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Valentine Pretzel Treats

Post author By vickybarone
Post date February 11, 2017

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If you’ve been reading blog.vickybarone.com for any length of time, you’ll know much we LOVE these chocolaty pretzel treats. This year, we decided to mix them up a bit by using Hershey’s Hugs and Rolos! Here’s how to make your own…

Supplies: a baking sheet, square pretzels (regular, not butter flavored!), Rolos, Hershey’s Hugs, and M&Ms.

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Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 200.
2. Cover your baking sheet with pretzels.
3. Place a Rolo or a Hug in the center of each pretzel.
4. Bake for 5 minutes.
5. Remove from oven and carefully press an M&M into each chocolate.
6. Let cool and enjoy!

Don’t they make just the sweetest Valentine treat? We hope you enjoy them!

Tags chocolate, DIY, pretzels, Valentine, Valentine's Day

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DIY Candy Tic Tac Toe

Post author By vickybarone
Post date February 10, 2017

Happy Friday! Today we’re sharing a sweet treat you can make (and play with!) this weekend. These tic-tac-toe boards are completely edible and so much fun to make and use. Here’s how…

Supplies: graham crackers, pink candy melts, red candy melts, candy conversation hearts, wax paper, a cookie sheet, and a Ziploc bag.

Directions:
1. Melt pink candy melts in a wide bowl according to directions.
2. Break graham crackers into squares and dip into pink candy melts.
3. Shake off excess chocolate (use a spoon to spread or even it out if necessary) and lay graham crackers on a wax paper lined cookie sheet.
4. Place in fridge to set.
5. Melt red candy melts and scoop into a Ziploc bag.
6. Cut off a small corner of the bag and squeeze out the candy melts onto the graham crackers to create the tic-tac-toe board lines.
7. After each graham cracker is covered, carefully lift each one up to help the red lines fall around the edges.
8. Place back into the fridge to set.
9. Once the chocolate has completely hardened, use conversation hearts to play tic-tac-toe!

The best part? When you’re all done playing, you get to eat the game for dessert!

We hope you have a wonderful weekend! Don’t forget to follow Vicky Barone on Instagram for more Valentine’s Day inspiration!

Tags candy melts, DIY, tic tac toe, Valentine, Valentine's Day

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DIY Valentine’s Day Sugar Scrub Favors

Post author By vickybarone
Post date February 3, 2017

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…

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!

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!

Tags DIY, favors, Gift Ideas, places for faces, sugar scrub, Valentine

DIY Holidays Recipes

Pomegranate Ice Cubes

Post author By vickybarone
Post date February 13, 2016

Happy Valentine’s Day weekend! We’ve got one last treat for the holiday to share with you all today. You can throw these pomegranate ice cubes in the freezer tonight and they’ll be ready to liven up your bubbly tomorrow!

You can make these pomegranate ice cubes in any tray shape you’d like! First we did square cubes, and next we made some heart-shaped cubes!

The square cubes are great for everyday use to add a pop of sweet color to your water, your soda, or even a smoothie!

We filled these glasses with Sprite. As the cubes melted a little, you could taste the pomegranate seeds! They added a subtle and sweet flavor.

These pretty ice cubes would be perfect for making your little ones feel special on Valentine’s Day!

We’re suckers for heart-shaped anything (if you are too, check out I Have This Thing With Hearts on Instagram!) so these ice cubes were obviously our favorite.

They add a romantic touch to a glass of champagne. Perfect for toasting with your love on Valentine’s Day!

We hope you all have a beautiful Valentine’s Day full of love, chocolates, and lots of heart-shaped things. 😉

Tags DIY, heart, heart-shaped, hearts, ice cubes, Valentine, Valentine's Day

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DIY Valentine’s Day Coasters

Post author By vickybarone
Post date February 10, 2016

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…

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.

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

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

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

Don’t forget to follow Vicky Barone on Instagram for lots more fun DIY ideas, Valentine’s Day inspiration, and lots and lots of greeting cards!

Tags candy hearts, coaster, coasters, DIY, Gift Ideas, letters, tile letters, Valentine, Valentine's Day

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Valentine’s Day Cupcake Ideas

Post author By vickybarone
Post date February 8, 2016
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Happy Monday, friends! Still stumped as to what to make for Valentine’s Day? Today we’re sharing three sweet cupcake ideas that are perfect for the 14th.

Heart-Shaped Cupcakes

First up: heart-shaped cupcakes! Well, kinda-heart-shaped cupcakes. We have seen the Pinterest hack to make heart-shaped cupcakes by adding glass marbles to a cupcake tin and thought we’d try it out! Instead of marbles, we rolled up tiny pieces of aluminum foil and placed them between the cupcake tin and the liners. They looked so promising! But, alas, it was too good to be true. They don’t have a pointy base, but they can still pass as hearts, right?

Candy Melt Conversation Cupcakes

Next up are these Candy Melt Conversation Cupcakes! All you need to create these cupcake toppers is a bag of red (or pink!) candy melts, a ziploc bag, scissors, a cookie sheet, and some waxed paper.

Line a cookie sheet with the waxed paper and melt the candy melts in a bowl according to the directions. Scoop the melted candy melts into a Ziploc bag and cut one of the corners off. Write any words you’d like onto the waxed paper (make sure they are in cursive and all the letters are connected!) and place the cookie sheet into the refrigerator to set. Carefully peel the words off of the waxed paper and stick them right into the cupcake icing!

Custom Cupcake Toppers by Places for Faces

Last but not least, our favorite way to decorate cupcakes: Places for Faces!

Use Places for Faces to create custom dessert toppers with your face on them! They are perfect for Valentine cupcakes, birthday parties, and any event that could use a little personality. Places for Faces also offers printable valentines for your little ones!

What’s your favorite way to decorate a Valentine cupcake? We’d love to hear your ideas!

Tags cupcake toppers, cupcakes, DIY, places for faces, Valentine, Valentine's Day

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Decorate a Valentine Box with Places for Faces!

Post author By vickybarone
Post date February 3, 2016

My boys are making Valentine boxes for school and we are so pleased to have Places for Faces help out with the decorating! What better way to personalize your valentine mailboxes than with pictures of your own sweet little face? In addition to dessert toppers, tags, and valentine labels, Places for Faces now offers a template that is perfect for decorating a valentine box, complete with speech bubbles!

Try Places for Faces today! Your little valentines will love it 🙂

Tags DIY, places for faces, Valentine, valentine boxes, Valentine's Day

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DIY Cupid’s Arrows

We just adore all of the sweet DIY arrows people have been sharing on Pinterest for Valentine’s Day…so we decided to make our own! We went with a purple theme (thanks to a bag of beautiful feathers from Joann’s) and used some matching felt and wooden dowels to create the finished product. Here’s how you can make your own…

Supplies: 12″ wooden dowels, colorful feathers, felt, scissors, and hot glue.

Directions:
1. For each arrow, you will cut three pieces of felt. Two matching hearts, and one thin strip (about 2″ long).
2. Use hot glue to attach three or four feathers to one end of a wooden dowel.
3. Wrap the thin strip of felt around the base of the feathers and attach using hot glue.
4. Glue the two felt hearts together, with the end of the dowel between them.