Dana and I have made a part-time job when it comes to disliking Valentines Day. We’ve had an entires series of Anti-Valentine Parties and even had an awesome anti-Valentines date (I took her to dinner in a nearly-condemmed restaurant and she brought me to “Bat Boy – The Musical“). It’s not that we hate Valentines – we just really enjoy disliking it.
When we were in High School together (we were just friends back then), our Student council did small fundraisers by selling CandyGrams. For a few dollars each, the student council would deliver a candy with a note to the object of your affection or appreciation (they weren’t valentines specific). Sometimes there was candy, sometimes there wasn’t. It was generally a sweet idea.
Recently we found ourselves laughing about the idea of a Valentines Card for Foodies. Dana’s learning how to screen print so a joke became a though which then became a project; screen printed postcards (we’ll hand-write your message for you or make one up if you’d rather; we won’t be insulting of course but I can’t promise we’ll be romantic…). Canada Post won’t allow us to attach candy to a postcard so the ‘treat’ is the print this time.
Dana drew the four designs, hand painted them onto the screen and then printed the cards with the most jarring shade of pink she could muster.
There are 4 postcards in the series:
- You put the Cute in Charcuterie
- I love you more than kale
- Let’s make bacon
- You’re the jam to my toast
You can see the entire series in our store – just click here!
You might want to take a look at Sasha Dichter’s (sic) blog…he started Generosity Day instead of Valentine’s…interesting idea! I like the ‘cute’ one!
I always thought those CandyGrams at school were sort of cruel. I was definitely a late bloomer and my best friend always broke all school records for getting the most. A very long day at school to say the least….
After working in popular restaurants, I never go out New Year’s Eve, Valentines Day, Mothers Day, St. Patty’s Day or Father’s Day. We used to say that’s when all the amateurs (people who don’t eat out much) were out….
Love the screen printing projects – kind of jealous. I always loved printmaking…
Auburn, I can most definitely relate to that! I was a jazz-dancing figure skater for the first half of high school and then a long hard rocker hippie type freak for the second half. Not exactly the teen idol heartthrob that started for our football team at QB.
We are the same with you re the holidays – other than New Years Day which we have a bit of a tradition of going out for Dim Sum or other Chinese Food – but there’s very little attention paid to New Years in those places so I’m not sure it counts. This year we had that meal on Jan 2 – the couch was far too enveloping.
Wow, that was a reinvention, lol. High school was exhausting – I wouldn’t go back for anything…
Heh. Dana and I say the EXACT same thing…
I really hope we all get to meet up one day.
J