Valentine's Mail Bag

The month of February means many things to us all.  It seems that each and every day has been adorned with "This Group's" day.   While February is National Children's Dental Health Month (more to come in a later post), it is arguably most widely associated with Valentine's Day.  This year our household has been on the ball and our homemade Valentine's are finished and ready for preschool.  So I decided to do another Pinterest Valentine's project... a Pottery Barn inspired Mail Bag.  I was pretty proud of my work... it also gave me a chance to sew my first buttonholes.  The great thing about sewing for a young child is that they don't notice the mistakes you made along the way (well, not yet, at least).  Here's how this sewing project turned out...

 

Here's the side view

I took these photos on a cloudy afternoon... so the background is rather dark, unfortunately.

Today I presented my little one with her very own Valentine's Mail Bag.  We plan to give her "mail" each day through Valentine's Day.  Tomorrow is her father's day to send a "letter" to the little one.  It should make for a couple weeks of great fun.  :)

This project was inspired by a blog At Second Street, which was, of course, found on Pinterest.  The tutorial is quite helpful and the bag nicely fits a DVD, which is planned to be the Valentine's Day "Mail" for my little one.  Shhhh!  Don't tell her, the new movie is a surprise. 

We have a Birthday Celebration!

Happy Birthday, to our wonderful dental assistant, Corinne!  Birthdays are a great reason to celebrate at Steckelberg Dental.  We had sandwiches delivered from a nearby sandwich shop, followed by cupcakes.  Yum!

Even dentists eat delicious cupcakes!

Dr. Steckelberg made these cute cupcakes and decorated them with Marshmallow Fondant on Halloween.  She only had a few trick-or-treaters at her house, which allowed a little more time to be creative.  Now, we know this is nothing like The Cake Boss cakes, but it is better than the 4-H cake decorating she used to do in middle school.  The marshmallow fondant recipe is from The Chaplain's Wife Blog... which of course, I found on Pinterest.  Go to
http://shawntheparsonswife.blogspot.com/search?q=fondant   for recipe specifics.

The first cupcake "cake" experiment with the marshmallow fondant.  My nieces seemed to like it!

Another GREAT thing about birthdays is getting a chance to relax and visit with your coworkers.  At Steckelberg Dental, we love to celebrate!  So Thank you, Corinne for sharing your birthday with us.  Happy Birthday, Corinne!

Visit us at Steckelberg Dental, the office of Melanie A. Steckelberg, D.D.S., P.C.  We are located at 3201 South 33rd Street, Suite A, in Lincoln, Nebraska  68506   (402) 489-7800.  Visit us on the web at www.steckelbergdental.com