Valentine's Day Ideas!

Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays. I love decorating, making some delicious treats, and telling my family that I love them. Today, I am going to show you guys some amazing ideas for a last minute Valentine's day party.

First I am going to show you some festive treats that you and friends will love and they are all so easy to make. I just recently had a Valentine's Day party with my friends and these are a few things that I made.

The first one is Strawberry chocolate chip cookies. These are fun, pretty, pink cookies. These got eaten in my house in a blink of an eye. I found the recipe on Pinterest and it was so fast and easy to make!

The next treat that I am going to show you is also a Pinterest find. It is a m&m, mini Reese's peanut butter cup cookie pie. I love this and it looks so pretty when you cut into the moist cake. 

The last treat is something that I created off the top of my head. This turned out to be one of the most popular. I just took some unsalted, unbuttered popcorn and popped it in the microwave. Then I melted some semi-sweet chocolate chips and lightly drizzled it all over the popcorn. Yum! Then for the last step to make just it a little more Valentine's Day appropriate, I added some red and pink sprinkles. After the chocolate on the popcorn cools, transfer it to a big bowl and it is ready to enjoy!

For my dinner party I made ravioli using my dad's homemade marinara sauce. On the side we had a mozzarella, tomato, and basil salad. And one of my favorite things of the meal was the fresh warm bread! To drink I  actually made Shirley Temples! These were so fun and easy to make and we all had many refills. For the Shirley Temple you are just going to take some lemon-lime flavored soda and pour that into a pretty glass, then add a few splashs of grenadine syrup and add a cherry. These will impress your guests and add a fun element to your party menu.

One of the most important details to a V-Day party is the table set-up. I added some cute napkins, pasta bowls, and little heart shaped plates for bread. As for the rest of the table I added some bright colored tulips, candy dishes, homemade name place cards, and some patterned straws for the Shirley Temples.

The last thing that I am going to show you today are the favors that I gave out at the end of the party. I got these really adorable mugs from Target and I wrapped some V-Day colored Hershey Kisses in cellophane and put it in each mug, tying each one with some cute ribbon and adding name tags made of red card stock paper.

Now that's charming...