Love on the Run

A few days before Valentine's Day I read about an event called Love on the Run on a friend's blog. The event is sponsored by Porridge Papers, a local paper mill, and consists of typing a love note to someone and having it sent to them in a glass bottle on Valentine's Day. Of course I loved this idea, so last Friday night my friend Mary and I went to Porridge Papers to check it out.

When we arrived, I immediately loved the atmosphere. It smelled wonderfully of freshly prepared paper (I think, I've actually never smelled freshly prepared paper before). There was music playing in the background, a photo area where guests could get small polaroid pictures taken of themselves to include in their Valentine's Day delivery, and adorable old-fashioned cards on shelves sprinkled all around. Helpful staff and old typewriters were scattered throughout the mill as well. 

We were given our instructions and then chose our typewriters.

Here's Mary pretend typing a note so we could take a picture (because we forgot to take pictures while we actually typed).

Isn't that a lovely typewriter?

After typing our notes and getting our pictures taken, we gave the notes to the staff who rolled them and placed them in glass bottles and then put the bottles in cute little bags which we wrote addresses on for delivery. We also slipped our little polaroids in the bags as well.

Isn't that adorable? 

After addressing our bags, we were asked to sign the book of love- a massive book made right at the paper mill.

Then we were handed paint markers and told we could sign the window of the mill outside!  Here's what we wrote:

Mary's message to her honey!

My message to my "Rubix-Cube". 

Love on the Run was a great event and I encourage everyone in the area to check it out next year.  Reuben loved his message in a bottle and Mary and I had a great time. I especially loved that the entire event was:

FREE!