I'm still feeling a bit "lost in time", after weeks of rather monotonous winter weather.
For some reason (or rather - no reason), I've been thinking all week that on Friday it will be Valentine's Day - here in Sweden known as Alla Hjärtans Dag = All Hearts' Day" ... Only to suddenly realise, just as I started preparing this post today, that no, that's not until Saturday!
But I decided to go ahead and post this for Friday anyway. Who knows - the need for some extra heartfelt good wishes might perhaps be even bigger on Friday the 13th...!
I've never really been in the habit of doing a lot extra of decorations especially for All Hearts' Day. But I put a table runner with embroidered hearts on the living room table...
... and hung some red hearts on the branches in the vase on the old chest in the same room.
That vase, by the way, is really just plain brown, but in the photo below it has been given an interesting striped pattern by the sun shining in through the blinds in the window! Which just goes to show that there's always something new to discover, if one looks hard enough.
And on that note, I wish you good luck both for the 13th and the 14th.
And keep your hearts as well as your eyes open to notice the details around you!
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The botanical display in the plain stripey brown vase looks great - proving that you do not need fresh flowers to bring the living, natural world into our homes.
ReplyDeleteThanks YP. I have collected a selection of various fake flowers and leaves for that vase over the years, to vary the display for different seasons.
DeleteI love your Valentine tree. And the vase really looks like it is striped.
ReplyDeleteGinny, the funny thing is I hardly noticed it until looking at the photo!
DeleteThe Valentine tree is an unusual way to mark Valentine's Day and looks amazing. So too the stripes on the vase caused by the sun on the blinds.
ReplyDeleteThanks Addy. It has become a habit of mine to vary the (fake) decorations in that vase according to season.
DeleteI love the striped vase - beautiful effect
ReplyDeleteSiobhan
Thanks Siobhan :)
DeleteI’m wishing everybody I have a valentine/love day tomorrow as well. That way I can still do critters on Saturday.
ReplyDeleteBarbara, well there's really never a wrong day to spread a little love, is there! ❤️
DeleteYour decorations are lovely and I like the shadow stripes on the vase.
ReplyDeleteThanks River. Yes the extra decorations made by sun and shadows for that photo was a bonus!
DeleteHad you not said that the stripes were shadows from the blind, I would have thought it really was a pattern on the vase!
ReplyDeleteIt all looks very pretty and cheerful in what is not the most cheerful time of the year.
Meike, I almost had to "look twice" myself! 😉
Deleteit think your decorations are perfect, just enough, not to much and I like the tree and the embroidery a lot..
ReplyDeleteThanks Sandra :)
DeleteIsn't it lovely when something serendipitous happens, like the sun stripes on your vase?
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed, Janice :)
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