. . . soft mohair throws and paper flower hearts, elegant monograms and pretty lacy envelopes, sheer silk blouses and sexy pencil skirts — there’s romance in the air, and in dusky and dreamy shades of mid-february blue . . .

{images: 1 – hotze eisma via brabourne farm; 2 – elena on flickr via everything fabulous & mary ruffle; 3, 4, 6, 8 – martha stewart; 3 – the city sage; 7 – piet boon via house of turquoise; 9 –photography by ellen silverman for metropolitan home april 2009; 10 – scan, kate moss via british vogue, december 2009, photograph from 2005}