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

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 :)

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