For Valentine's Day, Or Anytime...
As a mother of five, I know how hard it is to find time for romance. Maybe you have a busy home life and/or a hectic job. The trick is to schedule some time for just the two of you. You often hear romance compared to fire; here's how to fan the flames!
Think it's impossible? Out of the question with your budget? You're hopeless in the kitchen and domestic arrangement catagory? Never fear, I'll guide you through it.
YOU CAN DO THIS!!! Read on...
Free Romantic Menus For Valentine's Day!
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How to Set a Place Setting
How to Set a Place Setting
Shows you the correct way to set a table place setting
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Free Romantic Recipe Link List
- A Romantic Dinner for Two from Diabetic Recipes.com
- Over 800 diabetic recipes with diabetic menus from award-winning cookbook authors.
- Top 5 Recipes for a Romantic Vegetarian Valentine's Dinner
- Cook it with love, and enjoy your meal together.
- Wheat & gluten free Valentine's Day Dinner Menu
- Valentine's Day, the day for lovers everywhere to indulge the most important person in their lives.
- Kosher and Romantic
- 311 Romantic Kosher Recipes
- Valentine's Day Menu Ideas From Kraft Foods.com
- Enjoy these Valentine's Day menu ideas from morning to night. Lots of simple comfort food here!
- ROMANTIC RECIPES FOR TWO
- Romantic dinners are nice, but you can also have romance in the kitchen. Here are some great recipes that you can have fun cooking together!
- Sheila's Kissing Booth
- Serving romantics at heart all over the world.
- LovingYou.com: Recipes For Two
- Show off your culinary skills and pamper your partner at the same time.
- Recipes to Tempt Your Valentine
- It's often said that food is the way to a man's (and a woman's) heart - especially on Valentine's Day. These classic recipes and romantic menus are sure to please everyone you're cooking for this year.
Valentine Table Setting 2008, With Home Made Valentine Place Card
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500 Great Dates: Creative, Fun, and Sexy Ways to Spend Time Together
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Date Night Ideas
From REDBOOK Magazine's new book, 500 Great Dates
Turn your night into a mini-vacation by matching the menu to the movie:Kung fu action flick? Order some spicy noodles at your local Chinese restaurant. French film noir? Hit the nearest bistro. Italian family drama? Share a big bowl of spaghetti.
Try brunch and a matinee: Your neighborhood's fancier restaurants are way more affordable (and just as delicious) in the daytime hours.
Find a restaurant with a dance floor.
Even if you've got less coordination than a Dancing With the Stars early round reject, you can still hold each other close and sway to the beat.
Create your own "drive-in" experience.
If you have a laptop with a DVD drive, take it out with you. Rent or download a movie you never got around to seeing, order something simple at a dimly lit bistro, find a love seat to cuddle up in, and watch.
Go for an all day hike!
Check out trails.com for a listing of nearby treks and get lost in the woods together.
Visit the museum.
Museumstuff.com has links to thousands of art institutions in America and abroad; the Art Museum Network at amn.org lists links to the Websites and exhibition calendars of the world's leading art museums; and galleryguide.org will help you easily locate an art venue near you. If art really isn't your (or his) thing, don't overlook other kinds of exhibits, such as the history of hockey, or even surgical equipment! One good source for the weird and wild: museumspot.com.
Give in to the undeniably romantic allure of watching the sun go down.
Head to the highest point in town, and when the light is romance perfect for enhancing your sensuous mood, turn the scenic view into a background for a make out session.
Have a picture perfect night.
Take a camera with you and at different points on your night out, ask people to take your photo (make it a point to lock lips for some of the snaps). On your next date, flip through the photos together - or make a collage or slide show. You can also create great memories by making a date with a photographer for a fancy shot of the two of you in a tight clinch. Or simply head into a photo booth. "We always take goofy photo booth pictures when we go out," says one woman. "It's fun, and sometimes illuminating, to look back over them. For instance, the snap we took a few months after our son was born - I remember feeling like we weren't communicating well, but then I'll look at that date photo and it shows how much joy and love we were also feeling."
Create your own private blackout.
There's something cinematically sexy and romantic about a blackout, but you don't have to wait for the electric company to put you in the dark. Just forbid all use of electricity (yes, that includes the cell phone and computer) and close all the curtains. Light some candles, and see what happens!
Meet for a midnight snack.
Nibble on whatever sweet thing is on hand or have a s'mores tent party (after the kids are in bed). Hook up a makeshift tent with a rope and a blanket, then roast a couple of marshmallows in the toaster oven and sandwich them with chocolate graham crackers.
Feed each other.
Cut up an assortment of sexy juicy fruits: mangoes, papayas, raspberries, and strawberries. Don't refrigerate, as fruit at room temperature has the most pungent aroma and releases the most flavor when placed on the tongue.
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How to Open a Champagne Bottle
How to Open a Champagne Bottle-Food Network
Ted Allen showes the right way (and a cool way) to open a bottle of bubbly. This video is part of New Years Eve with Ted Allen - 2008 show hosted by Ted Allen . SHOW DESCRIPTION :This video is only available online at Foodnetwork.com
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Dinner for One - Freddie Frinton
Dinner for One - Freddie Frinton ---- Read the article about this sketch at: http://www.angelfire.com/ab7/history_doorstep/Dinner.html
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Creative (Yet Frugal) Ideas & Tips To Bring Romance To Your Table!
You don't have to rack your brain or break the bank...
Don't own any special occassion silver, dinner or glassware?Try your local antique or thift shops, and mix and match different designs. It's addictive, and you can have an attractive setting in no time!
Hate wasting money on cut flowers that fade and end up in the trash?
Buy a LIVE flowering plant or bulbs, like tulips, that can be transplanted later, and be remembered for a long time to come.
Not a lot of cash? What about little things like candles, or other gift items?
My favorite stores in the WHOLE world are the Dollar Tree, 99 Cents Store and so on. You can buy candles of all shapes, sizes and colors, spa supplies, and all other manner of little gifty things. AND a cute gift bag to put it all in ...
Can't find or afford a sitter for the kids?
Make them their own special meal (pizza or mac & cheese is always a hit with my kids!), get them off to bed early or set them up with a movie or two in their rooms while you and your sweetie enjoy an intimate, child-free meal.
Romantic Evening Resource Link List
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- Oriental Trading Company: Valentine's Day
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- Kama Sutra: Making Love Better
- The Kama Sutra collection is created in perfect harmony with today's interest in well-being - of spirit as well as mind and body.
- TheThriftShopper.Com's National Thrift Store Directory
- TheThriftShopper.Com is a one-stop web destination for all your thrift shopping needs. Search for thrift stores in our national thrift store directory, join our online thrifting community, and learn more about thrift shopping!
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- Handmade greeting cards
How To Open A Bottle Of Wine
How to Open a Wine Bottle - CHOW
http://www.chow.com Open wine the right way and never break a cork again.
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WeddingZazzle wrote...
Love it! Great ideas. Also, thank you for blessing my "Where was God On Sept 11th lens. Appreciate it1
Posted June 10, 2009
Janusz wrote...
I loved watching "Dinner for one" LOL .. Blessed by your feathered friend :)
Posted April 08, 2009
YourSmilingChef wrote...
Fun, fabulous, and entertaining lens... I am definitely a romantic and now I have some brand new ideas.
Posted March 14, 2009
heehaw wrote...
great tips , i like most is - Date Night Ideas. i wonder what other like most.
Posted February 20, 2009
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