Valentine’s Day Ideas You Can Use for Any Holiday

Valentine’s Day Ideas You Can Use for Any Holiday

Happy Valentine’s Day! I love Valentine’s Day and the sweets that go with it! Here are 3 Valentine’s Day ideas you can use for any holiday!

• I let me husband know I appreciate him
  • Insert post its notes – quick cheap easy and thoughtful.
  • I wrote down the top 20 things I love about him on post its and posted them on his mirror so he could see them as soon as he woke up
  • In honor of Valentine’s Day I of course used pink post they are in the shape of a heart but you can use this idea on anniversaries/ birthdays – anything!
  • Who wouldn’t want to wake up to notes about how awesome they are!?!

• I gave my family a treat that won’t hurt the waistline – too much!
  • Valentine’s Day inspired parfaits!
    • Bottom layer: Strawberry Jell-O
    • Middle layer: Cool whip and diced fruit
    • Top Layer: Fruit garnish – I used a Strawberry rose
    • Quick, easy and sweet!

• Then I made a sweet that is a little sweeter
  • Holiday inspired cookie – this one is my grandmother’s recipe. Two years ago she finally gave the recipe to my mother and there have been some colorful words – ok very colorful words between my sisters and I as to who gets to take the cookies home after she bakes them because they are our favorites so I finally just got the recipe!
    • The middle of these cookies can be any color (St Patrick’s Day is coming up… bring on green version of these cookies!)
    • Recipe: Pecan Thumbprints
      • Blend – ¼ Cup of Sugar/ 1 Cup of butter
      • Beat – 1 TSP Vanilla/ 2 Cup Flour/ ¼ TSP Salt
      • Stir in 1 Cup of finely chopped pecans
      • Roll into balls and shape with thumb for well
      • Bake 300 degrees 25 minutes
        • Icing: 2 Cups of confection sugar, 1 TSP Almond extract, ad water until icing can drip off spoon into well of cookie
      • ENJOY

What other repeatable ideas did you try today?!

Tiffany