tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53835603528436474552024-03-12T16:21:09.612-07:00Larcie BirdAnisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comBlogger221125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-62608004189728094402015-02-15T20:39:00.000-08:002015-02-15T20:39:13.948-08:00Blue and Gold "Pow Wow" Banquet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I love Scouts. I have 3 boys and plan on spending a lot of time in Scouts. I am currently the Unit Commission, Scout Committee Chair and the Wolf Den Leader. Did I say that I love scouts?</div>
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I wasn't in charge of the Blue and Gold Banquet this year, but it turns out that two of my best friends are the Cub Scout Committee Chair and Cubmaster, so I got to help plan the banquet. </div>
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Feathers, arrows and all things tribal are kind of a big deal in decorating right now. What a better theme to have for cub scouts, than a Pow Wow!!!</div>
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I designed the invitations in Photoshop elements. We wanted to use blue and gold, but more specifically gold glitter and add other colors of blue.</div>
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For the envelopes, I cut a feather on my Silhouette Cameo and added a little washi tape.</div>
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Centerpieces on the tables were wooden tree slices. We had mason jars with beads tied around the top. Inside the jars were feather arrows. Some were blue, others were white or natural color with gold glitter tips. Along with the jars, we either had antlers, succulents or teepees.</div>
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We decorated this backdrop with craft paper and washi tape. </div>
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I also made a few basic dream catchers.</div>
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I made a make shift teepee out of just 1x2 boards and some twine tied at the top. I used old white sheets to cover it. The leader who was presenting our Arrow of Light awards had the fake fire... it was the perfect touch.</div>
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Our main course was navajo tacos. I didn't snap a shot of those. For dessert we had donut holes with an arrow through them.<br />
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We also had teepee cupcakes with gold and blue sugar. They turned out sooo cute!</div>
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We had a little "tee pee" trail mix snack.</div>
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We had a craft table where the boys (and family) could decorate a headress.</div>
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There was also a station where the boys could shoot the bow and arrows at a target.</div>
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And I really can't take credit for much! My partners in crime really pulled this off and made it a fantastic night!!!</div>
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PS... my oldest son earned his Arrow of Light at the banquet and is moving on to Boy Scouts!!! I'm excited to start on this new adventure.<br />
PPS... red pants looks awesome with the yellow scout shirt!!!<br />
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<span id="goog_1122977047"></span><span id="goog_1122977048"></span><br />Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-7617743940135068342015-02-11T19:09:00.000-08:002015-02-11T19:09:28.107-08:00Video Game/iPad Birthday party {Terreria, Madden, MInecraft, Crossy Road}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
For my son, Joren's, 9th birthday, he wanted a "late night" video game party... meaning a bunch of little boys come over and eat and play video games all night. Sounded good to me... cheap and easy.</div>
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I created the invitation in photoshop elements. I found a blank iPad template. I had him text me a fake conversation... I took a screen shot of it and put that on the invitation. Then I put his 4 favorite games at the bottom of the screen.</div>
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Whenever I have a party, I like to decorate the dresser I have in my kitchen. Because it was a hodge podge of iPad games as well as playstation games, I decorated with all things gaming. I had a banner left over from Brenner's Minecraft party as well as the Steve head.</div>
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I also put out remote controls on the tables, Skylanders, stacks of games, etc. Joren had bought a football gum dispenser that he just had to decorate with... it worked out great because Madden was one of his favorite iPad games as well.</div>
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Brenner made this "Eye of Cthulhu" giant cake ball... that's something from Terraria. </div>
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And Joren insisted that his cake was his armor on Terraria... He also insisted it was made of fondant. So, I baked 3 tiny square cakes and covered them in fondant. Then, I tediously cut fondant squares and stuck them on the cake.<br />
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I used mostly green and black because that was the minecraft colors and seemed to go with everything. I made some torches for the table and also had Skylanders in the middle of the table.<br />
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For the party favors, I got these little square buckets at the dollar store. We put zombies and light sticks in there (both from Terraria). We also put coins because, well, most video games have you collect coins in some way.<br />
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Aside from the fact that having a bunch of boys at my house late at night when I'm tired, it ended up being a fun party!!!Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-33055902888717515402014-10-15T05:35:00.001-07:002014-10-15T05:35:08.607-07:00Book Themed Bridal Shower<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Before my cousin's wedding, we had a bridal shower. It made complete sense to use the decorations I had been working on for the wedding to decorate for the shower.</div>
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Here is an overall view. We hung the fabric garland and one of the banners on the window.</div>
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We used one of the table center piece groupings on the table.</div>
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And we used one of the table runners we had made out of music book pages.<br />
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We just had a variety of sweets for dessert and for party favors, we put a few chocolates in a small cellophane bag topped with a doily and some ribbon.</div>
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It was really quite convenient to use the same decor for both:)<br />
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I have 3 boys... I'm never going to be able to plan a wedding. So, when my cousin got engaged, I jumped at the chance to be able to decorate for her wedding reception.</div>
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I was asked to decorate this wedding reception as cheap as possible. The reception was held in an LDS chapel gym. If you aren't familiar with the LDS faith, many people are married in the temple in the morning, then have a reception at the local church in the evening. This couple actually had both the luncheon AND the reception in the gym. So, in decorating, I had to plan on decorating for both. I came up with the idea of a book-themed wedding. Jessie loves to read and so does her husband Adam. I did a lot of shopping at yard sales and thrift stores and did a lot of borrowing as well.<br />
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Jessie and Adam chose the colors of royal blue, silver and peach. The centerpieces were different for every table. They all involved a royal blue frame, a grouping of books, flowers and usually some sort of glassware. We used white table cloths which we were able to get from a linen company for free (family owned). We were able to borrow silver overlays for the tables and silver chair ties from a friend of the family.<br />
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The flowers were mostly purchased from the Dollar Tree (to be honest, I couldn't find peach flowers any where else in St. George). I bought all of the frames at yard sales for $1 at the most. The spray paint was the expensive part, but I only think I used 3 cans for everything I painted. I bought most of my books for 50 cents or less from thrift stores and yard sales.<br />
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I had a lot of glassware, milk glass, candle sticks, etc. I used what I had and bought anything I liked at yard sales and thrift stores. I also borrowed a few things. I bought peach and royal ribbon at the Joann or Michaels. We used silver and blue mints on several of the tables as well. <br />
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I found small peach flowers on clearance at Tai pan and was able to get foam balls at the dollar store to make peach balls for the glass dishes. I lucked out and found 16 small frames at a yard sale for $2. I painted them silver.</div>
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In the entry to the gym, we had the guest book table. I actually got the table for $5 at a yard sale and found the silver paint on clearance at Home Depot for $2.50.... score! On top of the table, I made a paper table runner. I taped book pages together on the back side. Then I used <a href="http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/martha-stewart-crafts-doily-lace-edge-punch-114728/">this</a> lace Martha Stewart punch to punch a lace trim all along the edge of the book pages. The items on the table, were picked by the bride and groom. They wanted their favorite books and their Dr. Who cookie jar. They also wanted advice cards to go in the cookie jar. Their guest book was made by Jessie's cousin, Sally. I made the flower pens. </div>
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I made the advice cards and a sign to let people know they needed to write advice. They are a free download <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37365114/advice%20cards%204%20per%20page.pdf">here</a> and <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37365114/advice%20sign.jpg">here</a>.</div>
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Behind the table I made a "dates" chalk frame. The frame was something I had picked up at a yard sale and painted silver. The chalk board was from Home Depot... already painted with the chalk paint. All I had to do was have my hubby cut the wood to fit the frame. Then, I had to write on it in chalk.</div>
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Along the wall when guests walked in, I had a photo display. I hung white paper doilies with a photo in front of them. They were hung on silver twine with silver glitter clothes pins. I had the twine, bought a few doilies and found the glitter clothes pins on clearance at Joann. I also made a banner that said "Once Upon a Time" out of the same Harry Potter book I used for Brenner's Harry Potter Birthday party (Jessie and Adam both love Harry Potter). I had lace for the banner, and the book. I only had to buy the scrapbook paper to cut out the letters.. and even some of that I had already. <br />
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The dresser itself was one I have in my dining room. I already had most of the silver frames at home, or I picked them up from yard sales. My sweet hubby cut out the book letters for me. I had a scrap of chalk board left from the "dates" sign and I happened to have a frame that it fit in, so I used that to make a sign with their last name.<br />
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We made a very simple backdrop for the happy couple. During the luncheon, the couple and their parents sat at these tables. During the reception, we took the tables down and the couple stood in front of the back drop. The backdrop is just music pages taped to the wall. I made the peach swag out of scraps of satin, ribbon, tulle, etc. They are just looped over the ribbon. Then I made the other banners by folding the doilies over the twine and sticking them together with a glue dot. Some have a flower attached too.<br />
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My hubby also cut out these book letters. The vase behind the ampersand was to hold her bouquet. There is also another paper table runner on this table.<br />
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The other side of the gym was the serving table. I used books stacked up with trays and platters on them. I also put any other decor I items I had left over that we didn't use on the table. The banner above the food table said "Happily Ever After"... food brings happiness, right? And there was nothing I could really do about the ugly blue curtain on the stage.</div>
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The photo booth was very similar to the couples backdrop... without the peach swag. We used dictionary pages taped to the wall. And we hung a frame from the basketball hoop above with twine.</div>
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Next to the booth was a little dresser with the photo booth props in a vase and a sign I made in photoshop.<br />
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We used a hashtag so that we could easily search pictures people posted on social media.<br />
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And here I am with all of my girl cousins on the Williams side of the family.</div>
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Now... let's talk about organizing! I am a school teacher. Jessie got engaged at the beginning of the summer and her wedding was at the end, so it gave me the summer to work on the wedding. However, she got married the Saturday before school started. So, not only did I have to decorate for a wedding reception, but I had to set up a brand new classroom... super stressful week. I knew this would be stressful and that I would probably have to rely on other people to do the actual set up. I had to be super organized. So, I (and my cousin Libby, the bride's sister) put all of the centerpiece groupings together ahead of time. We took pictures of each center piece, labeled the pix and packed them in a labeled box. </div>
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I also drew pictures of the gym with the layout of how I wanted to tables set up. Everything was in a binder with the supplies they needed to set up. While I was working all day Friday before the wedding, several people went to the church and had almost everything set up before I got off work.</div>
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Another great organizing tip, we actually not my idea. Jessie lives in Salt Lake and I live in St. George and the wedding was to be in St. George. So she set up a facebook group to plan the wedding. Every idea that I had, I could post on the facebook group so she could see pictures of it and tell me her opinion. That worked out really nice.</div>
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All in all, I think it turned out nice. Yes, there are things I would have done differently, but it was a nice wedding on a shoestring budget. I didn't completely add everything up, but I would say all of the decor came in under $150.... not that's amazing!</div>
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Also, I claim to have done everything, but my cousin Libby helped a lot and also my friend MinDee. Thanks you two!!!</div>
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Oh, and I want to thank my friend Brandy for the pix! She was the photographer for the wedding. The pix that look good in this blog post are from her... the crappy ones are from my cell phone... lol. I was too busy to get out my nice camera to take pix.</div>
Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-81618547568627039522014-09-16T20:43:00.003-07:002014-09-16T20:44:11.654-07:00Harry Potter Birthday Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
My 10 year old son just recently decided he liked Harry Potter. He made a goal to read all of the books before his 10th birthday party. He made his goal and we planned a Harry Potter birthday party for him.</div>
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As you walked to our house, I tried to have the porch set up like the train station.<br />
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I made a platform 9 3/4 sign for the door using my Silhouette.</div>
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I set out vintage suitcases, a white Hedwig owl in a bird cage and even a broom.<br />
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I decorated everywhere with as many candles as I could find as well.<br />
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When you walked in the front door, I had a banner hanging that said Hogwarts. I made the banner from an old Harry Potter book. I cut the letters out on my Silhouette using the <a href="http://www.dafont.com/harry-p.font">Harry P</a> font.</div>
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In my entry I have a little alcove. I made it into my Honeydukes candy store. <br />
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We had jars of all sorts of Harry Potter candy. I got the labels for the jars from <a href="http://www.twodelighted.com/2012/11/01/harry-potter-party-signage-free-printables/#.VBkBX2RdVhQ">Two Delighted</a>.<br />
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More candles, Harry Potter books and another owl.<br />
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I had empty treat bags so they could fill their own up.</div>
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Just inside the house was the sorting hat. I made the hat just by covering a witch's hat with brown fabric and hot glue. I made a sort of pocket inside to put a walkie talkie and had my hubby on the other side of the wall assign houses. I made the ties but just glueing felt stripes on felt ties. When they were sorted into the houses, they were given the appropriate tie. I got the tie pattern and tutorial on <a href="http://thebrilliantcraftytype.blogspot.com/2012/04/felt-hogwarts-ties-tutorial.html">The Brilliant Crafty Type</a>.<br />
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I bought cheap glasses on Amazon and every kid had their own pair of Harry Potter glasses.<br />
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I had a table mostly just for decor with more candles, a quidditch cup trophy filled with golden snitches and some fake Quibbler magazines. I got the free printable for the magazines on <a href="http://justsweetandsimple.blogspot.com/2012/12/harry-potter-daily-prophet-quibbler.html">Just Sweet and Simple</a>.<br />
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I set up a table that was Olivander's wand shop.<br />
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Brenner and I made wands for everyone out of wooden dowels, hot glue, seed beads and paint. I think the best tutorial I found was <a href="http://www.thank-you-for-eating.com/2013/10/halloween-diy-harry-potter-wands.html">here</a>.<br />
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I copied a book of spells and made covers and book marks out of felt and ribbon. I got the potions book printable on <a href="http://zitzmanfam.blogspot.com/2012/02/harry-potter-spell-and-creature-books.html">Just Another Day in Paradise</a>.<br />
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Outside on the back patio I set up the potions class. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3r31yBNswQ3HYLd6oGt4mvs6OtWAtVXDSInfhpECsGpWZhyphenhyphenO5RbvL_NMH9ijkhTxV0BUMeVaC-UvqSgBKqPF7Sxs0nla-vmg_dl_1tiDR7wz6hOSkJqFCwT7SNhijqnpu0vrglAngOQ4/s1600/IMG_5158.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3r31yBNswQ3HYLd6oGt4mvs6OtWAtVXDSInfhpECsGpWZhyphenhyphenO5RbvL_NMH9ijkhTxV0BUMeVaC-UvqSgBKqPF7Sxs0nla-vmg_dl_1tiDR7wz6hOSkJqFCwT7SNhijqnpu0vrglAngOQ4/s1600/IMG_5158.jpg" height="266" width="400" /></a></div>
Brenner insisted that everything had to be edible. So we got different liquids... juices and sodas. then we had different stuff to go in them like pop rocks, kool-aid powder, etc. We got our potions class idea from <a href="http://puddlewonderfullearning.blogspot.com/2013/08/harry-potter-party-potions-class.html">Puddle Wonderful Learning</a>.<br />
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I made a potions book with the recipes inside.<br />
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I had recently been cleaning up our science lab and came across some awesome old bottles. I filled them with colored water and just had them sitting out for display.<br />
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I think this was the kids' favorite part of the whole party.<br />
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After potions class, we played a game of Quidditch. My hubby and I made the hoops out of pvc pipe and small hula hoops from the dollar store. We pounded rebar into the ground then just put the pvc pipe over the rebar.<br />
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The team that won got to share the Quiddich cup and the "golden snitches (truffles)" inside.<br />
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Brenner's cake was a snitch cake. The cake idea came from <a href="http://www.homestoriesatoz.com/party-ideas/harry-potter-birthday.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+thestoriesofa2z/Visw+(Home+Stories+A+to+Z)">Home Stories A to Z</a>.</div>
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I had to have more cute owls in cages:)<br />
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I set up the table with tons of candles. We closed all of the blinds and made it as dark as we could in the house.<br />
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Brenner loved his party. He planned everything and helped me make most everything too.</div>
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Just thought I would finally post pictures from our blue and gold banquet. We decided to have a carnival theme. Mostly because we thought serving hot dogs would be easy!</div>
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On the back wall of the gym we wanted to set up a display for the boys to show off what they have done in scouts the past year.</div>
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I took pictures of the boys dressed like clowns the weeks previous and printed them to hang on the wall. I also had fans that I had used for previous occasions that I was just able to add cute centers to from <a href="http://catchmyparty.com/blog/free-circus-birthday-party-printables-from-printabelle">Catch My Party</a>.<br />
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Love that I got to hang them with mustache washi tape.<br />
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I made these pinwheel centerpieces a few years ago for the blue and gold banquet. Then I have just been able to add to them for whatever theme we have. This year I made some red/white stripe to go with them and cut out some mustaches on my Silhouette. We also had popcorn, animal crackers and peanuts and mints for table scatter.<br />
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I had made this "concessions" sign for a <a href="http://larciebird.blogspot.com/2011/07/scholes-circus.html">family reunion a few years ago</a>. It still worked out nicely. We also had a sign that said "Pack 407" at the entrance to the gym (didn't get a pic).<br />
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We served hot dogs and chips... easy peasy.<br />
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We had each den come up with a game that would help the boys with one of their achievements or electives.<br />
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Our wolves came up with a ring toss and a ball toss in cans.</div>
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The bears did a bean bag toss... the boys even painted the lion themselves.<br />
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And I used my mustache washi tape to mark off on the floor where they could throw from.</div>
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The Webelos den had a photo booth... My amazing Webelos leader had a lot of props and the kids and adults had a blast posing for the camera.</div>
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And to finish the night, we had cotton candy!<br />
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The boys and families had a good time!</div>
<br />Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-9796980259813117892014-05-24T13:50:00.001-07:002014-05-24T13:50:59.678-07:00Grad Gift with Free Printable {Pizza Dough}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I am always looking for a creative idea for Grad gifts... I'm at that age where a lot of my nieces and nephews are graduating from high school. Last year I did <a href="http://larciebird.blogspot.com/2013/08/graduationsummer-gift-ideas.html">this</a>... and the year before I did <a href="http://larciebird.blogspot.com/2012/05/graduation-gift.html">this</a>...</div>
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This year I came across <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/150096600055842951/">this</a> link on Pinterest. The link just goes to a jpeg... and it's a Christmas gift, but I took the idea and ran with it.</div>
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I went to my local pizza store and asked for a box... the girl didn't want to give it to me, but finally did. I turned the pizza box inside out because I really just wanted the outside to be the neutral tan color. <br />
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I made this free printable... (link <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/k7cafjmr4xki182/Pizza%20box%20cover.pdf">here</a>). I just found free clipart online and added text in photoshop.<br />
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When you open the box, you find pizza "dough" made out of dollar bills (I'm cheap) and pepperoni that is quarters. I folded the bills into triangles to make it look more like pizza. Then just rolled up scotch tape and taped it to the box.</div>
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On the inside of the lid, we glued a yellow paper to cover the box top and wrote our message on it.<br />
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That's it... easy peasy... except maybe folding the bills.</div>
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We have a Casita (as they are called in St. George... means "little house" in Spanish) attached to our house. It's like a mother-in-law appt. It is a bedroom with it's own bathroom and closet. It shares a wall with the rest of the house, but has it's own outside entrance. When we moved into this house, we couldn't quite decide what to do with it. At first, we thought it could be a play room for the boys... they would have all of their toys, video games, etc. out there. Then, we just decided to make it an office/craft room. My husband is a full time student and he also works from home occasionally, so we figured he needed a somewhat quite place to work.</div>
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About 90% of the space is mine.... and 10% his... but he spends 9x as much time in there as I do. My hobbies just take up way too much space.</div>
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This is the view when you walk in the room. </div>
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The large printer belongs to my husband, but I use it a lot for posters for primary and other craft projects. I love maps and found this fun colorful map at a garage sale to hang above it.</div>
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This desk was a desk that we bought at Target years ago... at least 10 years ago. I custom made the crates to go on the desk. They all hold fabric. This is the table that I use to cut out fabric and do my ironing and such.<br />
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These bookshelves were purchased from Robert's crafts... back when they existed. <br />
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Over the desk hangs a vintage umbrella that was my grandma's. The original trim was white but very dirty, so I took it off and replaced it with a colored ruffly ribbon. It just hangs there because I life it... no other reason. It has a couple of tissue paper pompom clouds in it just because I have no where else to store them.<br />
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I bought these lovely canisters at a yard sale... they are super cute! I didn't want to ruin them by putting labels on them. They hold things like zippers...<br />
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I believe this small dresser is from Ikea but I bought it at a yard sale. I painted it and modpodged paper on to it. It holds staples, punches, etc.<br />
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I love these tins that my dad salved from his work years ago. My mom gave them to me several years ago to store craft stuff in.<br />
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I love my cute tool box that I picked up at a yard sale. The sewing box and thread holder were from Joann. <br />
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And the vintage jars were from a yard sale. Cute place to store extra thread and buttons.<br />
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These cute bins are from pottery barn... but I bought them at a yard sale. They old all of my felt.<br />
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And these boxes I covered with fabric.<br />
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This is the view of the other side of the room. It is mostly my sewing table and my scrapbooking table.<br />
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This cabinet holds my new Silhouette Cameo that I absolutely love. Inside are just random craft supplies... love that I don't have to take up all the space in the cupboard to store cartridges.<br />
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The desk was made with cubes that I bought from Robert's Crafts years ago. We just painted a piece of wood and sat it on top. The middle part as a shelf from a yard sale...<br />
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...and a cute vintage hamper from a yard sale that I use to store my wrapping paper.<br />
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I love this shelf that I found at a yard sale. The bins of buttons and such are spice jars from ikea. The tin buckets are from Target's dollar spot as well as the cardboard boxes on the bottom shelf.<br />
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I found these files at a yard sale and I love them for storing letters and die cut stickers.<br />
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I love this lamp. It provides a lot of light since I took the fabric off the shade!<br />
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I made this ribbon/twine holder from an old drawer. My husband drilled holes through the sides and I just put wooden dowels in to hold the ribbon.<br />
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Here's the side view... I even left the handles on the drawer.<br />
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On the desk are my pin cushions and dishes of buttons.<br />
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On top of the ribbon holder is my most recent purchase from a yard sale. I believe it was supposed to be a plate rack. I had my hubby take it apart and put the two strips of wood closer together and I varied the length of the dowels to fit the color I needed.<br />
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Last, but not least, is the hubby's side of the office. It's black, more manly, and more messy...maybe I should clean it up and decorate it for him?<br />
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I hope this gave you some crafty inspiration. I was just glad to finally get it cleaned up enough that I can now start scrapbooking!!!Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-47915598744735870912014-02-21T13:39:00.003-08:002014-02-21T13:39:28.720-08:00Families are Forever {Primary Bulletin Board}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I thought I would share the bulletin board that I made for our primary. </div>
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The theme this year is Families are Forever. Our goal as a primary was to include the family in our primary more. One of the things that we have done is to have a family spotlight every week. Each family in the ward brings their whole family into primary (YW/YM, parents, etc.) They introduce themselves, tell something about their family and tell a spiritual experience they have had as a family.</div>
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To go along with this theme I made a bulletin board in the hallway that has pictures of the family.</div>
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I love taking a scrapbook layout and making it into a bulletin board. I took my idea from <a href="http://americancrafts.typepad.com/studio/2012/09/spotlight-paige-evans.html">this layout</a> on <a href="http://americancrafts.typepad.com/studio/">American Crafts Studio</a>.</div>
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The <a href="http://courtneyaitken.blogspot.com/2013/10/i-have-finished-creating-coordinating.html">printable in the top corner</a> is from <a href="http://courtneyaitken.blogspot.com/">All Things Bright and Beautiful</a>. </div>
<br />Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-7017376205585013182014-02-17T06:15:00.000-08:002014-02-17T06:15:41.677-08:00Gallery Wall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love gallery walls. I love being able to display new and old family photos. I love finding unique frames at yard sales. So, a gallery wall is a perfect fit for me. My husband calls it the "wall of weird." I can't figure out if it's because the frame arrangement is weird or the people in the frames are weird.... or both... lol.</div>
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I'm not the kind of person that likes to plan these things out. I don't want to take the time to lay them all out on the floor first... or put paper up on the wall first. I just take a frame and get started. I started with the oval mirror. I wanted it to be at my height so I could use it. We have a large window in our bedroom and this mirror gets great natural light.<br />
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Then I just started adding frames from there. I tried to vary the colors and shapes.<br />
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I wanted the largest frame to have our most recent family photo... we need a new one:)<br />
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I'm just in love with this frame from a yard sale. I painted the mat blue to match the decor of the room.<br />
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I also love these adorable frames I got from <a href="http://pickyourplum.com/">Pick Your Plum</a>. This frame I mod podged scrapbook paper onto. I think the paper is <a href="http://store.scrapbook.com/sei-1-0216.html">SEI</a>.<br />
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I'm not a designer but I did learn a few things in scrapbook classes over the years. One of them was to create a Visual Triangle. Creating a visual triangle just means that you repeat and element 3 times sporadically throughout the page. I tried to do that with my gallery wall. I didn't want to use a lot of black, but since my furniture is black, I wanted to make sure I had black frames. I created a visual triangle with the black.</div>
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I also created a visual triangle with the blue.<br />
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Some aspects of my gallery wall only come in pairs and some only come as one. And that's ok. I didn't want it to be all matchy matchy. Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-73772722722710545132014-02-11T19:12:00.001-08:002014-02-11T19:15:58.465-08:00Look up! Stake Relief Society Women's Conference {hot air balloon theme}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This past weekend I had the opportunity to decorate for our Stake Women's Conference. I was told that the theme was "Look Up" and that I needed to decorate for 28 tables. </div>
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When people walked into the building, I had a display table in the doorway with clouds hanging above it, a hot air balloon on the table...</div>
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and <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/178584948/dream-big-nursery-print-hot-air-balloon?ref=sr_gallery_10&ga_search_query=hot+air+balloon+printable&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all">this printable</a> that I bought from Paper Canoe Printables on Etsy. </div>
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I changed the colors of the printable to match the color scheme I had picked out for the conference and I changed the text on the picture.</div>
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When you walked into the gym and "looked up" you saw over 100 tissue paper pompom clouds hanging from the ceiling.... actually, they weren't hanging from the ceiling. The ceilings in our church are really high. In order to hang them, I had to string fishing line across the gym from the ledge. Then, we hung the clouds from the fishing line. The pompoms were made using a tutorial similar to <a href="http://www.thebusybudgetingmama.com/2010/08/diy-tissue-pom-poms.html">this one</a>.</div>
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In the center of each table was a hot air balloon.</div>
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To make these, I started with strawberry baskets from <a href="http://www.orchardvalleysupply.com/">Orchard Valley Supply Co</a>. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(no specific reason why I bought them from there... they were cheap and I didn't have to order more than 50. However, the shipping cost more than the baskets and I wasn't thrilled with that.) </span>I hot glued 18" wooden dowels in the corners of the basket. Then I tied baker's twine from <a href="http://pickyourplum.com/">Pick Your Plum</a> to the top of the wooden dowels. The first row of twine was tight to hold the lantern in place. The 2nd and 3rd rows were draping. Then I embellished with ribbon, paper flowers, etc. I also put some sort of trim around the basket. My amazing mother in law made the flower arrangements in the baskets (all flowers were purchased from The Dollar Tree). To top them off, we put 12" paper lanterns from the <a href="http://www.paperlanternstore.com/">Paper Lantern Store</a>. I did not glue the lanterns on so that they would come apart easily for storage.</div>
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This is what the tables looked like all set.</div>
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Here are a couple of pictures of the overall look of the gym.</div>
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I couldn't not have a banner... I just have to have banners. So, we put a corkboard behind the podium to attach the banner to.<br />
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And here is a close-up view of the simple banner I made using my Silhouette Cameo.</div>
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This was a big project... but a lot of fun. I had some awesome friends that helped me. My mother-in-law was the biggest help! And she is super talented!!!</div>
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I realized that I never posted the Pinewood Derby last year, so I thought I would post a little of both years.</div>
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We basically used a checkerboard theme for our derby. We were able to find a few things at the dollar store and the rest of the stuff I made.</div>
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We hung a few flags on the doors coming into the gym. These larger flags were found at the dollar store.</div>
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Around the track, we set up a barricade. We didn't want the kids getting near the track. We got small cones. We actually taped them to the ground. Then, we taped the flags all along the track. To make them, I just found a checkerboard clipart and made b/w copies on cardstock.</div>
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For centerpieces, I made a few fans/pinwheels. I had made the blue and gold ones for a blue/gold banquet a few years ago... they come in really handy for all cub scout functions. For the pinewood derby, I added a checkerboard one.<br />
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We used a few of them on the food table along with the larger banner from the dollar store.</div>
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I made these trophies last year. I spray-painted a car gold, silver and bronze. I painted a 2x4 block blue. The plaque in the front I just made in photoshop. I got it laminated and nailed it on there with small nails to make it look more like a real trophy plaque.<br />
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I put our pack # and the year on the trophy.<br />
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I had a good time making signs and awards. These are all items I made last year. I made a wide variety of awards so that every boy could get one. (I am so sorry, but I can not find my list of awards... there were some really creative ones.)<br />
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I did not get pictures of these, but we had a weigh-in table. This table had a scale, graphite, tools to fix cars, etc. The boys checked in their cars...<br />
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...Then the placed them on the checked-in table. On this table, I had black paper plates to put their cars on.<br />
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I also had a name card for the boys to write the name of their car.</div>
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We had all the boys and family members vote for "best of show" at this table.<br />
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Then, the races began....<br />
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I hope you find some of this stuff helpful. Everything I made was in Photoshop Elements, please feel free to email me if you would like any of the files. anisascholes at gmail dot com<br />
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Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-51229131268358318192014-01-26T06:06:00.000-08:002014-01-26T06:06:36.274-08:00Rustic Jewelry Organizer {repurposed vintage garden rake}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I've started wearing jewelry lately... shocking for me, I know. I don't do it often, but I do like to try to get dressed up occasionally. School teachers are supposed to dress up to go to work, right? But I like jeans... so, I figure if I wear a nice necklace, it will look like I tried.</div>
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Several months ago, I was asked by my ward Relief Society to teach a class on DIY organization projects. I had a few ideas of my own, but I wanted to find more ideas on Pinterest. I came across <a href="http://www.sortrature.com/amazing-diy-crafts-ideas-2/">this gem</a> ... not sure the original source. </div>
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I Loved the idea... but wasn't sure if I had room to hang it in my kitchen any where near where my stove was.... it seemed silly to hang it way across the kitchen and have to go fetch a spatula to cook. </div>
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Then it dawned on me... it could hold my necklaces in the bathroom! So, I went to my dad and asked for an old rake. He brought me home the perfect rake from the ranch that my mom had used to tidy up the dirt:)</div>
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Normally, I would probably spray paint it turquoise. However, in my bathroom, I am going for a more rustic look... I have an old window with peeling paint, so this rusty rake goes with it perfect!<br />
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Oh, and notice, the necklaces are hanging in rainbow order... need orange:)<br />
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Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-77178635921009152822014-01-13T18:25:00.003-08:002021-04-28T07:24:02.336-07:00Cub Scout Promise {Free Printable}My second son just turned 8. It's time to start working on the Cub Scout Promise with him so that he can earn his Bobcat. (Now, my understanding is that the Cub Scout program is going to do away with the Cub Scout Promise and just have the boys learn the Boy Scout Promise. However, my understanding is that will not take effect until 2015). So, until then, I am going to have him memorize the Cub Scout Promise. In order to do that, I wanted a printable that I could hang on my fridge. That means you get it too!<br />
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You can download it <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/9x8zjmsie1rresl/cub%20scout%20promise%20blank.jpg?dl=0">here</a>. You may notice there is a blank spot at the top. That is where you will write your son's name. I think it would be really cute to have him write it in his own handwriting.Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-32328842146359306982014-01-08T07:44:00.001-08:002014-01-08T07:45:12.421-08:00Neon Laser Tag {Birthday Party}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
My crazy little wild child turned 8! He is my most spirited child... always wants to play... always wants to be outside. He loves color and he really wanted a laser tag party. So I decided to do a Neon Target theme for his party.</div>
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The invitations were designed in Photoshop Elements. I found a target png online and used that for everything.</div>
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We began the party by handing out glow bracelets and necklaces to all of the kids. Then, we loaded them in the car and had my hubby take them to Laser Mania (Our local laser tag place).</div>
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While they were gone, I had time to get the house all cleaned up, decorated and ready for the rest of the party.</div>
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They came home to a house that looked like this...</div>
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I bought a black light at Home Depot and made all of the decorations out of neon paper. I also bought balloons at Walmart that had LED lights in them.<br />
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This is what it looked like with the lights on. The center of the banner was designed in Photoshop Elements and then printed at Costco photo. I then cut two layers of neon circles for the outside and strung it up with neon ribbon. I had jars of glow sticks on the dresser along with the cake and the party favors.<br />
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I also made this cute target centerpiece. The pinwheels are easy to make. You just accordion fold the paper and hook it to itself. Then you glue a circle in the center to hold it all together. My hubby had just given me a Silhouette Cameo for Christmas, so I got to use that to cut out the targets in the middle.</div>
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I made a pizza shaped like a target for dinner.</div>
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And after dinner, they had cake...</div>
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and the birthday boy got to blow out his candles...</div>
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Here's a cheesy picture with the cake...</div>
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After cake and ice cream, he opened presents... and I sent the kids home with party favors...</div>
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Inside the favor boxes were neon gummy worms, a neon slinky and...</div>
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neon target charms that I made from <a href="http://fizzypops.com/">Fizzy Pops</a>. The kit includes the bottle cap charms and the clear bubble stickers that you put over the top. I designed the targets and got them printed on photo paper at Costco.</div>
<br />Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-77231811767683889662014-01-04T18:11:00.001-08:002014-01-04T18:11:06.557-08:00I Like to Look for Rainbows {LDS Baptism}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This little snarky kid got baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today. He's the middle child... of 3 boys... this kid gives me a run for my money. And I love him to death. I am so proud of him for making the decision to be baptized.</div>
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Our primary has been singing the song "When I am Baptized" for the last few years. It is my children's favorite song. The lyrics to the first verse of the song are in my free printable below. It talks about looking for rainbows after the rain and the concept of being clean again. I love the idea of a rainbow party and didn't think I'd ever be able to do one because I have 3 boys. But this boy loves color (he has bright purple shoes)(and had a neon birthday party) so he loved the idea of a rainbow themed baptism luncheon... and yes, my boys love my themed parties. <br />
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Here is his invitation. I created it in Photoshop Elements. And I made it colorful.</div>
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The invitation said the baptism luncheon would be at our home. I realized there would be around 40 people and decided that was too many for my little home. So we decided to have it in the primary room of our church. </div>
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I set up the tables with white table cloths with a 36" square of a color fabric in the middle. in the middle of the fabric was a piece of scrapbook paper with rainbows printed on it. </div>
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For centerpieces I used glass jars and vases that I had around my house. I added ribbon, washi tape and baker's twine to embellish the jars. I would have liked real flowers, but I couldn't find any of the right colors at Costco and I didn't want to spend a fortune. I had a table for each color of the rainbow. </div>
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To decorate the serving table I hung streamers in rainbow order over the chalk board. I hung one tissue paper "cloud" with raindrops. I would have liked to have more of those, but there really wasn't any where to hang them. </div>
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I also laid streamers along the middle of the table. <br />
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I got super cute colorful polka dot napkins at Walmart and forks in every color.<br />
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I found this huge cylinder glass bowl at our local Deseret Industries for $2. I just had to use it! I layered fruit in rainbow order... I love that I was excited about my cheap $2 bowl, but spent almost $30 filling the bowl with fruit.<br />
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And you gotta love my leaning rainbow cake...<br />
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Off to the side, I had a table with some printables. </div>
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The small printable is a <a href="http://www.oopseydaisyblog.com/2012/02/baptism-subway-art-printable.html">free download</a> that you can customize in Photoshop from Oopsey Daisy. I customized it and also changed the colors to be rainbow.<br />
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The middle printable is a <a href="http://www.ldsprintables.com/2013/09/i-like-to-look-for-rainbows.html">free printable</a> from LDS Printables. I LOVE it... I love the way it looks. But I also wanted a poster with the full lyrics to the song.</div>
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The large printable was made by yours truly:) If you would like to download it, you can get it <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37365114/Rainbows%20Primary%20Song%208x10.jpg">here</a>.Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-38681408632806007932013-12-30T20:19:00.002-08:002013-12-30T20:19:45.414-08:0040 blows {40th birthday party}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My hubby is 40... over the hill! I thought I would post what we did for his 40th birthday party. His birthday was 3 days before Christmas... and a Sunday... and right when we already had other couple's parties to go to. So, I opted to have a little party after Sunday dinner at his mom's house.</div>
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I got my inspiration from <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/150096600052946201/">this picture I found on pinterest</a>. The link didn't really take me anywhere.</div>
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I went with the idea... and tried to make it a little more manly.</div>
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We gave his family members a little bag of bubble gum with the invitation as the treat topper.</div>
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The back side had the date, time and place.<br />
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I sat up a little treat table when you walked in his mom's house.</div>
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I had jars of bubble gum, <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">blow</span> pops and party <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">blowers</span>.<br />
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I made cupcakes with gumballs on top.</div>
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I made a larger cupcake for him with 40 candles on it.</div>
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(The platter is a cheeseball dish that I glued onto a wooden candle stick and painted. It has a glass lid, but it wouldn't fit on with the candles)</div>
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The treat bags with <a href="http://pickyourplum.com/">Pick Your Plum</a> treat bags. I put gum and suckers in them. And stapled cute <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">"40 blows"</span> tags on them.<br />
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I made a banner with pictures of my hubby from the time he was a baby. I hung it in the window with a banner that said <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">"40 Blows"</span> and some balloons.<br />
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Our first game, the contestants had to <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">blow</span> 3 balls across the counter into the cup. Whoever got their balls into their own cups first, won. For prizes, I had mini gumball machines.<br />
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The second game was to see who could fit the most pieces of gum in their mouth and still <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">blow</span> a bubble.<br />
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The 3rd game, the kids had to <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">blow</span> up two balloons and see who could keep them both in the air the longest.<br />
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After the games, we had cake and ice cream and had the hubby <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">blow</span> out all 40 candles!<br />
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Happy 40th birthday hubby! I'm sure 40 won't really <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">blow</span>:)</div>
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It's that time of year again! </div>
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I just thought I'd post what our little elf was up to last year... to give you ideas for this year... if you need more ideas. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Most of the ideas came from various sites I have come across on Pinterest. I'm truly sorry for not linking to you if the idea was uniquely yours... it was just too hard to keep track of where I got the ideas.</span></div>
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On another side note, the app that I used to create this calendar is called Photo365. It's great for advent calendar stuff like this. The app that I used to create the titles is called Labelbox.... love it too!<br />
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Oh, and also, I didn't want to buy the book, so I found this little plush elf on Amazon. He's a little different than the one that everyone else has... but we like him:)<br />
<br />Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-37316048320918881522013-11-25T09:17:00.001-08:002013-11-25T09:18:11.226-08:00Priesthood Preview<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
My calling in my church (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) is in the Primary. I work with the kids from age 3-12. At the end of the year, we are asked to hold a special night for the boys who will be turning 12. It is called the Priesthood Preview. The boys listened to talks about the importance of the priesthood. We had a musical number and then had refreshments.</div>
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I had seen ideas (and talked to people) about doing a "tie" theme. So, I found an <a href="http://littlebirdiesecrets.blogspot.com/2009/06/last-minute-fathers-day-shirt-and-tie.html">idea on Little Birdie Secrets</a> for a shirt and tie invitation. </div>
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Then I got to work on the decor. I wanted to make a tie banner. I was debating on making it out of paper ties. But, when I got on Pinterest and did a little searching, I came across <a href="http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/christmas-ideas/christmas-wreath-projects#slide-2">this tie wreath</a>... and I had to make it! I asked friends for ties and got WAY more than I needed. </div>
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To make the wreath, I simply cut a circle out of a cardboard box... I'm cheap. Then, I cut the tied and hot-glued them around the wreath (overlapping slightly). I tied one tie in a boy and glued it on. Then glued a string on the back to hang it. </div>
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To make the banner, I used the left over tied and cut them in half. I cut the cut off tie back into a point and hot-glued the layers together. Then, I folded over the top half and sewed it so that I could easily slip the ties onto a ribbon.</div>
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We thought it would be a great idea to just serve donuts and hot chocolate for refreshments. I wanted the Oath and Covenant of the priesthood displayed but couldn't find a poster. So, I wrote it on the chalk board!</div>
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I also had some left-over Halloween candy that I put in glass jars... with a small child's tie around one of the jars.<br />
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We have a great group of boys!!!</div>
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<br />Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-28905018945201522582013-10-08T08:57:00.000-07:002013-10-08T08:57:02.673-07:00Star Wars {Birthday Party}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
My baby turned 5 (wow, I'm old) and for his birthday, he wanted a Star Wars party.</div>
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I found some great <a href="http://www.allthingswithpurpose.com/2013/06/lego-star-wars-party-free-printables.html?m=1">printables</a> online from <a href="http://www.allthingswithpurpose.com/?m=1">All Things with Purpose</a>. The first was a set of signs. I put balloons on my front porch with the sign that said "Happy Galactic Birthday."</div>
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When the guests entered the house, they went to the kitchen table where they colored their <a href="http://libbiegrove.blogspot.com/2012/04/free-printable-star-wars-party.html">Padawan training badge</a> that I got from <a href="http://libbiegrove.blogspot.com/">Libbie Grove Design</a>.</div>
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After they got their badge, they were able to put on their Jedi Tunic. I bought an old sheet from a thrift store. I cut it into strips that were about 18"x36". I hemmed the edges and cut a hole for the head. They tied their tunic on with a strip of brown fleece.</div>
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I had seen numerous ideas on Pinterest for pool noodle light sabers, so I showed them to my husband and told him to make them:) I figure anything involving tape is his area of expertise.</div>
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Then the boys headed through the back door for their Jedi Training.</div>
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My older sons and Princess Leia (myself) trained the boys... we used balloons and played games like... not letting the balloon touch the ground... we even tried sticking the helium balloons in the grass with golf tees, but the boys were too abusive and hit them so hard that they pulled out of the grass and flew away.</div>
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After they were trained, Darth Vader....</div>
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.... and Darth Maul came out to fight the Jedis. (we tried to copy the Jedi Training at Disneyland).</div>
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After training, the Jedis were hungry and thirsty, so they came back into the house where I had the party set up.</div>
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I made the banner myself and just found a free Jedi font online.</div>
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I decorated the table with the food, some light sabers and an R2D2 popcorn bucket we had bought at Disneyland.</div>
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The cake was quite simple. I got the idea from <a href="http://cakecentral.com/b/top-star-wars-cakes">Cake Central</a>. I tried to pick an easy one. I baked a 9x13 rectangle cake. I frosted it with brown frosting.... I used the tip that has several small holes and just piped the fur on... I didn't care if it looked all perfect. I used two different colors for the fur and a darker brown for the mustache. I made the eyes, nose and teeth out of fondant (I keep small amounts of different colors of fondant in my freezer for things like this).</div>
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The plates were from Walmart. The straws were from <a href="http://www.pickyourplum.com/">Pick Your Plum</a>.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.cleanandscentsible.com/2012/05/star-wars-party-food.html">water bottle labels</a> were a free printable from <a href="http://www.cleanandscentsible.com/">Clean and Scentsible</a>.</div>
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The <a href="http://catchmyparty.com/blog/diy-tutorial-how-to-make-lightsaber-napkin-wraps-for-your-star-wars-party">napkins holders</a> were a free printable from <a href="http://catchmyparty.com/">Catch My Party</a>.</div>
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I got the idea for the "<a href="http://www.craftinterrupted.com/2013/04/star-wars-party-favors.html">Wookie Cookies</a>" from <a href="http://www.craftinterrupted.com/">Craft, Interrupted</a>.</div>
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Down the center of the table where the Jedis ate, I put my son's plastic Star Wars figures along with yellow sparkle stars I had cut out with a star punch.</div>
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I put my hubby in charge of the piñata. He did a great job. I showed him the <a href="http://www.thethriftress.com/2011/02/star-wars-5th-birthday-party.html">idea I had pinned from the Thriftress</a>.... but then he searched some more and put together several ideas.</div>
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The party favor bags were printed on white lunch bags. I took the <a href="http://libbiegrove.blogspot.com/2012/04/free-printable-star-wars-party.html">Jedi Knight certificate</a> from Libby Grove Designs and edited it in Photoshop to say "Thank you for Coming to my Party." The kids put their wookie cookie in the bag along with their candy from the Piñata. </div>
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I love the leaders we have in cub scouts! They are awesome! I am in the Primary Presidency in my ward. I am the person who oversees the cub scouting program. I have a son in cub scouts and I want it to be fun! So, last night, my cubmaster and assistant cubmaster came up with a jungle theme for our pack meeting. We had a lot of awards to give out... including 2 arrow of light awards.</div>
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So, we (my friend Haley and I) started by decorating the room to look like a jungle. We took rolls of craft wrapping paper from the dollar store and cut them into 3rds. Then we took the long strips and rolled them up to make the vines. We cut leaves out of construction paper and hot glued them to the vines.<br />
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Haley did a great job of accessorizing everything with the vines and adding jungle stuffed animals.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">We had a cheesy skit from a safari powwow book that we had in our cub scout stuff. The skit had us going through the jungle and finding bobcats, wolves, bears, webelos, etc. At each stop, the awards were given out.</span><br />
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After the awards, I had the kids (cub scouts and siblings) make binoculars and go on a treasure hunt. I had painted toilet paper tubes black and hot glued them together. The kids got to choose their duck tape color and tape the ribbon to their binoculars.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"> Their clues took them to a room by the kitchen where my amazing Webelos leader, Jenifer, had an a cute table of safari food set up.</span></div>
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And she had cute bags of animal crackers with labels on them!</div>
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It turned out so cute. The kids had a good time and it was short and sweet:)</div>
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I have to preface this by saying that my mother in law is one of the classiest people I know. She's all about glitz and glamour. I started trying to have a <a href="http://larciebird.blogspot.com/2011/07/scholes-circus.html">theme for our family reunion</a> a few years ago. Some of the family gets into it and some don't. This year we were sitting around and talking about it. One of my brother's in law suggested a White Trash Party... the thought of it was just too funny... It upset my mother in law so much that we had to do it.</div>
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We started by simply making the invitations on Trash. I saved and cut up boxes and just hand wrote the info on the back.</div>
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For decor, I strung a clothes line with thermals and panty hose and such. I borrowed pink flamingos from a friend and stuck those in the ground. Pretty simple. We stayed in small cabins, but some of the kids put up tents to sleep in.</div>
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We bought a new toilet seat and used it as a picture frame with a picture of my in-laws inside. That got tons of laughs from people.</div>
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For centerpieces, I saved bottles... mostly root beer and teryaki sauce and such... but I found a beer bottle so I used that too. I cut flowers out of the boxes and stuck them on wooden skewers and put a button in the center.<br />
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For pictures, I bought a white table cloth and drew lines for a mug shot background.<br />
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My brother and sister in law got into the theme and bought awesome clothes at the DI! My brother in law even cut his hair!<br />
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And last, but not least, we had to have boob cupcakes!</div>
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We always have a good time at our family reunions... even if it rained on us almost the whole time. But, seeing my mother in law's expression to all of my white trash decor (and especially the boob cupcakes) was priceless!<br />
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This summer was a difficult one for me. My beautiful, sweet, caring mom passed away. She had fought a 5 year battle with cancer... and her body couldn't fight it any more. I miss her greatly. She taught me everything I know about crafting, cooking, being a mom... and things I should have learned from her... already kicking myself for not having her teach me how to thread her serger!</div>
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I am her only daughter. So, it was my responsibility to do all the "crafty" stuff for the funeral. I set this display up outside the relief society room where we had the viewing. I had found the desk at a yard sale for $2 about a week before the funeral. I painted it turquoise (her favorite color)... my mom was trendy when she didn't know she was! On the table we sat things that only her close friends and family would probably know about her.</div>
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She loved:</div>
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canning</div>
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genealogy</div>
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her collection of green dishes</div>
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"fake" coke</div>
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counting and naming cows at the ranch</div>
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romance novels</div>
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doris day movies</div>
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mints</div>
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she was born on flag day</div>
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Next to the table was my dress form with her favorite shirt... it was her "shopping" shirt. My mom always wore that shirt when she would leave the house to go to the store or almost anywhere else.</div>
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On the left of the table is a frame that I gave her a few years ago. It hangs in her home right when you walk in the front door. It has a collection of 4x6 photos of her family throughout the years.</div>
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Most of all, she loved her grand kids. Above the table I had a line of doilies with pictures of her with her grandkids. They are attached with some chalk board clothes pins that I bought from <a href="http://www.pickyourplum.com/">Pick Your Plum.</a><br />
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That was mostly all we had to do as far as decor... the beautiful flowers that everyone sent were amazing!</div>
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What I did, was take the book that we got from the funeral home for the guests to sign. </div>
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I added the pictures from the funeral to that book.<br />
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We got a lot of cards for my mom's funeral. My mom loves to save cards, so I couldn't throw them away. I decided just to hole punch them and put them on rings to save them. I took one of the cards that I thought my mom would like and used it for the cover. I used the design that <a href="http://maggieholmes.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/02/valentines-mini-album-inspire-guide.html">Maggie Holmes had used for a mini album class years ago</a> as my design for the cover.<br />
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In her actual scrapbook, she had a section where she had saved all of the funeral programs and obituaries from loved ones over the years. I felt that I needed to add her program and obituary to that scrapbook as well.</div>
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We were told my mom wouldn't last much longer a few days before her birthday. So, this birthday was a hard one.... we wanted to give her something special... but not material. My little brother nailed it... he got several birthday cards and had a bunch of her friends sign them for her. I got her a flag with 63 stars. She was born on flag day and she had told me a story about how her uncle would buy her a flag every year for her birthday. He would get her a flag with the number of stars for how old she was. Spending time with her was the best birthday present ever.</div>
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So, I added this page to her scrapbook as well. </div>
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Now...I need to get back to my scrapbooks! It's driving me crazy that I'm so far behind!</div>
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Each year in our small town of Ivins, we have a parade to celebrate Pioneer Day. Pioneer day is a religious holiday for the LDS church celebrating when the pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. I am in the primary of our ward unit and we are always in charge of the float. I volunteered to create our float this year (partly because I wanted it to be cute and fun, partly because I'm crazy and mostly because I also like to do a float for the 4th of July in Kanarraville.) So, to kill to birds with one stone, I came up with an idea that would work for both parades.</div>
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For the 4th of July in Kanarraville, our float theme was "America is Sweet."</div>
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I found the ideas on Pinterest (<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/150096600053800703/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/150096600051626982/">here</a>). The ideas were originally for a candyland party. </div>
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The first part of the float was the giant suckers made from pool noodles. To make the suckers, we took the pool noodles and glued them into a spiral using hot glue. It took two people... one to hold and one to glue. Them, I drilled a hole in the noodle large enough to hold a pvc pipe. We stuck the pvc pipe in the noodle. Then, we covered the suckers with cellophane and tied a ribbon on them.</div>
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The second part of the float was the large hard candies. Those were easy. We just bought the paper chinese lanterns and wrapped them with cellophane with a tie on each end. </div>
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I ordered float fringe for the bottom of the float, but it did not arrive in time for the 4th of July... too much procrastination. So, my cousin cut crepe paper and taped it along the bottom.</div>
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We had the kids sit on hay bales. I covered them with some table cloths so they would not be too scratchy. I just happened to have several table cloths that were bright and colorful and had candy and balloons on them. It was from fabric I had purchased for $1 at a yard sale.</div>
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Here is the float for the 24th of July (Pioneer Day). The theme was "Our Pioneer Heritage is SWEET."</div>
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For this parade, we had a lot more kids, so we needed a larger float. I also added mesh to the sides to give it more color. The mesh is the stuff that comes in rolls that you buy for Christmas trees... amazingly enough Hobby Lobby had Christmas stuff for sale in July.<br />
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I think it turned out cute and ended up being kind of fun... I guess. But, I'm not volunteering next year... and our kids are just riding scooters or bikes in the Kanarraville parade:)Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383560352843647455.post-18732812722674470542013-09-02T20:45:00.001-07:002013-09-02T20:45:43.605-07:00Art Supply Caddy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
In the spring, I was asked to teach a class on DIY projects for organizing your home for my church's women's organization (Relief Society). To tell you the truth, I'm not super organized... I'd like to be. So, when I was asked to teach this class, I thought... "well, this will be my chance to make all of the things I've pinned on Pinterest."</div>
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I'm sure you've seen <a href="http://www.auntpeaches.com/2012/10/well-gosh-dont-i-feel-handy.html">this</a> art bin idea floating around Pinterest using toilet paper rolls. I had seen it and loved the idea. However, I wanted my kids to be able to take out just one of the containers if that is all they needed at the time. And since I save all of my garbage, I had been saving up Crystal Lite containers. I simple covered a shoe box with fabric. I decorated it with washi tape, twine and a tag I had laying around. Then, I also decorated my Crystal Lite containers with washi tape. (I have to tell you that the washi tape didn't stick perfectly. I had to glue the ends on with E6000 glue to make then stay on.) Most of my washi tapes have been purchased from either <a href="http://pickyourplum.com/">Pick Your Plum</a> or <a href="http://www.downtowntape.com/">Downtown Tape</a>.</div>
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I love that the containers are clear so my kids can easily see what's inside. I love that they can take out and use just the paint brushes or colored pencils or whatever medium they are using at the time. And I love how cute it turned out!Anisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14599636551373733526noreply@blogger.com