How Long Has It Been….

How long has it been since you have written a sweet love letter to your sweetheart?

Today, Harold called to ask me to stop by his office and grab some things that needed to be shipped out. I stopped by just to grab the goodies. But, I could not leave without grabbing a Sharpie and writing him a quick love letter.

It only takes a minute…or a few. Yet, personal, handwritten love letters are an ideal way to let someone know you really care. They really express your feelings that so often are left for others to “guess” or “just KNOW.”

They are not difficult to create if you are true to your feelings and give it some careful thought. Write what moves you best, be sincere and you will be sure to bring a smile to your sweetheart’s face.

Waxing Poetic

Anyone can just copy a favorite love poem and then send it off. What will touch their heart best is something of your own design. You can use the example of another poem, changing the words around to suit your expression.

You can take several different poems, in fact, and then take what you love most from each of them to create your own. This takes some practice, Try starting with just one sentence. Change the words around to reflect your own personal feelings and then go on from there.

Personalize a Blank Card

You can buy beautiful and artistic cards that have only an outside picture and a blank sheet inside for you to create your own prose. Take your time and write out a verse that you think will be meaningful to your loved one.

Practice first with a scrap piece of paper and then when you have it just perfect, carefully print or write it out in the inside of the card.

Leave Your Note Where It Will be Found

It will be a nice surprise for your loved one to find your note, unexpected. Don’t hide it so well that he or she won’t find it! Leave it in a common place that you are sure he or she will go looking. When they find it they can enjoy it all alone.

Place Your Love Notes in Creative Places

Adding the element of surprise to your love note is always special to the receiver. Here are some really creative suggestions about where you can leave your handwritten love note:

1. In their shoes
2. In their lunch bag everyday
3. Under their pillow
4. When they travel just insert one into their luggage
5. In their laptop bag at night to be discovered first thing in the morning at work
6. For the reader — in their bookmarked page
7. On their car windshield/wipers
8. Use the Windows Paint program to write your love notes, and then save them on their computer as the ‘wallpaper’
9. In their shirt pocket before they leave for work
10. On the edge of the Jacuzzi, hot tub or sauna
11. On the bathroom mirror in lipstick, or the steam of their shower
12. Using washable markers — everywhere
13. Inside their class notebook on the page after the last page written on
14. On the driver’s seat of their car
15. In their sandwich, wrapped in plastic
16. Taped to the back window of the car
17. In their wallet
18. On their steering wheel
19. Planted throughout the bedroom to be found while getting ready for work
20. In their pants pockets
21. Dictated on their voicemail
22. In the mailbox
23. Pinned on a teddy bear before they leave for work
24. In their gym locker
25. Written in soap on the mirror
26. Buried in the sugar bowl…to enjoy with their coffee

So, have you grabbed your pen and paper yet? Don’t wait another moment. Grab your pen. Grab your paper. Get busy writing your sweetie a letter they won’t forget!