Without getting a chance to breath after the holidays, endless store shelves are already filled with red and pink Valentine Day’s gifts. It can easily be overwhelming and just a bit too sugary. If you are looking for a useful and thoughtful Valentine’s gift idea, this piece of rainbow striped eye candy might be just that. It is absolutely sugar-free and instead it brings safety and a piece of mind. It is super easy to send as a gift with a greeting card. Who would you not want to surprise with a loving heart any day of the year?
Funflector safety reflectors are thin, soft and lightweight and make great gifts and a-little-somehting to gift all seasons of the year. With the signature color matching ball chains, the funflector safety reflector can be hung in many places, zipper pulls on bags and jackets, on strollers and wheelchairs. Love your dog? Giv it a dangling safety reflector on its collar to help drivers see it. Love your kids? Give them a safety reflector (or two) for their backpacks and jackets so the early morning school bus driver can see them clearly. College students need reflectors too! Love your mom? Give her a safety reflector for her purse or jacket. Love your grandpa? Give him a safety reflector for his walker or jacket. Love coffee? Give yourself a coffee themed safety reflector! Because it is better to be seen than sorry… Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️
The stores are overflowing with red and rosy Valentine’s cards. Some funny, some cute and some sincere about your love for grandma, daughter, boyfriend, wife or friend. The sales of funflector® safety reflector hearts are picking up and we guess that many of them will be given away as a thoughtful little-something for Valentine’s day. Have you tried to send funflector reflectors as gifts with Valentine’s card to friends near and far? They fit perfectly in greeting cards, just double check the postage. Wether you choose a pink, red or striped heart (pst. on sale right now) – or a baseball, black car or green paw print – a reflector on a jacket or backpack will keep telling your loved ones every day that you are thinking about them and care for their safety. Isn’t that something?
We all enjoy celebrations, so of course we will go out for dinner with our loved one if we get the chance. Saturday next week is Valentine’s day, and you will find a lot of good deals at restaurants and get-away hotels. But why February 14th? Isn’t April or May more typical for affectionate love?
Curious about the origin of this romantic holiday, a couple of years ago, I set out with the Swedish “Nationalencyklopedin”, Wikipedia and some google searches to get a trustworthy basis for a blog post. But bah, what a mess! Just like the Swedish Lucia, Valentine’s day seems to be a coincidence between one or even several pagan traditions and the name in the (old) Roman Catholic Saint’s Calender on that day. Let’s recap what I found out back then:
One, and probably the most popular, legend is about the priest Valentine who was martyred about AD 270. He had befriended and fallen in love with his jailer’s daughter and left her a letter signed “from your Valentine.” However, there are several saints named Valentine connected with this day. And after all, in 1967, they were removed from the Roman Catholic saints calender since there was too little known about their deeds and lives.
Another theory is that the traditions of Valentine’s day come from the Roman celebration of Juno, Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses, which was followed by the Festival of Lupercalia. By drawing names from a jar, girls and boys were randomly paired to be partners during the festival and or course some partnership turned into love affairs. Later on, the church tried to tone down the tradition by using saints’ instead of the girls’ names to be drawn.
“Nationalencyklopedin” states that today’s celebrations stem from a pagan belief that the birds started to mate on this day. However, reading in wikipedia make me think that the pagan belief might have originated from a poem written in 1382 by Geoffrey Chauser. Parlement of Foules was written to honor the first anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia and not really about mating birds. In more modern English line 309-310 would be
“For this was Saint Valentine’s Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate.”
After quite some digging around, the only conclusions seems to be that no one really knows. Without big parades and serious speeches, this day is for you and your loved one to do something special—so just enjoy it your way but don’t forget: it’s better to be seen than sorry!
This cute but geeky Valentine’s poem is a good reason for us to introduce one of our new elementary particle reflectors with Particle Zoo design: DARK MATTER!
Scientists believe the universe is expanding due to Dark Energy, which makes up as much as 68% of the universe. Only 5% is matter that we know and the rest, 27% is dark matter. Dark matter cannot be seen, does not absorb or emit light. So how do we know it’s there? Astronomers have noticed that the behavior of large astronomical objects could not be explained with the gravitational forces between all known objects, so a mysterious dark matter with plenty of weight was added to explain the gravitational pull. Guesses to what dark matter is range from never seen elementary particles to heavier objects although as late as November 2013, it was ruled out that they were large primordial black holes. So maybe fun-sized primordial black holes? In the early universe, dark matter was evenly distributed but the passage of time has left its mark and gravity has pulled it into clumps and empty spaces. Our Dark Matter funflector thinks life is good!
It is hard to believe February is just around the corner. Where did January go? Anyway, the hearts for Valentine are now up on our website, and we have great offers if you need a whole bunch of them, from only $3.33 each! We’ve also added a mixed package of hearts to our fun packs, so you can get 6 for $24.95 or 12 for $39.95!
funflector® pedestrian reflectors are unique and useful party and classroom gifts
they are super easy to send with a Valentine’s card to all your far-away friends
they are inexpensive so you can give them to everyone you love and care about!
Check out our webshop for more designs! Take care and stay safe, The funflector team
We all enjoy celebrations, so of course we will go out for dinner with our love any day. Monday is Valentine’s day, so this weekend you’ll find a lot of good deals at restaurants and get-away hotels. But why February 14th? Isn’t April or May more typical for affectionate love and Valentine’s gifts?
Curious about the origin of this romantic holiday, I set out with the Swedish “Nationalencyklopedin”, Wikipedia and some google searches to get a trustworthy basis for a blog post. But bah, what a mess! Just like the Swedish Lucia, Valentine’s day seems to be a coincidence between one or even several pagan traditions and the name in the (old) Roman Catholic Saint’s Calender on that day.
Theories about Valentine’s Day
One, and probably the most popular, legend is about the priest Valentine who was martyred about AD 270. He had befriended and fallen in love with his jailer’s daughter and left her a letter signed “from your Valentine”. However, there are several saints named Valentine connected with this day. In 1969, they were removed from the Roman Catholic saints calendar. There was too little known about their deeds and lives. Another theory is that the traditions of Valentine’s day come from the Roman celebration of Juno, Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses, which was followed by the Festival of Lupercalia. By drawing names from a jar, girls and boys were randomly paired to be partners during the festival and or course some partnership turned into love affairs. Later on, the church tried to tone down the tradition by using saints’ instead of the girls’ names to be drawn.
“Nationalencyklopedin” states that today’s celebrations stem from a pagan belief that the birds started to mate on this day. However, reading in wikipedia make me think that the pagan belief might have originated from a poem written in 1382 by Geoffrey Chaucer. Parlement of Foules was written to honor the first anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia and not really about mating birds. In more modern English line 309-310 would be “For this was Saint Valentine’s Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate.” After quite some digging around, the only conclusions seems to be that no one really knows. Without big parades and serious speeches, this day is for you and your loved one to do something special. So just enjoy it your way! Elisabeth
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