Lent is upon us, and Mirabelle is trying to be a good girl and resist the sinful temptation of sweets. Whether you follow Lent or try not to disappoint your waistline, here is a happy compromise with your conscience. By only aiming for the pictures rather than the actual subjects, we shall satisfy our visual senses... rather than our palates. Yet those pictures are so darn tasty, the satisfaction goes far beyond the visual! Let's treat ourselves and feast our eyes!
Without faffing about and without flinching, while floating like a cloud in a flurry of flimsy fluffly fickleness, I found a way to express how much I love you, how deep I care, without even writing the word down or saying it face to face; I just took advantage of the fact Valentine's Day is Lovers Day to express my feelings for you! Tomorrow is bright.
Sources: (1) Leave out the words and say it with hearts instead, you cannot go wrong if you go the pared down way, with this simple yet message-effective letterpress Valentine notecard from Claire Short @ Shortgrassdesigns via Etsy.(2) Bring sexy back all the way from Ukraine with this naughty bookmark with 'Personalised Valentine Tattoo on Sexy Butt', from Olena Mysnyk @ MyBookmark via Etsy. (3) Playing with old tin has never been so much fun for jewellery designer Kate Hamilton-Hunter, turning the mundane into the costume piece, like this 'Floral Romantic Bracelet', available to purchase from her site. (4) Keep it odd (as a number!) and decorative with Hotel Chocolat's 'Dark Lemon Truffles Keepsake Heart'. (5) Intellectualise it if you may with some poetry; here an extract from Pablo Neruda, via Department of the Interior. (6) And finally picture it and show it off! Photography love duo Bryan and Mae pictured by Bobbi + Mike, via Style Me Pretty. Love ain't dead baby, it's only the beginning!
But hang on, love wouldn't be so without its share of pain, right? 'Love Hurts' by Incubus:
'Love hurts...
But sometimes it's a good hurt
And it feels like I'm alive.
Love sings,
When it transcends the bad things.
Have a heart and try me,
'Cause without love I won't survive'.
Here today, gone tomorrow: here's the kind of vintage that won't last in time, yet last in effect, with nostalgia galore that whips us back like an ice cream to the sunny side up of British seaside, with edible creamy colours and flavours that sound like Knickerbocker Glory, Peach Melba and Neapolitan, resistance is futile!
Source: From British chocolatier, cocoa grower and chocolate reinventor Hotel Chocolat.(1) Header from their 'Summer Sizzlers' email newsletter (July 2011). 'Knickerbocker Glory' available in (2) + (4) Neapolitan and (3) Peach Melba flavours. (5) 'Making Sandcastles' Raspberry Chocolate Puddles. (6) Sweeter than a Carry On film, the 'Carry On Gift Box'!
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