Valentine

Happy Valentine's day P... I love you.

Cornishware

What a sweet way to enjoy your morning coffee on Valentines day? I love traditional blue and white Cornishware, but this red and white version of the mugs has me wondering if there is room in the cupboard for two more...

Red Velvet

I thought that Red Velvet cupcakes were an appropriate treat to make today for my Valentine.

I followed the Magnolia Bakery recipe for the cake, but made my own cream cheese frosting because I wasn't keen on the idea of making their frosting with flour.

They're absolutely delicious... just as well I made so many of them!

Valentine

From me to P...

From P to me...

Daylesford Organic sweet treats... dark chocolate shortbread hearts and fairtrade milk chocolate from Peru.

Perfect pink Diptyque roses.

Happy Valentine's Day.

Happy Valentine's Day

As usual, we went to Columbia Road Flower Market on Sunday. P bought me these beautiful tuberose and ranunculus, as well as a bunch of 50 blue hyacinths. The scent of the tuberose and hyacinths are incredible and means that I haven't wanted to burn my black Diptyque Baise candle all week...

As a token of my love I gave P this globe, which I picked up in Caravan. It's Danish and dated 1976, so it's not terribly old, but the colours are amazingy bright... he loves it! I also gave P some chocolates which I made from a Donna Hay recipe and a screen printed Rob Ryan tile, which I will show you later... along with the treats I received!

Today is very special for us, it's one year since P asked me to marry him. His proposal was a wonderful suprise, we had taken the day off work and had booked to have lunch a one of our favourirte local places, The Garrison.

Tonight we're feasting at another all time favourite place of ours, The Quality Chop House. Yum!

Enjoy your day!