Current Obsessions: Secret Crush

Our Valentine to you: tiny baskets, quilted stamps, an Instagram account to dream about, and more. Read on:

• Ooh, Tiwa Select is in London—and they’re open for office hours.
• Amanda Seyfried has a hidden talent: basket making.
• A poet and a novelist at home in an 1860s sea-biscuit factory.
• A Valentine for your four-legged friends (hat tip: Margot).
• Would you live in a replica of Thoreau’s cabin? These people are.
• Attn. New Yorkers: Antiques gallery PRB Collection of High Point, NC, has a “residency” at Zak + Fox’s lovely NYC showroom.
• Time to try the German practice of lüften?
• The stamps we want to send all our love letters with.
• The fish trend continues (hat tip: Julie).
• 10 things our editors are coveting this Valentine’s Day.
• We’re taking to heart houseplant stylist Rob Moffitt’s advice to use a shallow dish for a planter. This Bergs Potter bowl, with a drainage hole, makes it easy.
• Do you follow Portuguese gardener Margarida Maia on Instagram? Her extraordinary photos are like paintings.
• This post from the@accidentallywesanderson account is so good! (Hat tip: Fan.)
• Rethinking backyard beekeeping.
• In the market for a Bad Bunny grass people costume? You’re in luck!!
• From Laura: “This jewelry cast from seeds collected for The Wild Seed Project is 100 percent a current obsession! Adding the golden alexander seed studs to my wish list.”
• A moving essay about loss, memory, and Sanguisorba.
• And ICYMI, here’s one of the winning projects from this year’s Society of Garden and Landscape Designers awards.