My crafty Valentine, sweet recycled Valentine...
February 14, 2009 5:51 PM 
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You forgot all about Valentine’s Day and now must come up with an extra special momento to pacify your beloved. Or you are sitting home alone with no way to celebrate V-day. In either case, it’s crafting time! You can recycle things you probably already have to make Valentine’s Day trinkets. You can start by
making a card with scrap yarn, or from
wrapping paper. You can make
gift bows or a
heart-shaped candy basket from recycled magazines, and a
gift bag from a newspaper. You can make a
love letter box from an old box. The kids or the artist in your life might like to get
heart-shaped crayons, made from stubby old crayons.
If you’ve got nice former Valentine’s Day souvenirs sitting around, you can use the old candy boxes to make a
picture frame or a
Valentine clock, or make
Valentine mobiles from old cards. You can make
heart shaped pillows from old linens,
napkin rings out of cardboard tubes, or
plain old glass jars to make vases. If you cherish memories of your exes, you can
decorate with your old cards. Or, like artist Gila Rayberg, you can make
mosaic Valentines.
If none of these ideas inspire you, you could just take some advice from irrepressible romantic Jean Teasdale, who has lots of creative ideas for how to celebrate February 14th, with or without a sweetheart.
posted by jamstigator at 6:18 PM on February 14