These sofas aren’t your typical 3-seaters. These designs are unusual works of art. They’re functional, too!
Welcome to the Friday Five – Valentine’s Edition! Here are five lovely things to read over the weekend.
1.This article about handwritten Valentine cards.
2.This list of 10 date ideas.
3. The book Love Sense by Sue Johnson.
4. I Like You – a classic (now vintage) book about showing you care and developing lovely friendships and relationships. Brain Pickings noted it as an illustrated ode to friendship. So sweet.
5. This article about how love is good for us.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
What’s a celebration without some sweets? I made these sweet heart sugar cookies for friends and colleagues this week.
Martha Stewart’s sugar cookie and royal icing recipes are my recipes of choice, and I use this package of Wilton food colouring. I generally use a piping bag or piping pen, but this time I opted for the ol’ ziploc bag approach.
I’ve had heart eyes for these two artists for a long while now.
Kerri Rosenthal is an artist, interior designer, and stylist based out of Connecticut. Her work is happy, graphic, and colourful (but there’s also plenty of black and white!).
Monica Ajenjo is a hyper-realist artist based in Madrid. Her pieces look so real and three dimensional, but she’s only using paint and wood. Incredible. I have previously featured her bows, but today I’m focused on her hearts.
What do you do to keep your heart healthy? Do you exercise? Eat healthy? Spend time with family and friends? Share laughs with others?
In addition to all of the above, to keep my heart healthy – and to keep my blood pressure low – I drink at least one cup of hibiscus tea every single day.
My doctor recommended that I incorporate hibiscus tea into my diet. Read about the benefits of hibiscus tea here, here, here, and here (and many other places online!).
For the most part, I buy my loose leaf pure hibiscus tea from Distinctly Tea in Waterloo. I have also bought tea bags whenever I have found them in stores.