Creative Courtship, The Collection:

A Treeful of Crayons
Remember the book "Harold and the Purple Crayon"?
Well, a romantic interest once told me that he was Harold for Halloween when he was in kindergarten, carrying around a giant cardboard purple crayon. (And this happens to be my favorite book from childhood.) So this one's for him. The idea is to fill a tree outside his window with dangling crayons.

Who knows: the crayons might start coloring all those white blossoms in the night! 

A Chapstick Bandolier (Submitted by Matt)

My beloved calls me 'the king of chapstick'.

At any given time, I probably have at least two dozen chapsticks tucked in various places around our house, at my office, in my bag -- but I never seem to have one handy when I need it.

She tells me that one day, to show me just how much she loves me, she's going to make me a custom chapstick holster, so I'll never again be without. And when she does?

I'm dreaming of reciprocating by crocheting her a little nose warmer, to keep the chill she so dislikes off the tip of her sweet and tender nose. What a happy and romantic pair we'll be, sporting the evidence of how much the other cares!

Ping Pong Through the Mail

Idea: Send your romantic interest a ping pong ball in the mail with a note written on it.

Include a package of blank ping pong balls for him/her so the two of you can play a game of ping pong through the mail, writing a new message each time. (It's fun to put it loose in a box with no packing material so you can hear it bounce around in the box.)

Alternatively, send a blank ping pong ball as a puzzle of sorts and see if the other person sends it back to you or not!