Quick and easy Valentine's day craft

I only have one decoration for Valentine's Day.  And though in my family we like to call it the Black Holiday, I still thought it might be nice to do a little decorating for the day.  So while perusing some of my favorite blogs, I came across this idea.  And well, it looked easy enough so I decided to give it a try.

All you'll need for this cute idea is--- crayons, wax paper, an iron a pencil sharpener and some towels.  Yup, that's it!  You probably have all those things right now.


 Once you get all your supplies you can get started on the crafting.  I made sure I looked over the directions a few times before I got started and it was really as easy as it sounds.



You'll just use the pencil sharpener to get crayon shavings to put on the wax paper.  I would recommend just shaving the crayon over the wax paper and then break down the shavings so they are smaller.  Spread the shavings over 1/2 of the wax paper.

Then fold the wax paper over and fold in the other three sides to prevent any wax leaking.  Make sure you have some towels on the bottom and put another one on top before ironing.  The crayon color will leak through so make sure you just use some rags you don't care about, especially since the crayon on mine didn't actually wash out (don't worry...I used some old rags).

Iron the wax paper and crayon shavings until all the shavings have melted.  Use a medium high-high heat and make sure you use the dry setting.  Any steam will make the wax paper wet and bubble. 

Once all the crayon shavings are melted, let it cool and then you can cut out shapes.  You could really do this for any holiday but since it's almost Valentine's Day, I did hearts.

Our front door is a huge window, so I decided to hang mine up in the window.  I just used some thread and strung the hearts with the thread using an needle.  With a little bit of tape they were ready to hang.  Here's the end result---

I like it!  It's Valentine's Day-y without being too cheesy or over-the-top.  Just simple and colorful and they look great in the sun (when it actually shines).

North Carolina...here we come!

Yup, that's right...we are going to North Carolina!
Both Curtis and I are graduating in April, well, that is as long as I survive the semester, and we now know where we will be going after we're done here at BYU.  Curtis was hoping to get an assistantship at North Carolina State University and well, he has.  He will also be doing some internship/preparatory-like work this summer and we will be heading out to North Carolina in May.
There were a lot of places we thought about going and that I would have loved to go.  NC State, though, is really the perfect fit.  Not only is Curtis going to be doing something he is really interested in under a great professor but I am only going to be 3 hours away from my parents and away from the dry dessert so my skin won't fall off anymore!  I'll probably have the opposite problem now.  I wanted to end up on the East because I love it and because it is where my parents live but I got even luckier when Curtis chose NC State.
It is weird having some actual plans and being able to tell people where we will be in the next 4 months.  It is exciting and a little scary but we are definitely ready for this adventure.
I'm sure I will miss Provo a lot, especially Bombay House but I am so ready to be done with school and to head out East.  Though honestly, I have no idea what I will do when we get out there...ha ha ha.  Guess we don't have quite everything figured out.

Last First Day

This week I was rather excited to celebrate my last first day of school.  I mean, I have had many first days in my life and with expecting to graduate from BYU in April, this past Tuesday was to be my last first day.
However, on Sunday I woke up not feeling that great and by Tuesday, I felt a little something like this.....

So I missed my last first day, in fact, I missed my entire last first week.  Yes, I have felt awful enough that I have stayed home and slept a lot.  I even managed to use an entire box of these....

in three days!  And now I'm all out and I so desperately need another box because Puffs Plus with lotion are much nicer to my poor nose than toilet paper is.

So, I have missed my last first day, but I'm hoping to be in good enough shape to go to school on Monday and have my last first day a little late.

Thankfully I have had Curtis this week.  He has been really nice and has made dinner for me and is always making sure I'm okay.  There really isn't much he can do to help me, but it's nice to not have to do everything around the house when having a bad day (that's my code for sick).