Inspiration Fridays: Love of All Kinds

Valentine's Day is in three days, so I decided to do a love themed Inspiration Friday!

I've never been a huge Valentine's person.  I love watching everyone get so excited about telling people that they care, enjoying seeing men buy their ladies chocolates and flowers.  It's wonderful to notice that your friends are remembering that they care about you.  From the romantic end though, I've never been big on it.  Lately, even less so.  Though I am a hopeless romantic, as I posted last week, I'm a romantic all of the time.  My boyfriend buys me flowers and takes me out to dinner a lot, so Valentine's Day just seems like another day to me.  We're very good about letting each other know about our love, so, when it comes to a holiday like this, I'm not quite sure how to top the everyday!  We buy each other things randomly, and always are treating for dinner and things like that.  Every day is kind of our Valentine's Day-  I think that's a really, really good thing. 

In honor of my growing Etsy store, I decided to use photographs of cute and quirky items for sale on Etsy!

All of these items are actually wedding cake toppers.  I thought it was appropriate for the holiday.

 Turtle Love

 Ninja Love

Dino Love

The Air Castle

 Mouse Love

Penguin Love

Clay Cuties by Melissa

Indian Bird Love

Red Light Studio

Steampunk Robot Love

Builders Studio

Skeleton Love

Loca Loves Pirate

Pac Man Love

Mario Love

Hildoom

So much cuteness right?  

Happy Early Valentine's Day Everyone!!

Inspiration Fridays: I'm Just a Hopeless Romantic

I really am.  Give me a soft kiss, some light colors and low light, and I'll be happy forever.

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but it's Ichimaru Gin and Matsumoto Rangiku from Bleach

 

Portrait of Elsa- Frank Bernard Dicksee

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Dorothy Mackaill

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Dawanda

 Persuasion-Leonard Campbell Taylor

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Reverie- Francois Boucher

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Dear Umi

Thankfully, I have a boyfriend who understands just what a romantic I am.  Sometimes, when I've had a bad day, he buys me roses.  Red roses.  Usually a dozen of them.  This cheers me right up- very few things make me happier than roses from my lover.  He buys me them for no reason a lot too!  But I must admit, the idea of spending my days lounging against crumbling statues in a field of flowers, wearing a corset and my hair up in a fancy do, reading poetry and sipping tea sounds amazing to me some days.  Honestly,  it sounds great most days.  I've been trying to take some time to do something like this, despite the cold.  In summer and spring and fall I will sit in parks to read while sipping coffee, but this winter I've been going to the library.  It's been quite nice.  I'll go and pick up some Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Jane Austin, William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoeyevsky, or a recent favourite, Anthony Hope, and curl up in an armchair for hours.  Bliss.


What is not bliss is the number of unknown sources in this pos- if you know the sources for any of these beautiful pieces of artwork, please comment and let me know!  I'd like to give credit where credit is due.  If you own any of this art, and wish to have it removed, I will do so immediately.


Thanks!