To celebrate Valentine's Day with you my blogger friends here are some images of love from around my home! It's surprising when you stop and take a look around all the Love you'll find. Hope you enjoy them

This is an image from the free Prima Calendar which is just above my workspace.

Ceramic Love Letters which I bought in Next last year, they sit on a chest of drawers in my bedroom

An old card from my mother to my father when they were going out.

Wee cupid/angel on my dressing table

Love stories from my bookshelf

A Saint Valentine's Day 1984 thimble from my thimble collection

First Kiss Image from a picture in the hallway

Last years Valentine's Card from my lovely boyfriend  :-)

A lovely teddy my boyfriend bought me :-)

Heart cushions from my bed, would you believe I actually made the one at the front when I was in school. And I still haven't finished the ones I started a month ago yet!

Another cute teddy I call J that I got from my boyfriend :-)

A Poster image from my walk in wardrobe!

And to celebrate Saint Valentine's Day this year I decorated my workspace a little, have a look

Hope you have a 

Happy Valentine's Day

In January while thinking about Valentine's Day I posted about what Love is... So for Valentine's I have decided to update you all and let you know what love means to my blog friends who commented...

So here we go...

Love is.....
a burning thing, it makes a fiery ring. Bound by a wild desire, I fell into a ring of fire... {Glenda started off singing to us}

Love is.....
the most moving force in God's plan {Glenda}

Love is.....
like a violin. The music may stop now and then,but the strings remain forever {Bellaboo}

Love is.....
Growing old together {Tracey}

Love is.....
alot of things!but love of a child means so much more!- more precious {A Mermaid's Purse}

Love is.....
always seeing the beautiful things in life....however small they may seem {Tilly Rose}

 
Love is.....
giving away as many smiles and hugs as you can to those who bring joy into your life... {Tilly Rose}

 
Love is.....
being there in good times and in bad. It is having the humility to say you're sorry. It is compassion and empathy {Cozy Little House}

 
Love is.....
the most precious...and it is not a given, I have to work on it....Love to show it and share it {Frenchy chick}

 
Love is.....
something shared between two or more people who really care about each other and would do anything for that one person {Odette}

 
And for me Love is.....
the little things we do for each other

and
Love is.....
always & forever :)

 
What does Love mean to the rest of you???

Having read a post over at The Curious Cat blog about the book A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, I thought I had heard of the book and I was right, it was sitting at the back of my bookshelf. Thank you for reminding me :) So that night I took it out when I was off to bed and started reading it in bed every night this week as I have not been able to sleep these nights. I finished it last night. It is a very gripping story about a girl in Afghanistan, about friendship, love and alot of brutality, suffering and endurance. It was very sad and brought me to tears a number of times. I really recommend this but be warned have your hankerchief ready and don't read it if you are feeling abit down. It brings home to us the suffering some people endure and reminds me of how lucky I am in life.