Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day from Made By Melissa!!



Enjoy some sugar hearts and chocolate covered caramels!!

~Melissa~

Think About Your Heart

One of the topics for the current EtsyBloggers blog carnival is to discuss heart health month. The American Heart Association has a website called My Life Check which helps you to make the promise to better your heart health. Its well worth checking out, here are the seven simple steps that they outline:

1) Get Active
2) Eat Better
3) Lose Weight
4) Stop Smoking
5) Control Cholesterol
6) Manage Blood Pressure
7) Reduce Blood Sugar

Visit the site to read more details on each of these topics.



While speaking about hearts, this Sunday is Valentine's Day! I sent my little man to daycare this morning with a bag full of Disney Cars Valentines for his classmates, complete with a heart shaped "I LOVE YOU" lollipop. I'm not a fan of giving candy to such young kids, but all of the parents did it last year and I felt guilty not reciprocating (in all honesty, the thought never crossed my mind!). My son doesn't eat candy and has no desire to, so I am not sure what I will do with all the pink and red heart shaped lollipops that he will come home with, but I am sure he will enjoy looking at all the cards. He is already in love with the extras I let him keep!

Be sure to visit Foxy G Knits on Monday morning to read all of the other entries into the Blog Carnival!

Happy Valentine's Day!!
~Melissa~

Item of the Week - January 4, 2010

Happy New Year to all! For many today is the first work/school day of the new year, and I hope its going well! I try not to make resolutions that I can't keep, but this year, I will feature a single item every Monday, the featured item of the week! I will also include a special gift or discount for my loyal blog readers, each week the item and the special bonus will be different and you will have to come back here to my blog to see the item, the bonus and to get the code to put in the notes to seller at checkout.

The very first featured item is (drum roll please)......

Mi Corazon - Trio of Heart Shaped Washcloths


These are too cute and so much fun to make!! I am having a blast making these in all sorts of colors. Keep your eyes peeled, I have an interesting assortment of Valentine's Day themed colors in stock!

These washcloths are so cool, that I have already gotten a request for 20 of these guys!!

OK, now for the good stuff - the special bonus for my blog readers - purchase this set of heart shaped washcloths between now and midnight on Sunday, January 10 and get a free pair of cotton face scrubbers. Simply put "I heart you" in the notes to seller at checkout and I will automatically include your free gift.

Happy Shopping!
~Melissa~

Valentine's Day Happenings

Valentine's Day has never really been a big deal for me. My mom always gave us a little box of chocolate and conversation hearts and a cute card. My hubby and I exchanged small gifts for a while, but lately we haven't done much. This year however, I think we will plan a "grown-up" fondue dinner which will occur after my son has fallen asleep (hopefully we can wait that long to eat!).

My son is 20 months old now and thinks that coloring is the greatest thing in the whole wide world (next to milk and Disney's Cars movie). So, I plan on cutting out little contruction paper hearts and helping him made Valentine's Day cards for my parents, my sister and my grandmothers. I think they will get a big kick out of his artwork and he will have a ball coloring all weekend long.

Here's an example of his fabulous artwork:

Look out Picasso!

If paper hearts aren't your thing, take a look at these heart earrings that are available in my Etsy shop:


I have them available in several colors, click here to see what I have in stock.


Don't forget, there is still time to enter my One World One Heart Giveway! I'll be drawing a winner on Feb 11.

Happy Valentine's Day!
~Melissa~