Signs of LOVE

I've never really decorated anything other than my table for Valentine's.  But.. with all this cuteness around, I'm thinking about it. These are some of the lovely little signs and trinkets I saw at Hobby Lobby and Michaels.  Holding out to see if they go on sale after Valentine's.  Love the little flower balls.  They'd look great in my big clear glass vase.  You can never go wrong with pink!  Especially at Valentine's.  

Posting to Pink Saturday at How Sweet the Sound where a whole lot of pink can be found!  Also posting to Brambleberry Cottage's Fourteen Days of Love! (Straight to the heart.)

Wednesday Gratitude

Today is the first Gratitude party over at Heart and Home!  There are so many wonderful parties around on blogland. It's impossible to participate in all of them, all the time, even though I'd love to.  But when I saw this one on gratitude, I wanted to jump right in. I have so much to be thankful for. Right at the top of the list are these people.  The ones who really know me inside and out.  Love me, argue with me, laugh with me, cry with me, play with me, pray with me, eat with me, sleep with me, talk with me, disagree with me, clean with me, cook with me, ride with me, joke with me, need me, kiss me, hug me, get tired of me, put up with me and still love me.  My heart is full because of

 
my family!

Chocolate Eye Candy

What is Valentine's without chocolate?  My earliest recollection of Valentines is a heart shaped box of chocolates.  My dad always brought home a beautiful box of chocolates for my mom and me every Valentines when I was growing up. (Must be why I'm emotionally attached to it!) Now, I just automatically expect a box on V-day. One year, hubby waited too long (he always buys gifts 30 minutes prior) and could not find a box.  He really surprised me by being creative (not normally his style) and bought every kind of candy bar he could find.  Then he wrote me the sweetest letter telling what each one represented, i.e. Milky Way- "You are my universe, you send me over the moon and stars, Payday- That's how I felt the day I married you," etc etc.  Needless to say, that letter is kept close by in a drawer. I always buy chocolates for my children. They've come to expect it too. The dr does not like chocolate!  Can you imagine a person not liking chocolate?  I don't know how we became one with such a fundamental difference! (I'm slowly trying to convert him.)   A dear friend of mine said when she dies, she hopes to be buried in a vat of chocolate.  That's pretty much how I feel about it.

This post is a double one.  I'm participating in a fun party over at Brambleberry Cottage- 14 days of love.  First day is "how do you make this day stand out from the rest?"  Chocolate.  We don't binge on it every day, although I'd love to.  But at my house, you're allowed to eat as much chocolate as you want on the 14th.  The only other day which comes close is Oct 31st. 

Then, of course, this is my next to last post on the color challenge, romantic eye candy.  The color today is brown chocolate.  Wonder when the color word was changed in the decor world?  Sounds much more delicious and beautiful.  So enjoy these chocolate images! (Thanks to all the photographers/artists/owners of them all!)  Two of my favorites are the ginormous Chocolate Fountain at the Bellagio in Vegas and the solid chocolate room by Godiva.  All of these are simply, chocolicious!

Flowers, food and edible treats-

Things to wear...

 

Around the house...

  

Gifts ...

Places to go....

Ways to get there...