All The Live Long Day: Love

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Friday, 14 February 2014

Happy Valentine's Day!

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And more importantly: HAPPY GALENTINE'S DAY!

Thursday, 14 February 2013

May your day be love-filled, and may you radiate loveliness wherever you go! Most of all, be good to yourself and give your gorgeous soul the love it deserves! I love you for being here!
Hugs & kisses,

Thursday, 6 September 2012

Then & Now - 2012

It was fun to take a then-and-now picture on our first wedding anniversary last year, so we did it again for our second! I wonder if I will still love wearing leggings next year and if Marco will be dressed in a shirt again. He's a t-shirt kinda guy, normally.

I do know that I love my husband very much, that's for sure!

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Time Flies When You're Having Fun!

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Wedding Quilt

I personally thought this day would never come. Nor did the people who kept asking me about the quilt I had told them I would make about two years ago. The back story? I asked everybody at our wedding to bring a piece of fabric that I was going to make into a memory quilt to remind Marco and me of the day and of all the people that shared it with us.
So we got married, people gave me special fabrics, and then this fabric just sat around for nearly 24 months. I was kind of apprehensive to start on the quilt. It is going to be my first one, and I was so afraid of messing it up. But now I will tackle it! It is still daunting, especially as there are quite a few materials like silk and wool that you would probably normally not quilt with. But I have managed a few smaller patchwork projects over the past months, and succeeding with those have given me the confidence to start something bigger. So far, I have only taken photos to catalogue who gave us which fabric, and washed all the pieces so that the finished blanket will not shrink. And yay! All the fabric survived! I will keep you up to date on the progress. Wish me luck!

Canadian friends gave us fabric that they used for their furniture.

My grandparents gave me a piece of corduroy from dungarees I had as a child.

My friend Saskia made a quilt block especially for us.

My uncle (via my Mama) donated a piece of my old room's curtains.

My colleague and his wife gave us a Chinese silken handkerchief.

This is a fragment of a skirt my Mama made me when I was little.

My friend Susi brought a piece of window decorating fabric from the bookshop that we used to work at together.

Our friend John once made this batique that should have become a cushion but will no go in the quilt.

My aunt surprised us with a fabric remnant of the dress that she wore as a bridesmaid at my parent's wedding.

My friend Abi parted with a whole thoughtful collection that included her son's first hat.

Now I cannot wait to cut squares out of all these!

Monday, 30 April 2012

Marco and I & other Love Stories

I submitted the story of how Marco and I fell in love to Ruche a while ago, hoping it might be selected for their Love Stories feature. And it was! If you missed it here, go check out the beginning of our relationship over at Ruche! And there are many more romantic tales to read if you're in the mood. I for one love to find out how people met!

Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Happy Love Day!

Love your self.
❤
Love cake.
❤
Love your friends.
❤
Love your kids.
❤
Love your gran.
❤
Love your partner.
❤
Love your pet.
❤
Love your (insert most loved thing/person here).

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Hope you have a little bit of love in your life. Today and on all other days!

Tuesday, 7 February 2012

A Little Booklet For Your Love

This is a really easy project I did for my husband Marco a while ago. I wanted to remind him why I think he's the top! I made this booklet for his birthday, but I thought it might be something nice to give for Valentine's Day, too. And it does not have to be for your partner. Everybody has somebody they love in their life, be it their mom, their best friend or their mailman. You get the gist.
Because my little booklet was intended for Marco's 40th birthday, I decided to think of 40 reasons for loving him. How many you would like to tell your recipient is entirely up to you.

To assemble the booklet, I cut sheets of coloured cardboard into 6 parts. I printed out the numbered reasons for my love for Marco on self-adhesive label paper, using different fonts. I cut them out smaller than the cardboard pieces and attached them. I made sure I shuffled the colours, so that the final booklet would look all nice and rainbowy.

Finally, I made holes in each cardboard piece, using a hole punch and bound them all together with a bit of ribbon. And that was it, booklet of love done. And even though I make sure I tell my husband why I love him often, he can now flick through these pages and remind himself how awesome he is any time!

P.S.: Guess who is gonna start making his way back from Canada today? Yes! It's the man I have 40 reasons to love for - and more! I cannot wait to give him a big welcome hug when he will finally walk back in the door tomorrow!

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Valentine's Day

Even though V-Day IS a highly commercialized affair, we like to celebrate our love on the day with a home-cooked 3-course meal (my present to him) and a card and a chocolate or two (his present to me).

This is the menu. I will post recipes for everything separately. I thought all the items were kinda fast-foody, as I had to cook after work, but it always takes longer than you think, doesn't it...

The photo of the kitchen conveys how disorganized I really was.

These are my Valentine's flowers. A very nice, sensibly priced bunch of tulips from Marks & Spencer. Marco said he could have bought a bunch of 12 red roses at London Bridge instead - for £80. I am glad he did not. And seriously, who would?!?

Instead, he invested some of the money he saved in a little bag from here:

The bag was filled with yummy macaroons. That's because I told him to please not get me chocolates. I'm supposed to be on a diet. He figured calories from macaroons don't count. Good man!

I also got a nice 'to my wife' card. He enjoys buying those! I love him!

This is what he got in addition to the dinner:

Lea at Leafcutter Designs makes these cute miniature letters and cards. You can tell her what you would like written and she sends them out to you together with a magnifying glass. I think they're really special. They come for all different kinds of occasions, and there are mini-parcels, too!

The one for him came with a kit to make a miniature mailbox. Squeal!