…with all my favorite things! Jewelry : DH gave me a pair of pearl drop earrings (I had just been looking for a pair online yesterday!) Unfortunately, the pictures didn’t turn out. Have you ever tried to take a photo of your own ear? You’ll have to trust me, they are perfect.
Chocolate: DD gave me some chocolate and a little bear,

but my favorite present was this homemade valentine:


Since this is a day of my favorite things (raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens notwithstanding), it included yarn.
I have been working faithfully on Oblique, non-characteristically sticking to one project mainly because I really want a new sweater to wear. However, Vicki Square wrote in the new Interweave Knits “Knit anything and everything you want…” Well, then! That’s all I needed to hear. I’ve been resisting casting on for more projects, so I queued up two. Pro Bono in Storm Moon Knits Celestial Bulky in the colorway Crocodile Rock is first. I really only have one hat I like to wear these days, so I’m going to enjoy having a new hat.

I know I said I was swearing off green, but I can quit any time I want, I tell you! Please don’t call Intervention.
Of course, the best part of Valentine’s Day is my little sweetheart of a girl. Here she is at her party at school yesterday. Parties are the bomb for 5 year olds.






Courageous, optimistic, and successful.













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Wow – sounds like a perfect Valentines Day!!