How do you celebrate Valentines Day? Do you mourn lost loves and hold those memories close to your heart? Do you gather your family close to you and hold them dear? Where does your heart lie?
I do them all. My family keeps my heart. Husband, children and grandchild, all are loved equally well in different ways.
My Father is still with me and loved as well.
But my Mother and Grandmothers and Grandfathers are all gone. They are always loved and always with me in Memory.
Granny Baptie would approve of the Scottish themed Greetings for the Day.
I have always found Valentines Day awkward. It usually speaks of only one kind of love when we know there are so many other kinds of love out there – family, friends, activities, yes activities! How much time and effort do we pour into all those things that we love and enjoy!? I know my heart and it lies with many.
Do we love those things for only the one day? No, but we do make that special effort to love them all harder I think. We take the time to contemplate life without them and we mourn those whose love is lost to us.
It is snowing here. A serious snow, coming down hard, not the kind we usually get, big lazy flakes that melt as soon as they hit. This snow is lying and accumulating at an amazing rate. It is a wonderful day to stay home and contemplate the energy of the skies as they send snow down upon us.
Snowy days are perfect for hats. We don’t get that many of them here. And yesterday I was lucky enough to get pictures of hats in snow on Elise for some new patterns. A couple of those patterns were released today and the others will be released over the next few weeks.
Todays releases are Valentino and Dahlia! Two fabulous (well I think that they are fabulous!) fair-isle hats with beautiful crowns. Fair-isle hats are very satisfying hats to design. While they can start very plainly, they almost always finish up with a bang, a pop, a fabulous farewell in the design of the crown. Usually, the name of the hat comes from the design that ends up on the crown.
They are part of what I am calling a Hearts and Flowers Special. Purchase Valentino on Ravelry and use the code Sweetheart to receive Dahlia for free. Happy Valentines day.
It will be blackberry pie today – the berries are thawing right now.
The rest of today will be for my family and my other love, knitting. Working on some fingerless mittens to go with the FlatIron hat.
Be well and spend the day doing what makes you happy and loved. Love your friends and family as you will and task yourself with only the things you love to do. If that is PJ’s and coffee – so be it! Do it with all your heart!
Love to all! Lynette
