It’s the season of luuuuuuuuuurve!
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you would’ve seen hearts, red and pink everywhere as people and businesses crank up l’amore in the run-up to Valentine’s Day.
Now if you (or your partner) is anything like the SO, your romance factor is probably about as dead as a door nail. It’s not that you don’t care (you most certainly do!). It’s just you don’t know what to do.
And if you (or your partner) is anything like me, you probably don’t mind an unromantic partner, because it’s all a commercial stunt, yaddah yaddah yaddah. Besides, you want something useful, damnit!
So here’s a quick little Valentine’s Day gift guide for the domestic goddess – cute functional homeware you can package up with the bouquet of flowers.
- Tuscan Amore Plate from Isabella
- Olive Oil Dipping Dish from Cox and Cox
- Set Of Six Heart Shaped Teaspoons from Not On High Street
- Heart Bundt Pan from Broadway Panhandler
- Love To Bake Measuring Set from Modcloth
- Zero Japan Teapot, Saturn from Everten
- INSIDEOUT Hearts Cup Set of 6 from Yedihouse
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Aww!! That’s really cute heart-shaped stuff. Did you know that the shape of the heart was ‘inspired’ by cupid’s butt? So every time I see these things, I can’t help but think that cupid’s head is about to turn! Not to mention, start wondering whether cupid would fart through the heart…or in the case of your picture of the heart shaped tea-cup and saucer, think that maybe it’s cupid’s pee!
Eeeeew! Cupid’s pee? Get your mind out of the gutter! :p
And yes, that is one of many theories behind the origins of the symbolic heart (though I think that is much more due to Walt Disney’s Fantasia: ‘The Pastoral Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven’ sequence). Others include it could be the depicting of the human female body, such as the female’s buttocks, pubic mound, or spread vulva. Or from the shape made by swans’ necks in a courting ritual.