I have been so excited about this Virtual Valentine’s Day Party. Can’t believe it is finally starting today. The last few weeks I have been creating crafts with JDaniel and testing out new recipes to share with you. It has been hard to not share them with you as we did them. Many of you have been anxious to share your ideas with other party guests too. I heard from one of you that you were so excited about one of your projects you couldn’t wait until the party to share it.
The Purpose
This Valentine’s Day gathering is a time to share your party ideas, enter giveaways planned just for the party, and to mingle with other guests. I hope you take the time to share your posts and visit other party guests.
Party Idea Link Up
There is a link below for you to post your Valentine’s Day Party related posts. Each family-friendly or child-related post linked up will need to have a Virtual Valentine’s Day Party badge or a link at the bottom of it pointing back to the Virtual Valentine’s Day Party Link Up. One of the people that links up a post that contains a badge or links back will be randomly selected to receive a $10 Visa Gift Card. You may link up to four posts during the party.
Here is the badge:
What party is any fun without guests mingling and getting to know each other?
I am also going to randomly pick a comment stating the two link up posts a commenter has visited to receive a prize too. You will be able to leave as many comments as you like making the above statement. I will check to make sure that you have really visited the two posts you have said you have. The prize is a $15 Visa Gift Card.
In order to be eligible for the $15 Visa Gift Card, you have to visit two of the links above, leave comments on the posts you select, and leave me a comment telling me which two you visited. You can enter as many times as you like. You will need to visit two posts for each entry.
Examples:
Entry One: I visited links 1 and 35. Each post has a comment from me.
Entry Two: I am still visiting. This time I visited links 25 and 43. Each post has a comment from me.
Entry Nine: I am having such a great time visiting. This time I visited links 50 and 3. Each post has a comment from me.
Just leaving a comment is wonderful, but doesn’t count as an entry.
I didn’t see a way to upload a link, so I’m going to put mine here:
http://harvestmoonbyhand.blogspot.com/2011/02/decorating-for-valentines-day-with.html
If there’s a link tool that I missed, please let me know. Thanks!
Excited to see what everyone comes up with for their Valentines 🙂
I am in charge of Kate’s Valentine’s preschool party! But it isn’t being held until the 15th. 🙁 Boo!
How fun!!!
I’ll be back later to post some stuff. Looks like fun so far!
What a fun idea!
Thanks for stopping by & inviting me to link up! Fun idea–can’t wait to see what all gets posted! 🙂
Thanks for letting me know about your Valentine’s Day link up!!
I stopped by Nurture Store and Fryman Four. I’ll stop by others as I get time 🙂
Went through 7 or 8 so far! Great ideas everyone! Looking forward to see more ideas when I find more time! 🙂
There are a lot of great ideas! I visited Adventures in Mommy Land Rag Wreath and Leptir’s Valentine post.
Thanks for hosting this, it’s great to have a resource of ideas to use. I’m going to work my way round the links this week – looking forward to discovering some new blogs.
romantic thoughts…
have fun.
I commented on #29 & #30.
This is such fun! I looked at Valentine Carrot Printing at NurtureStore and commented about printing with potatoes. Then I looked at Shaken, Not Stirred on Hands On and commented about this being a new idea for my pre-school class.
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I also commented on two more at Hands On–The Valentine Tissue wreath and the Yummy Edible Valentines.
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Thanks for doing this! I love looking at all the ideas. I have found a few that I am going to do with my 2 year old this week! It is very nice to get so many ideas all in one place!
I commented on #2 and #49. It’s been fun looking at all the different ideas for Valentine’s Day!
I’ll have to put together the kids Valentines Day gifts early so I can take a picture of them…and show them off…:)
Thanks for stopping by my blog! I linked up my pancakes:)
Thanks for stopping on my blog…Nice to e-meet you! I linked up my owls!
Entry 2: Stopped by and left messages for 31 and 62!
Such a fun party! Thanks you for hosting. I commented on #2 and #8!
Thanks for hosting! I moved your button up to the top of my side bar for the duration of the party! Love what I am seeing!
Entry 2: Visited and commented #30 and 31
I visited “Valentine Carrot Printing” and “DIY heart stamp”
I visited “Stained glass cookie hearts” and “S’mores hearts”. both look fantastic!!!
just visited “bean bag toss” and “stuffed sugar cookies”. my list is growing longer and longer of new projects to try!! thanks for all the fantastic ideas!!!
I commented on #39 tonsoffunpreschoolactivities and #75 mykidsmake. You’ve had a ton of entries!
65 and 26 both have comments ffrom me.
this is such a fun idea.
I visited link #1 and #10 and left comments as Erin M. on each!
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I visited link #3 and #32 and left comments as Erin M. at each page!
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I visited link #6 and #16 and left comments as Erin M. on each!
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I visited link #9 and #5 and left comments as Erin M. on each!
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I visited Jada Roo’s sensory bin, and Rockabye Butterfly’s MTM… so far!
Visited Harvest Moon’s Valentines Decor and Hands On’s Button Heart
Visited the Mixing Bowl’s strawberry frosting sugar cookies recipe, and Close to Home’s Valentines Popcorn treats!
I visited #28 and #30 and left comments on both. Both the cookie recipes look delicious. Having trouble deciding what to make. Gotta see about visiting some more. Some great ideas here. This party was a great idea too.
I linked up my post from last year that had a few different ideas, wasn’t sure if that was okay or not. Hope so.
I created a Valentines Activities link up before realizing you were doing this. I would love for you to come over and link up your ideas.
http://totsandme.blogspot.com/2011/02/valentines-activities-link-up.html
Blessings
Visited two more links. You’d think I was looking for cookie ideas
I visited #76 the Sugar Cookies with Strawberry Frosting and #78 the Cornmeal Heart Cookies
I left a comment at both. And they both look really yummy!!
This time I didn’t go looking for calories. I visited #14 Heart Attack and #15 the Valentine Mailbox. Great ideas. Yes, I left comments.
Thanks for hosting this fun party!! So far I have visited #1 and #2 BUT I will be back! 🙂
Visited and commented at #54 and #65
such a great holiday
I commented on #88 – sweetest cupcakes ever and #95 meet the Dubiens.
visited and left a comment at #68 & #100
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I visited link 3,4 and left a comment.
rbjj32825[at]lycos[dot]com
Hi! Thanks for inviting me to link up! I have commented on 17 & 19! I love that you are encouraging everyone to visit and say hi to one another. Great job on this linky! Kerri
I also commented on 60 and 87:-) Kerri
Fun idea!
I visited 112 and 113 and commented– now I have ideas on crafts for my little one!
I love this virtual Valentine’s idea! I stopped by and commented on 42 and 68. S’mores hearts, yum!
I visited and commented on 104 & 109 🙂
Kerri
I visited and commented on 112 & 113 🙂
Kerri
I visited and commented on 115 & 117 🙂 Kerri
I love looking at all these links. I have found a great new blog to follow in all this, the one with #96 (handprint hearts) and #95 (lovebird). I left comments.
Another great couple of links
#21 the love chain at Little Wonder Days
#110 Heart Collage and Love Bug
so cute
Yes, I commented of course.
Thanks so much for linking me to your party this week. We are home from the hospital and recovering well. Finally had some time to catch up on blogging tonight. You had a great turn out for your linky! I looked at about 10 entries, but I left comments at 92 & 105. Thanks for hosting!
Decided to head back on over today and look some more.
I visited and commented on:
#123 Kids Vday mailbox (so cute)
#124 Vday Sandwiches (so yummy)
I visited link 26 & 94! Thanks for the opportunity 🙂
Thank you for sharing such great links! I hadn’t thought about making a special valentine lunch until I visited #124 and think we are going to have so much fun making #127 homemade valentine’s day mailboxes!
Today I visited 120 and 130, I left comments 🙂
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I visited 27 and 47 – left comments at both. I’ve been to many others as well because I already follow them 🙂
http://handsonhouse.blogspot.com
Also went to 130 and 3 and left comments…
Finding some great ideas that can adapt to other holidays!!!
I visited #137 http://etadventures.blogspot.com/2011/02/felt-hearts-of-love.htmland #1http://www.inlinkz.com/displayurl.php?id=1306424and left comments to bothlusizova at gmail.com
Today I visited #74 and #142 – I left comments at both sites.
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I visited and commented on link 101 and 27.
Hi there! Visited and commented on 129 & 131.
Kerri
Visited and commented on 133 & 134 🙂
Kerri
Visited and commented on 135& 137
Kerri
Visited and commented on #2 and #28. Thanks for the reminder! I had been visiting but not recording the visits. 🙂
Visited and commented on #43 and #44.
Visited and commented on #52 and #57.
Visited and commented on #59 and #92.
I’m bck again, this time visited and commented #123 and #137
Commented on #130 and 134
I finally found some time (at midnight!) to look at some of the other posts. I commented on #94 and #65
I also commented on #139 and #31
And finally (for now), I commented on #28 and #142. Thanks for the fun link-up!
I visited 106 and 108 and commented on both!
Thank you for the giveaway 🙂
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I visited and commented on 56 and 57!
Thank you for the giveaway 🙂
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I visited and commented on 43 & 49!
Thank you for the giveaway 🙂
hurdler4eva(at)gmail(dot)com
I commented on #3 and #42, so many great ideas!
This is a great link-up! I visited and commented on #3 and #53. I also featured them on the Living Montessori Now Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/LivingMontessoriNow. I plan to feature at least a couple more tomorrow!
I couldn’t resist featuring a couple of food posts today! I just visited, commented on, and featured #138 and #142.
So many creative people out there! I commented on #24 the paint chip cards and #29 (?) the heart candy cane lollipops.
I also commented on #28 the stuffed sugar cookie and #93 the crayon heart cards.
And #95 the lovebird and #106 the heart crayons.
Maybe I’m mixing the crayon hearts up..one was the card with melted crayons and the other was the crayon shavings with wax paper. I was just jotting down quickly what I commented and then couldn’t read my notes hahaha.
This has been fun…thanks for hosting this!!
I visited and left a comment on #10 and #8
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I visited and commented on #20 and #45(LOVE the Vday tree!)
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I commented on #21 and #56
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I visited and left a comment on #91 and #117
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I had so much fun visitng and then clicking onto other blogs! What a plethera of talent out in the blog world. I visited at entries #11,21 AND 38. Thanks for the Virtual Valentine Party!
Susan at togethertime4families.com
Entry One: I visited link 138 and 149. Each post has a comment from me.
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!! What a great Virtual Valentine’s Day Party – so many wonderful links! Today, I visited, commented on, and featured on the Living Montessori Now Facebook page #96, #107, and #110.
Back again:-) I commented on 148 and 151. Thanks again for hosting and Happy Valentine’s Day!
Kerri
I visited 29 and 3!
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