Create A Little L.O.V.E

Hey everyone,
As i'm more than sure you're aware Valentines Day is approaching. If you have however been living in a cave or miraculously managed to avoid every red glittery heart shaped object on every surface in every shop, then I salute you, but regardless of your feelings on it, it's happening on Friday.

I will admit (as you can maybe already tell) I have never been a fan of Valentines. Taking one day out of the year to profess your undying love for someone seems silly to me. If you love them, tell them every day, you don't need a stuffed animal or a bouquet of roses bigger than your house to let them know.

Anywho, this was until a lovely ethical jewellery company called Brilliant Earth got in touch with me about their Create A Little Love campaign. They want a collection of photographs from different people that creatively spell out the word 'love'. As you know, i'm a big fan of little acts of kindness and all that jazz and I really loved the idea of spreading a little (non-commercialised) love this Valentines Day.

I was wracking my brain for days and days about what to do, something that I haven't done before and something that all in all, represented what love means to me. So off I went into my very chilly very soggy, very dark garden, with Tom (whose fab idea this was, by the way...) in tow, armed with a torch and my camera. Also, a very ill judged university hoody - I thought that you wouldn't be able to see me all that much so do excuse my extreme lack of style-prowess... but hey, if you can't prance about in an oversized hoody in the name of love, when can you?!

Now is the time to brace yourselves as I get all slushy and conceptual (you have been warned...). Love for me isn't always massive gestures or bouquets of flowers or weekends away, it's being there when you need someone the most. In your darkest hours, they're the little bit of light that gets you through things (get it?!). It's slushy, but I know that it's certainly true for me.

Anyways, I hope that you all have a LOVEly (couldn't resist, sorry...) Valentines day, whatever it is that you end up doing!