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Wondering if that new appliance will make that special someone swoon with joy this Valentine’s Day? Maybe a trip through this week’s MomGadget Red Hot Bloggers Carnival will help you make up your mind.

Now, I could tell you about a few so-so gifts I’ve gotten, but a non-blogging friend received some mindblowingly bad gifts and asked me to share her worst Valentine’s ever, instead. That was the year she got a new stove so she could cook 5 course dinners for the lemon in her life. Not so bad? She got to pay it off, too, because he charged it on her card. That was her last Valentine’s celebration with him. Now, I’m not saying that a gift that bad could kill the romance, but why chance it?

Gayla, from MomGadget shares her story of the racing T-shirt that won her most unromantic gift award. I think even the most romance challenged person would be shocked by this one. It’s almost as bad as giving a Ravens fan a Colts T-shirt. Guys, if you’re going to give an unromantic gift, at least make sure the woman will like it a little!

If you’d like to join in with your Valentine’s Day gift horror story, there’s still time. I’ll add your tale of horror right up to that special day.

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We’re making dragons to celebrate Chinese New Year. All you need is:

• an egg carton (the cardboard kind)
• pipe cleaners
• scissors
• decorative papers and glue
• picture of a dragon’s face or crayons to draw your own face

Cut the carton apart and flip the parts that hold the eggs over to form three or four segments of the dragon. Cover the segments with your decorative papers (or paint them with Tempura paint.) Poke a hole in one side of the two end segments and two holes in your middle segments so you can connect them with the pipe cleaners. Add the dragon’s face. We added some glitter and sequins to really make our dragons sparkle.

By the way, 2007 is the year of the boar, so pig crafts would be a great idea, too.

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