Day 3: Valentines Day

I gotta tell you I'm not a huge fan of Valentines Day.  It's full of potential, yet it never seems to come full circle for anyone.  It was a much better celebration when I was a little girl and you got to decorate your card box, take it to school, gather oodles of cheap ass valentines and then read them all looking for little clues that you might be their special one.. ..like if you got "the big card" from the store pack or maybe a piece of candy tucked into the envelope.  They don't even take the time to make the little envelopes any more, now you just fold them over and if your lucky someone puts that little heart sticker on it to keep it shut. .. ooh the mystery of it all.  Plus, I'm a little bitter that I didn't have the endless supply of crafting items that I have now, when I was a kid.  The only thing we ever had around the house to decorate my box with were those damn white doilies, maybe some construction paper, and if I was lucky. .. glitter!  It just could have been so much more, ya know?  When you were little you were guaranteed a fair amount of Valentine booty, as an adult your lucky if someone even remembers it prior to the drive home!  I'm not really a cynic,  but I play one every February 14th.

I have decided though, that next year will be different.  Next year as a special Valentine treat for myself, I'm going to take the day off and go on a scavenger hunt with my camera.  I'm going to head out by car and foot to find all things that are and that look like hearts. . .I'll find them in rocks, in clouds, carved in trees, and then I'll head to the city and find them in the obvious places, but I will take amazing pictures of them and make them something special.  That is what I will do next year to make this day the perfect day that it is supposed to be.

I had my Valentine show back in January and sold 90% of my Valentine signs.  The one piece of art shown here is the only thing left (after donating leftover signs to various family and friends).  Wonder why it remained without any lookers.  It's not the best piece I've ever done, but I kinda dug it. . .maybe it was supposed to be mine. ..my own little Valentines gift to myself!

I've been looking at other blogs. . .they are quite amazing and I am eager to learn more about setting this up so that I can have an amazing blog as well.  I want to learn how to post things other than just my daily bs!  I also want to have  space for project ideas  and how to's.