Mushy Love Stuff

Hello World, it’s been a while, partly because we’ve hosted lots of family and partly because my latest crafty endeavor is currenty a fail due to my novice spray painting skills.  It’s fixable but will take some time.

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve realized that Valentine’s day will be here Tuesday.  My husband and I don’t usually make a big deal out of it.  Not because we don’t realize the importance of keeping up the romance; quite the opposite.  We are an affectionate family and don’t need a holiday to show it.  I got him a few little gifts the other day but while we were out today the girls pointed out another little something that he’d enjoy.  The gift itself isn’t all that romantic but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t make the wrapping romantic.

I’m a fan of plain brown paper embellished to look lovely.  At first I was just going to wrap it in the paper and add a ribbon but then I started thinking about a great quote I came across this week.  I thought it would be nice to add it to the wrapping.  After I wrote the first verse, I thought it looked a little sparse and decided to look up some quotes and fill it up a little more.  I really got into it and didn’t stop until I had it filled up on all sides.  I found a bunch of quotes that were sweet that made me think of my hubby and our relationship.  I’m really happy with how it turned out.  In honor of the holiday, here are the quotes I used.  I hope they remind you of your loved one.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The space between your heart and mine is the space we fill with time. – Dave Matthews Band

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Bronte

If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my arms forever. -Mandy Hampton

Soul meets soul on lover’s lips. -Percy Bysshe Shelly

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -Dr. Seuss

Love is a game that two can play and both win. -Eva Gabor

If I know what love is, it is because of you. -Hermann Hesse

Love is life and if you miss love, you miss life. – Leo Buscaglia

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. 1 John 4:7

Love is love’s reward – John Dryden

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir.  Once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear. -John Lennon

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. -Honore de Balzac

Love is not finding someone to live with; It’s finding someone you can’t live without. -Rafael Ortiz

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. -Leo Tolstoy

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. -Willa Cather

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known. -William Shakespeare

All you need is love. -The Beatles

True love stories never have endings. -Richard Bach

Who, being loved, is poor? -Oscar Wilde

All that I have loses half it’s pleasure if you are not there to share it. -Clara Ortega

I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea. -Nicholas Sparks

Stand by your man.  Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to. -Tammy Wynette

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -Rose Franken

If you have it, Love, you don’t need anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have. -James M. Barrie

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it -Swedish Proverb

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. -Sam Kleen

There is no remedy for love, but to love more. -Henry David Thoreau

As we grow old together, as we continue to change with age, there is one thing that will never change…I will always keep falling in love with you. -Karen Clodfelder

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. -Robert Browning

Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

~Misty