Valentine's Day Mailboxes

A quick google search for mini-mailboxes will yield pages and pages of people who have made these super simple and adorable little mailboxes for Valentines' Day.

(I borrowed this picture from another site because I forgot to take pictures of mine pre-decorated.)

You can find them in the $1 bin at Target as early as Christmas and through the month of January. Last year they had pink, red and white. They are small - about 4 1\2 inches long.

I made these for my nieces and nephew last year. I simply wrapped the body of the mailbox in paper and made a simple LOVE stamp for the flag.

I used my Cricut to cut out their initials and glued it to the front of the lid. For the two girls, I used the pink mailboxes and wrapped the monogram in pink ribbon. 

For my nephew's box, I used a red mailbox, a more boy-ish/blue and red patterned paper and a simple monogram. I couldn't resist adding a little ribbon to his flag!

Then I filled them all with candy - everyone got hugs, kisses, sweet tarts and chocolate goodies (I may have ate a few hugs and kisses while making them - yum. . . chocolate.)

My nephew got EXTREME sour heart-shaped tarts.

The girls got heart-candy rings.

Rumor has it this year Target has metallic silver and pink! Bummer because I still have a whole bag of these left over from last year. Maybe I'll scoot over to Target and buy just one or two of the new ones. After all I can use these for Christmas, birthdays, get well packages, to welcome a new neighbor . . . the possibilities are endless.

Happy Valentine's Day!