Valentine’s Day Treats For Your Lockdown Love

February 11, 2021 Julia Collins Andreu

Call me cheesy but I love Valentines Day. ♥️👼🏻The pressure to buy useless tat aside - surely a day dedicated to l’Amour in all its forms can only be a good thing?

While an overpriced set menu at a table-for-two, wedged between 47 other tables-for-two isn’t my style (although at this point even that sounds excéllent), I love any excuse to create an occasion. As a child I loved making Valentines for my family and friends, writing faux love cheques (très early noughties) and pretending to be a waitress for my parents’ at-home dinner date. I would obsess over setting the table and making an elaborate pun-filled menu on the family Windows 95. I kind of love that this year is taking us back to that nostalgic simplicity - how to make a cosy night in feel special?

Whether it’s building a solo blanket fort with twinkly glow in the dark stars in a throwback to your 1996 bedroom, an indoor picnic, breakfast in bed, writing an elaborate treasure hunt, taking the time to cook a really delicious meal or watching 90s rom coms…Valentines Day is really just a cute excuse to do something sweet for yourself, your love or your pals.

Especially just now, with fun thin on the ground and when most of us have never appreciated the people in our life more.

One of my favourite campaigns in a lonng time, Bloom & Wild have officially taken a stand against the dozen-roses trope. I love red roses! But I really, really like the message that Valentine’s Day flowers shouldn’t be contrived, just for the sake of it or predictable - they should be personal and genuinely from the heart. Wild and messy like real life and real love.

So if anything, this year’s Vday is a really much needed excuse to tell the ones we love we love them! Here are a few of my favourite at home date night ideas and ways to spoil your Valentines, Galentines, Palentines and Granentines from afar…

Date Night At HOme

The Lucky Pineapple Club Cocktail Club

Hayley has done it again - another stunning at-home cocktail kit with mega attention to detail. The Lovers Valentine’s Day Cocktail Party Box comes with 2 cocktail recipes (a Pomegranate & Rose Whiskey Sour & a Pink Paloma), popcorn and pick n’ mix. Serve in gorgeous glassware like their delicate deco coupes, or these green stemmed gin glasses.

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the best cards

Amazingly talented Emmy Lupin has designed this gorgeous set of Galentine’s Day cards for sending year-round. Happy Go Lucky always make me smile with their bright designs and these Romeo and Jules Studio scallop edge notecards are *chefs kiss*. Papier always do really beautiful collaborations too.

Puzzle Post is like an escape game in an envelope - you write / photograph / record your message, which will only be revealed by completing the puzzles inside.

lovely wee things

You Are Magic by KUTUU
Ceramic Fortune Cookie by YAYVM
Bubble and Mimi Little Origami Hearts
Blow Me a Kiss Bubble Bath by Lush
Positivity Candle by Kindred Fires
Imogen Owen The World Is Your Oyster Notecards

sweet treats

Valentine’s Tin by The Chocolate Gift Co.
A Dozen Happy Hearts by Hotel Chocolat
The Marshmallowist Teacakes
ARD Bakery BonBons
Personalised Biscuit Heart by Maid of Gingerbread
Valentine’s Day Truffles (gloriously Wes Anderson)
Eat My Cake Lobster Biscuit
Love Tokens Treat Box by Sugar Tits
Dees Basement Galentine’s Gift Hamper

care packages

Be My Valentine by 2 Flux
Blume Lockdown Lover Hamper
Not Another Bill Emergency Lockdown Love
Send a Negroni
Nio Cocktails (Get 10% off your first purchase)
Not Another Bunch of Flowers

juicy Gifts

Dessert Plate by Hotel Magique x Anthropologie
Sweetheart Print by Hanna Kaciniel
Carb Necklace by For Art’s Sake
Ex Voto Ring by Roo Jewellery
Amore Vase by Laura Nevill
Je t’aime glass by Hotel Magique x Anthropologie
Maisonette Plate by Clare V x Anthropologie
Movie Ticket Print by Betty Woodehouse
Heart Signet Ring by Laura Gravestock
Ciao Chiara Amore Print
The Apricot Memoirs by Tess Guinery
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
Week 3 Fine Art Print by Rowan Rosie
Wake Up! Maybe Later Pillowcase Set by Hotel Magique

Sending you all the love and light friends xoxo

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