Valentine’s Day!  Hearts and cupids and love — Oh My!

Even as a child, Valentine’s Day has always been my favorite holiday.  I can remember vividly making a large decorated envelop in my 3rd grade art class in order to hold all my treats.  In 10th grade, I had a super crush on an older boy named Will.  I desperately wanted to send him a Valentine but didn’t want to necessarily single him out.  For weeks I devised a devious plan to send everyone a Valentine so he wouldn’t think he was too special.  Low and behold, a week before the big day he got kicked out of school for smoking (or maybe it was drinking- I don’t rightly remember.)  My fifteen year old spirit was utterly crushed!  I ended up sending it to his house, and believe it or not, I still have his reply in my keepsake tin.

When I first met Chucklebutt, he completely spoiled me that first Valentine’s Day.  He did a whole 14 days of February theme.  Every day I received a sweet sentiment from him.  The gifts were as simple as a love note on my car to a barber shop quartet sent to my place of work.  The two gifts that were most impressive were a car wash and flowers.  While I was working at a local sound studio, Chuck loaded up a sponge plus a few gallons of water on his bike and proceeded to surprise me by giving Ms. Hecate a bath.  That’s a pretty tall order when you only have so much room on a bike.  A few days later, he completely decorated my car in roses, carnations and daisies.  When I left work, I was completely floored by the beautiful sight.  Every nook and cranny had a flower sticking out of it.  It was amazing and you should have seen me cruising down Interstate 40!

So needless to say, I seriously dig Valentine’s Day.  I may have mellowed a bit since being married, but my heart still goes a flutter with all the red, white and pink.

My momma knows that I love this holiday.  Check out what she made for me.

Isn’t it precious?!

Thank you Mamasita!  I love it!

In other Valentine news, I am part of two swaps.  The first one is:

Vintage Valentine Swap

This is being sponsored by Susan over at Rabbit Hollow Prims.  I am almost finished with my doll but have some last minute details to add.  Cindy is my partner over at Thimbleprims Studio and she does amazing work.  I can’t wait to see what she’s done.  I’ll admit, I am bit intimidated because her work is so amazing.

The next swap I did was over at Cathy Scalise’s:

We have to wait until the big day to actually post pics, but I’ll leave everyone with a teaser of what I made for my partner Haley.

I opened her package yesterday and the stuff she gave me is so fun.  Chucklebutt hasn’t taken pics yet, but I look forward to sharing with everyone on Sunday.

Incidentally, we’re headed up to Jerome for the weekend and I am so excited.  It seems like everyone in the whole world has been getting snow except for us.  I have my fingers crossed that there will still be snow on the mountain come Saturday.  I’m looking forward to a weekend spent outdoors.  It’s always an adventure with Jiggle Puff and Chucklebutt!    Mind you we both a crap load of work to get done before Friday.  If we don’t kill each other or pass out from a lack of sleep it will be all good!  (What do the Aussies say?  Oh yeah, “No worries!”)

Hope everyone is well in blogland!