A very Valentine's weekend...

Hellooooooooooo lovelies!
Are you feeling the love? Oh wow...all I can say is I sure am. We have had one of the best weekends in a while. SUCH A GREAT WEEKEND. I can't believe it's already nearly over...

Where to begin? I guess Friday would be a good start!

Denis had a work party to attend so I picked him up on my way home from work and we ran a few errands. After supper and a bit of decompression time, we both went into our respective rooms (D to his office and me to my studio) to work on Valentine's projects!

Can I just say that work right now for both of us is COMPLETELY INSANE. Oy! I hope things slow down shortly...

So there we were Friday night madly working on our presents. The coolest part was we were both in our glory and would every once in a while call out "I love this - I'm so excited to give it to you." We did a VERY LATE NIGHT cleaning blitz to the house as well so that we could enjoy V-day in a clean house!

Saturday we slept in and then got up to make our heart shaped pancakes. I loved making them but boy oh boy was it time consuming! I think it took us about an hour and a half to make the pancakes and bacon. Yes, that long. It took us a few tries to get into a good groove with making the hearts without them sticking to the cookie cutters.

The last few pancakes I gave up and made circles! Ha ha.

We kept everything in the warming drawer but by the time we ate they were sort of rubbery!!! That'll show us for making fancy pancakes. Despite the "texture" the taste was great.

Here are some shots from our adventure. I couldn't decide which shots to put in so I just added a bunch of them!

Breakfast table setting!

Once our bellies were sufficiently stuffed we spent some time playing Monopoly on Wii - we so love that game. We also made one of our favourite drinks...several times over!

And we exchanged presents.

I gave Denis a Petro Canada Olympic glass (he mentioned he remembered having the old ones and liking them), I filled a picture frame that I got him Christmas 2008 with pictures of our trip to Paris, I made him a CD of songs with "love" in the title and a love card/mini book.

Denis wrote me a little poem/page about his love and then "doctored" up some pictures. They are SO COOL. You have to look really hard to see what he did to them. I LOVE THEM! I want to frame the three pictures and the note he wrote. It was so nice to exchange meaningful gifts. He also got me Nights of Rondanthe (sp?) on Blue Ray and we watched it. What a great BUT VERY SAD movie...

Dinner was some of this...

Some of this...

Note - fresh basil from our basil plant!

COOL REFLECTION IN THE GLASS - I just noticed this...

Our main course was heart shaped spinach and ricotta stuffed ravioli

After supper we watched our movie and had chocolate fondu for desert. Next it was more Monopoly with a roaring fire in the background.

We both kept saying how it was probably the best V-day we've ever spent together. It was nice to hide out from the world just the two of us and enjoy!

Here are some pictures of the presents once unwrapped.

The CD and a few fun love coupons I printed!

This is what D wrote to me...

I'll have to upload the pictures he did later this week - he's having issues with Photoshop tonight so he can't put them on our server...

Today has been a bit of a whirlwind for both of us. D had to head into work early this morning for his monthly overtime Sunday. I took had several hours of overtime to do. I did manage to pop out quickly this afternoon though. Shoppers Drug Mart was having an Optimum points bonus day. I managed to get $200 in free stuff when I cashed in our points. I stocked up on lots and lots of makeup and won't need to buy any for a while now. I also popped into Michaels to pick up a few things for a sewing project I want to work on.

One final stop at Home Sense hoping to find V-day stuff on clearance but no such luck. I was really struck today with how evident it is in the stores that we are in a recession. Michaels has a few clearance aisles and a new "bargain basement" type aisle. Winners and Homesense both had so many different "clearance" sections. Far more than usual. Hopefully this economy will turn around sometime soon...

So there you have it lovelies. Our busy, LOVEly weekend. I'm counting down the days until Vicki Boutin in Smiths Falls - just 2 weeks to go! The great thing about working overtime this weekend is now I can take both the Friday AND Monday off for that weekend...nothing like a four-day weekend to beat the winter blahs...

I hope you all had a great weekend however you chose to spend it.

Here are a few pictures of a card I made for my boss - she is such a sweetheart and recently lost her Father...

I picked up this Umbra stand at Chapters and I just love it - perfect way to display my stuff...

Off to watch the new season of the Amazing Race with my Valentine...

'night lovelies