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Minne-Mama is on Facebook! 'Like' us to stay updated on our fun crafts and activities! Thank you for stopping by! Since taking down our contact paper Christmas tree earlier this month, I have been planning on a big Valentine heart for our next play invitation. This contact paper heart was simple to make, and Skyler was excited to have a new contact paper shape to play with! To make the heart shape, I measured out a piece of contact paper to fill the sliding glass door. Then I used acrylic paint on the non-stick side and painted on a large heart outline. Once it dried, I cut out around the heart shape and added rounds of tape to the non-stick side.  Using the non-stick side with the tape, I pressed the heart onto our sliding glass door.  The invitation to play was completed with a cute Valentine towel (with owls on it, of course...I kind of love owls!) for Skyler to sit on, and some felt hearts (they have a sticky side, but we do not need to take that off to play, and can re-...

Minne-Mama is on Facebook! 'Like' us to stay updated on our fun crafts and activities! Thank you for stopping by! Happy Monday! We had such a wonderful weekend. I got pedicures and watched a movie with girlfriends while daddy and Skyler did science experiments at home (baking soda and vinegar reactions were a huge hit with baby boy!), Joe had another soccer game Saturday night that Skyler and I went to, and we went out for brunch on Sunday with my family. It was the perfect mix of relaxing and fun filled. We are yet again trying to survive a cold wave in Minnesota. Our ECFE class has been cancelled two of three weeks, which has been such a bummer! Having time for Skyler to interact with other little one's is not the only reason we do ECFE classes. I am really missing my time to talk with the other parents in our class! Since we didn't have class this morning, we did a ton of crafting! Skyler did some beginning steps for many crafts and activities that we are going to c...

Minne-Mama is on Facebook! 'Like' us to stay updated on our fun crafts and activities! Thank you for stopping by! On Valentine's Day last year, I was working at a childcare center as the lead teacher in an infant room. Skyler was in the room with me, and we brought these easy and cute edible Valentine's for the babies in our room. Of course, we were using bananas, but this could be done with other fruits and veggies as well (Will you peas be my Valentine? Pumpkins, sweet potatoes, etc. could all be fun to make into loving phrases!) The first Valentine's Day with my little Valentine! This year, w e are making these cute Valentine's for Skyler's grandparents (act surprised when you see them, okay?) and his ECFE and music teachers! I made a canvas version to put on our shelf along with our potato stamp and printed canvases . The canvas we used was one of the two that I salvaged when our prints did not turn out. It was most recently seen with a quick coat of ...

Minne-Mama is on Facebook! 'Like' us to stay updated on our fun crafts and activities! Thank you for stopping by! This day last year, we closed on our home. Our offer was accepted on December 4th after three months of searching, visits to over thirty houses, and two failed offers. We were so looking forward to this day, and it has been an incredible first year in our home. We have made many changes, and there are several to-do tasks that still have not been completed. It feels like a day to celebrate. We were excited on this day last year, and I am still so excited that we found our perfect home.  So happy that we just closed on our new home! :) To see how far our home has come in the last year, I decided to compare the listing photos of our home to how it looks today.  The Living Room Not much has changed here, other than the added stuff. Since this is our only common area, we have a lot of toys in here and play in the living room often. I wanted to do a gallery wall behind t...