… thats how many days it is until February 14th, Valentines Day 2010! This site is dedicated to all those people who want to make Valentines Day 2010 special. If you are single and looking, in a relationship or married with a family, Valantines Day can be special this year for you. We share some ideas and tips to make Valentines Day more fun this year.

Valentines Day is a wonderful opportunity to forget all the stress and luxuriate in the majesty of love. This year, why not create an all-day romantic adventure for you and your special someone? This is fun not just to give, but to plan and execute. It is a definite win-win situation.

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What better time than Valentine’s Day to tell your woman how much you love her? Should you wine and dine her? Absolutely!

Nothing shows a woman that you care more than carefully planning a great evening.

However, if you really want to impress her and secure your place forever in her heart, you will astonish her if you prepare a meal for her instead of taking her out to dinner. It’s really a very simple thing. And let’s face it, a money saver as well. We’ll lead you through the process, from what kind of wine to buy to a scrumptious homemade dessert. But SHHHHH…don’t let on that you had a little help from your friends!

OK, let’s begin. You have no idea what to do! You’re no Julia Child in the kitchen… In fact, you aren’t exactly a wine connoisseur either… But hey, you want to pull off the “greatest dinner ever.” And that’s exactly what we are going to help you do! Do you need to tell your woman you are doing this? No, but it would be a good idea to let her know you are making

Valentine’s Day plans. That way, she will be expecting something, and won’t make reservations somewhere herself. (We tend to do that!)

Here’s the menu we have planned to wow her, and the steps you will need to follow to pull off this “evening to remember”:

Chilled Pinot Noir
Porterhouse Steaks with Creamy Blue Cheese Sauce
Healthy French-Fried Potato Wedges
Mixed Greens Salad
Easy Lemon Ice Cream Pie
Coffee/Tea

• Devise a plan. You’ll first have to know when you plan to serve your feast, so you aren’t heading to the supermarket 10 minutes before she’s starving to death. If you have young kids, you may wish to have them in bed before you sit down to an intimate dinner for just the two of you for a change, so plan for the meal after they are in bed. If this isn’t a possibility, then buy enough for everyone. If you don’t have this concern, let her know you are going to need free reign in the kitchen, and it will be off-limits to her for a while. She’ll love it.

• Set the table ahead of time. Don’t be afraid to get creative. You can eat at the dining room table, the kitchen table, or set up a small table like a card table somewhere else in the house- maybe in front of the fireplace.

• Use the fancy dinnerware. Use cloth napkins. If you don’t have cloth napkins, allow yourself time to go to the dollar store to pick these up when you go to the supermarket. Nothing says “special” like the little things!If you have good crystal, serving utensils, etc., plan on using these, too. If you have none of the above, just make sure everything matches! But go for the cloth napkins. Don’t forget the candles, too. More important…don’t forget to light them!

• Check to see what you have at home before you buy anything. No need to buy a bottle of Worcestershire sauce if there’s already one in the refrigerator. It’s not like it gets a heavy workout. Use Our Shopping list. All of the ingredients and directions are at your fingertips with our handy Valentine’s Day Shopping list!

• Make sure you allow enough time to hit all the areas in the supermarket without rushing. Plan on heading to the store a couple of hours before you intend to eat. This allows a little breathing room, and time for the wine to come to the right temperature. Nowadays, we can do “one stop shopping” almost anywhere.

It’s easy to pick up the makings for a delicious meal, wine, and flowers all in the same place. Here’s what you will need:

1. Get yourself a good bottle of Pinot Noir wine. How good? Well, it doesn’t have to cost $50, but pass on the $6.99 bottle. If you plan on having a glass ahead of dinner and one with dinner, you may want to grab 2 bottles.

2. Using the list you’ve prepared based on what you need and what you already have, navigate the supermarket, hitting the floral section last. You should call in the flower order ahead of time – 3 or 4 days. While most floral departments have gorgeous flowers available all the time, we are talking Valentine’s Day here after all. They don’t have to be roses! But make them very pretty.

• Now you simply head home, and get things going. Make the dessert first. It’s simple to make, but does need time to chill.

• Make your salad. We recommend using a bin/bag of mixed, pre-washed lettuce. Easy, and you can then add cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, etc. based on how much time you have and personal preferences. Don’t forget to have both of your favorite salad dressings on hand, too. Stick the prepared salad in the refrigerator, and don’t add the dressing until you’re ready to serve. Nothing worse than soggy salad!

• Set up the coffee pot. Hit the brew switch when clearing the table from the main course. If she likes tea, set up for this now also.

• Prepare the potatoes. These are also easy to prepare, but need about 35 minutes to bake. If you only have one oven like most of us, these can sit after they’ve baked while you change the oven to broil and put the steaks in.

• Stick the wine in the refrigerator. Good red wine tastes best just slightly chilled, maybe for 20-30 minutes before serving.

• While the potatoes are cooking, prepare the sauce for the steaks. Set aside and broil/grill the steaks.

• Once the steaks are done to your satisfaction, remove them from oven, switch the control back to about 300 degrees, and stick the potatoes back in for a few. Good steaks should sit a minute or two before cut, and this allows enough time for the potatoes to heat up again.

• Pour the wine, place the steak/sauce on serving plates, and add the potato wedges. Serve the salad on the side.

• Don’t forget the flowers! Make sure they are in a vase in the center of the table. A little soft jazz would be nice, too.

Now you should be able to pull off a perfect Valentine’s Day dinner, even if you’ve never cooked a thing in your life. Enjoy the evening, and enjoy all the attention, too! Bon appetit! Happy Valentine’s Day!

Valentine’s Day menus, recipes and shopping list can be found at: http://www.dinnerplanner.com/valentines_dinner.htm

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Melissa Good is co-owner of Meal Planning Made Easy a web-based dinnerplanning service. For a very low price, subscribers receive 3 full months worth of menus, recipes, color-coded shopping lists, dinner reviews, and more. Never have to think up new dinner ideas again!

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For over two hundred years now, jigsaw puzzles have given pleasure to millions. There is something in the human psyche that makes them love a puzzle.  We love to be challenged, and the beauty of a jigsaw puzzle is that everybody is brought to the same level.  The prince and the pauper, the genius and the fool, are the same when it comes to a jigsaw puzzle.  There is no specialized knowledge or specific intelligence needed to solve a jigsaw puzzle.

That is why they are so popular and are brought out traditionally at times when families get together, such as at Christmas time. However, they are now increasingly becoming popular as a Valentines gift. Although the traditional boxed jigsaw puzzles are as popular as they have ever been, personalized jigsaw puzzles are increasing in popularity all the time, especially for special occasions.

There are many ways to personalize a jigsaw puzzle to make them an ideal as gifts between two people. For a Valentine’s Day gift something personal is generally called for, and many people are become very ingenious in their choice of design.

Valentine’s Photo Collage Puzzle
Once choice is a Valentine’s Day Photo Collage Puzzle incorporating a selection of your favorite photos. The photos can represent your life together as a couple or a “this is your life” style layout with pictures of only your wife or girlfriend taken over many years. Adding a verse, poem or personal message makes it even more romantic.

Some ideas for a romantic message are

“You complete Me!” or
“I give you the pieces of my Heart”

or something similar. These are popular saying that others have included in their Valentines Puzzle Layout.

Most Valentine’s Day gifts are simple cards with a few love poems, but a Valentine’s Day jigsaw puzzle is much more romantic, especially if the subject is the person presenting the gift. Just think of the fun the couple will have in putting it together. It’s an activity that two people can share that goes way beyond a simple card.

Valentine’s Heart Puzzle
The shape of the puzzle you choose can also say more than words. For that added impact, order a Heart shaped Puzzle with your own picture and words on it.

There is however one last very important point not to forget! You must still have the roses!  A personalized jigsaw puzzle might thrill her, but not if it comes without the roses, so make sure you get the basics right. In fact the card would likely be a good idea as well. I would play safe and give both, with a personalized Heart Puzzle as the icing on the cake. If you choose the subject right she will love it – and you!

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Valentine’s Day. That season of love, romance, and more love. For many, Valentine’s Day is a mad rush act of booking the perfect restaurant, ordering the perfect arrangement of jaunty roses, and wrapping that perfect, extravagant Valentine gift. While for some, the season of hearts passes by quietly, unceromoniously, just like any other day.

Valentine’s Day has often been criticised as just an excuse for consumerism, an opportunity for businesses. Consequently, the well-meaning tradition of sending Valentine cards has also been unfairly stained by cynics everywhere, as if it is Hallmark’s fault that people are only sending cards perfunctorily, without thought at all, but just to get over the holiday. Indeed, Valentine’s Day is the second largest card-exchanging holiday next to Christmas, making Hallmark the unmistakable industry leader.

Half of the U.S. population celebrates Valentine’s Day by purchasing at least one greeting card, according to Hallmark. And last year, according to an MSNBC report, Americans spent as much as 13.7 billion last Valentine’s Day 2006, up 22 percent from just five years ago.

Other Valentine’s Day statistics are:

85% of all Valentine cards are bought by women.

73% of flowers are bought by men, and only 27% are by women.

Chocolate and candy sales reach profits of $1,011 billion during Valentines.

These are all good Valentine statistics, of course. It just means people are willing to go through any lengths just to make their loved ones feel special on Valentine’s Day, whether that may be in the form of yet another box of chocolates, yet another card in an envelope, or yet another bunch of flowers. After all, it’s still the thought that matters.

But Valentine’s Day also has its share of not-so-mushy statistics.

Approximately one in four Americans do not celebrate the holiday at all. And 15% of American women (and even men) send flowers to themselves on Valentine’s Day.

While the most widely-sent Valentine gifts have always been Valentine’s cards, chocolates, flowers, and dinner out, a new line of unlikely Valentine gifts are gaining popularity in the market, especially in the Internet. Not another virtual Valentine card, but what online psychics are offering: psychic readings, horoscopes, numerology reports, and tarot card readings. Certainly, they are not your usual Valentine’s Day gifts, and that exactly is the point.

They are insightful, helpful, and for a mere 10$ for instance, for just a ten minute psychic phone call, they are quite priceless. What is more is that they certainly last longer than just chocolates and flowers. For best results, though, one can send flowers and chocolates (and cards too!) alongside a psychic reading for their loved ones.

At the end of the day, however one chooses to celebrate Valentines day, what matters is that people have space in their hearts for love the whole year round.

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Since it is a love affair between the two of you, it is best that you propose to your sweetheart in private where no one else would be present! Some people believe in displaying their love openly to the public, but more often than not, such things are usually done either by celebrities in order to gain some cheap publicity or by someone who wants to attract others’ attention.

You wouldn’t want to propose in public for the simple reason that your beloved may not feel comfortable in saying “no” to you even if she is not ready for commitment yet. Keep in mind though that a girl’s saying “no” doesn’t always mean that she doesn’t love you; it could be that she is not ready for marriage yet because marriage requires commitment and time, or perhaps she wants to be financially independent before walking down the aisle, or maybe she needs time to think whether it is the right time for her to marry.

However, if you propose to her in public, she would be compelled to say “yes” even if she meant otherwise. You won’t want to pressurize her into accepting something she doesn’t want to, because that would be the starting point for future martial discord. For these reasons, it is always wise to propose in private!

If you want to make your friends and family involved in the affair, wait till she says “yes” and then you could invite them all in the engagement party!

Many people tend to fumble when the issue of popping the question comes. So here are some easy ideas to help you get started on this route.

1. This is perhaps the easiest proposing technique out there. Take you partner for a walk and visit a secluded place where there would be no one besides the two of you. Being tired of walking, you would inevitably sit down to rest. This is the right time to take that ring out of your pocket, get on one knee, and pop the question to her!

2. Plan a romantic picnic for two of you! You can invite some of your close friends too if you like. Take a basket, fresh flowers and a picnic blanket with you. Fill up the basket with all the kinds of foods you would be using for the picnic, and don’t forget to put the ring box in between the foods. When she comes up to take the foods from the basket and discovers the ring box, pop the question right then and there!

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Every woman desires to be pampered by her lover, and you can pamper her right at your home by setting up a spa. You maybe thinking that it is very complicated and expensive to setup a spa at home, but it is not! I will walk you through the entire process of setting up the home spa and you will see how easy it is!

Okay, even though it won’t cost you an arm and a leg to set up a spa at home, you would need to invest some time in it for sure! If you are short on time, you may want to go in for a simple facial! But if you have several hours to spare, you could setup a complete spa at home! You can start off with treatments such as gentle food scrub or a hair mask.

Do not look for complicated treatments as you may not have all the required ingredients at home! Search for recipes which are pretty simple and straightforward and don’t take a lot of time. I am sure you will be able to prepare a wide array of beauty treatments with the simple ingredients available in your kitchen.

Once you have the treatments needed, you need to create a spa-like atmosphere, which again, is a very simple task. If you don’t have wine or Champaign at home, you can buy them or go in for a cup of plain coffee! Also buy some romantic musical CDs to keep both of you entertained, as well as a few fragrant candles to add the special romantic smell to your home!

So far as clothes are concerned, you would need to get a soft, warm towel for the purpose of cleaning up the beauty products once their job is done; you will also need a bathrobe (preferably one made of terrycloth) so as to keep your beauty treatments from getting stuck on your regular clothes!

Okay, you are now all setup. Invite your loved one to your home spa and give her the kind of special beauty treatment she may not have received anywhere else before! Apply the treatments on her body with your soft hands and she will appreciate it. You can finish it off with a romantic dinner!

Trust me, even if it sounds very simple, your partner will love you for the rest of your life for this spa treatment! Who knows, she may even get so addicted to it that she would pester you to offer such beauty treatments regularly!

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Every year on Valentine’s Day, I usually send my wife at least a dozen roses; sometimes, even two dozen! As soon as I handover the roses to her, she cannot help but smile at me with her lovely lips!

However, if you are fed up with the same old-fashioned roses and want to buy something different for your partner, then there is help for you. Instead of buying conventional red roses, try the “Black Magics!” Black Magics are not only beautiful, but a class apart in their elegance; plus they look completely different from the conventional roses as their petals are of dark red velvet color. All in all, I personally believe that Black Magics are the only flowers which could match the elegance and beauty of red roses!

Some people prefer to send a mixture of different flowers to their sweethearts instead of just one. If you are of this type, your local florist should be able to help you select the best varieties and colors of flowers for this purpose. If you want, you can even send her a small plant with a blooming flower, or a flower basket. Or you can also buy her a tall vase containing tulips or Calla Lilies! All in all, there is no dearth of ideas if you want to surprise her with something extraordinary!

If you have decided on sending her a flower basket, I won’t recommend sending her an empty basket.. Have you heard of Gourmet Gift Baskets for Valentine’s Day? These gift baskets could contain anything and everything ranging from candles, chocolates, lotions, snacks, coffees, etc.

If she is an animal lover then you could even add Plush Animals to the basket; if she loves balloons then adding them is also an option. Make sure to put only those things in the basket which are either her favorites or you feel would please her; if in doubt then ask your local florist for ideas!

Thankfully you won’t have to carry the gift basket back home because most professional florists offer home delivery services if you order the basket ahead of time, at least a couple of weeks before Valentine’s day. To make the basket even more special, you can attach a romantic message to it!

Flowers remain on of the best and most affordable ways of celebrating Valentine’s Day. With the right ideas and flower arrangements, you really cannot go wrong! If you are a woman reading this article, note that men also love flowers as much as women do!

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Whether you look at her or touch her, your eyes or hands must express your innermost feelings very clearly and convey to your sweetheart how much you love and care about them!

Many couples use Valentine’s Day as an occasion to demonstrate their love for their partners, which is what it should be like. Your partner may know that you love them, but how about stating it more explicitly so that there are no more doubts left on your partner’s mind? That is what you can do on Valentine’s Day. You can offer your sweetheart something really exquisite to make this Valentine’s Day memorable for both of you!

Some couples also use the occasion of Valentine’s Day to rejuvenate their somewhat ‘dry’ relationship. If you feel that the sparks of love don’t exist in your relationship any longer, use Valentine’s Day to bring back those sparks again! There are numerous ways to make your partner feel special on this day, some of which I am going to mention in this article.

1. Do something unique: On Valentine’s Day, do something unique for her, or buy her something really special! It could be anything from buying a bunch of red roses or a set of diamond rings, to simply preparing a fragrant, warm bubble bath for her. The main thing to note is that you should do something you don’t normally do, so as to surprise your partner!

2. Kiss her a love kiss: Kissing is one of the most common ways to express your love for your soulmate, and you don’t need a bedroom for that either! For example, let’s say that both of you are driving on a highway. You may stop your car half-way at a lonely place, loosen the seatbelts of both of you and plant a loving kiss on your sweetheart’s lips. Then take away your mouth so as not to suffocate her! Let her relax so both of you could become ready for another lip-lock!

3. Love letters: Don’t think that the good old love letters are passé; emails may seem to have replaced the old-fashioned custom of writing love letters, but no one said you couldn’t bend the rules! In fact, it is now even easier to win your partner’s heart by writing a sweet, romantic love letter to her because not many people write them nowadays owing to a rather hectic life!

4. SMS: Sending her a lovely SMS is yet another way to express your love. Make sure to make your SMS stand out from the hundreds of SMSs she maybe getting by telling something that she longs to hear from you. You could admire her beauty, her sensuality, or the way she carries herself off.

To make it even more special and strange, call her at a time you know she would be busy. That should really take her by surprise. Whatever message you send, be truthful and honest to yourself and your better half, for she is probably smart enough to catch a white lie!

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After spending as much time as you like on your morning meal with your loved one, take them on a mid-morning adventure like a horseback ride, bike trip through the countryside or walk on the beach. Think about their favorite activity and try to incorporate it. Also, when lunch time comes, take your sweetie to their favorite dining establishment and pay for anything they want. After lunch, cuddle in the park under a tree or do an activity like a Valentines Day photo jigsaw puzzle together.

When evening comes it’s time to amp up the romance factor. This might mean a five star dinner by candlelight, a romantic dinner cruise or who knows, maybe even a marriage proposal. All women love an excuse to get dressed up, so tell your sweetheart to wear her finest outfit so you can show her off. You may want to keep the dinner destination a surprise. And, even if you’re not proposing, this is a great time for gift giving.

You can exchange gifts at home, but it makes things more special (especially if you have a small gift, such as a piece of jewelry) to present your gift in a beautiful environment, with romantic candles and fine champagne, perhaps even soft music. After dessert is a great time to surprise your one and only with a gift. Even if you’re just dating you can never go wrong with a moderately priced piece of tasteful silver or gold jewelry. Whatever you choose to give, it will serve as a lifelong reminder of Valentines Day 2010 for you and your loved one. Finally, wrap up the evening with dancing, the theater or a romantic night at home.

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