February Newsletter from Cherry

It’s the Love Month. Yep, we are actually in February now and I can’t quite believe it. I’m not a huge fan of January so landing in this month is really rather fun for me but it also means that a full year of celebrating and entertaining can really begin now and we start off with Valentine’s Day. Over the next two weeks I’ll be taking you through some of my favourite Valentine’s recipes, entertaining and crafty ideas as well as some other articles that will enable us all to feel like Spring is right around the corner and the sun is already beating down on our faces.

Something new that is starting this month are these colour boards that I have turned in to photographs. At the start of each month, along with my newsletter, I’m going to publish the colour boards that we prepare here at the house to show you the types of colours, items and palettes that we have coming up. Each month there will be a different colour palette and I’m excited to see them change through the seasons and as inspiration hits. They will also make up the downloadable calendar (below) which I have changed this month due to requests from readers. You can print the calendar off and stick it to your wall if you wish but you can also save it as your desktop calendar for the month. I’ll try to make them as bright and as colorful as possible so you never mind having the calender glaring back at you.

I was watching an episode of House last night (I swear to goodness these babies are going to come out speaking about infarctions, lumbar punctures and wanting to walk with a cane. WE WATCH SO MUCH HOUSE!!!) and it was the episode when the fireman has a procedure that erases a great many of his personal memories. To help this procedure make sense to the patient the doctors summed it up as being able to start over. As I was watching this episode I asked myself if I could ‘start over’ but still know all that I know now and life a life of hindsight what would I do differently? This question was similar to one someone asked me about what advice I would give to my twenty year old self.

I thought about that question and the one which arose from the episode of House and I thought about what things were like when I was in my very early twenties. I remember having a very lovely flat in a Victorian house and how big the windows were. I remember decorating my kitchen in exactly the same way as Meg Ryan had hers in Sleepless in Seattle. I remember coming home from a break in the States with as many Martha Stewart magazines as I could carry and then subscribing to another American lifestyle magazine when I got home. I thought they were great and they were my only resource for the things I loved to make and do. I also had a Mary Engelbreit book on cross stitch and I worked my way through it, content on the sofa. I had miniature roses on my coffee table and an all white bathroom.

It was very simple and one of the reasons for this was that there was no Internet then. I got it about a year later but it has taken a good few years to evolve in to the gold-mine of information that it is now and I’ve become totally overwhelmed with it all.

So, in this month of love, if I were to go back to the twenty year old me or live a life of hindsight I would most definitely tell that person to keep it simple, don’t let the mind get too crowded and to make it a habit to practice anything that made them feel at peace and discard anything that doesn’t. My middle twenties were ever so turbulent and I wished I’d been told these things. But hey, the party was great while it lasted!!!!

Have a wonderful, colourful, creative and vibrant February. Feel free to download my free desktop calendar for your personal use and if you are married, dating, single or any other combination have a great Valentine’s Day. I’ll make sure that there is something for everyone this month!

LOVE, Cherry xoxo

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See you tomorrow!

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