Although today specifically is a celebration of love, don’t forget, there are still 364 other days in which to celebrate L-O-V-E in all its many shapes and forms.
May today find you surrounded by love. Whether you are celebrating loving yourself, loving another, or simply being loved. 💋
{Jule London as “Miss February” from her gatefold album Calendar Girl | 1956 | Found HERE}
Hello, February, you beautiful month of L❤️VE! Oh, you bring us so much this month. We’re ready for new adventures to unfold, new places to discover and new surroundings on the horizon.
You bring with you the “Year of the Horse” and I think this fire horse shall come charging into its year as we leave the snake behind. We’re ready for the birthdays we celebrate this month. We’re ready for the school break you bring and the chance that gives us to check a few things off that old “Honey Do” list together! We’re ready for cold fresh days with the promise of snow in the air.
We’re ready to hunker down on cold evenings with a good book in hand or a favourite cozy movie and just be, breathing in and happily exhausted from the extra hard work we’re putting in on a new project.
We’re ready to move forward as always with intention, hearts open wide and embrace all that you have to offer. Here’s to candlelight, kitchen dance parties, pancakes for dinner and hot chocolate filled afternoon walks. Welcome, February!
{Babar Goes Skiing | Laurent de Brunhoff | New York/Random House | 1969 | Pinned HERE}
💗 Happy Valentine’s Day! 💗
May your day be filled celebrating L-O-V-E in all its many shapes and forms.
{American film actress Debra Paget wearing a green showgirl costume of ostrich feathered hat and embroidered bodice | Circa 1950’s | Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}
Hello February, we’re very excited for your coming. For you bring along with you St. Valentine’s Day and a winter break from school which feels luxurious this time of year. It gives way to the opportunity to move more fully to our own beat even if only for a short time.
We’re ready for our long winter evenings to continue marching on for a while yet. We’re savouring nightfall with our eventide rituals of drinking tea enriched with lemon and honey or hot chocolates studded with marshmallows and watching cozy movies while snuggled under blankets.
We’re ready for more “breakfast for dinner” nights in which we feast on scrambled eggs, bacon and biscuits or pancakes dotted with blueberries or waffles with lashings of butter and syrup.
We’re ready to continue to enjoy winter. Slowly and surely the earth is awakening. I see bulbs shooting up with their green heads from the soil and the smell of damp earth permeates the air. But, I’m not quite ready for Spring yet, I’ll enjoy her when she arrives, but I like each season to have its due.
We’re still keeping our fingers crossed for one snow day in there, where school is closed and we get to stay home reading books and chatting while lingering over a second cup coffee and stopping mid sentence to watch the snow fall and breathe it all in.
We’re ready for quiet weekends mixed in with long London strolls seeing where our feet take us, stopping for coffee and pastries when we need a break to warm up again. We’re ready for all that you bring in this last month of Winter. Welcome, February! We greet you with arms open wide.
{Walt Disney “Once Upon a December” poster, 1954 | Found HERE | Pinned HERE}
💗 Happy Valentine’s Day! 💗
Although today specifically celebrates love, there are 364 (365 this year with the Leap Year) days in which to celebrate L-O-V-E in all its many shapes and forms.
May today find you surrounded by love. Whether you are celebrating loving yourself, loving another, or being loved. 💋
{Publicity still | Rita Hayworth from “Tonight and Every Night” by Robert Coburn | Columbia, 1945 | Pinned HERE}
Hello, February. I don’t know how you got here so quickly?
January had moments that felt like a whirlwind, as storms battered our island home. Yet at the same time, there were moments of stillness, punctuated by the glow of beautiful crisp morning sunrises. And we’re going to continue to welcome the changing light while savouring evenings still-made cozy by candlelight and cups of tea with honey and lemon.
We’re ready for birthdays, the Lunar New Year, Valentine’s Day and the extra day you will gift us with this month on the 29th. We’re ready for the confetti shower of red, white and pink that you will sprinkle over us in this season of L-O-V-E!
We’re ready to spend those cold sunny mornings sitting on the beach, drinking coffee and watching the waves roll in. We’re ready to don our walking boots over the winter school break and head out on our adventures.
We’re still holding out for the promise of snow and a day wrapped up under blankets, sipping hot chocolate while we watch the flakes gently fall. We’re still manifesting all the hygge. Candlelight, good music and french toast casserole drizzled with maple syrup for dinner are all still on the cards, even if spring is starting to knock on the door.
Welcome, February, we’re ready for you.
{Rhonda Fleming, US actress, wearing a red sleeveless top while looking into a red hand-held mirror as she applies make-up in a studio portrait, against a light blue background, circa 1955. A red heart-shaped mark on her chin. | Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}
💗 Happy Valentine’s Day! 💗
To me, Valentine’s Day is a celebration of L-O-V-E in all its many shapes and forms, and although it’s highlighted on this day, there are 364 other days in the year when it should be celebrated too.
May your day be filled with love in all its many shapes and forms.
{American actress, singer and dancer Debbie Reynolds, circa 1955. Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}
Hello, February. We’re ready for the birthdays you bring this month and a day solely dedicated to the celebration of L-O-V-E in all its many shapes and forms.
We’re ready to keep moving into this new year at a slow and steady rhythm; cherishing the peaceful calm of winter. No, we’re not done with Lady Winter yet and we hope that the she will blow us a snowy kiss from her frosted lips before spring dawns to pull us out of our cozy winter-hibernation.
We’re ready to feast on breakfast for dinner on wintry nights, with maple syrup running over tall stacks of pancakes, accompanied by crispy bacon and coffee. We’re ready to nestle, in the comfort of hot chocolate and popcorn, while watching much-loved old movies. And, we’re happy to continue warming ourselves with homemade soups and hearty stews.
We’re ready to spend the evening wrapped up in a good book. We’re ready to drink wine and indulge in deep conversations that somehow manifest on winter evenings and last until the wee small hours of the morning when you suddenly realise the time, and have to scurry to bed before the alarm goes off. We’re ready to listen to music by candlelight and dance in the kitchen while we’re cooking dinner together.
And we will be ready for the changes in light, both morning and night, as the days lengthen and spring signals its inevitable arrival. Albeit, far too soon for our liking.
{1950s Ski Girl Pin-Up by E.B. Segner | Found HERE | Pinned HERE}
{Ellen Barbara Segner (1901 – 2001) was an American Postwar and Contemporary artist and illustrator who is most well known for creating the artwork for the Little Miss Sunbeam ad campaign, as well as the Dick & Jane children’s book series. She was one of the few female pin-up and glamour artists working for numerous publications.}
💗 Happy Valentine’s Day! 💗
I hope your day is filled with love in all its many shapes and forms. xo
{Dorothy Hart, 1940s | Pinned HERE}
Hello, February. I’m not sure how you arrived so quickly? January has kept us busy beyond measure, so I somehow wasn’t expecting you quite yet, but we’re happy that you are here! And on this first day of your reign, you have ushered in with you the Lunar New Year. The Year of the Tiger. May it be a year that brings good fortune and luck to us all.
We’re keeping our fingers crossed that you continue to bring chilly days and maybe, just maybe a snowy day. We’re ready for hot chocolates with marshmallows and whipped cream on slow Saturday afternoons while we watch old movies. We’re ready for more chances to catch our breath while lingering at the table when dinner is over listening to music.
We’re ready for the celebration of L-O-V-E that you herald in this month and all the red, white and pink that colours our world with a rosy hue. We’re ready for pancakes for dinner on frosty nights and copious amounts of tea and the chance to be still and read. We’re ready to continue relishing in the season of winter when all is quiet at night and we can hear the foxes crying out under the stars.
We’re ready for all that you have to offer. Welcome!
{Lore Pemberton, The Quilter’s Cottage, Found HERE | Pinned HERE}