Valentine's No-Nos

As the official day of love is fast approaching, here are:

Ten Things I Don't Want for Valentine's Day

Bath Products: While I love soaking in a hot tub, most of the products made for that purpose either irritate my skin or smell weird to me. Also, I have a thousand bath bombs from holidays and birthdays past that will likely last me until the end of time.

Candy: Hello, diabetic here (everyone forgets except me.) Sugarfree is fine, but I keep a healthy stock of that at all times to keep me from the temptation of the sugary stuff. Also, the older I get, the less I want sweet things. Salty chips, on the other hand, are my kryptonite.

Flowers: Too expensive. I just sent my mom roses for Valentine's Day and they wanted an arm and part of a leg.

Fuzzy Socks: While I love them, I currently own most of the fuzzy socks in the world. Seriously, like three drawers full.

Gift Cards: I'm really not shopping much anymore. I still haven't used all the ones I got during the holidays.

Nonfiction Books: Alas, I have enough stacked and waiting for me to keep me reading until 2025.

Perfume: Allergic to all of it in my old age, I'm afraid. Plus spending the day of love itching a rash is not my idea of fun.

PJs: I don't wear them (gasp!) If I'm cold, I sleep in an old t-shirt and even older leggings.

Romance Books: How to say this diplomatically . . . I'm too straight and soft-hearted to find reverse harem or motorcycle gang orgies or bully (really, we love bullies now?) stories romantic, how about that? Seriously, unless they're written by Mary Balogh, whose backlist I already own and who won't have a new book out until November, no thanks.

Smart Phone: I still hate them. The kids keep threatening to get me one. I keep threatening to accidentally on purpose drop it in the washing machine. Stalemate.

My guy and I are going out to dinner as our mutual gift to each other, which has become our habit for nearly all the holidays now. What don't you want for Valentine's Day? Let me know in comments.

Old Loves & Such

My guy kindly bought me my favorite Chinese take out the other night, and my fortune cookie offered up an interesting story starter: This sounds sweet, right? Only the first thing I thought of was an old love coming back from the dead . . . . must be October. In other lovely news, my favorite hand-dyed thread artist, Lorraine from Colour Complements , is moving her business from Etsy to her own web site. Many of my favorite sellers on Etsy are leaving due to the whole "free shipping" coercion debacle, which has also soured me on the site. To show support I did a little shopping at Lorraine's web site and got in these: I love her threads and trims; you simply can't buy anything like them anywhere. Her work makes my specialty thread box look like a treasure chest: At night I'm spending just as hour working on quilting the scrap project runner, and I'm making slow progress: I'll keep quilting the runner while I try to decide on a design for t...

Love Means This

Invested in a couple of hand-dyed bundles from one of my favorite fabric artists. This one said "Make me into something for Valentine's Day." So I went for a quilted and embellished tote. I kept thinking about what love means to me as I worked on it. Here's the finished tote. Although I was tempted to embellish with beads and pins, I got sick and only felt well enough to do a little stitching every night. As I worked I thought about how often love seems disappointing to us, especially when it fails to live up to our expectations. But now that I've experienced love in many forms, I can say that it's made me a better person than I might have been without it. Love is a precious thing, and should be appreciated in all its forms. I am very grateful for the love of my guy, my child and my friends who have stuck with me all these years. That's you two, in case you're wondering. :) Also finally found something to do with a ve...

Progress

My guy is back home safe, sound and exhausted. I think he just realized he's over seventy now. :) I didn't finish a sewing project while he was gone, but I did make some progress on the beach bag. I've tacked down all the fabric elements on top of the old backing fabric I quilted. Time to break out the embroidery thread box and have some fun.

nightsmusic said…

We don't exchange gifts for Valentine's day. We generally don't for Christmas either and the older I get, the less I 'want' anything because I can pretty much afford anything I'd want or need. The girls don't get us anything and they usually go out to dinner with their husbands. Occasionally, hubs and I do that too. That suits me just fine :)

February 4, 2020 at 10:02 AM

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