Valentine Pillow Talk Project

Sarah Essex
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Who loves you more than mama? Nobody! Lovers come and go, but family is family, so why not show your mama you care this Valentine’s Day, with a pillow in her honor!

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Pick up a plain pillowcase at a discount store (it shouldn’t cost you more than $10) and some iron-on letters, and you should be able to design a cushy gift in about 20 minutes.

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Materials:

  • Pillow case

  • Iron- on Letters

  • Paint Marker

Tools:

  • Iron

Instructions:

1. Pick out the letters for our phrase and lay them out on the pillow as you want them to appear, leaving space at the bottom to handwrite “Mama”.

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2. Iron-on each letter according to directions on package.

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3. In a casual, freehand manner, write “Mama” at the bottom of pillow.

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4. Iron the entire case to ‘set’ the ink and the adhesive from the letters.

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