Happy Valentines Day! (and GIVEAWAY)

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Happy Valentine's Day! The restaurants will be crowded, so our family will be cooking a heartfelt, homemade dinner for five, and finding a good excuse to use...

{my red transferware - photo from a 2010 post}

 My late grandmother Honey's romantic red transferware dishes. I don't think they are technically "china", but we call them "Great Grandma Honey's Fine China." We have a full set that comes out for special occasions. We are missing Honey this year, she passed away last October at 100. (And she actually visited China! Honey had a love for travel!)

Her vibrant red dishes will make any meal full of love.

{GIVEAWAY! Loretta Fontaine Jewelry Reversible Maria necklace with Crimson Rose}

Don't forget to enter my ongoing Valentine's Day Giveaway (find the giveaway post here) to win my romantic Maria necklace. I am drawing the winner February 16th at noon.

{Albany, N.Y.'s finest - Krauses's Handmade Candies chocolates}

The winner also gets a tempting box of chocolates? How can you resist that!

What are you doing this Valentine's Day?

Loretta

GIVEAWAY! Jewelry and Chocolates!

I'm very, very excited about this giveaway! To celebrate Valentine's Day I am giving away jewelry and chocolates. (Yes! JEWELRY AND CHOCOLATES!)

{Loretta Fontaine Jewelry Reversible Sterling Silver Maria necklace with Crimson Rose}

I've just photographed this necklace and think it would be perfect for this giveaway. (See the photoshoot here.) I used one my own miniature original photographs of a crimson red rose in this piece.

{Loretta Fontaine Jewelry Reversible Sterling Silver Maria necklace with Crimson Rose}

The necklace is sterling silver with a freshwater pearl drop, on an 16" sterling silver chain with a 2" extender. Did I mention it's REVERSIBLE? This is the other side of the same necklace, featuring a smaller miniature original photograph of a crimson red rose. So if you win, it's like getting two necklaces to wear!

{heaven! handmade chocolates from Krause's Handmade Candy}

 ..and here's the chocolate! I'll be hand- selecting a heart-shaped box from Albany's finest chocolate shop - Krause's Handmade Candy at 1609 Central Avenue in Albany, New York.

{Son H looking over the chocolate selection from an earlier blog post}

This old-fashoned candy store is the best. There is nothing like picking out tempting, sweet  selections from behind an old-fashioned glass counter. (How patient are those workers at Krause's! It takes me a while...)

Chocolate and Jewelry! How do you enter my giveaway?

*follow my blog APPLESandRUBIES AND visit my website shop at LorettaFontaine.com  or my brand new Etsy shop and tell me your favorite piece of Loretta Fontaine jewelry!

   *for an additional entry, mention this giveaway on your blog
   *for an additional entry, mention this giveaway on Facebook
   *for an additional entry, mention this giveaway on Twitter

That's four chances to win! Leave a comment for each chance.

GOOD LUCK, I will draw a winner February 16 at 12:00pm EST

Loretta