feels like Christmas in February

I took a few tiny packets of my paper heart confetti with me to Virginia this past weekend so I could give them to some friends there.

Here’s where they are now.

{packets 1 + 2} – I had breakfast with my friends Lisa and Rebecca on Saturday morning and gave them each a packet.

{packet 3} – Later that morning I drove past my friend Rachel’s house and tucked a packet of confetti in her front door when she wasn’t home. I didn’t leave a note or anything, but she reads my blog, so I knew she would figure out who her secret admirer is.

{packet 4} – On Saturday evening, I gave my last packet of confetti to my friend Laura who I sat next to at a basketball game. She’s also a reader of this blog, so it wasn’t the first time she had seen the confetti.

I left all of my confetti with my friends in Virginia, but I did return home with something handmade. While I was eating breakfast at Lisa’s house, her husband Wendell was out in his woodshop making pens. Yes, making them. He actually made two pens while we were eating breakfast, and then he offered me either one of those two or one that he had made previously.

I chose this lovely walnut pen. Isn’t it beautiful?!

It feels heavy and classy, and when I used it to write out my grocery list this afternoon, it made milk and bananas seem so important.

Wendell doesn’t sell his pens yet, and when he does, he will probably sell them locally, rather than online, so I feel lucky to have this pen!