Gift from Valentine's Past

Even though I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day, I still love making (and even getting) gifts. I had so many different ideas of what to make my friends this year. Last year we had a Secret Valentine between my group of friends. Originally everyone was suppose to have someone from the opposite sex; however, there were more girls than guys so one girl had a girl. The name I chose was my friend Michael, which was nice but I didn't know him that well then. So I asked his GF (at the time) who I was also friends with what kind of things did he like. Once I got a general idea I decided what to make him. I have seen in a magazine (the name escapes me now) a small mailbox and it has Valentine goodies coming out of it. I loved the idea so much, so I decided to do that. First, I bought a mailbox from Michael's. It was lavender so I painted it a dark purple (his favorite color). Next, I embossed his name on one side and for you on the flag thing (obviously I don't know what its actually called). Then, I glued two music notes on the ends of his name since he was in band in high school & he loves music. Next, I found old Scrabble letters and found his initials, MDL, and glued them to the front of the mailbox. Once I was finished with the mailbox, I had to find something to fill it with. I made chocolate cake balls and envelope shaped cookies. For the cookies I covered them with with frosting and used red icing to make them look like envelopes. I was so excited about my gift yet nervous if he was even going to like it. When the day came to reveal your Secret Valentine, I was genuinely surprised when he told me he loved it and it out-shined everyone's. He actually still has it a year later, at least that's what he told me. Anyways I just wanted to share that just because that was my first V-Day where I actually made something for someone. Now I can't stop, I want to make stuff every year even when I don't have a Valentine.