LoveBug Butterfly

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Well Valentine's Day has come and gone. Hope you got to celebrate it someway. Even if it was just sending out a card to someone. Our celebration was at home. We used to go out to dinner but it's difficult to get a reservation and I can make just as good a meal here in my kitchen. So that's what we have been doing for the past 4 years or so.

 

I serve the dinner in courses. By that I mean I serve a course and then I go back to the kitchen to prepare the next one. It takes about 4 hours for our dinner but we love doing it this way.

 

We started with a cheese platter and a glass of wine. Our next course was a lemon cream fettucine pasta with pistachios and scallops. I used fresh pasta for this. It was so delicious.

The next course was a filet mignon steak with an oven baked potato. Then we finished off with our dessert course of a strawberry filled with mascarpone cheese and drizzled in chocolate. My hubby loved it all. That always makes me feel really good.

 

I attended a cooking class a couple of weeks ago where we made this pasta dish minus the scallops. The instructor had us make the pasta in the class but our local market sells fresh pasta so I just bought it there. I didn't make a salad  because I forgot to look for a recipe for a specialty salad. Then I didn't have the necessary ingredients to prepare one. But, there was enough other food that we didn't miss a salad.

 

Now let's move onto my card for today. This is one of the cards I made to take to church. I make about 8 or 9 cards and let some of the men select one for their wives. They look forward to it each year. The guy that took this one needs a card that celebrates not only Valentine's Day but also his wife's birthday and their anniversary.

 

I used the CottageCutz Lovebug Butterfly and Valentine Phrase and More dies to create my card. The background designer paper is from the "painted love specialty" Stampin'-Up collection.

 

Well that's it for me for this post. Time to start my Saturday so until next time...…..God bless

 

dies I used to create card:

 

 

I am also entering:

1.  A Gem of a Challenge is anything goes.

2.  Crafter's Castle has an anything goes with option of Valentine's Day.

3.  Crafty Friends has an anything goes.

4.  Inkspirational wants us to be inspired by the word Text.

5.  Brown Sugar has a Love/Valentine's Day challenge.