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It's Time We Talk About Valentine's Day (Part 8)
Who doesn't want a "You're Rad!" radish-themed Valentine?
It’s Time We Talk About Valentine’s Day (Part 8)
While it is age old romantic wisdom that food and love (sex?) go together, at no time is this celebrated more than Valentine’s Day. Candle-lit dinners, chocolates and conversation hearts are the conventional choices, but for the food lover in your life, may we suggest something a little more creative to express a tender sentiment?
Local craft and cute things shops are offering plenty of awesome food-centric Valentine’s stationary and gifts this year. Among our favorites are the cheeky “Like” cards by South Philly artist Cathy Cribb of Re.Mark. These minimalist images pair complementing foods into cozy duos that serve as sweet reminders of how you just know when something feels right. Re.Mark products can be found on Etsy, in Old City’s Smak Parlour, and Nice Things Handmade on Passyunk Ave.
Nice Things is also carrying a Mike Geno print of a bacon shaped heart, which says more about love with a few brushstrokes than any prepackaged greeting card poem or hastily composed haiku.
Stephanie Harvey, another local artist from Conshohocken, flaunts a more playful, cartoon graphic style in her line, Exit 343 Design. Her “You’re Rad!” radish-themed Valentine and “Like Peas in a Pod” print would be perfect for a secret crush, a platonic pal, or even a sibling. You can find her stuff, which also includes lots of charming non-food related imagery, at The Little Apple in Manayunk, and Vix Emporium in West Philly.
If you’re as a big a fan as we are of local diagram queens, Girls Can Tell, you’ll be stoked to know that Vix is stocking a print of their ‘Diagramed Box of Chocolates,’ which will surely hang on your honey’s wall long after a real box of chocolates has long been ditched or devoured.
And, for the old school, Paper Source in Rittenhouse, is carrying Chocolate Scratch N Sniff Valentines Sets, an olfactory throw back to simpler, elementary school days, when Valetine’s Day was free from romantic pressures or acute loneliness, and was a day solely devoted to super-hero themed valentines and all-day sugar highs.
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