Okay, here’s the thing -- Valentine’s Day is a tough day to
celebrate when you’ve lost your sweetie. My first Valentine’s Day after Jim
passed away was excruciating. I’d like to say that they’ve gotten better, but
not so much. So I have decided, that instead of celebrating Valentine’s Day, I am
going to, every year, celebrate a different holiday in the month of February.
It gives me something to research and look forward to, and it may give you an
idea or two as well.
This year I am celebrating Chinese New Year. I’m using the same tablescape that
I used last year (that you can see here), but this year
in addition to my dinner, I decided to send out Chinese New Year cards instead
of Valentines. I had a blast! It was so much fun to get the old card-making
creative juices flowing, as well as blow the dust off of my rubber
stamps in order to decorate envelopes.
I got such an amazing outpouring of love from the Christmas cards that I sent
last year (that you can see here), that I decided to, once again, design my own
card, and came up with these. They were a lot of fun to do, and the recipe for pork dumplings is to die for! If you can’t read the recipe
in the card, not to worry, I will be doing a blog post about them soon.
If you want to see some of my past greeting card efforts, click on the
holidays named below. Meanwhile, I am looking for ideas for some of the more obscure
holidays worth designing a card for and celebrating. Weigh in if you know of
any. Who knows? I may accept your challenge!
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