Happy Valentine's Day, Mr PB

Hello lovely Planetarians on this gorgeous sunny, summery Hobart day. This is just the shortest of post on Valentine’s Day to joyfully acknowledge the love of my life, Mr PB (while he’s out with the two older pixies and I’m at home with sleeping Sam). Before we landed on Planet Baby, we used to go to a fair bit of effort for each other on Valentine’s Day. On one memorable occasion, he cooked me quail in rose petal sauce, a recipe used in one of our favourite magic realism films, ‘Like Water for Chocolate’. You can find the recipe here. I love stumbling across my old novel with its rose-petal stained splatters, knowing that he slaved over it for hours. Just for me.

This year, though, I’ve been caught a little short of time. I arranged these gorgeous little paper butterflies I bought from the talented Rhonda’s Made It Shop, Pixel Adventures, with the intention of photographing it and making it into a card. I ran out of time. I ordered a special something which is in the mail. Sigh. The best laid plans…

However, I still have a few hours left in the day to whip a card up. I also hope to fit in making him chicken risotto with tomatoes and sweet potato. Oh, and buy some Tasmanian bubbles to accompany it.

I am, however, joining in with Felicity and Bron’s ‘Bling on Love’ linky. As requested, here is my post describing how Mr PB proposed to me and here is a photo of my engagement and wedding rings.

Three diamonds set in a half-bezel, I love my ring. I remember what a fortune it cost Mr PB back when he was in one of his first jobs. He had to lay-by it (does anyone still do that nowadays?!). And as you can tell from my post, it had a starring role on the big day. And thankfully wasn’t tossed into the River Derwent by accident!

Oh, and inside my wedding ring is engraved Mr PB's name and the date we married. His ring has my name and the date, too. 

Anyway, Mr PB’s returned with the older pixies and it’s time to go to my parents’ house to pick some apricots to make into jam so I’d better dash! I hope you’re all enjoying Valentine’s Day with your nearest and dearest.