Need a Valentines Day tip? Here's a few...

1. Buy two stuffed animals, one reflecting your personality and the other reflecting your love’s personality. Dress them with telltale accessories that leave no doubt that they are you and your valentine. Attach a note on one, that says, You’re my… cuddle bunny…handsome hippo…gentle lamb, and on the other, I’m your…pussycat…tiger…devoted puppy…frog disguised as a prince…

2. Make a box-within-a-box package. Wrap a small item and place it in a larger box with an item that isn’t wrapped. Wrap that box and place it in yet a larger box with another unwrapped item. Do this until you have one large box wrapped with loving messages written all over it.

3. Buy a plain mug and paint a personalized message on it. Include his or her name, a drawing, and words of endearment.

4. Buy a small gift or tickets to the movies or a sports event and put the “prize” in a box of Cracker Jacks.

5. Make a CD of love songs and put it inside a clear plastic case. Design a cover and list each song and a little write-up on how it relates to your feelings or the memories of being together.

Or, buy your Valentine a gift that will be as permanent as your love. That would be a Bowers Fencing & Swimming Pools, Inc. fence; to protect what's theirs... permanently! ♥♥♥♥