{Valentine - Toi & Moi}

When working as international mushroom consultants, during one of our trips, we did find at Schiphol airport in The Netherlands a cute ring with Toi & Moi (French for You & Me). Perfect as a forever Saint Valentine. Yellow gold with a white gold heart in which a tiny diamond is set. They had to size down the ring, to fit my ring finger and by doing so I almost missed my plane. The jewelry store had send the down sized ring to the wrong terminal so I had to sprint back in order to retrieve it. My husband Pieter did wait for me at the gate... they kept the door open for me. Wow, that was JIT; Just In Time! But I've cherished this cute ring forever since.

Do you have any favorite jewelry pieces with a story?

  

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Wishing you a Happy Saint Valentine's Day!

Related link:
{VALENTINE AROUND THE GLOBE} | previous post by me

{LOVE for Valentine's Day 2012}

For Saint Valentine's Day 2012, I did mail out a few selected special 100% cotton cards. Do you know the feel of 100% cotton paper for writing on with your fountain pen? Special 100% cotton stationery is also used in my: Learn from Mariette Classes, at Mariette's Back to Basics. In a fast-paced world, where it seems every idea is communicated via email or text message, penning a special note or beautiful letter by hand becomes an art to be preserved. Learn why creating an artful communication on paper can lead to deepened thoughts, expressed with grace. My dear friend Celia M. from High Heeled Life & Resilientista understands that also, as she too is promoting the art of letter writing in her blog posts. Therefore it was more than natural that she would receive one of my special cards as you can see here at: February Tea Trolley. One other was sent to a dear friend who lost her LOVE and the last one to my brother Harry and his wife. Timely, mailed out on January 11, so he had it before his tragic accident. He sure needs all the LOVE and angels available for his long and speedy recovery. 

A perfect 100% cotton card, embossed in gold and in combination with fountain pen writing it becomes a special message.

This was nearly impossible to photograph... the first image is a scan.

The true beauty of the gold embossing is different every time...

Just spelling out the word LOVE...

Do any of you do hand writing with a fountain pen?

{Our Vintage French Angel Lamp}

On November 8, of 2011, I did post about: {Our Living Room} and the day after, on November 9 about: {Our Living Room ANGELS-CHERUBS}. Celia from: Celia M. High Heeled Life & Resilientista, asked in her comment for showing the Angel Lamp above the sofa... Sorry, it took a while but HERE it is; a nice Vintage French Angel Lamp that we brought back from Europe. 

Celia was referring to this photo below.

Now you get an idea what we're showing here.

This one never made it into my Zen Cart on line boutique: Mariette's Back to Basics 

It had to be for keeps, as I was head-over-heels in love with it.

Sweet Angel or Cherub?

Cherub's pass photo...

Handyman Pieter did change the European wiring into American and voilà.

It was very hard to capture on camera! With flash light and without and light on and off...

Guess you all got an idea...

Do you have an angel or cherub lamp?

Related links | my previous posts:
{Our Living Room}
Our Living Room ANGELS-CHERUBS