It's GORGEOUS!!!

I doubt the picture does it justice... I just LOVE how it turned out... so beautiful. Yea, it's definitely much more striking in real life. However, it works. The red is velvet. It's soft to the touch. There are brads on the "Be my" part of the title and on each side of the "Valentine" title. There are two pieces of journaling and they read:

Saturday, February 14th, 2009
We debated whether or not to do Valentine’s on Saturday or do it on Friday instead. We decided to go ahead and do it the morning of the holiday. Instead of the parents buying all the kids a gift, we drew names, and took the kids to buy the person they drew a gift, though I’d already gotten Jerry something, so I traded for him. Becca got Alex, Sammi got Shabree Alex got Sydni So when Bec and I went shopping, we had to buy the gifts “from” the two youngest. Jerry and I got each other, and Syd got Bec, and Shabree got Sammi.

The bear I got was what I really wanted. I almost bought it for Jerry, but I realized that it would not be very cool for me to buy him a gift I really wanted for me, so I bought him some chocolates, a chocolate rose, some almond rocas, and a picture frame I put a picture of all the girls. However, when I got home, I mentioned the bear I wanted. I didn’t realize Jerry hadn’t gotten me a gift yet. In fact, Sydni TOLD me he hadn’t, and I told her, Syd, if you’re lying, you’re doing a pretty good job of it. Then Jerry told me he hadn’t gotten anything. Well, I was very surpirsed when I opened the VERY bear I wanted. I asked Jerry how he knew I wanted the brown bear (as there had been another similar bear that was white), he said that it was the bear he liked better. I told him we were on similar wavelengths, because I liked that one better too. All the girls got a bunch of chocolate, except for Sammi who got a bear, and Alex, who got some really cute bibs. Shabree and I both got Garfield boxes of chocolate, which we loved, Sydni got a box with a rose on it. Bec got “I heart you” chocolate, which she immediately traded Syd for her box of chocolates, minus about 4 pieces. Becca ate all of her chocolate within the next 24 hours.