Hearts, Cherubs, Chocolate and Soap.

At this moment, (actually it’s now finished) I am working on designing a display window for Valentines day.This has been an interesting journey as I have had to really think about Valentines and all that it symbolizes: who was st. Valentines? How is he connected to love and hearts and chocolate?

One story goes something like this:
Emperor Claudius 11 ordered all his young soldiers to remain single believing married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however secretly performed marriage ceremonies for the young men. When Claudius found out, he had Valentine arrested and thrown in jail. Legend says; on the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he wrote the first “Valentine” himself, addressed to a young lady variously identified as his beloved, as the jailer’s daughter whom he had befriended and healed, it was a note that read “from your Valentine”
How does this relate to my window design? Well, it doesn’t really have anything to do with our window display but it’s a great story and a fun distraction from the task at hand! So now back to the present…H

earts, Cheribs, Chocolate, Soap…..I think I’m on the right track now………….

“from your Valentine”

Amber Quiring