If you are also trying to warm-up to the idea of Valentine’s Day being just around the corner, check-out Kat’s Valentine’s Day For The Single And Sexy post. According to the put your own oxygen mask on first rule, she put together fantastic inspiration for how to spend five minutes or five hours alone (for the solo ladies or the co-parenting moms, or the alone-ish…aka moms who need to hide for a little bit — basically for all of us!)
12 Cute Valentine’s Day Gifts, Thoughtfully Sourced
And for the love of all the loves in our lives, here’s a fun set of red, pink, hearts-a-plenty, inspired, thoughtful, pretty and practical gifts. It’s all quintessential Valentine’s Day hallmarks kinda fun, but in useful things you’ll love for a long time. From healthy journaling to the perfect home massage tool, from a welcome mat to a great tote (and everything in between), these gifts are fun to give, fun to get, and a few even give back.
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1| Let That Sh*t Go Journal
The art of journaling yourself out of carrying useless burdens is a beautiful calming, healthy one. Once you let it all go, in comes the nice, calm, priceless peace.
2 | Theragun Mini
These became fairly popular this past holiday season — for good reason. My love of the Theragun began a few years ago with my amazing PT using a similar model on me. If interested, I pinned all of her favorite at-home therapy devices, as a cheat sheet. Rollers are the basis of everything, IMHO, but if you are going to splurge on one other good-for-you-at-home item, it’s absolutely a Theragun. And if you love it, then you upgrade to the pro model, like the massage-loving-pro you are. (Anyone else here who would name their Physical Therapist as their Valentine? I love you, Hana! I wouldn’t be able to walk without you — you know this.)
3 | Heart Candle
***Black-owned Business. **Sustainable. I love candles and I especially love this one. There’s zero way I can do justice to how much love this candle brings other than to say: it’s adorable, you choose the flavor, and the story behind it is pure love. Here’s more on the artisans who create it:
Based in Massachusetts, social enterprise Prosperity Candle invests in women to escape conflict and help end poverty. The women are entrepreneurs who have recently resettled from refugee camps. Candle making is a business a woman can start and expand in the safety of her own home with local materials, a critical element at times of unrest. They carefully hand-pour the wax in small batches; it is a clean-burning mixture of a coconut-soy wax blend. Lastly, they will package the candle, including their signed names on the bottom of the candles they create.
4 | O.F.F Tote
Off-White, the popular super-luxury sneaker brand, is a Black-owned business. I love this tote; it’s going to be my Valentine’s gift to myself. I’ll use it well, for a long time.
5 | Heart Trinket Dish
Comes in two sizes, collects all the tiny things you love and might otherwise lose track of, and is easy to love itself!
6 | Brass Heart Puzzle
Puzzles are fun. This isn’t necessarily the most challenging to solve, but it’s a beautiful brass object, that sits well on a table top, and is still fun to move around. Or it’s a fun gift it you tuck secret messages into on the underside…
7 | 150 Intimacy Prompts
Date night at home just got a whole lot more interesting! Spice it up, or prompt your not-so-talkative SO. Keep it fun — good conversations come from little cards.
8 | Love Is Love Wall Art
Printed on maple, 11X14, each piece sold benefits the Human Rights Campaign through a 50% of the purchase price donation. Love is Love.
9 | love script brass object
A beautiful object, and 50% of the purchase price will be donated to The Trevor Project. Read about it if you have a moment, it’s an interesting collaboration. #worthit
10 | People Love Wall Art
Timothy Goodman is a NYC-based artist and author whose words have seen, well, the world in many regards. On watercolor paper, in a white frame, a sweet message and a fresh reminder, love first.
11 | Geo Hearts Doormat
It’s handcrafted and made of coconut husks, so we love it more! It’s graphic, colorful, welcoming and sweet! It’s a wonderful way to warm your welcome with love right at your front door!
12 | Pukka Love Tea
Nothing says love quite like a hot cup of tea flavored with organic rose, chamomile and lavender…this is how I’ll take my Valentine flowers…crushed right into herbal tea.
Whether you are baking cookies, crafting cards that you’ll hand deliver in a masked-walk through snow drifts, finding all the ways to celebrate from home, at home, shipping gift packages to loves you miss from far away, or finding small tokens for the loves you live with, I hope you find love in all of it, and a little love for your own self too.
xoxo,
A
PS: Follow along with me on Pinterest for more Home Inspiration and other random distractions via pretty visuals. xo A
For the Love of the Pinners:
What a fun compilation!! Just ordered the brass love sign. So cute and it makes me happy to support the Trevor Project. Thanks for making that so easy!
ER-Love the brass love – and the support it shares! xo A