hurrah for love

 

I am really quite proud of the February Love Project. More than 800 people joined the event/group on Facebook, and many of them posted photos of their rocks/crochet/other creations. Lots of my friends and family have joined in, and I ran a nice little workshop too. We had people participating all over the world... members on the page have been posting photos from Germany, France, USA, South Africa... as well as all over the UK.

So we did something amazing. Hurrah for lovely love!

february love project

 

This makes me happy: So It Goes.

February Love Project

Love Rocks

heads held high, touch the sky, you mean everything to me...

"Can I have some chocolate, please, Mummy? By the way, you smell bad."
That girl needs to work on her diplomacy.

 

Bee took this hilarious and terrifying self-portrait, today.

  Look what came in the post today!!! My bestest is the very bestest who ever lived. 

And he deposited some rocks for me today, for the February Love Project.

 

february love project

For those who don't know...
THE FEBRUARY LOVE PROJECT:
1. Collect rocks.
2. Paint hearts on them.
3. Put them back outside for people to find.

Today was phase 1 of stage 3!
We've got a lots of stones to place during the next couple of weeks :)

it's that lady on my knickers

"Mummy! Look! It's that lady on your knickers!"
(she means WonderWoman. I have WonderWoman pants.)
Yesterday was a Dungeons and Dragons/ Lego day. I built a Lego spacecraft of some kind, we built a Megabloks Moshi Monster thing (Mega Bloks are pretty crappy compared to Lego, but it's a cute kit, and was on special offer) and we put together Bee's new Lego Darth Vader watch. She's been periodically announcing that it's "Darth Vader one o'clock" or "Darth Vader past three" all day.

I also made my little mini At-At (I have resigned myself to the fact that I'll probably never own THE Lego At-At) and I am actually mega excited right now, because my wonderful lovely Bestest has bought me the Lego VW Camper I've been mooning over for the last 18 months! Eeeek!!! I'm a very lucky girl indeed.

And today, we've been finishing off our rocks for the February Love Project, and I released my first one into the wild, tonight. Wonder if it'll still be there in the morning?

Bee: Mummy, will you get me a Valentine's card for Love Day?

Me: Yes, of course. I always do, because I love you.

Bee: Great. So I'd like a Darth Maul one please. But it has to be a Love Day card which says Valentines on it, and a picture of Darth Maul, OK?

    This random cat totally photobombed my origami swan photo.

Getting drunk on rum and attempting to follow complicated YouTube origami tutorials at 2am is not recommended. You know, just for the record. I used this tutorial for the awesome heart-bat. It probably would have turned out better without the rum, but the attempt may have been less amusing.

lobster poo

"Mummy, do you remember when I did a poo and there was a lobster in it?"

Er, no. No, I don't. And I feel like I really *would* remember that. (Turns out that she meant "sequin" rather than "lobster", and yes I do remember the mysterious day she pooed a sequin.)

    We've mostly been collecting and painting rocks for the February Love Project.

And we did a bit of chalk bombing on our travels too. There was a council employee with a leafblower by the bus stop, and it was attached to a big backpack thing. I tried really hard to convince Izzy that he was a Ghostbuster, but she wasn't having any of it. She's a lot more sensible than her Mama.

everybody wants to be a cat

YES!

This morning we watched The Aristocats in bed - first time in maybe 15 years for me, and I still remembered it perfectly. Afterwards, Bee was singing the Thomas O'Malley song, then suddenly stopped and said "Of course cats don't really do any of those things like Alistaircats (!) cos actually, all cats do all the time is miaow for food ALL DAY."

There is some truth to that, in my experience. 

^ This is Bee's psychedelic cat picture, on Daddy's ipad. Every time she selects a colour or an image, she looks at her finger, expecting to see it stuck on there! So adorable.

Today was Saturday, and Saturday is Daddy Day, when Bee's father comes over and takes her to football club. As he was leaving, I was playfully teasing him a little, as I often do, and he said, "Mummy just loves winding me up!" I replied, "It's just too easy! It's like shooting fish in a barrel" and Bee enthusiastically declared "Yes! It's like shooting fish in Daddy's face!"

Today hasn't been a great day, really. Our rabbit, Fergus, has gone missing. Some builders were doing work next door over the last couple of days, and without my knowledge they removed the paving slabs which blocked off the gap in our rear fence. Fergus is a free-range bunny (though we shut him in a hutch at night) and the whole garden is fenced with rabbit-proof mesh except the wooden fence at the back for which we used the paving slabs. I'm so upset, and there is no sign of him.

Isn't he beautiful?

I'm also having terrible stomach cramps whenever I eat, because of the awful sickness bug we had. Oh, and Bee found a dead bird on our patio. He looks as though he flew into the window and dropped dead.

So yeah: quite a horrible day. I decided to try to turn it a little bit positive tonight, by focusing on the February Love Project.

It's a very simple premise: Throughout the whole of February, paint stones with hearts, in bright colours and patterns, and leave them for people to find. The picture shows our stones from last year - this year's are in progress. 75 people have joined the event on Facebook so far, and I'm hoping it will grow and grow. How amazing would it be for little lost stones to appear all over the world, spreading joy, this month? Pretty awesome, I think. And we are just one of many groups of people doing similar things across the globe... stones, letters, origami... yep, human beings are awesome.

hurrah for lovely love

Bee woke me this morning with a question: "How old are you, Mummy?"
So I told her. She said "So you're getting closer to when you'll die one day."
And off she went to play. Thanks for that, darling!

This cheered me up, though...

(Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, along with Wild Kratts, is Bee's most recent obsession)

So it's been a gentle recovery day, today.
I ordered some pretty ribbonses from Scrapunzel (the pics are clickable)

...and I'm starting to get all Valentinesy. 

I think Bee and I need to make some of these!! From Spoonful.

I know it's not very cool or whatever to enjoy Valentines Day. I know I'm supposed to say "it's all commercial nonsense, capitalist trickery, I don't need to be told how to show people I love them, I do it every day etc. etc." but you know what? Holidays are what you make of them, and you get to choose whether to participate. And I *love* an excuse to spoil people and spread happies.

Which brings me to the February Love Project.

Last February, we painted rocks (in acrylics and nail varnish, for waterproofness) all different colours, with hearts on them, and we left them all over the place for people to find. I decided to make this a tradition every February. This year, we're doing the rocks at our monthly home-ed group (tomorrow) and then some laminated cards to tie to railings and bus stops etc at our weekly group (on Valentine's day) as well. Yay! Want to join in? I'd love to hear about it, and see photos :)

We got started a little early this year, as you can see in this post.

HURRAH FOR LOVELY LOVE!

the day we scattered hearts

We missed our bus, and decided to have a browse around a nearby crystal shop. We bought five little stone hearts for £2, and decided to leave them all over the town for people to find <3