Hyv�� yst�v�np�iv��! (Happy Friendship Day!)

As you probably know by now, Finns do not celebrate Valentine's Day the way many other cultures do like North America for example - roses, romantic dinners, perhaps a proposal, special treatment and CHOCOLATES....
No they don't. It's all about the friends and perhaps sending them a little post card or candy. :)

For more history on the big ol' V-Day, check out this site.

Do you celebrate Valentine's Day?  Or do you celebrate it everyday by showing the people you love and care for them regardless of the "holiday"?
Or do you hate it altogether and cannot wait for tomorrow - the day that all the candies, chocolates and flowers go on sale?

Happy Valentine's Day - Arnold's Style

So I thought for this Valentine's Day, I don't have any time to make a card for my husband or kids.

I was right.

Instead, I decided to pick up a bottle of red wine, a couple steaks and a couple Arnold's donuts (a rarity in our home and diets) and surprise my husband with a quiet steak dinner with wine and for dessert - something not made by me.

Well, for V-Day, Arnold's came up with these super cute pink boxes with some sort of Japanese anim�-looking characters on them and your donuts went in the box and you also got a sheet of stickers.

And some stickers were even in English!

Very cute idea - especially if you're a secret admirer and don't want to reveal your hand-writing...

PS Valentine's Day = not a big deal in Finland at all....there was still a knitting group meeting on V-Day!