...Valentine's Day...

          ..with marjorie smith ward..

          ..All links checked and working Jan 2008..

          ...my sitemap

          ..sm..

          ..is't this background the prettiest..??..I love pink..red..roses..I buy the $10 bouquets at Food Lion all the time..

          ..animated cards..

          ..Stampin Up..

          ..they have some real cute things..go to the Valentine link on bottom..

          stampin up..

          ..yea..!..at last a link..

          ..Land o Lakes..

          ..Regretfully even Annies has a lot of broken links etc..I'll keep trying to find something new with no pop-ups..!!..

          Annies..

          ...FUN PAGES...

          ..Easter..

          ..April Fool's Day..

          ..FOOLS..

          ..and of course..no housework day..

          ..no housewrok day..

          ..2008..

          ..I have made every attempt to remove pages with pop-ups..isn't it enough that they have ads..?..a lot of good pages were removed and the card ones were the worst of all..even 123 greetings..

          ***..Redneck poem..

          ..RN Poem..

          ..STOP..how many things can you name that are red..??..How many can you name that are pink..??..white..??..

          ..red..

          ..pink..

          ..white..

          ..if I find any new pages that are real good I will add them in..

          ..all about candy..recipes..trivia..much more

          ..Necco Conversation Hearts..

          ..candy hearts..

          **..this page is another that has not been up-dated..but has a lot of good pages..links..and ideas....IDEAS..

          **here is a really nice page....Marvelicious Valentine's Day..

          ..visit my sitemap..genealogy..recipes..Holidays..home of 1700+ Redneck Jokes and one liners .. pictures too....blond..truckers.. ..all on the clean side..

          ..map..

          ..Crochet Tiny Hearts..I just made some of these in a rose color..first time I have made any in years..simple..fast..

          ..crochet..

          ..Valentine Champagne..

          1-2 quarts raspberry sherbet
          2-750 ml bottles champagne
          sprig of fresh mint

          Scoop sherbet in large bowl, add champagne, serve with mint on top.

          .. Redhots are a popular Valentine Candy....REDHOTS..

          ..Homeschoolzone....crafts..recipes..more....Val..

          ..RECIPES..

          ..recipes..

          ..Rednecks at Valentine's Day..

          ..Serve red Kool Aid punch at their party..
          Get upset cause all the Tractor Pull Valentine Cards are gone..
          buy their sweetie the biggest bag of M and Ms they can find
          ..take their mama to the Sweetheart's Dance..
          Wipe out the local truck stop buying goodies for their Sweethearts..
          Pay more for their dog's Valentine card then their wifes...
          .. get their sweeties Moon Pies n Slim Jims..

          ..Ya just might be one if..

          You're taking yer cousin Martha Sue to the Sweetheart's Dance..
          yer ma ma's drivin ya..
          you had to tell Aunt Ellen and Cousin Perl you couldn't take em you already had a date..
          ..ya bought yer wife the last dozen roses at K-Mart
          You got your honey the very last box of Unkle Klems Chawklits..

          for the party yer servin Spam and Jell-o in little heart shapes
          ..ya bought yer wife a card with a Nascar emblem on it..
          ..she was delighted..
          instead of gettin yer sweetie the silk roses ya got the polyester cauz they were on sale..

          ..You are takin yer momma to the Possum Dinner..
          ..it's being held at Town Halll..
          your dream date wuld have been Jethro Bodene or Elly Mae..

          ...IDEAS...

          Make Rice Krispies Treats....Krispies..

          Valentine M and M candies are a good idea. Have Strawberry milk for breakfast. If you can not find the strawberry milk just buy some frozen strawberries and use them. Buy some drinks in red. Buy red drink cups too. After holidays I buy 1/2 price candy and send it to a dialysis center by us.

          Robin's World Famous Cream Cheese Sandwiches

          8oz Cream cheese softened
          3 tsp mayonnaise
          1/2 package Good Seasons Italian Dressing
          Dash of hot sauce
          Food coloring of your choice, match your holidays...

          Mix all ingredients well. Spread on bread with crust removed. Cut in half. We used cookie cutters for these. None were ever left!

          Make a cherry cheescake. You may find a heart shaped pan. I use the boxed cakes, they are pretty good. One year I took some dolls and made red outfits for them for my daughter and her friend...

          ..Did You Know?..

          Valentine's Day was probably celebrated as early as the 1400's. Commercial valentines were first made in the early 1800's. Many were blank inside for the sender to write their own message. Many valentines of the 1800's were hand painted and featured a fat cupid or arrows piercing a heart. Many cards had satin, ribbon or lace trim. Some cost as much as $10! From the mid 1800's to the early 1900's people sent comic valentines called penny dreadfuls..these cost a penny each and many had insulting verses.Many penny dreadfuls and other old valentines have become collector's items...source of information..World Book Encyclopedia..

          ..KNOCK..KNOCK..
          ..Who's there?..
          ..Olive..
          ..Olive who?..
          ..Olive you!..

          Take heavy construction paper, I do like the better brands, the colors are much better. I cut two heart shapes, the front one I made some slits in like a snowflake, not too many. Glue or staple together. I use Aleen's Tacky glue in the gold bottle. Just a little holds really good. To this I added tissue paper in the middle with a lolly pop, some candy.

          Make a chain in Valentine colors..

          One year my granddaughter's mom made a heart shape with construction paper, outlined my granddaughter's hand on it, then stapled them together with some stuffing in the middle. My daughter picked up the cutest Valentine and Bunny baskets at a dollar store for her preschool class, but get them early.

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          For school one year I made a Valentine box. I took a cardboard grocery box with a lid. Cover with tissue paper..leaving a space in the back on the bottom to open so you can get the Valentines out. I put Valentines all over this. You could add stickers, ribbon too. The teacher put it up for the next year. Select a post master and post mistress to take the Valentines out and pass them around. You could have a lucky number for that.

          ..please..

          ..Get started now..Veteran's Valentines..Ann Landers did this..I send cards to the VA hospital where my hubby was at one time. I have bought cards, one year my granddaughter and I made cards out of construction paper..this year I bought one of the packages of smaller cards and a larger card to mail them in..my daughter is now director of a pre-school and this year they are going to send some to the hospitals and Adam too..!!..

          The link below will give you addresses for hospitals in the entire USA..

          ..vets..

          ..my hubby was at these two hospitals .. send them in honor of him..thanks..

          Ronald E Ward

          Fayetteville VA Medical Center
          2300 Ramsey Street
          Fayetteville NC 28301

          OR

          Mountain Home VA Medical Center
          PO Box 4000
          Mountain Home TN 37684

          ..My nephew is in Iraq..please send him a card..his address is

          LC PL Smith, Adam V
          3/2 Wpns Co Warpigs 2
          Unit 73120
          FPO-AE 09509-3120

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          ..Kristina and I made up 6 cards already..so I am glad..now to just see they get sent..I will buy some too..!!..