Valentine’s Day is this Sunday, and what better way to celebrate than with a love themed print on wood from Petit Collage? We’re giving away one framed 11 x 14 ‘Owl Love‘ or ‘Bird Love‘ Petit Collage print to one lucky Inhabitots reader (winner chooses between the prints). Made in San Francisco by designer, illustrator and founder of Petit Collage, Lorena Siminovich, each print on wood is printed on sustainably harvested maple veener, and matted and framed in a no VOC-finish, handcrafted, precision sanded maple hardwood frame. Petit Collage’s eco-friendly, modern children’s decor has been widely featured on Inhabitots, with highlights including bamboo mobiles, screenprint posters and wooden collages. We’re certain that these charming prints will bring cheery, delightful affection to baby’s nursery, a child’s space — or any room in the house!
ENTER TO WIN AN ‘OWL LOVE‘ OR ‘BIRD LOVE‘ PETIT COLLAGE PRINT ON WOOD !
1) Sign up for our weekly newsletter (if you haven’t already!) We’ll be notifying the winner in our newsletter – so you need to sign up and receive next week’s newsletter to find out if you have won a framed print on wood from Petit Collage!
2) Add a comment to this post with your answer to the following question: What is one thing you are doing to make your Valentine’s Day an eco-friendly celebration?
Contest ends Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 12 midnight EST. Winner will be announced in next week’s newsletter!
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How beautiful! One of these prints would be beautiful to display in my first child’s nursery (she’s due in May).
Instead of paper cards, I made some fabric cards from old scraps and had the kids make hand/footprint hearts on them with fabric paint and we sent those to their grandparents
We don’t exchange cards/chocolate/etc. on Valentine’s day. We will most likely have a romantic dinner at home.
Any valentines we get will either be reused as gift tags or recycled!
Love is for the birds?
We are making our own Valentine’s cards from pretty paper-stock we already have and some georgous fabric, and I’ll be making some home-made chocolates to wrap and give to a few friends.
We make valentine’s day cards from my toddler’s school art work. He comes home every day with some drawing or painting, and we cannot keep all of them, so we turn them into heart shaped v-day cards.
We use my toddler’s old school art work to make valentine’s day cards. He comes home every day with a painting or drawing and we cannot keep all of them for historical purposes, so we cut some of them into heart shapes and turn them into personalized V-day cards!
mmmm! i just *adore* petit collage’s beautiful work!
i’ve excitedly signed up for the newsletter, and i’m excited to say that at our home, all cards (especially valentine love notes!) are mini-pieces of our child’s artwork, recrafted in the eco -friendliest of ways onto reused cardstock, etc.
happily, most of the original art is mixed media using recycled materials, too!
i see by reading above that this is a popular idea – glad to see it! yay eco-friendly love!
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We are baking Valentines cookies with locally grown ingredients instead of cards this year.
going out to dinner can be wasteful, so the wife and I will be staying in, making our own meal. I also intend to cut her a pretty bouquet of roses from our front yard.
I made things instead of buying them.
I am celebrating my uncle’s wedding on valentine’s day this year. Their wedding gift is hand printed notecards, made from recylced paper, with reclaimed ink, on a 20th century vandercook press! <3
I’m making all natural soy candles for friends and family, no paraffin wax at all. I’m sharing the difference it makes for indoor air pollution and why its best choice all around for children and adults. If you haven’t yet looked into it. PLEASE do the research. and don’t let companies say that a soy/paraffin blend is ok, it’s not. thanks for your time, be safe, be healthy, be love.
We’re using recycled paper to make our homemade Valentines this year.
For a Valentine’s Day gift, I made my partner a wallet out of an old necktie from a thrift store! I am not an experienced sewer, but it turned out pretty well — a little determination and some fun go a long way! For our Valentine’s Day activity, we will be enjoying the outdoors and winter season by renting some cross country skis from our local Forest Preserve District (Cook County, IL).
I’m wrapping my Valentine’s gifts in brown paper grocery bags with simple white string and hand-delivering homemade organic chocolate chip cookies to my loved ones!
i’m not sending any cards!!! if at all e-cards!
We’re not buying cards; making our own…and of course lots of homemade chocolate goodness!
We make Valentine’s cards out of things we have around the house.
Simple and so very sweet. Eco friendly valentines foucs on the connection, the activity and less so on the presents.
We’re making valentines cards with fingerpaint on the inside of grocery bags.
We don`t send any cards, just have nice family dinner and give each other little present
We don`t send any cards, we just have nice family dinner and give each other little present.
Cooking an organic dinner at home and waiting for baby to arrive!
We don`t send any cards, we just have nice family dinner and give each other little present.
Btw, awesome post. Can’t wait on the next one!
I decided to sew quilted fabric sachets filled with lavender.
We will have a nice homemade meal together, have an after dinner dance party with the kid, and tell each other how much we love each one another. But then again we do that every night!
Hello! I have ordered Fair Trade Coffees and Chocolates to give to my children and family
members! Fair Trade is such a fabulous concept and I support them as much as possible!
Many thanks for a delightful prize giveaway drawing…..Cindi
We’re planning on doing craft time with scrape paper that we’ve been accumulating and creating heart banners to place around the house. Preparing amazing meals throughout the day with sustainable, clean and fair foods. And the ultimate: hugs and kisses all throughout the day and beyond
not buying valentines, just making them with craft supplies on hand!
not buying a bunch of junk!
I’m making “heart garlands” for my friends and family- just a string of different sized hearts cut from fabric scraps and old wool sweaters I accidentally shrunk.. It’s A cute way to decorate for the holiday and a great upcycle for all those shrunken sweaters you can’t bear to part with.
For an eco friendly Valentine’s day, I’m baking organic treats and giving them out wrapped in red and white patterned dishcloths. Further, instead of using my freezer to store my treats (since I made them in advance), I have just been leaving them outside (since its cold enough in Toronto keep them frozen!)
We’re wrapping presents with recycled wrapping paper and making cards out of recycled paper.
I cut out hearts from old silkscreened calendars and kid’s artwork for my kids’ school valentines.
We are cooking dinner at home using all locally grown and/ or organic meats and veggies. The cost of eating local and organic is equal to and may be even less then eating out at a nice restaurant. The idea is to be environmentally conscious by eating food not grown with pesticides and food that did not use a lot of transportation fuel, which at the same time helps support our local economy.
I’m giving my boyfriend the gift of a klean kanteen (a stainless steel, reusible water bottle). It’s not necessarily a romantic gift, but it is environmentally friendly which is a big turn on for me in a man!
We will be making our holiday sweet with homemade cards and cooking tasty treats to share with friends and family.
we don’t exchange gifts… we just have a nice dinner together at home.
Instead of making paper valentines this year the whole family has been designated a window in the house… and we have some window markers and whatever we can find to add some messages of love, doodles and a little sparkle. We’ve invited friends to come and write on the windows too… the front window of the house is for messages to the whole family and it can be seen from the street.
We’ve also decided to skip the date night and the treats (not entirely) and take a walk over to our local sledding hill… hot chocolate and cuddles to follow.
Michelle
This year, Valentine’s Day coincides with Chinese New Year. We will be celebrating it at home with our baby girl, her first Valentine’s and Chinese New Year, with homemade hot pot dinner. We will be doing a vegetarian hot pot that has mushroom, vegetables, tofu, bamboo shoot, and some homemade sweet colorful dumplings with sweet potatoes, taro and pandan leave. : ) My hope is that with a vegetarian dinner to welcome the new year. It will bring us peace, health and prosperity. I can’t wait! I am also giving my husband a buckwheat husk filling pillow with custom made pillow case from a local Japanese store. Support local business right? : )
We make our own Valentine’s to pass out!
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We’ll reuse any paper valentines we get as craft projects!
We send e-cards instead of paper valentines.
We made valentines for our family with recycled cardstock; my husband’s birthday is the day before valentines, so we are combining it and I am throwing him a suprise party at a local resturant (all our city based) and buying cupcakes from a local bakery! I’m very excited for this weekend!
PS Owls are my favorite ever, and I have some major love for this framed art!
I recycle as much as possible-I’ve bought cards at garage sales, saved cards from other years. We cut and paste and make our own
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We are having a potluck with local friends, no cards, no candy, just loved ones.
Instead of buying valentines or new materials we used reused and recycled items in our house to make some. All my daughters friends received unique valentines with many different materials and objects. And my daughter had fun creating very different valentines
I guess one thing I/we do to be eco-friendly is to not do the flowers & vase thing. Don’t get me wrong…I love getting flowers, but I prefer to just have the flowers and not a vase to go with it. I think probably everyone has a collection of those cheap glass vases under their sink, that will eventually wind up in a land fill. I like it better when the flowers are wrapped in recycled paper, or better yet…I’d rather have a houseplant that is helpful to the environment for a long time!
We recycled old wool scraps into valentines to last by needle-felting the wool into heart pebbles and little boy and girl love gnomes.
Just one thing?
Let’s see, My kids made their valentines using stamps made from local beets – the juice works as ink – cut into heart shapes (see my blog post at http://www.readilyaparent.com/2010/02/frugal-and-simple-valentines-day-print.html for instructions) on recycled card stock (one piece card stock = two cards).
We made our gifts: homemade truffles using local chocolate and cream and a gel pens pot for the kids – also on my blog.
For the kids I’m making art smocks from a reused flannel-backed tablecloth.
We’ll eat in, of course, and for dessert angelfood cake (local eggs) and homemade ice cream (local milk products but we’ll have to import the strawberries. And as Valentine’s Day falls on a Sunday this year it’ll be an official “day of rest” for us, including the car.
we are not buying anything or going anywhere!
A nice evening at home with the whole family, home made chocolate creme pie instead of boxes of chocolates. organic food for dinner, roasting some free range chickens. just feels like a home full of love
We are going to dinner at a place in our town and walking there instead of driving.
We gave Lorax themed Valentine’s cards that double as bookmarks made of 100% recycled paper, each with an earth-friendly tip.
We are reusing the front of all the Valentine Day cards received this year and making a simple mural. We have so many pictures and frames around the house, we decided to put the mural in a frame and decorate that as well with paints, making it the center piece at our dinner table. This is so we can see who all loves us, while we enjoy our home cooked meal.
I will wrap my Valentine gifts in recycled packing paper and then recycle the packing afterwards. We are also making our own romantic dinner with local ingredients.
My Love and I don’t care much for holidays, let alone Valentine’s Day. So that’s one couple less to jump in the V-Day waste! Live the days, not the dates! And we never ask for material consumptions from each other, just a simple phone call, a random hangout, a little note on the back of a recycled brown paper bag (if there is any, usually we can’t find any paper-material to write on)
Love the prints! I am hand making gifts with yarn that i already own. No extra packaging no driving about!
No greeting cards! My husband and I can tell each other how we feel.
We’ll be staying home for a family dinner and homemade organic chocolate treats. We also made valentines for the JK class using my son’s artwork and paper and recycled cards we had at home. It was a lot of fun!
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As for an eco-Valentine’s Day – we try to make everyday eco friendly. We’ll recycle all the packaging materials from making dinner, compost all the organic materials from making dinner, I’ll make my sweety a home-made upcycled card that he’ll keep forever, and after dinner we’ll turn off all the electricy and cuddle by candle light. I think cuddling is very eco-friendly
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I am not buying my hubby a Valentine’s Card, thus saving on the environment. It would eventually get thrown anyway, so why not save money and the environment!
Nothing! We’re not going anywhere, and the only valentines I’m giving are a few to my sister made from leftover paper and the recycled Lorax ones someone else mentioned.
This year we are not buying gifts like cards, flowers, etc. Just having a dinner with as much organic ingredients as possible.
I made the gifts I’m giving my husband and 7 month old daughter (and made them from recycled materials I had in the house). What fun!
We are making cards for each other and our daughter from materials found around the house–newspapers, magazines, etc, and are cooking a delicious meal at home and drinking our home brewed beer.
we are not exchanging cards this year-we are not doing anything special right now. but in 2 weeks my husband and I are going away for the weekend with no kids
We made home made recycled valentine’s card out of my shredded office paper.
I keep the pictures my children make in preschool and give them as gifts to their aunts and uncles. They cherish the special packages they receive so much more than boxes of candy or giftcards!
my boyfriend told me this year for valentine’s instead of flowers he was going to plant a tree for me.