valentines day

Find Something Unique for Your Valentine on Etsy

February 6, 2021 by Anne Sweet 2 Comments

Valentines day will soon be here but if you’ve not treated your love one yet, let me tempt you with some unique ideas that you probably won’t find elsewhere for your Valentine.

I am a big Etsy fan and I’ve favourited a lot of lovely items in one place here:

I’ll highlight some of my favourites for you.

Sole Mates

How about some Valentine Socks? These can be both for men or women and you can personalise them with any names and dates.

personalised socks for Valentines day — personalised socks £7

Or These husband and wife matching pairs with personalisation.

unique valentines gift of two pairs of matching socks — First Valentines and Mr and Mrs £25

Unique Valentine Mugs

Everyone loves a mug and here are some really nice ones.

unique valentines mugs with the word love and personalised with names. — Valentine Love mugs pair personalised. £18.99

This one is a bit pricey but the reviews say it’s a big mug and it’s such a lovely surprise sentiment.

My husband loves baked beans so this mug would be perfect for him. You can add your own personal message on the back too.

Candles

Candles are lovely and romantic, here are just a couple of unique hand made candles you can find on Etsy.

Gorgeous coconut candle in a recycled coconut shell and decorated with shells and petals

coconut candle with shells — coconut candle £21.93

This is a coconut candle in a handmade ceramic jar.

Small Unique Valentine Gifts

Looking for something small but unique?

personalised guitar pick — guitar pick £8.40

key ring which says I hope your day is a nice as my butt — cheeky key ring £11

you stole a pizza my heart key ring — Pizza key ring £5.95

date night jar — Personalised Date Night Jar £8.50

Unique Printables and Cards

Some great ideas here for you to print yourself. Or why not try a hand made card to make it a special day.

Make your wine special with a printed label

Happy Valentines Day wine bottle label print — printable label £1.80

Unique Cards you won’t find in the shop.

white hearts cut out on a red background card — handmade card £5.50

red hearts and flowers on valentines card — Valentines Card for wife £3.50

I hope I have given you some inspiration to take a look at Etsy for Valentines Day. Find loads more ideas with the Etsy Editors picks for Valentines Day.

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Rings and Stackable Rings for Valentines Day.

February 2, 2020 by Anne Sweet 5 Comments

February 14th

I’d never say no to a gift on Valentines Day, I generally get chocolates or flowers, but rings would be nice. I do love pretty rings, so I thought I’d share a few of my favourite rings for Valentines Day, including Stackable rings. I like stackable rings because you can choose different styles and wear them on the same finger. I’m a fan of stackable bracelets too for the same reason.

Rings for all budgets

You can push the boat out for a perfect ring, or if your budget is limited there are always costume jewellery. You can also choose custom made rings, or something more unusual. I’m going to share with you a collection of some of my favourite rings. Some of them may be affiliate links so if you click you may earn me a little a money. But most of them are not.

Stackable Rings

Sometimes it’s nice to go for simple and elegent like these City Stacker rings in 14k gold for £480

Pandora Stackable rings

Or if you don’t want to fork out for real gold, how about these gold plated rings from Pandora, at £45 each

Valentines Rings

Nothing says love like a red heart. This is the One Heart Ring from Swarovoski. It’s Rhodium plated and costs £49

a rhodium plated ring with a big red heart stone.

How cute is this sterling silver personalised entwined ring from Jewlr, just £114.

two entwined silver rings wtih one blue and one white heart and two engraved names.

Something Different?

Not into hearts or diamonds? How about bees? You can always trust Etsy to come up with something a little different. This Sterling silver bee ring would be something I’d be happy to receive. Just £28.09

stirling silver ring with a bee on a honeycomb

Or maybe a Princess crown ring available in rose gold or silver and only £20.04. this is also a good stackable ring.

princess crown stackable ring in silver or gold.

Something for Him.

What about if you want to buy a ring for your man? Well, there are plenty to choose from. Here’s a few of my favourites.

This 9ct yellow gold men’s ring with diamond and sapphire is really special. You can get one from Ernest Jones for £450.

But you don’t have to go for gold. What about this unusual black carbon inlay tungston ring? It can be personalised with a message of your choice. Just £79 from Jewlr

As always, I love something a little different and this MÖBIUS ring in sterling silver for £185. I really lovely the shape.

What do you think? Do you celebrate Valentines Day, would you consider a ring as a perfect gift? Which one of these is your favourite?

Previous Valentines Day posts you may enjoy.

Three Easy Makes for Valentines Day

Boo’s Valentines Cake

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Boo Bakes a Valentines Cake

February 6, 2017 by Anne Sweet 11 Comments

We were asked if we wanted to try some cake decorations from Cake Angels and they couldn’t come at a better time. Boo had been nagging for ages to bake a Valentines cake and was so excited over the decorations she couldn’t wait to get started. Her stipulation was that she wanted to bake it all by herself with no help.

She knows the basic of sponge cake making where you have the same amount of ingredients, that’s same flour, butter, sugar and eggs. She also knows that you can mix it all together as one but that Mummy prefers the creaming and folding method for a nice springy sponge.

She decided that her cake would be chocolate and that she wanted to cover it with a basic buttercream before decorating.

I prepared the kitchen and got the ingredients ready for her to weigh and she was off, with very little intervention from me. I set up the camera to record her and we have two videos, one of her making the cake and the other decorating it. I do hope you will take a peek, they are not that long and she was keen to do them. It would be lovely if you would consider giving the videos a like on YouTube and maybe subscribing to our channel.

Here is the first video of the cake baking.

Boo’s Chocolate Valentines Cake

Ingredients:

8oz self-raising flour
8oz unsalted butter
8oz caster sugar
4 eggs
1tbs cocoa powder

Method:

Preheat oven to 180C/gas mark 4
Put the butter and caster sugar in a bowl and mix until creamy
Add the eggs on at a time and beat into the mixture
Sift in the flour and cocoa powder and mix
Pour into an 8″ round tin which has been greased and lined with baking paper
Bake for 35-40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean
Leave to cool and then decorate.

Decorating a Valentines Cake

Here is the Second Video with Boo Decorating the cake

Ingredients:

4oz of soft unsalted butter
8oz icing sugar
1tsp vanilla extract

A selection of decorations,
we used sugar sprinkles, icing roses and white flowers from Cake Angels

Method:

Put the unsalted butter in a bowl
Sift in the icing sugar
add the vanilla extract and mix

cover the cake and then decorate. I think Boo did really well, what do you think?

I hope you have enjoyed this post. Boo really enjoyed her baking and cake decorating sessions and will be back soon with something new, of that I’m sure. Do leave a comment if you wish and remember to follow our YouTube Channel for more videos.

Disclosure: we were sent some cake decorations from Cake Angels for our cake.

My Sunday Photo – 5th February 2017

February 5, 2017 by Anne Sweet 15 Comments

Boo has been pestering me for her to make a cake for a couple of weeks now. She wanted to make it all by herself with no help. Then I was sent a bunch of cake decorations and there was just no holding back Boo. So 9 am yesterday morning she got baking!

Apart from reaching a few things from the cupboard for her and leveling off the cake (Which involves a large knife) I did nothing, she did it all herself and we have the video to prove it!

So here it is, in pride of place for my Sunday photo this week. A gorgeous moist chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream and lots of romantic decorations. All Boo’s work, what a clever girl!

Boo proudly showing off the cake she made by herself

I guess I’d better get her application in for Junior Bake Off!

Three Easy Makes for Valentines Day

February 8, 2016 by Anne Sweet 13 Comments

We don’t normally celebrate Valentines Day, we think that you should show how much you love someone every day! However, the kids are already talking about it so I thought I’d let them do some Valentines Day makes and have some fun. Any time they spend away from the screens is a bonus.

My Little Man is always saying I love you this much and stretching his hands as wide as possible, so I thought that this idea was perfect for him.

I Love You This Much Card.

First we took a piece of card and the Little Man drew around his hands. He chose corrugated card which was not ideal but it was his make so I went ahead. It was difficult to write on though.