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Happy Valentine’s Day! Hope this day is filled with love, joy and tons of special time with your loved ones! This is the Valentine’s Day version of SSS. Find tons of links to some of my favorite valentine’s posts from this week!

• Lace Tea Lights – Found via One Pretty Thing this is a great tutorial on making a pretty little tea light for a friend or maybe just for you.
• My Last Minute Valentine’s Jars – Another find from One Pretty Thing! I’m going to start saving up my jars. What even a great idea for a quick b-day present or christmas or maybe for May Day! I always love giving my neighbors little things now and again and this is a great idea!
• V-day Sweet Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte – Okay I want a real Black Forest Cake, it sounds so yummy!!
• Bakerella – You have to take a look at Bakerella’s awesome vintage valentine cookies!! So, so cute!!
• Valentine’s Day Door Hanger – I’m so mad I didn’t see these earlier. I (actually my hubby) just took down my winter wreath. So my door looks so blank, this would have been perfect!
• Valentine Candy Cones – What a great idea. Again I could use this for all kinds of things. Maybe I will do it for St Patricks day!!

And for all of you out there who hate Valentine’s Day:

• February’s Depressing… here’s a playlist… –

What have been some of your Super Surfing Valentine finds this week??

Oh and I can’t forget, one last Valentine’s Day Freebie!!

Check out some of the other freebies from earlier this month and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss out on the upcoming freebies the rest of this month!! Some great items like mommy cards, Chinese New Year  (Happy Chinese New Year, I will post that freebie tomorrow!), and more!!!

Filed under: Meme, SSS Tags: SSS, valentine

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. Hope you have some great plans for tomorrow. Why not bake some cupcakes and decorate them with some fun cupcake toppers? Check out some of the other freebies from earlier this month and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss out on the upcoming freebies the rest of this month!!

Filed under: Crafts, Febrauary Freebies, Freebies, Meme Tags: cupcake, February, free, Freebie, Printable, topper

This is going to be short and sweet, maybe even a little literally. These are candy bar wrappers. Print them out, trim them and wrap around your favorite full size candy bar or there is one for mini candy bars. Great little personalized sweet treats for your sweetie.

I will have more freebies this month so don’t forget to subscribe!

Filed under: Crafts, Febrauary Freebies, Uniquehorn Designs Tags: February, free, Freebie, Printable

On the rainy, blustery days that fill December and January here in Oregon there is one thing that Works for Me on a little 2 year old with cabin fever…the trampoline.

We have a small garage, we can fit the car into it but it’s a pain to get out of the car once it’s in there. Plus we lost the remote to the garage door, so we just don’t use it. Until we got this trampoline for Zane’s birthday.

Now when I just can’t stand Zane making another running lap around the kitchen bar I send him to the garage to burn his energy on the trampoline.

One reason I know this is a good idea is that my neighbor came over with her 4 year old and when she saw it she ran out and bought one to put in her garage also.

We also have a huge power wheels in the garage, that doesn’t work. That Zane loves to play on when he gets bored of jumping. We have also considered putting a swing in the garage also.

So if you live in an area where you get stuck in the house for months on end, consider converting your garage or part of your garage into a little play area. (Just make sure you childproof your garage if you are going to leave your little ones unattended.)

Don’t forget February is Freebie month here at Pepper Scraps. You can find all kinds of free printables throughout the month! Check out my previous post for play doh labels that you can use to turn little mini containers into valentine’s for your little one’s (or for you to hand out to your friends and co-workers).

Filed under: Meme, Pictures, Zane Tags: WFMW, Zane

We have had so many big milestones hit in our house, it’s so amazing and joyful! I love my little boys they are such a blessing and everyday is a reminder of this.

Zane decided two weeks ago that he wanted to go potty in the potty. From there on we have been going potty in the potty 90% of the time. Just today he decided to start taking himself with no reminders into the bathroom and go potty on the big potty.

He did really good until he tried going #2 on the big potty and missed. I was on a chat with a new client and had to drop everything. He came out of the bathroom with toilet paper streaming all around him saying he needed to clean up. LOL I went in and helped him clean up and just tried to explain to him it may be better to go poo poo on the little potty.

Zarek has been making his own big steps this last week. Literally. He has started walking. He had taken a few steps here and there a few weeks ago, but this week he started taking more and more. And today I am pretty sure he walked more than he crawled. You could tell he was thrilled with himself as he would giggle as he walked around the room.

It has also been a great week to watch the boys interacting. Zane is starting to have fun with Zarek. He is starting to look at him more and more as a playmate. They run/crawl up and down the hallway. Zane calling out behind him, “Come on Zarek, let’s go!” And Zarek of course is thrilled to be included in the games and is happy to chase after Zane. Earlier today Zane started getting really upset that Zarek was taking his nap because he wanted to play with him

February is Freebie month here at PepperScraps so here is another fun valentine freebie! These are labels you can print, sign, cutout and tape to the lids of play doh to make some really fun Valentine’s Day “cards”. Click the links below. Choose All Sizes. Choose Original. Download and print.

Filed under: Crafts, Febrauary Freebies, Meme, Milestone, Milestones, Zane, Zarek Tags: February, Freebie, freebies, Milestones, Printable, valentine, Zane, Zarek