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Feb 14th 2010

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Posted in Personal at 6:01pm


From Lisa Kettel

I used to be a bit anti-Valentine’s Day. Well, anti-the commercialisation of Valentine’s Day, which ultimately clouded anything that was actually nice about a day for celebrating love as opening and as cheesily as one wants. But what can I say? I’m crazy in-love with an amazing guy who treats me beautifully every single day. So even without a day like today, I would still feel like the luckiest woman in the world to have such a perfect man! I still wanted to do something a little extra-special today though, because I’ve never ever celebrated Valentine’s Day before. Fortunately he didn’t scrunch up his nose about it. :p

Both of us are pretty broke at the moment so I came up with the idea of not spending any money. We’d basically have to be creative and use whatever we had on hand to make gifts. I decided to write him a letter and make it look a bit fancy with some fun folding. He wrote me a beautiful poem and made a funny and cute Venn Diagram. We actually ended up giving them to each other on Wednesday because we couldn’t wait and weren’t entirely sure if we’d get to spend today together, which we’ve actually been able to do. We’ve had a really relaxed day, watched TV, made food, etc.

Vintage Valentine
From Kate Bangs.

I hope you’re all having a wonderful Sunday and a thoroughly gorgeous Valentine’s Day if you celebrate it. V-Day shouldn’t be just about romantic love, but every kind of love, so we shouldn’t forget to let our friends and family know how much we love them! Much love to all my readers. ♥

Vintage Valentines Day Postcard
From riptheskull.

Hoot and H"owl"
From Amy Honey.

xox, Sam

I tried posting last night, but my site was down. :( Anyway, here we go…

Tyler, my nephew

  • My brand new nephew, Tyler! He was born on January 13 at 12:06pm. I may be biased, but he’s perfect, really! Hehe. :D
  • While he’s technically not the only thing I’ve been loving this week, he’s the only one I really care about sharing! Hehe.

TJ

xox, Sam

Jan 7th 2010

Things I Love Thursday

Posted in Personal, Things I Love at 5:26pm

Visual Goals 2010: Pages 3-4 Visual Goals 2010: Pages 6-7
Some of my goals for 2010

  • San Smith’s blog posts about how she turns her goals into wonderfully illustrated and colourful visual representations inspired me to turn a boring list into something fun. Visual goals also remind me of the vision boards that The Secret talked about. Check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of San’s tutorial.
  • Anticipating the arrival of my new nephew, Tyler. My brother’s partner is due on January 18 but judging by the activity of recent days Little Mister might grace us with his presence early! In preparation, I have been shopping for a gift; I am probably getting way too much enjoyment out of buying baby stuff…
  • Weet-Bix for breakfast, preferably with some tinned peaches and yoghurt!

What are you loving this week?

xox, Sam