Home and Heart.....

As some of you know Valentine's Day is pretty special here, as it is also our Wedding Anniversary - I know, I know - but we really are just a couple of old fashioned romantics.....we got engaged on Valentine's Day 1996 which was so magical and special we decided to stick with the date.....

Wedding Sampler.....

.....as on both our Engagement and Wedding we had glorious sunshine, we spent three days on Tresco when we got engaged and the sun shone everyday and then when we married (very quietly one Wednesday, having lived together for six years) the sun shone again for us.....

Anyway as I have been spring cleaning recently, looking out things for charity, things to sell and things to repair, it occured to me that we live in a home that is not only full of love but full of hearts too.....

 

Love Plaque.....

 Even the kitchen is bedecked.....

Love Shelf...

Kitchen Blessings......

The sitting room has a certain theme going on too......

 

Handmade cushion.....

 Scandinavian Home.....

Then upstairs to the boudoir...

 Happily Ever After.....

Button Heart and Handmade Bag.....

 

Yes Please.....

Even the handmade things are along the same theme.....

 Handmade bag and heart.....

As this Valentine's Day I am going to carry on my Dottie Angel challenge there will be no grand gestures, just homemade goodies - and I will give thanks for the love I have in my life, not just the fact that I am blessed with a truly wonderful husband but that I love my home, my gorgeous pussycats, family and friends....

And I wish the same for all of you, that you all have someone or something to give thanks for this Valentine's Day.....

Warmest Wishes for a Wonderful Week

x x x 

I Love Tea........

One of the delights I find about being at home more is the ability to sit and enjoy a cup of tea!! I never realised all those years working that you never get the chance to sit and savour a few restful moments with a cuppa.  And I rarely got a warm one let alone a hot one...especially when I had my little shop, it was some kind of unwritten law - that you wouldn't see a customer for hours but the minute you made a cup of tea, in they would trot...Not that I am really complaining about that; I had some wonderful customers who have become good friends and I usually made them a cuppa too.....but anyway where was I ? Oh, yes - tea.

I love it!!! I have always liked to keep a variety in our cupboard but my husband would complain that all these teas would sit here month after month and never get opened - not anymore!!  I have made it my mission to try every tea I have had squirreled away in there and then some.

Even Country Living are in on the act this month - the photograph below is from this month's edition.....

Here are a few of the delicious choices we have in our collection.....

The green Jasmine tea is lovely after a meal.....

Chai is warming on a cold afternoon......

These two I picked up as they are on special offer, the slim tea (ha ha) is fennel-based which I think is a love or hate flavour - I love it which is why I picked it up.....

One of the things that I make to sell on my stall is a little envelope with a tea bag inside and a poem.  It always goes down well if you have a friend that you want to send a little good wish to.....

So lovely bloggers - sit down, make yourself a cup of tea and have a few moments of me time! ENJOY......

Warm Wishes for a Wonderful Week