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Hello love! It that mystical, magical time of year again when Cupid has the world in his sights

and flowers and chocolate become precious commodities for a few weeks. Its raining

valentines and piling up roses. It is time once again for Love!

This month in Welcome Home magazine perfect the art of amore even after Valentine's Day

with that very special someone in your life. Want to find the love of your life the perfect

flowers, but feel clueless at the florist? Check out the Guy's Guide To Flowers! Ever wonder

what love really is? Take a dive into the logic behind love in our pages. Let us show you a

whole new way look at Valentine's Day.

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4 Recipe And Design A tasty recipe and a stylish home design how to.

5 Beyond Valentine’s Day Love after the 14th of February.

6 Guys Guide To Flowers Send the right message with the perfect floral choice.

8 In The Kitchen A sweet treat for all ages: Home Made Fruit Snacks

9 Health and Wellness.Trail Running, explore the great outdoors.

10 Who Was Rosa Parks? Sometimes all it takes is one person saying “Enough”.

12 The Urban Legends Of Love The how to on separating love fact from love fiction.

14 Products To Love! Hot trends, technological wonders of tomorrow and so much more!

15 DYI Project - February A trendy up-cycling project - DIY Headphone Bracelet

Crispy Chocolate Hearts

Recipe and Design

Preparation:1. Microwave chocolate morsels in a large glass bowl at

HIGH for 2 minutes or until melted, stirring every 30 seconds. Stir in peanut butter, stirring until well blended.

2. Stir in cereal, peanuts, and marshmallows. Line a 13- x 9-inch pan with foil. Lightly grease foil. Press mixture into foil-lined pan. Drizzle with chocolate. Sprinkle with white nonpareils, if desired.

3. Let stand 1 hour or until firm; cut with a 3-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter to make hearts. Store hearts in an airtight container or place in a candy box, if desired.

*6 (2-ounce) almond bark coating squares may be substituted.

Southern Living, February 2003

Ingredients• 1 (12-ounce) package semisweet chocolate

morsels*• 1/2 cup peanut butter• 2 cups crisp rice cereal• 1 1/2 cups peanuts• 1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows• 2 (2-ounce) chocolate bark coating squares,

melted• White nonpareils (optional)

Instructions:

1. Cover the base of a papier-mâché box with striped paper. Trace the box lid shape on decorative paper and cut out.2. Wrap and adhere a silver tooling foil strip around the edge of the box lid, pressing the foil above and below the edge to take the lid shape.3. Adhere the cut-out heart onto the lid. Attach pink yarn around the cut-out heart shape.4. Adhere a small silver frame with a message in it onto the lid.

• Papier-mâché box• Striped Paper• Decorative Paper• Pink Fluff Yarn• Silver Foil Tooling Strip• Small Silver Frame• Glue

Heart Box

Courtesy of Better Homes and Gardens.com

What You Need:

A super sweet and memorable way to say Happy Valentines Day!

Beyond Valentines Day

Written by Carolyn Dahlman, Courtesy of Articlesbase.com

It's a lovely idea to spend a whole day worshipping love, taking loved ones out for dinners and buy teddy bears with cute messages. Valentine's gives us an opportunity to celebrate our relationships. But what about the other 364 days of the year? Let this years Valentine celebration be a starting point for a refreshed, rejuvenated and remarkable relationship. Love and relationship coach Carolin Dahlman is helping people fall in love and stay in love, through one on one coaching. These are her tips on how to find love in your relationship, beyond Valentine's.

 1. Find out how your partner wants to be loved. We are all different and have different needs. Most times we tend to give love in the way we would like to receive it. If you like to be touched, you are more likely to touch your partner. But what if he or she rather wants a compliment? Ask how your loved one wants to be pampered with love. How can you make them feel good? And then start giving every day… Don't forget to share what would make you happy as well! 

2.Take time to work on the relationship. Great relationships don't just happen. You may think that love conquers all, but why not give it a hand. Give love space in the clutter of evening classes, dishes, parental duties and shopping. Make a habit of spending just 5 minutes giving each other full attention and a kiss every morning or evening. Have a special “love time” booked in every week, when you feel the love and give, give, give.

 3. Do not litter. A lot of couple uses each other as bins for their emotional garbage. You had a bad day and your partner becomes the victim of your grumpy mood. Be careful with your littering. Your energy is contagious and your partner gets affected by you. Stop complaining, criticizing or pushing. Be aware of this and start spreading positive energy. Love with your heart.  

 4. Focus on being happy. If you are happy, your relationship will bloom. Take responsibility for your needs. Make your voice heard if you feel something is not right, instead of giving silent treatments or such. Figure out what is important to you, to make you feel great and be a loving and happy person to be and live with, and start meeting those needs. Exercise, meditation, time alone, time with your friends? Make sure your partner understands the importance of you getting this. 

5.      Be grateful for being loved. You are in a beautiful relationship and you have a partner. You are a team. You are friends. You are each others rock, passion and inspiration. Our minds are creating our feelings. If you think of all your partner's faults and flaws, you will feel miserable. If you think of all the fabulous traits and how happy you are for having this person in your life, you will feel the love. Your head has limited space, so fill it with positive thoughts and you will enjoy your relationship more.

What’s the best way for a man to make a lasting impression on a woman? Recent consumer research shows that the answer to making a memorable impact is right under his nose– through flowers. In fact, the study shows that 92% of women can remember the last time they received flowers, and 89% say receiving flowers makes them feel special.

Guys Guide To Giving Flowers

Written by Flower Guru. Courtesy of Articlesbase.com

Giving great floral gifts, however, still remains a mystery to most men. To help them out, author and TV host Rebecca Cole provides guidance on giving females flowers.

“Flowers are a sensual gift that can express any emotion so simply – with just a little knowledge and a phone call to the florist.”

Cole offers advice to guys on:

How to send just the right message to the woman in his life – a new girlfriend, that special someone, Mom or a good friend.

• The New Thing. This emotion may be the most difficult for a man to express, so Cole provides style advice for the guy who wants to show his new romantic interest exactly how he feels. “A passionate arrangement is filled with hot pinks, oranges, reds and golds. Add a thoughtful card to help communicate just the right sentiment,” says Cole.

• The Real Deal. Flowers are intimately – and internationally – linked with the art of romance, and for good reason says Cole. “As relationships grow, flowers become symbols of different events and milestones in our lives together. Take note of her favorite flowers – the varieties at your wedding, flowers you sent her when you first started dating or the ones she buys for herself. Those will have great meaning and impact.”

• Leading Ladies. “No woman – especially moms, grandmas and sisters – should live without a little TLC,” says Cole. A fabulous flowering plant or a garden-style arrangement with greens and soft pastel hues – no matter what the flower – will send the message that you care.

• The Gal Pal. “Flowers that show you’re thinking of someone, but not in a sensual way, have a natural, just-picked feeling,” says Cole. She advises to ask for a selection of garden-style flowers or a bright bold color palette that is fun and whimsical. A basket with a mix of flowering and green plants delivered to her door or office is also a sure fire winner.

What are the three top design styles that men can ask for with confidence:

Research shows that 96% of women like to receive flowers when they’re not expecting them. “Guys should know that they don’t have to wait for a special occasion to give flowers,” Cole says. “Make an occasion by sending flowers to the woman in your life, just because. They’ll never forget it.”

Cole offers advice for men willing to try something trendy. She suggests these three top design styles that men can ask for with confidence:

• Mono-botanic. Arrangements featuring only one type of flower (such as all roses, tulips, lilies or iris) are in style and may even include different colors of the same flower in the vase or container.

• Monochromatic. Pick a color, any color and stick with it! If her favorite color is pink, for example, ask your florist for a fresh bouquet of different flowers in the same color range.

• Bunches of Texture. Ask your florist to select complementary flowers of various textures to place in bunches in an elegant glass container. This unique look has a bold, contemporary feel and will surely provide the “wow” factor.

• Need to find a florist? Check Online Florist in your area or just search on internet.

• Don’t know what to say on the card? Check for Creative quotes messages for every occasion. 

A Guy’s Checklist of Things to Remember

• Be Spontaneous. You don’t have to wait for a special occasion to give flowers. In fact, most women say “no reason” is the best reason to get flowers.

• Size Doesn’t Matter. Trust your florist to help you send an arrangement that is appropriate for the occasion. Bouquets both big and small can make a bold statement. It’s the sentiment that makes the impact.

• Score Big Points. Surprise her by sending a bouquet to her office, and see how much attention you’ll get because of the attention she got.

• Relax. Flowers don’t have to mean commitment. Women know when an arrangement simply means that you care.

“The most important thing to remember is that you simply cannot go wrong with flowers,” said Cole. “Your florist is there to help, but you’ll get all the credit.”

Courtesy of cookingwithjax.com

In The Kitchen

Home Made Fruit Snacks

Ingredients:

- 1 (3 oz) package gelatin, any flavor - 2 (.25 oz) envelopes of unflavored gelatin - 1/3 cup water or fruit juiceor- 2-3 (.25 oz) envelopes of unflavored gelatin (2 for soft, 3 for firm)- 1/3 cup of your favorite fruit juice

Directions:Place water or juice in a small saucepan and sprinkle gelatin overtop – let sit for 2-3 minutes to soften gelatin.   Heat over medium heat and stir until gelatin is completely dissolve (about 3-5 minutes).  Pour into molds and allow to set for about a half hour.   You can speed up the setting process by placing your mold in the fridge. 

If you don’t have a mold, pour into a small (preferably ceramic or glass) pan and let set.  Once set, remove from pan and cut into shapes using a cookie cutter or sharp knife.

Health & Wellness

Trail RunningIncreasingly more and more people are tuning away from long road runs, and heading for their closest park or countryside and finding a trail. Although historically Trail Running evokes memories of school PE lessons or 1970s fitness freaks running around the countryside in short shorts and their club running vests, in 2013 trail running is very mainstream and gaining in popularity.

There are two main reasons more people are switching to trail running over traditional road running, and they are mental stimulation and a better overall workout. Trail running is so unique to each person and each trail it's highly mentally stimulating. You can't plod for mile after mile on tarmac roads, slowing only occasionally for a pedestrian or car. When you run on a trail, almost every step has uneven ground. You have to plot a route over tree roots, rocks and vegetation, or you may have to duck under low hanging branches.

Although navigating a route can be mentally stimulating, trail running offers a better physical work out to. All the time you are jumping, hopping or ducking your way along the trail, you are building stronger ankles and knees. Your leg muscles (in particular your quads) are getting an all round work out and this will benefit your core stability.

There are other benefits to trail running as well, including the social side. As getting to a specific trail or part of the country side can take time, effort and money, most people tend to travel in small groups and run together. If your trail run has been planned for weeks and you are meeting friends at the trail, you are more likely to go and run if the weather is bad or you don't feel in the mood.

Courtesy of Articlesbase.com

Rosa Parks?Who Was

February 4th is know as The Day of Courage or Rosa Parks Day, but who was Rosa Parks?

There are many things that we take for granted today. Among these are the Civil Rights to which American citizens are entitled. As we move through our day to day lives it is very easy to forget that brave men and women made many sacrifices in order for us to have those freedoms. One such hero was Ms. Rosa Parks.

Rosa Parks was a quiet hard working seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama. She had been a volunteer with her local N.A.A.C.P. but she could hardly have been called an activist. On December 1st, 1955 she did pretty much what she did most days. She worked a long day and headed to the bus to make her way home. She complied with the rules for black bus riders at the time which were to enter the front of the bus to pay the fare then exit and reenter the back of the bus. Black riders were to take seats in a special section in the back of the bus. While it was not mandated by law, the custom of the time was for the bus driver to limit the number of seats available to blacks if the bus was full. If a white person needed a seat, the black riders were to give theirs up. Never mind that most of the bus riders in Montgomery, Alabama at the time were black.

On this winter day Rosa Parks decided that she would not give up her seat even though other black riders on the bus did. Rosa was quietly defiant. This was considered a criminal offense and so Rosa was arrested and prosecuted. Working with the N.A.A.C.P. Rosa Parks decided to fight the charges. Assigned

to assist her was a young minister named Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. By modern day standards protesting a small ticket is like a very small protest. It was not a small thing in Rosa Parks' day. In fact, she was not the first to take a stand but she was the first to fight the charges. In support of Rosas' effort and to protest the trial, the black community organized what would become a ground breaking boycott of the bus system. In fact, the boycott ended up lasting more than a year.

Rosa was convicted of her offense but it was decided that the case would be taken higher. The end result was the Supreme Court overturning the segregation laws of the State of Alabama. As a consequence, today Rosa Parks is known as the Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement.

After the case was resolved times were not easy for Rosa and her husband Raymond. She lost her job and the two decided to move to Virginia and then eventually settled in Detroit. She worked for many years for U.S. Representative John Conyers. After retirement she dedicated her efforts to Planned Parenthood. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996. Rosa Parks lived to be 1992. She died in 2005.

Rosa Parks' legacy lives on today. There are many roadways and monuments named in her honor but the real legacy is the integrated society in which we live today. While desegregation may have been achieved without her brave act, it would no doubt have taken much longer.

Written by David Nalin, courtesy of Articlesbase.com.

Separating Love Fact From Love Fiction

When it comes to dating and love relationships there are certain “love facts” that most everyone believes. But, surprisingly, if we look at the actual research about these “love facts” we may find that they are not facts at all. They are fictions, myths. This is key information for anyone who is interested in creating a great love relationship; separating love fiction from love fact makes you an informed “consumer” when it comes to your dating and love life.

Here are seven of these mythic urban love legends and what the research actually shows us to be true about them.

Seven Urban Love Legends:

Myth 1: The divorce rate in the country is 50%

Fact: It’s never been 50%. It’s actually 41%. The odds are better than you think. And a college education decreases the likelihood of divorce. This is shown by more sophisticated research.

Myth 2: You have one soul mate and meeting that “One” is the key to finding love.

Fact: Research shows that love and marriage take hard work, including commitment, positive communication, and the ability to resolve fights. The best relationship advice I can give you is that you need to work on yourself and choose someone, a good friend with chemistry, who’s willing to grow with you. These are the keys to a happy marriage. Sorry, no fairy tale.

Myth 3: When you are married fighting is an unhealthy thing.

Fact: Couples who suppress their anger have a mortality rate that is twice as high as those in which one partner stands up for him/herself. Fighting with your spouse and then resolving differences is a healthy thing.

Myth 4: Living with a boyfriend/girlfriend gives you a better sense of who your partner is and will make for a stronger marriage down the road.

Fact: Couples who have not lived together before marriage have healthier and more successful marriages. They also have less conflict, less abuse and are less likely to get divorced than couples who live together before marriage. However, a more recent study shows that couples who have committed to be married and live together

do have a 28% decreased risk of getting divorced.

Myth 5: On the online dating websites the majority of men are lying about themselves.

Fact: Independent research shows that the number is only about 20%. Common lies concern income, profession, age, marital status and weight.

Myth 6: It’s better to wait until you’re more mature and get married in your thirties rather than your twenties.

Fact: People who marry after their mid twenties just as likely to get divorced and surprisingly are much more likely to have a poor quality marriage than those who married earlier.

Myth 7: Choosing marriage means more stress and financial drain in your life.

Fact: Married people are healthier emotionally and physically and they have more wealth too. Study after study has shown that love relationships have a huge impact on our psychological, economic, and physical well-being. Having a life partner can create a higher sense of self-worth, provide intimacy and emotional support which fulfills the deepest human need for connection, and lead to greater wealth and economic stability. As a result, married people may be happier, live more satisfying lives, and have fewer psychological problems, including depression. Many researchers say that these factors lead to better physical health, greater health-seeking behavior, and lower rates of alcoholism. Here’s the big take-away: for over 100 years studies around the world have shown that married people live longer and enjoy a higher quality of life than those who aren’t partnered!

Written by Dr. Diana Kirschner. Courtesy of Isnare.com.

Products To Love In February

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Love. It makes the world go round, causes birds and rainbows to suddenly appear and sets off fireworks in out

heads. But exactly what is it? Well it's love!

Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue

representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. The word love can refer to a variety of different

feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction

("I love my partner"). "Love" can also refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love, to the

sexual love of eros (cf. Greek words for love), to the emotional closeness of familial love, or to the platonic love that

defines friendship, to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. This diversity of uses and meanings,

combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even

compared to other emotional states. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal

relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative

arts.

Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing, including oneself (cf.narcissism). In addition to

cross-cultural differences in understanding love, ideas about love have also changed greatly over time. Some

historians date modern conceptions of romantic love to courtly Europe during or after the Middle Ages, although the

prior existence of romantic attachments is attested by ancient love poetry. Because of the complex and abstract

nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliche, and there are a number of

common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's "Love conquers all" toThe Beatles' "All You Need Is Love".

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