valentines day is cool

As it's a leap year 'they say' (whoever 'they' are) that it's the girls who give Valentines to the boys. So this is the card I gave to Ant along with some new boxers (mainly because he needed them too). The paper cut pattern came from here and I glued it onto some red card stock from Spotlight. Inside I glued some more white paper to write on, that way it would be readable. Ant had a couple of lillium stems waiting for me on the breakfast table, and then another bigger bunch of lilliums arrived at work for me too - he's such a lovely man! I've had to walk them up to his work at lunchtime because I don't think they'd travel well on the bicycle ride home.

Gracie watched as I finished off this top -

to wear out tonight. By the way the Duplo was a spontaneous purchase on Ebay. Ant said he didn't mean to buy it, he placed a ridiculously low bid which won - only bidded because of the little scuba diver.

Anyways, I used the same pattern as the red top and attached the line of beads to the neckline. I found this string of beads at the local quilt/sewing shop and were exactly the right length - 'twas meant to be! The fabric was purchased through Ebay and was originally a flesh colour - not something I could wear but thought it could dye nicely, which it did. It's a stretchy lacey fabric and is probably intended for undergarments but I could see its potential, I just need to get a slinky black top to wear underneath so I don't show off my flabby bits - that would be bad.