"heart" and seek - day 5

{photo found here }

when i was a little girl valentines were never ever bought from a store.

my mom would get a new pack of "construction" paper and i would have to pick out all the reds and whites and pinks.  there would be crate paper so we could cut it into little squares and wrap it around the eraser side of a pencil then we would glue it down onto unsuspecting HEART forms.  there was glitter...lots of messy glitter that we could find in cracks and crevices months later.   and doilies.  i loved doilies.  i still love doilies.  i remember how hard it was to separate them into just one.  they liked to stick together those doilies did.   saved cards from years gone by were trimmed down and given new life on my homemade valentines.  markers were obviously a must have and the most important tool was a big bottle of wonderful old elmers glue.   i can remember using so much glue that sometimes my valentines would still be soggy when i delivered them....and speaking of DELIVERING...

am i the only one in america who "skipped" to their friends homes,  valentines swinging from a brown paper bag and carefully tip-toed onto the porch and ever so gently laid my glorious piece of love art down on the mat just perfectly...rang the bell...and RAN LIKE MAD????

my kids tell me every year when i make them do this with me...

"mom!!!  this is doorbell ditching!!!  we are gonna get C-A-U-G-H-T!!!"

"that.s part of the fun!!!"  i say as i ring the next door neighbors bell 

and leave them in the dust!!!

so this leads me into day 5 of "HEART and seek"

this little game is leaving me a tad nostalgic.  see...every time i get a new email i hear a little "bell" sound {it.s usually annoying}  but not this month.  no!  this month i run to the computer.  throw open my mailbox and see if i have a new HEART surprise from you guys!  it makes me feel like i am little all over again.  

this wonderful happy budda HEART love came to my facebook mailbox from 

the oh so talented and super beautiful kelly barton.  please check out her website as she always has the most wonderful wisdom and fun to share.

...not to mention her art ROCKS.

the next time my doorbell rang i ran to see who was there and lucky day for me!

someone had left me, not one, but two love surprises.

that someone is one of my besties in the whole world...kolleen harrison

from HEARTwing sisters. {wink wink...she should have a lot of HEARTS right}   on a recent walk these HEARTs snuck up on K.  she thought it was especially kind of them to come in pairs and she even suggested looking at it as a smiley face and the one HEART is the mouth.  do you see it?

as she continued her walk she found the best HEART attack ever...

she said it so beautifully in her own wise words...

"HI SWEET CHEEKS.....SO TODAY ON MY WALK I STUMBLED UPON THIS SWEET HEART THAT LOOKS LIKE IT IS FLOATING ON A STRING.  

I STOPPED....TOOK IT IN AND THOUGHT THIS IS HOW I FEEL WHEN MY KIDS SMILE AT ME OR SCOTT TAKES MY HAND OR A FRIEND CALLS JUST TO CHECK IN....

I FEEL LIKE MY HEART IS FLOATING!"

i could have not said it more perfectly myself kolleen!

part of the joy of this "HEART and seek" for me...is watching all of you open your eyes to the love around you.  many of you have said that once you started actively looking for HEARTS, you began to see them everywhere.  isn.t that awesome!  such is the case with this teensy tiny paper love from

 jennifer at giggling in the rain.  i adore the fact that she noticed a HEART so small and seemingly insignificant...yet it DID make a BIG difference in her day.  i promise if you take a visit to jennifer.s blog you will be giving your own HEART a huge gift.   jennifer.s words are like chocolate!

keep looking for love my friends...it might be so tiny you have to squint or it could be right under your feet.  LOVE IS EVERYWHERE!

cultivate the ability to see love in small spaces