Our activity was soo fun! I had a friend in the ward come and teach the girls a dance. They loooved it!
Check out the video clip. MOV03838.MPG
Activity Days is an LDS activity for eight to eleven year old girls.
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I have found a new {TRADITION} for the upcoming holiday and I am super excited about it!
Ta-da! Valentine chair backers! I’m excited for Valentines morning when the girls wake up and see a Valentines bag on the back of their chair with little goodies in it. So far I’ve got Valentines socks and sunglasses (Macey favorite thing in the whole world) from the dollar spot at Target. I’m thinking of maybe getting some Valentines t-shirts (if I can find some for super cheap, or make them) with hairbows and a box of chocolates, and a box of conversation hearts. It wouldn’t be Valentines without conversation hearts. I’ll have to hit up the dollar store and see what fun things I can find to put in their little bags.
The pattern from OurScoop is super easy to follow.
Straps in the back to attach it to the chair. I cheaped out and didn’t buy button covers for the back buttons – and ya know what, I think I like it better that way.
{CUTE} hearts liner.
I hope this will be a fun tradition that lasts until they move out of the house!
I love my little Valentine’s Day plates I just made. Do you ever make something and then you keep looking at it because your so proud of it? Yep, that’s me. They spice up my dining room and I love them! I just bought this plate rack (is that what it’s called?) at Krumpets last Saturday. I was so proud of myself. I had the idea to buy a plate rack, put it above the sliding doors in the kitchen (hopefully I’ll get some nice french doors to replace them eventually) and put seasonal and regular type plates on it. So I had this idea, I went out bought the supplies, did it and it turned out just how I had envisioned. That hardly never happens.
I picked up these clear plates at Target on clearance. I’m tempted to go back and buy a bunch more now that this project turned out soo good.
So here they are all spray panted a nice cherry red. I used my favorite brand of spray paint – Krylon. It’s soo nice and vibrant.
I used my Silhouette to cut out the hearts onto white vinyl. I love that Roberts now sells vinyl by the foot. It makes it so much easier and affordable to do little projects. So here is my finished plate rack. I hope you love it to!
Thank you all soo much for all the nice comments on my Valentines Banners! And for all the new “follows!” This is just a little “filler” post for now. I’m going to the fabric and craft store today – I’ve got some ideas brewing in my head.
For Christmas Macey got a Fur-Real doggy. She loves this little doggy soooo much. One night she demanded that the doggy have a house. So Justin made her a dog house of a cardboard box. The next night she wanted to know why there wasn’t any lighting in the dog house. So we put a flashlight in it. The next day she wanted grass and trees and sunshine and “Arrf” in {PINK} on her dog house. Thank goodness I have a Silhouette machine to do all the cutting on that. Yesterday we spent some time decorating her dog house and she loves it now. Her favorite part being the pink “Arrf.” I wonder what she is going to demand for her dog house next? Funny kid!
I wanted a fancy banner to put on the piano and I found these super fancy schmancy scrolly hearts on Silhouette’s website. I love them! So elegant! As soon as I saw them I knew they would make a awesome banner.
I added a line of glitter around the hearts to give them a little sparkle. Macey saw them this morning and said “Ooh la la!” I love my little miss Fancy Nancy.
I wanted a cutesy banner for the entry way mirror and found these conversation heart cutouts on Silhouettes website. They were exactly what I had in mind when I thought entry way Valentine’s day banner. I love my little banners and I hope to pick up some more Valentine’s day decor for my house. I’m starting to enjoy decorating for the holidays. 🙂
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As I’ve said before, I’m the Activity Days leader in my ward. This is a group of eight to ten year old girls that get together twice a month for an activity. Sometimes I spend a lot of time putting these together (and sometimes my partner does the work.) Our activity yesterday was about writing down goals and working towards them. This was one of the best activities we’ve done with the girls. They all loved it and we took up the whole hour – which is sometimes hard to do with these girls. Their attention span doesn’t usually last that long.
So here they are writing down all their goals on a 4×6 card. They {LOVED} the metallic gel pens I brought. (Please excuse the crappy picture quality, I just took my little point and shoot camera with me.)
I brought those foamy stickers that you can get in the craft aisle at Wal-Mart. Those were a {BIG} hit. And a big mess! I bought a bag of flower stickers and a bag of letter stickers. Before the activity I took a bunch of clothespins and spray painted them pink and then used E-6000 to glue magnets onto the back. All the girls had to do was decorate their clothespin with stickers and it was ready to hold their goal paper onto their fridge. Or folding chairs for the time being. . .
They all turned out soo cute! The girls loved them and had so much fun making them.
I’m bummed the picture turned out soo blurry – it would have been cute. There were three other girls at the activity but they were still working on their project, so we had a good turnout. Anyhow, I made the girls strawberry cupcakes with strawberry icing. These girls {LOVE} their cupcakes!
Con-tent-ment: the state of being contented; satisfaction; ease of mind.
Happy New Years everyone! I love the new year. Christmas is all put away and the stress of what to give everyone is gone. It’s time to start over new and re-evaluate what we really want in life. Every year I always have the same goals. Work on food storage, build up savings, exercise more regularly . . that kind of thing. But then I got to thinking, what do I really want? And ya know what, I want to decorate my house this year. We have lived here for six years and I really haven’t done a whole lot with it for two different reasons, number one, I didn’t know what I wanted and number two I didn’t want to spend money on it only to find out it doesn’t really go, or I don’t like it. But thanks to the blogging world I have come across so many home decor blogs I think I have finally figured out what style of decor I like and how to do it on the cheap frugally. I’m talking about repainting old furniture, hanging up curtains and that kind of thing. I’m excited for this year and the opportunity I have to make this house more of a home for my family.
On to my jar filler post. Do you remember my post last year about using salt as jar filler? If you don’t that’s okay I’ll recap for you. You take salt, pour it in a bag and add a few drops of food coloring and you get this pretty jar filler. I made yellow salt and put a cute little Easter bird on top.
So I got to thinking about putting something into jars that can go under candles, BUT I didn’t want to pay for those expensive marbles that you get at the craft or home decorating stores. The solution, BEANS! I know, you probably think I’m a dork. But here’s the great part, it matches the decor in the bathroom and it was {FREE}. Those beans needed to get rotated out of food storage anyways. So then I got to thinking about putting a few white roses in my bedroom, but beans don’t match. The solution? RICE! Yes, I’m a little crazy, but hey, you can’t beat free and I think you can’t really tell unless you look really close.
Also, I never posted a final picture of Justin’s blanket. I did get it finished in time for Christmas with a few days to spare. I love how soft and manly it is. He loves it because it has all of his favorite T-shirts on it and it’s super warm. I made the pattern for it myself which is why it’s pretty basic – I can’t stand to sit and try to figure out seam allowances and yardage and stuff like that. Math never was my thing. Anyways, I love the grey flannel shirting fabric that I found at the fabric store, it goes really good with the grey fleece backing. I quilted this myself with a walking foot that I got for my birthday. Don’t look at it too close the lines aren’t perfectly straight.
Linking to: Craft-O-Maniac, Skip to My Lou, This & That
On New Years day last year I decided to start this blog as just a place to post pictures of my crafts and things that I am working on. I enjoy reading other peoples blogs craft blogs and thought maybe someone out there might enjoy my ideas and projects. During the last year I have had two posts that were really popular, so I’m going to post them again. I used to be at a blogspot and these two posts got the most comments from people. They are the Toddler Dish Towel Bibb and Korker Bow Instructions.
Happy New Years to you all! I hope 2011 brings you all the health and happiness you deserve!
On New Years Eve we are going to party like no other.
We are going to drink (non-alcoholic sparkling juice).
Eat fancy finger foods (deviled eggs, crackers and cheese).
Wear fancy party hats (if my new silhouette blade gets here in time).
and
Watch the ball drop (the ball I made that is hanging over the dining room light fixture that is).
It’s just a Christmas ornament with rhinestones hot glued on it. I tried to get a better picture of it was swinging around like crazy.
But anyways, we’re going to count down, drop the ball and go to bed by eight at the latest.
We’re big partyers.
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