Valentine's Pillows

Some of you might remember this post about my birthday last year. For my birthday last year, my awesome friends here in Memphis very lovingly gave me a sewing machine!

To be honest, I haven't done as much sewing with it as I would like.

My friend, Whitney, has been trying to help me remember/learn how to sew. I remember somethings about sewing from a homemaking class I took when I was attending BYU-Idaho. However, most of the things I remember from that class was how stressful it was.

Anyways, my friend Whitney had the great idea to make pillow cases, for the kids, for each major holiday. We had plans to start making them in December for Christmas, but that didn't happen.

One Thursday in January, she called me to come over and we spent most of the afternoon and evening sewing pillowcases. I am very pleased with how they turned out and the kids seem to be happy about them too.Of course the boys had to have a silly picture taken with their pillows too.I also made a smaller pillow case, to go on a smaller pillow, that we affectionately call in our house the "LOVE Pillow." Each night in February we have been passing around the "Love Pillow" in our family. As a family, we try to do nice things and serve whoever has the "LOVE Pillow"for the day. The person who has the "Love Pillow" then passes it on to someone new for the next day. It has been quite fun to have in the house. Sometimes tears are shed and/or fighting if someone thinks it has been too long since they had a turn with the pillow, but overall it has been a fun experience to have during this season of LOVE.