Happy Valentine's Day with lots of Love!

I love Valentine's Day....always have, always will.

It started with my mother and "the red food".

We would always have a Valentine Dinner involving "red food"...

spaghetti, tomato soup, noodles & toast...

it had to be red.

For dessert...sometimes my mother's dark chocolate cake..

or something from the bakery.

We exchanged Valentines and there

were decorations of some kind.

When I had children of my own,

we always celebrated Valentine's Day

in much the same way that I grew up with.

I think my kids even still eat red food on February 14th

and exchange Valentines with those they love.

This year, I didn't get my Valentine's Day cards

finished in time to be mailed and I'm disappointed about that.

I've had a few issues that I'm dealing with right now but it will

soon be good again.

I did get my annual Valentine treats finished for my workmates.

When this came in the mail...

everything else stopped until I had a chance to peruse all of the Valentine pages...

so many lovely things...

I knew Elyse was going to have an article in this issue and as soon as

I saw it, I knew what my project for my friends would be...

I started hoarding collecting toilet tissue tubes...

for weeks and weeks, everywhere you looked in our home

there were empty toilet tissue tubes until I amassed quite a collection

which you have seen in several posts

Here, then, is what I made...

They are filled with a variety of chocolates, wrapped in

tissue paper because I couldn't find crepe paper anywhere...

decorated with doilies and vintage Valentine images and tied off

with red twine. I decided to fringe the ends of the tissue paper to make

them look more festive.

The basket is all packed up, ready to take to work tomorrow..

It looks like my little muse would like to go, too!

Tomorrow evening, David and I will have a "red dinner", although

this year it might be tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches as

we both have lunch engagements tomorrow.

Whatever our meal, we'll enjoy it together in our home...

with a fire in the fireplace and a new episode of

 Downton Abbey to watch.
He is my forever Valentine!

I will give David this card...using the above image I found on Pinterest

I wish all of my friends who are kind enough to visit here, a very

Happy Valentine's Day...with love

Eat red food...

and chocolate, of course



XOXO

Joyce