“Wooden Shoe Be My Valentine”

Don’t you love those old school valentines? They have the cutest sayings.  I’m going to collect some this year just to put on my Valentine Garland.  I’ve looked and looked at Elizabeth’s banner and realized I needed some different shapes beside hearts.

Since I don’t have authentic old Valentines, I made do with copies which I made too small but used anyway attaching them to tags. Then I started looking for things on hand and found an IBB page Sarah had sent in a swap years ago and I found some IBB pages that printed out too big at the time.  Sometimes it pays to be a hoarder!

Reading Elizabeth’s instructions I misinterpreted her “figure eight” meaning. She was talking about the links and I understood a figure eight of the entire chain.  Anyway it worked for me and sort of hangs like those chain belts that swag. 

I loved her addition of some cute playing cards and found a darling Holly Hobbie card in my stash. Needless to say – Elizabeth is such a crafty (haha make that crafting) “Good Friend” to share her ideas with instructions.  This is sort of like a charm bracelet to be collected over the years. 

And moving on to some “pink” I’m almost ready to mail my Valentines to my Circle Journal Friends. Do you see Beverly’s name? She had to have a pink envelope for Pink Saturday. I get a lot of inspiration from the Pink Saturday blogs.  You will, too, so check them out!

xoxo Nancy