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Love Letters

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February 12, 2010

Well this Sunday is Valentine’s Day, and while we don’t usually spend a lot of money or do anything too major we do like to take a moment to be sweet to each other- especially when doing something like exchanging heartfelt cards or enjoying a low key dinner doesn’t cost very much at all. And this year John actually had a super cute (and free) idea that not only gave us something to do this year but also something to look forward to next year. His big concept: let’s write V-day letters to each other that we can’t open until February 14th of 2011.

I immediately loved the idea because so much will change in the next year (we’ll be bringing home our first baby in May so we’re sure we have tons of memorable milestones and life-changing adventures ahead of us). We think it’s sweet that this do-not-open-til-next-year V-day letter will be a time capsule of sorts, full of all the excitement and anticipation of things to come. So that’s what we’ll be doing (along with dinner and a movie at a fun eat-in theatre).

And while we’re on the subject of love letters, we adored this amazing DIY idea that we saw over on This Home Sweet Home:

It’s actually a print you can buy from Pearl and Earl but we think it serves as great made-it-myself inspiration since anyone can take a meaningful poem, song lyric, love letter from the past, or any other grouping of meaningful words and type them out in a simple typewriter font (hint: try Courier). The combination of the white paper with the white mat and the white frame is lovely to us, but of course you can alter those elements to work with your home’s aesthetic (wouldn’t a navy mat and a dark brown frame look handsome in a deep and moody bedroom?). Heck, you can even change the color of the font and the paper (soft cream letters on tan stationery would look pretty cool). So we just thought we’d pass that along since we obviously have love letters of all kinds on the brain for V-day this year.

But what’s on your mind when it comes to the impending pink-heart-riddled holiday? Do you celebrate V-day? Do you hate it? Do you use it only as an excuse to eat too many fancy chocolate truffles? Do you remember when you used to hand out those paper Valentine’s cards at school? I do, my mom made me give them to everyone so I didn’t exclude anyone, which would have been nice except that I was mortified because boys were gross and had cooties. Oh those were the days.

Images found here and here.

Psst- Looking for more Valentine’s day projects and ideas? Check out this post full of fun little romantic suggestions and this post all about what I got John last year for V-day. Oh and here’s what John got me in return (gotta love a scavenger hunt).

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