How To Make A Heart To Break (Heart of Stone Part 2)

A few weeks ago, I mentioned making a heart piñata for my sister's birthday to smash to pieces. It was SO fun and cheap and easy to do, so I thought I'd share how:

Here's what you need:

*A heart-shaped ballon.  I went to dollar tree to get it. Heck yes.

* Make sure you have flour, water, and a little elmer's glue.

* Newspaper

*Scissors

*Medium-sized container to mix ingredients, and another container to set it on.

( please note NCIS in the background :))

1.Cut newspaper into strips.

2.Mix about 2 cups water and enough flour to make into an Elmer's glue-like paste.

(Add just about 2 TBS of elmer's glue for stickiness.)

3.Dip strips into paste

4.  Run fingers down strip to get off excess.

5.Place on top of balloon and use fingers to smooth out.

6.Cover entire balloon with moistened strips.

7.Set on top of emtpy container to dry so it won't stick to any surfaces.

Also, after it dried for a few hours, I hung it up to dry completely, then I spray painted it outside. Then, you stick a pin in the bottom and pop the ballon once its dry and pull it out the bottom. This leaves room to stuff candy, paper, goodies, etc. Then you can just tape the bottom shut.

1.Hang it up

2.Smash it up

3. Enjoy the stress relief.

Heart of Stone

This past Thursday my little sister Hannah turned 21....ah! Wow, I am still in shock, where does the time go?!  The poor thing has had like 4 awful birthdays in a row, including getting deathly sick ON her birthday every year! So this year, we were determined to make it AWESOME! And awesome it was.

Has anyone seen the movie Valentine's Day? Not the scary one that has some serial killer in it (I saw that on TV a while ago, and remembered it when I looked up this picture...haha). But this one:

WAY cute movie, with like 50 gazillion stars in it. But in the movie Jessica Biel throws an anti-valentine's party anf Jennifer Garner smashes a heart-shaped piñata to pieces after getting her heart broken.

Hannah always wanted to do this, and after having two really crappy boyfriends this past year, we figured this was the perfect time!

And heck, I knew I could enjoy it too after my, well, we'll call it my "less than awesome relationship."

So, I made her a heart piñata

(very fun and easy, more details on that later)

and we had a group of our girlfriends get together and after much eating and laughing and sucking at bowling, we took pieces of paper and wrote down the names of boys who had done us wrong, then made letters to them getting out our frustrations and put them 

along with some insulting caricatures of the said boys and candy in the piñata,

 and proceeded to smash the little bugger to pieces

 and then danced on the ashes.

It was flipping UH-MAZING!! I totally recommend this, even if you havent had your heart broken...this is like stinking therapy yo! We even taped it up and did it all over again. Girl time, is the best time.

And you want to know what was hilariously ironic?? My ex, the reason I wanted to obliterate this heart, helped me shop for the spray paint to paint the piñata with... and it gets better... the color he picked out? Stone. That's right, the color was called "stone."  How fitting, considering I always said he has a heart of stone. PAHAHAHA!