Focus On Yourself This Valentine's Day

Hi everyone, it's Karen from the Georgia Grandma

Welcome back to my channel. Today's video is all about Valentine's Day

Now you might think, but I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. I don't have a partner

We're not a romantic couple. That doesn't matter. Valentine's Day is the perfect time to focus on yourself

I mean, after all, if you can't love yourself, who can you love? So when I was looking around the shops recently, there's tons of stuff that says Valentine's Day

They've got Valentine's cards, they've got boxes of chocolates that are, you know, nicely wrapped in pink balls and everything like that

So I thought for this video, I was going to come up with some ideas for you to treat yourself on Valentine's Day

Because I think there's nothing wrong with treating yourself. And I think, especially as women, I think it's good to focus on yourself for a change

I mean, we do spend a lot of our time, you know, when the kids are young, we're focusing on the kids

And even when they get older, we're still focusing on them. We're worrying about other people

We might, you know, we might have elderly parents that were worried about and focusing on them

which is all, you know, lovely. But at some point, it is time to focus on yourself

So I thought I would group together some ideas, and I've grouped the ideas around the things you would normally associate with Valentine's Day

So the first thing I think we usually associate with Valentine's Day is flowers

I mean, yes, it is nice to be sent a bunch of flowers or be given a bunch of flowers

But if you're going to treat yourself with flowers, yes, you can buy yourself a bunch of flowers

But why not also get yourself a really pretty vase to go with it

There's tons of different vases. It doesn't even have to be a vase. Could be a jug

You know, could be a metal bucket. Just something that you think is interesting

and get yourself some flowers and put it in that and then display it

where it's going to make you happy. Maybe you're not into flowers

You know, actual real flowers. There's some absolutely fantastic Lego flowers in the Lego shop

I've got a bonsai tree that my sunboat is going to, a couple of years ago, a Lego bonsai tree, and I had so much fun building that

And it just looks so pretty as well. So, you know, you could treat yourself to that, but there's lots of different kinds of

floral Lego displays that you can get. Some of them aren't too expensive, so you could treat yourself to that for Valentine's Day

and, you know, spending a few hours just focusing on you and building this floral Lego display

The other flower themed idea I thought of was a flower themed candle

If you don't want a bunch of flowers and you don't fancy the leg, oh, why not treat yourself to a lovely floral scented candle

You can get some really lovely ones you know from lavender to cherry blossom to lilac to rose anything So you can still get that flower experience but you just get the lovely scent of it

rather than actually having a real bunch of flowers in your house. The second thing we associate with Valentine's Day is chocolates

And a box of chocolates is always lovely. Sometimes on Valentine's Day, if you do have a partner, they might not be very creative

and they might just buy a box of chocolates, you know, just an old. ordinary box of chocolates, which is really lovely. I'm not knocking that. But you could go all out. You could go and

choose yourself, you know, the box of chocolates that you'd really like. It may be something that you've never had

before. You may want to buy them from a really expensive shop or you may just want to treat yourself to a bar of

Cabri's dairy milk. If you don't fancy a box of chocolates, have you ever thought about having a

chocolate fondue? I think this is a really good idea. I definitely like the sound

of this dipping something in chocolate. You could dip strawberries in, pastries, donuts

marshmallows, anything you like really. And I also came across this chocolate fondue kit on Etsy

I'll put a link in the description box below. I'm not affiliated to it or anything. I just came

across it and thought it was a really good idea. I might actually treat myself to that

So a chocolate fondue is definitely something you could buy and treat yourself to on Valdea

And if you don't want to have anything that's actual chocolate, you know, if you're trying to watch your weight or you don't want to have anything sweet, there are a couple of other things that are chocolate related. So you could get a chocolate scented candle. I have had a couple of them in the past. And they do smell really nice. And actually the chocolate scent is supposed to stop your craving for chocolate. So that might be a good way of treating yourself if you don't actually want to eat chocolate. And the other thing

I found is a chocolate eyeshadow palette. No, it's not made of chocolate. The box actually looks

like a half unwrapped bar of chocolate. I mean, the box is absolutely beautiful, but the

colours are also really nice in there as well. So if you watched my video, I think it was last

week, where I was talking about my eye shadow palette stash. I'm trying not to buy eyeshadows

but this one I might have to treat myself too. So definitely worth thinking about it. In the

category for treating yourself on Valentine's Day is the I-hot chocolate eye palette from

revolution. Again, I'll put the link in the description box below. Before I go on to the next category

as always, this is the Sunday Sunshine Show, so it is a collaboration with Marie from at Busy

Bay, Marie, Maria from Maria Crocker and Tina from Tina's Talk Time. We get together every week

and we put out a video on a Sunday morning at half seven. We all talk about the same

topic but we put our own spin on it so once you've watched my video you can go

across and watch theirs and see what their spin was the third category would

think about on Valentine Day is going out dancing with a partner but of course if you going to focus on yourself you not going to be doing that So I thought the next best thing to do in that in fact it might be even better is to create yourself a Spotify list

or set up a playlist on Alexa or whatever you've got. You might even want to make a mixed tape

I don't know if anybody still has tape recorders and tapes, but you may want to do that

But the things you could put on it, and I've just jotted some ideas down here

You know, you could put songs on there that remind you of holidays you've had in the past

They'd bring back happy memories, you know, of great holidays you've had

If you've got favourite songs from musicals, you can put them on there

Even movie theme tunes would be a really good idea to put on

There's some really great theme tunes from movies that would make a good addition to a playlist

There might also be songs from your teenage years that you want to put on

I know I have a playlist for when I'm walking, and I've got a couple of basically roller songs on there

so they're definitely from me teen years. Think of all these different ideas for music that you can put on your playlist

And then when you've got it ready, on Valentine's Day, if you're on your own in the house, put the music on

and just knock yourself out. Well, not literally knocking yourself out. Just dance around the sitting room or your bedroom or the kitchen or wherever to these songs that really make you happy

Movies don't dance on the table long. The fourth category that I came up with was food and a movie

So on Valentine's Day you may go out for a meal and then go to say film, something like that

Or you may stay in and, you know, have a cozy night having to take away and watching something

watching a film together. So to treat yourself, to focus on yourself, you could always get in a takeaway from somewhere that you've never get a takeaway from before

There are some really nice restaurants that you can go and get takeaway food from

So maybe you want to do that. I know when me and Warren get a takeaway, we usually compromise because we don't always want the same thing

If you're focusing on yourself, there's no compromising. You can go and get the food from wherever you want

You could even just go down to Marks and Spencers. and make up a little basket of all of the little nibbly things that you like to eat

Maybe you had a bottle of Prosecco in there, and you've got your food ready for the evening

And because you're doing this on your own, you can choose a film that you would want to watch

You don't have to compromise on that either. So the three films that would definitely be on my list would be Shirley Valentine, absolutely love that movie

Educating Rita, love that movie as well. I actually went to see that at the theatre a couple of years ago

and it wasn't as good as the film. I don't know whether it's because I'd seen the film first

but I definitely preferred the film to the stage show. And the third film that would be on my list would be Erin Brokovich

That's a film I love to watch when I'm just sitting on my own and haven got anything else to do And strangely that well not strangely that all films about strong women who are focusing on themselves You could even if you drive and there a driving

movie close to where you live, why not take yourself to a driving movie? You don't need to go

with anybody. You can just sit in your car. You can take a little car picnic with you, or usually

in driving movies, you can order snacks to your car. I think that would be a really good idea

Unfortunately, I can't drive, so I couldn't do that on my own

But I think that would be a really nice idea if you do drive and you want to focus on yourself on Valentine's Day

The fifth category idea I had was on Valentine's Day, it's all about sending cards

And they've got, you know, messages, romantic messages, you know, funny messages, cheeky messages

It's all about the kind of message to give to your, you know, your loved one or somebody you're trying to

attract. But if you're focusing on yourself, I think this is a really good idea and I think this

is something I might do yourself. And that is a message jar, sort of an inspirational, motivating

message jar. So you might want to do this before Valentine's Day. So write down on little

pieces of paper that you can then fold up and put into your jaw. You might think of some motivational

quotes, there might be some happy memories you just want to jot down about. You could also put on

them, just remind yourself of things you've accomplished in the past that you're proud of

Because I sometimes think we'll forget about all the things we've accomplished during my lives

There may just be little things, but you forget about them. And I think if you've got a chance to

look at them and remember it, it'll put a smile on your face. It could be, you know, a line from a movie

or a line from a song that inspires you or makes your laugh

Could be a little poem that will put a smile on your face or inspire you

So you put all of these messages in the jaw. The more, the better. I mean, if you could do 365, you'd have one for every day of the year

You don't have to just focus on yourself on Valentine's Day. You could do 52, you know, one a week, do 12, one a month

So something that is just for you, something that inspires and motivates and makes your smile

So those are the five categories and ideas that I came up with for focusing on yourself this Valentine's Day

If you don't have a partner or you may be part of a couple, but you're not romantic

That's probably a bit like me and Warren, who don't really do Valentine's Day at all

But I'm quite happy to focus on myself and actually use some of these ideas to treat myself

Because it's nice to treat yourself, isn't it? So I hope you found those interesting

Let us know which ones you like the idea of, which ones you might be. try yourself. Leave us a comment below. I would love to hear them. So remember to go across

in what Marie from Busy B, Marie, Tina from Tina's Talk Time and Maria from Maria Crocker to see

what they're doing to focus on themselves this Valentine's Day. I'm sure they've come up with

some really good ideas as well. So that's all I've got for you today. I'll see you again soon

Bye for now