August is Romance Month. 12 Tips from Rowena's to Spice Up Your Love Life

August isn't just back-to-school month. It's also "Romance Month" (maybe because the kids are back in school?). Rowena's, a gourmet cake and foods company in Norfolk, Va., offers 12 ideas to spice up your romance.

"Some people have a hard time communicating their love for others and themselves," says Rowena Fullinwider, owner of Rowena's, Inc., creator and producer of gourmet cakes and foods located in the historic Ghent area of Norfolk, Va. Here are a dozen ways to have a little fun with love during August, dubbed "Romance Month" by Chase's Calendar of Events:

1. Give at least four hugs a day.
2. Say, "I love you," at least five times a day.
3. Put a surprise note in your child's (or your spouse's)lunchbox.
4. Read your child's favorite book to him before bed.twice!
5. Write loving and creative notes to your family and stick them all over the house or hide them in unusual places.like your husband's socks or your children's pajamas.
6. Send your mother a Rowena's heart-shaped pound cake.
7. Write "I love you" in lipstick on the bathroom mirror.
8. Do something special and unexpected for your loved ones,like cleaning your teenager's room while she is at play practice or taking your neighbor a plate of homemade heart-shaped cookies.
9. Serve your family a heart-healthy, heart-shaped meatloaf, made with ground turkey and Rowena's Carrot Jam. Add pink mashed
potatoes, flavored with chicken stock, just for fun.
10. Write a love letter to your sweetie in French and deliver it with Rowena's Pecan Praline Pound Cake and a jar of Rowena's delicious Praline Sauce.
11. Treat yourself and a friend to a lovely, rejuvenating afternoon at Rowena's Tearoom.
12. Love yourself. Take a hot, soothing bath, filled with delightful oils, and sip a hot cup of tea while you relax.

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Rowena's celebrated its 20th anniversary on May 1, 2003. Located at 758 West 21st Street, Norfolk, VA 23517, the company is housed in a 15,000-square-foot facility containing a retail store, tearoom, offices, two warehouses and spacious kitchens. Rowena's employs 20 people full time and up to 125 seasonally. Its wholesale line of products can be found in over 2,000 gourmet and gift shops and catalogs across the United States, and to a limited extent, in Canada and Europe.

Rowena's full-color retail mail order catalog is distributed to an ever-growing customer list throughout the world. Rowena's website,
http://www.rowenas.com , carries full-color pictures of all the products featured in its catalog and customers can order these delicious goodies 24 hours every day.

To find out more call 757-627-8699 or 800-627-8699, or email cameron@rowenas.com. Visit Rowena's on the Web at www.rowenas.com.

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