1.  Make Your Own Card. Valentine’s Day ranks right up there with Christmas for card giving.  This year, how about trying something new?  Make your own cards using recycled paper!  It’s easy, fun, reduces wasted paper & gives a card an extra special touch!  Visit www.wikihow.com/Make-Paper for directions.

2.  Buy a Plant instead of giving cut flowers. Instead of cut flowers that get thrown away after a week, give the whole plant!  It’s a gift that keep on giving.  For an easier to care for option, ask for plants local to your region.

3.  Massage & Body Oils. A gift to share!  Organic body oils calm the nervous system, improve the circulation and tone the skin with great glide for perfect massages.  Have some fun and enjoy silky, smooth, healthy skin to boot!

4.  Find a restaurant that supports locally grown and/or organics foods. At localharvest.org find a restaurant that supports local, seasonal & organic foods.

5.  Reuse an old picture frame. Turn a great picture of you and your sweetie into an eco-conscience gift.  Use an old frame that’s lying around taking up space.  Clean it up & put some new life into it with a new picture.  Or, make your own frame from recycled materials.  Learn How.

6.  Travel the eco-friendly way.  Going away for a romantic weekend?  Find a hotel that’s eco-friendly at www.environmentallyfriendlyhotels.com/. If you’re traveling somewhere to celebrate the occasion, consider offsetting your carbon emissions at Native Energy.

And, since we’ve been sharing sage words on the topic at the shop (on our recycled chalk boards), perhaps you’d enjoy them on-line too.

Romantic, educative, snarky – it’s all about love in the end, isn’t it?

Or, at least, something like love…

• There is no living with thee, nor without thee. - Marcus Valerius Martial
• Your heart is my pinata. - Chuck Palahniuk
• I have been surpised that men could die martyrs to their religion -  I have shuddered at it -  I shudder no more -  I could be martyred for my religion – Love is my religion – And I could die for that – I could die for you. - John Keats
• Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. - H. L. Mencken
• If i has to choose between loving you, and breathing, I would use my last breath to say I LOVE YOU - dani b.
• The best & most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.  They must be felt with the heart. - Hellen Keller
• There is only one happiness in life – to love & be loved. - George Sands
• When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. - Dr. Seuss
• I have found men who didn’t know how to kiss.  I’ve always found time to teach them. – Mae West
• To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. – Oscar Wilde