Category: Prattling On

Friday Favorites: Love’s in Need of…

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History

The origins of Valentine’s Day may be dark and mostly disputed, but this article sheds a little light on all the possible origin stories.

Music

Here is a link to my Sweet Love Valentine Playlist on Spotify & Apple Music

Humor

Please download and enjoy my annual Free Print & Tuck Downloadable Valentine. Download them here.

Print, fold, and tuck these cheeky valentines into lunches, pockets, and laptop bags. Print on copy paper or card stock and slip into a 4 Bar size envelope (or not). Be sure to print in landscape mode and at the best quality your home printer can output. 

Comfort

In case you’re curious where the fork the term “spooning” came from.

Romance

I’ve been buying old Harlequin Romance novels for a project and I came across this story of a couple who recreated the covers of romance novels as part of an exhibition for International Women’s Day in 2011. So fun!

Read more about the history of Harlequin Romance novels.

Oh, and Happy Lunar New Year!

I just love this Lunar New Year stamp series by The US Postal Service. 2021 is the Year of the Ox. You can find 2020 Year of the Rat stamps on Etsy if you’re keen to start collecting them.

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The very air between them seemed to crackle…

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To the untrained eye this may look like I have plans for a weekend curled up reading mild romance novels. I’ve been visiting the Lions Club weekly to scoop up these and some lovely hard cover books for a couple projects. If you came out to see me on Saturday you may have noticed the paper valentine garland hung on the front of my booth. I had hoped to make at least a few of these to sell but only had time to pop out this prototype using stamps.

If you read the flags closely you can see I made this valentine bunting out of Harlequin Romance novel pages. I am certain not one person realized it, but I knew. And it made me smile.

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Friday Favorites: waffle house, a piano, and a recipe

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The folks at Bitter Southerner published a hardcover book of Micah’s photographs from inside Waffle Houses all over the South which first appeared on their website in 2019. Waffle House Vistas is currently sold out, but you can get on the list to be notified when avaialble.

Looking to get lost down another rabbit hole? Turn off your TV and log on to Folkstreams.net for a deep dive into Americana. Folkstream’s catalog includes documentaries of foodways, quilting, blacksmithing, music, and more.

If you’re looking for something to watch this weekend the Australian mini-series Upright is a fearless, hilarious, and sweet road trip across the Nullarbor with a down on his luck musician, a runaway, and a piano. I’m embarrassed to say it took me until the third episode to realize the title was about the piano. Available here.

I’m on a quest to try find the best one pot pasta dishes. Why can’t all recipes be this cute? Recipe link here

I would spend dusk in this glowing treehouse every day.

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