Flowers You Can Build My husband and I are on our third year of getting a set or two of Legos to build together as our Valentine’s Day date. It’s the perfect night-in activity, especially if you want to watch a movie or show together that won’t take a lot of focus—we watched the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series last year, and we plan to finish our current rewatch of Lord of the Rings this year. The floral sets have been our preferred Lego sets for Valentine’s Day, since there’s a nice floral aspect and we can leave them out all year long.
The Dried Floral Centerpiece ($48) has two similar halves you can each work on to click together at the end, or you can each build an individual Mini Orchid ($30) or Bonsai Tree ($50) side by side. Our combination this year is the Mini Orchid and the Plum Blossom ($30) . I already can’t wait to enjoy them year round on our bookshelves.
A Massage Candle Don’t just gift a candle you found on your latest grocery store run. If you’re going to gift a candle for Valentine’s Day, lean into the romantic (and sexy!) theme with Maude’s Burn candles. Maude primarily designs beautifully minimalist sex toys and body products—we recommend their lube in our Best Sex Toys guide —and the Burn candle sits nicely in between those two areas as a candle that melts down into massage oil.
It comes in four scents: the No. 0 is unscented, and my favorite of the scented three is the No. 1 for its warm amber tones, but you can ch.
