I Love You Because...It's [was] Valentine's Day!

                                                             Valentine's Day Via Skype :)

Aunt Bonnie Joined this Time as Well!!

           After many independent crafting projects, we finally got everything in order to do our first Daisy Lady craft project.  As it was the week before Valentine's Day we thought that these I Love You Because... chalkboards would be the perfect starter.  I've been seeing pins for these boards for a while now and have been wanting one for myself.

           This project was honestly really easy and the perfect type of activity for us to get our feet wet with the idea of long distance group crafting.
    
           Although one piece of advice before you begin any project, make sure you go get buy all of your materials more than thirty minutes before you're supposed to start your project.  Whoops!  Well the life of a procrastinator is a ridiculous one.

Mom's Materials

 All that you need for this one is:
                    - A couple of blank chalkboards.*
                    - Paint or stick on letters
                    - Paintbrushes (If you choose to go the paint route)
                    - A frame of some sort for you to put your chalkboard in.  Or if you're lucky
                      enough find a chalkboard with a string in it already and there ya go!
                    - and Chalk!
                        *The chalkboards were one of the hardest things to find weirdly enough. 
                           I went to Michael's (*ahem* 30 minutes before the scheduled Skype
                           time) and they had nothing but weirdly shaped chalkboards in the kid's
                           section.  It took a lot of hunting to actually find anything close to what
                           I was looking for.  Although Mom and Aunt Bonnie did find theirs pretty
                           easily.
                     - Oh and beer! Or whatever your drink of choice may be. :)

Don't forget to drink :)

       For the procedure all we did was neatly write "I Love You Because..." in paint (or put on your stickers if you so desire) while leaving enough room at the bottom to add in whatever chalk inscription you would like to have on there.

       That's it! That's all there was too it and I couldn't be happier with how they turned out. Mom's came on a handy string, but for mine I bought a standing frame that the chalkboard fit in weirdly perfectly.

This is actualy the only picture I took of my board...Whoops!

       As for the actual Skype process, all I can say is it's a little too fuzzy to truly enjoy the whole thing and I'd much rather get together in person to do these things.  There was a lot of delay in the video streaming which honestly says more about our internet service than it does about Skype. 


       Our idea for this project came from a post on a blog called Heart 2 Home, although we found the idea on Pinterest. (Where most of our stuff has come from).

       Okay so it's done! I have uploaded this 6 months late, but I mean better late than never I suppose.  Next post to come will be a lot more prompt I promise!