s how to make them…

DIY Valentine's Day Coasters | Scrabble Letter Tiles | Vicky Barone

Supplies: cork squares, tile letters (we used these, but you can also use Scrabble letters!), craft glue, an X-acto knife, and acrylic sealer spray.

Directions:
1. Sift through the tiles and create as many four letter words as you can (you can also make the coasters 5×5 if you wanted them to be larger!).
2. Glue the words onto a cork square. We used craft glue because it doesn’t dry right away so we had a little time to rearrange the letters if they got tilted or pushed out of place.
3. When the glue is completely dry, use the X-acto knife to cut away the excess cork.

DIY Valentine's Day Coasters | Scrabble Letter Tiles | Vicky Barone

4. Spray the coasters with acrylic sealer and let dry completely.

DIY Valentine's Day Coasters | Scrabble Letter Tiles | Vicky Barone

If you run out of letters, get creative with a fine Sharpie!

DIY Valentine's Day Coasters | Scrabble Letter Tiles | Vicky Barone DIY Valentine's Day Coasters | Scrabble Letter Tiles | Vicky Barone

These coasters would work for lots of other holidays as well. Save the rest of your tiles for future projects 😉

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Holidays Things I Love

Holiday Gift Guide for Him

15 shopping days left until Christmas! Today we’re sharing gift ideas for possibly the most difficult person to shop for on your list. From hand cream to headphones, this list has it all. Enjoy and good luck!

Holiday Gift Guide for Him | Vicky Barone

1. Mantry Subscription
2. Magnetic Nail Bottle Opener
3. Diamond Socks
4. Beats by Dre Headphones
5. Fitbit
6. Chewbacca Bottle Opener with sound
7. Portable Record Player
8. Chapped Hands Remedy

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DIY

DIY Color Block Frosted Tumblers

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We are back with even more frosted glass tumblers! This is such a fun and easy DIY and the designs you can create are endless. For these tumblers, we used two different kinds of Martha Stewart Glass Paint (frosted and gloss) and overlapped them to create this pink and coral color block look. Here’s how you can make your own…

DIY Color Block Frosted Tumblers | Vicky Barone

DIY Color Block Frosted Tumblers | Vicky Barone

Supplies: glass tumblers, Martha Stewart Frost Glass Paint in Ballet Slipper, Martha Stewart Gloss Glass Paint in Red Coral, washi tape (or painter’s tape), a foam pouncer, and rubbing alcohol.

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Directions:
1. Clean the tumblers with rubbing alcohol and a paper towel. Let dry.
2. Tape off a section of the tumbler for the first color. For this two-toned color block look, start with the lighter color first. You’ll want to tape off a section of the bottom of the glass so that the glass will look like it was “dipped” in paint at an angle.
3. Press out all of the air bubbles in the tape with your fingernail to create a clean paint line.
4. Dip the foam pouncer in the paint and begin painting the taped off section of glass using an up and down motion.
5. Let dry two hours, then apply a second coat to even out the paint.
6. Let dry overnight and then peel off the tape.
7. Repeat steps 2-6 with the darker color, taping off the opposite side of the glass so that the paint colors overlap in the middle.
8. Follow the directions on Martha Stewart’s craft website for how to set the paint (We air cure for 21 days, but you can also oven bake them).

DIY Color Block Frosted Tumblers | Vicky Barone

DIY Color Block Frosted Tumblers | Vicky Barone

DIY Color Block Frosted Tumblers | Vicky Barone

They may be a little time consuming (so much waiting!), but we promise they are worth it.

DIY Color Block Frosted Tumblers | Vicky Barone

They also make great gifts! Place them in a box with some pretty paper straws and a mini bottle of champagne for a hostess gift or even a little something to give your girlfriends when you ask them to be your bridesmaids! The possibilities are endless and everyone is sure to love this handmade gift.

DIY Color Block Frosted Tumblers | Vicky BaroneDIY Color Block Frosted Tumblers | Vicky Barone

UPDATE: Thank you all SO much for your interest in this super fun DIY! We are so sad to say that the Martha Stewart Frost Glass Paint has been discontinued. You can still find some colors here and here, but we also suggest trying out the “Gloss” paint or a “frosted glass” spray paint like this clear one or this teal one to achieve a similar effect.

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DIY Kids

Back to School Teacher Gifts

Back to School season is here, can you believe it? Today we’re sharing a simple DIY gift that your kiddos can make for their new teachers!

Back to School Teacher Gifts | Vicky Barone

Supplies: tin cans, acrylic paint, and a paint brush.

Directions:
1. Paint each can with white paint to prime it.
2. After the white paint has dried, paint each can in whatever colors you like. We created an ombre look by painting one can blue, then adding white paint to the same color blue to lighten it for the second can. For the third can, we added two more coats of white paint.
3. Using a contrasting color, paint your little one’s hand with a foam brush and press it onto a can to create a hand print.
4. Let dry completely and add pencils, flowers, candy, or any kind of treat.

*Optional: Coat each can with a spray acrylic sealer.

Back to School Teacher Gifts | Vicky BaroneThe cans can act as pencil holders…

Back to School Teacher Gifts | Vicky Barone…or little vases!

Back to School Teacher Gifts | Vicky BaroneThey are a great way to say “thank-you-in-advance for a great school year” or “thank you for a great Summer” to any teacher or camp counselor you might be saying goodbye to.

Back to School Teacher Gifts | Vicky BaroneWhatever the message, a tin can full of flowers is a sweet way to start off the new school year. 🙂

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Family Holidays Products Things I Love

Mother’s Day Gift Guide for New Moms and Moms-to-be

Mother’s Day is in less than a week! Today we’re sharing some sweet and creative gift ideas for new moms and moms-to-be. Click on the links below for more details and enjoying treating the new moms in your life with something they’ll truly cherish.

Mother's Day Gift Guide for New Moms and Moms-to-be | Vicky Barone

1. Blue Apron Subscription | 2. Baby Mama T-shirt
3. Monthly Onesie Stickers | 4. Personalized Growth Charts
5. Hospital Blanket Bear | 6. Footprint Necklace | 7. Portable Pacifier Sterilizer

What are you getting the special moms in your life this year?

Here are even more ideas from our past posts:
Mother’s Day Gift Guide
DIY Mother’s Day Gifts
Mother’s Day Gifts on Etsy