February is the perfect month in which I can indulge my love affair with everything heart shaped. Although these days running an online shop means we tend to experience everything a month sooner than it actually happens which is a little weird but surrounding ourselves with cherry red treats sure waves goodbye to the January blues! To house all our new goodies we've created a new collection called Be My Valentine.

We have teamed up with two of our favourite designer-makers and asked them to produce a small collection of handmade treasures based upon the theme that if we could receive the perfect Valentines gift these goodies are what we'd wish for! Kandy Diamond our knitting extraordinaire has purchased a mountain of cherry red yarn and created a giant necklace spelling out the word LOVE, a super cute red bow hairclip and a matching big bow brooch both with pixel heart detail. Alicia Kachmar our crochet wonder kid from New York has brought to life a posse of happy heart necklaces with little beady eyes and a stitched smile available in dusky pink and lipstick red. Super sweet!

Those of us lucky enough to have a hot date planned for Valentines will need a drop dead cute frock to knock his socks off. Check out our best selling Cutie Pie dresses by Scandinavian label Reko now available in limited edition Valentines colours cherry red and cream cutie. The strapless sweetheart neckline will sure make him drool! Why not accessorize the dress with Photobooth - a silver toned photo frame necklace with heart detail from US cutemeisters Fred Flare. On the way home from your date jump into a photobooth with your beau and capture the moment on film which you can then wear around your neck. How cute 'n' special 'n' fuzzy is that!?

To source fancy fandangles for our heartfelt collection I took a trip with my beau to Paris for the day. Unfortunately it wasn't terribly romantic as we were up at 4am to catch the Eurostar from the newly opened Kings Cross terminal and for the whole day we poked about back street wholesalers looking for interesting materials and components. Stopping very briefly for a spot of lunch where Sam accidently ordered a meal of raw meat, poor thing. Goodies we've put together so far from our Paris trip are Falling Hearts, Is This Love and Bow Tie Hairclips. A highlight of the day was discovering a beautiful store dedicated to "boutons" where we scooped up armfuls of novelty types. Unfortunately the sad store owner told us they were closing down in a few weeks due to rising rents. What a shame!

On a brighter note if you snap up anything from our Be My Valentine collection before February 14th your purchases will be popped into special packaging with a valentines theme. Pictured above are some examples. If you wanna go one step further we are also selling love token gift boxes in which you can encase your treasures bound for the love of your life for a mere £1.

Want to surprise the love of you life? Got a secret crush? Let us send your valentines card (s) for you! Choose a card, type in your message, change the delivery address in the checkout area (super important) and we'll post it for you. How much fun is that! Happy valentines folks and don't forget to enter our Candy Contest below the special valentines edition PEZ dispensers are seriously cute 'n' collectible!

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