Do you or don't you send valentines?
I do....but it has to be Homemade.
......except for last year.
Having just been commissioned for the
Homemade book, I was tempted on
Etsy.com to buy this delicious
Rob Ryan print for my sweetheart of 25 years, an investment me thinks.
Over the years I have received many beautiful Valentines from my true love.
Strawberry jam toast lovingly cut to spell I love you; Poems hand written and painted onto old postcards but my all time favourite has to be the one that
Elspeth wrote about in her
Wonderful Weekend book.
A polaroid photograph of a heart, with his shoes on one side and mine on the other.
So romantic, expressing more than any words, walking the same road, each a half of the whole.
Simple ideas are the best. I love this heart shape that I found fossilized onto a rock while walking in Dorset.
Buttons or shells threaded onto fuse wire then shaped to form a heart.
Or this wooden heart with a crackle paint effect.
Paper cutouts, not quite Rob Ryan but still beautiful when lovingly crafted.
I have knitted and sewn and I have baked heart shaped cakes,
all for my valentine.
My latest labour of love is adapted from The Homemade book.
A take on the traditional victorian sand cushion.
The making ethic has now naturally passed to my teen treasure, albeit in the manner of creating a photograph.
.
Already a bit of an old hand and teaching her Mother new tricks, this was last year's model, I love the "my funny Valentine" music on the piano.
I wonder what she will produce this year.
Do you or don't you send valentines?
I do....but it has to be Homemade.
......except for last year.
Having just been commissioned for the Homemade book, I was tempted on Etsy.com to buy this delicious
Rob Ryan print for my sweetheart of 25 years, an investment me thinks.
Over the years I have received many beautiful Valentines from my true love.
Strawberry jam toast lovingly cut to spell I love you; Poems hand written and painted onto old postcards but my all time favourite has to be the one that Elspeth wrote about in her Wonderful Weekend book.
A polaroid photograph of a heart, with his shoes on one side and mine on the other.
So romantic, expressing more than any words, walking the same road, each a half of the whole.
Simple ideas are the best. I love this heart shape that I found fossilized onto a rock while walking in Dorset.
Buttons or shells threaded onto fuse wire then shaped to form a heart.
Or this wooden heart with a crackle paint effect.
Paper cutouts, not quite Rob Ryan but still beautiful when lovingly crafted.
I have knitted and sewn and I have baked heart shaped cakes,
all for my valentine.
My latest labour of love is adapted from The Homemade book.
A take on the traditional victorian sand cushion.
The making ethic has now naturally passed to my teen treasure, albeit in the manner of creating a photograph.
.
Already a bit of an old hand and teaching her Mother new tricks, this was last year's model, I love the "my funny Valentine" music on the piano.
I wonder what she will produce this year.
