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Happy Valentine's Day

Today is Valentine's Day and I wish everybody a wonderful day. What does this day mean? According to Wikipedia it is the annual day celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The day is named after the early Christian martyr Saint Valentine. When I grew up in Switzerland in the 60s and 70s, we did not have Valentine's Day. But I was aware of it because they had it in England. In today's world the Swiss have it now also. This got me thinking. Wikipedia explains this day as the day celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. We naturally think of our loved ones, but what about our love to ourselves? How can we love somebody else, if you don't already love and cherish ourselves? You can only give to another what you already have in yourself to give. Then there is this one special day thing. Why can't we do this everyday? Why does it have to be limited to just one day? As I see days meld into each other, I just don't see the diff...

Valentine Fan Album

Here is a tip for a quick Valentine craft. It is easy to make and quite unusual. I took the idea for a scrapbooking fan album and shrank it down in size. I used 6x4 inch photo paper to make the small strips that are 2x6 inches. Each fan used 2 6x4 inch pages and so has 4 pages that are held together by the colored split clip and a scrapbooking flower. Full instructions and MS Publisher template is available here