November we put on an activity that included girls ages 8 and up for our church. Something new that the LDS church has been implementing including our daughters to attend. This idea started off as a super saturday type of event then evolved into something more. We had 120 in attendance.ย The sisters were able…
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I love being the room mom for my kiddos. Now that I have one in HS my baby is still in Elementary and I enjoy it and know my years are numbered. I know also to have parties needs to have a bit of an educational twist and that is ok. Doesn’t mean that the…
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My daughter wanted a Minecraft party. We had a budget to try and do it for no more than 50.00 total. I think we did pretty well. Alot of stuff we either had on hand already or the Dollar Tree had most of what we ended up using. These GEM stickers were wall stickers found…
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Our end of Summer Break pool party happens every year. This year we decided to go with a fun mexican theme and have a taco salad bar and desserts. It was fun. The ladies in the church signed up for various toppings we had on a list and brought them. We provided the meat and…
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Another Pinterest Inspired project found here! Another project the ladies at church loved and we all created our own version of. Cut white vinyl with my Silhouette. Painted the wood blue and sanded the edge and corners down a bit. I added my 2 favorite team stickers onto the board. Luckily both teams share the…
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I love PINTEREST. This project came from Simply Kierste.ย She has a great tutorial on her blog on how she made this project. ๐ The ladies in my church try to make 1 Pinterest Project a month. We all get together and share the cost. Its been wonderful!ย I was so excited to make this…
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I love how this wooden 4 came out!! Inspired from this Pin on Pinterest. There was not a tutorial on how to make this so I was on my own. My hubby cut me out a large 4 out of pine ๐ Sanded it all smooth for me. Found some awesome red paint from Hobby…
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I really love this!! ALOT and it literally only took me 30 minutes (and that was mostly going into Hobby Lobby and buying the frame) I purchased the wood frame at hobby lobby which is always 50% off. I cut out a piece of poster board 8×10 and got my and washi tape ready. The…
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As you can see from my last week or two I have been in a basket giving mood. I was invited to a Bridal shower and since I love to bake cupcakes and the bride needed kitchen items I decided to make a cupcake themed basket. I found all the stuff at various places. Target,…
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I just love how this frame turned out. I now want to make one for my family!! I made this forย a sweet friend for her birthday. I did blurr out parts of photos for her privacy but I was able to still share with everyone how to make this still ๐ This frame I…
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I saw this Flag made out of a pallet on Pinterest. I loved it. It never went to a tutorial. Was a photo only. So I decided to try and make one myself. It seemed easy enough ๐ I do know from others making them some of their paints didn’t work as well as I…
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You can see I have a slight obsession with lemonade stands. ๐ย As I just posted here my Pallet Lemonade Stand. My husband built me yet another one ๐ย This one made out of cedar. It comes apart in 4 pieces. The bottom, the 2 side bars and the roof/top. That way I can take…
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This post was meant to be done 2 years ago. I realized I never blogged about my wonderful Pallet Lemonade stand my son and husband built for me for Mother’s day 2012!! Better late than never right? I have used this stand for 2 years and even in 2013 (photo above) For our cub scout…
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Wanted to make something cute for my daughter’s teacher t show her how much we appreciate her.ย I have seen all types of “box of sunshines” all over pinterest. I decided to hit up the dollar tree and see what I could come up with. Also I had quite a few things in my own…
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I have used these cute jars before I got from Hobby Lobby for teachers.ย (See teacher post here) But thought it would be just as cute to use for graduates. School colors are Orange and Black and purchased Reese Pieces candies and pulled all the yellow ones out. My kids were just as happy to…
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