Will you be my Valentine?

Thanks for the boot love yesterday, guys. I am bummed about breaking my shopping hiatus, but I feel good about the boots anyways and all your sweet comments helped.

On to V-day... yesterday I admitted that I love the holiday. It just makes me warm and fuzzy and not in a romantic sort of way. D and I don't do the fancy dinner or the gift giving or really anything at all. It just feels too forced, and we are the sort of people that end up making fun of each other instead. And this year, D is in Dubai studying Bedouin tents for a few weeks (I know, I know, lucky bastard) and he won't even be in town.

We do cards, though, because we love cards and make them for just about every occasion. I have some steep competition here, because D makes awesome cards. Witness this random assortment of cards and note that they are all made with lino cuts that he carved himself.

How insanely cute is that grinning eggplant?

Last year I made him this card. The claw is lino cut (by D actually, for a different project) and I added the red felt heart and the dripping blood. The inscription reads "you've got my heart."



Of course, I also send cards to all my family, every year. They might think it's a little strange, but I think they have fun getting them. This year, wildly excited at the prospect of my first Valentine's day with a sewing machine, I played around with stitches and colored thread.



These are simple flat cards and I used a paper punch to round the corners. I cut out hearts from my trusty outdated science publications and then spray glued them to the cards. I also printed out the lettering and mounted it on cardstock before affixing it to the cards. Then I just played around with stitching in coral and garnet. No two are exactly alike. These babies are in the mail as of this morning.

Am I weird? Do you send Valentine's day cards to friends and family?