LDS Primary 2014 Birthday Gifts

I currently serve as the Primary President in the LDS church.  I over see the children ages 18 months - 11 years old.  I love this calling!  For the 2014 year the theme is: Families Are Forever.

We wanted the birthday gifts for the children to center around this wonderful theme so this is what all of the children, including the nursery age children and all the Primary teachers will receive from the Primary Presidency.

A 4x6 copy of the Proclamation of the Family to keep in their scriptures

(I found the Proclamation Printable in this etsy shop!  She was wonderful to work with and made me a custom listing for the 4x6 size. Even at that small of a size, the words are so clear and readable!!)

 also included is a small treat. 

I bought pkg of candy right now since bulk is cheapest around Halloween time, balloon gift bags, ribbon and 100+ copies of the Proclamation the the Family. (colors include blue, pink, white, brown) 

 Tied them all up and they are ready to go.  

Lalaloopsy Cake

My daughter turned 6 this past week!  I can not believe where the time is going!!

She requested a Lemon Cake this year as well as a Lalaloopsy Cake so this is what I made for her:

2 Yellow straws and a paper banner with Lalaloopsy's on them.

Fast and Simple and so cute too......she was very pleased.

It was a Lemon Cake with a Strawberry filling in the middle.

The leftover Easter Sixlets were the perfect colors to finish off the cuteness for the top.

Monster Cake

My son and my husband celebrated birthdays a while back and we had a BIG monster party for both of them.  This is the cake I made for the party:

Thanks to this cake HERE for the inspiration I was able to put together a fun cake.  For the eyes on my cake I used Ritz crackers dipped in Orange Chocolate melts and added the candy eyeballs to the top. The mouth on my cake is just paper. Super easy and fun to make. This cake was a chocolate cake with Orange Cream Frosting.......yes it was super good!

Celebrate Dr Seuss

Dr Seuss has a birthday coming up on March 2nd.

and to celebrate I added these fun new items to my shop.

go check them out!

A Set of Cat in the Hat clips

 A Cat in the Hat fabric pennant banner

Mini Heart Pillows: So many uses

 I made up a bunch of these mini heart pillows to use for Valentine's Day.

I plan to do several things with them:

*place them all over the house and have a scavenger hunt with the kids

*hide them in fun places for my husband to find...so he knows how much I love him

*send one to loved ones who live far away

*they make sweet little pillows for your kids dolls

*leave on the doorstep of a neighbor

 I just simply drew a heart shape, traced it onto my fabric, sewed around it leaving a small opening to fill with batting then I used liquid stitch to close them up.  Fast and easy!  A great way to use up fabric scraps!

DIY Crayon Blocks: A Homemade Christmas

I challenged myself about a month ago to make as many homemade gifts as I could for my children this year. We have a tradition in our little family to do 3 Gifts of Christmas.  Gift of Meaning, Gift of Usefulness and the Gift of Wonder.  The stocking is not included and can be filled with as many fun things that will fit :)  That is where my homemade challenge falls into place here. I have made several stocking stuffers and my children's gift of meaning for my 3 kids and I'll be sharing those with you over the next little bit.

Next up:

DIY Crayon Blocks

 Simply take some scraps of 2x4 wood, drill some holes that have a large opening to hold crayons but not to deep and not to big. (the crayons will not sit up strait if the whole is to big and not deep enough)  I painted my blocks, then added stickers for their names and then I mod podged over the whole thing.

This little things are ready to go and with a new package of crayons my little artists will be busy making artwork!

Happy Birthday Card Organizer Binder

 As part of my Homemade Christmas Challenge I made up one of these fabulous card organizers for a special family member for Christmas this year.  I made a cute fabric cover for the binder, bought pencil holders from the office supply store and filled them with a bunch of homemade cards and envelopes.  I printed out a calendar for the year where I then filled in all of the families birthdays.  

 The printable calendar I used is from HERE

Add some stamps and it's ready to go!

 It's a fun and easy way of staying organized and on top of all those special birthdays!

Ribbon Streamers: A Homemade Christmas

I challenged myself about a month ago to make as many homemade gifts as I could for my children this year. We have a tradition in our little family to do 3 Gifts of Christmas.  Gift of Meaning, Gift of Usefulness and the Gift of Wonder.  The stocking is not included and can be filled with as many fun things that will fit :)  That is where my homemade challenge falls into place here. I have made several stocking stuffers and my children's gift of meaning for my 3 kids and I'll be sharing those with you over the next little bit.

Second homemade item this year are these Ribbon Streamers.

I first saw streamers on etsy, and thought how fun and easy they would be to make.  I bought very large D Rings from Joann's   They also have spools of ribbon for 50 cents each.  You simply tie your ribbon onto the rings in the length that you like.  That is it.  For around $5 I was able to make 4 streamers and I even have ribbon left over to make more. 

I am so excited to see my girls dancing around, waving these ribbon streamers as they giggle!

Father's Day....Dad's "Stache" gift idea

Put together some fun Dad's Stache cups for him this Father's Day!

I found the clear cups at Walmart for 50 cents each.  I purchased the mustache's HERE or make your own out of vinyl.  You can find the Dad's Stache printable HERE.

Fill the cups up with all sorts of fun dad treats:

Dad's Root beer, tootsie POP candies, POP Rocks, Mr Goodbars, Big Hunks and so on.

Father's Day is June 17th......less then one month away!

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Sesame Street Cupcakes

We were busy this weekend, playing Sesame Street!

We had a birthday party for my 2 year old.

 These cupcakes were simple and inexpensive to make.

1 box of cake mix, 1 jar of vanilla frosting, 1 box of the cheapo food coloring, Wilton Brand candy eyeballs found at Walmart and different toppings for each character.  Here is the breakdown:

Cookie Monster- 

1/2 chocolate chip cookie, candy eyes

Oscar-

brown cake sprinkles, 1/2 mint cookie, 1/2 fruit snack for the tongue, candy eyeballs

 Elmo-

1/2 Oreo cookie, orange Sixlet for the nose and candy eyeballs

Big Bird-

candy eyeballs dipped in blue frosting, a fruit snack cut in half and opened as a beak

 I'll share how I made the personalized Sesame Street Sign later on.

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Mother's day Lunch 2012 Recap

My Mother's Day Luncheon was a fantastic event.

I had such fun putting it all together.

Here are the photos of the flowers and food as promised from my 

original post of last week.  

I tutorial for the cute wooden picket fence is coming soon!

 TIN CAN Flowers:  I wrapped soup cans with cute brown paper and tied them with ribbon.  I planted flowers in each of them and used them not only for the table decor but each lady took one home along with there gift bag.

 More fresh flowers were used on the food table

I made flower corsages for each lady to wear.  I placed them on their plates at the start of lunch.

The Food Table:

 Chinese Chicken Oriental Salad was the main dish.

Homemade Cheese cake was for dessert. (forgot to take a picture.....it was delish!)

 After lunch I hand delivered each one their gift bag.  They were super excited and felt extra special.  

My favorite part about this wonderful afternoon was listening to the conversations about special memories about each one's mother or other important woman in their lives.

I am grateful to have had my mom, mother in law, a grandma, an aunt and a sister in law there.  Each one represented a special person in my life.  I am grateful to all of the woman in my life and so wish I could have had them all there.

I hope you had a great Mother's Day!

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Mother's Day Luncheon

I have invited some special guests to a Mother's Day lunch this weekend.  My mother, aunt, mother in law, grandma and a sister in law.  It's going to be a fun afternoon just to get together and have some yummy food.

Below are the little things that I have put together to make this a special lunch.....I will do a recap next week on the food and flowers that I also have planned.

First, I found this adorable set of free printables that truly helped pull this all together.

They were perfect for my red and turquoise theme.

Here are the invitations:

Place setting treat buckets:

dollar store buckets found in the wedding section filled with treats

Family Photos:

I gathered up a photo of each person taken with their mom.  

I went for older photos....take a look at them, they are so fun and add a personal touch.

Individual salad dressing cups:

I found these tiny shot cups at the dollar store

They will be perfect to go with the main dish

Chinese Chicken Salads

red CRUSH drinks and straws:

 Banner for the food table:

 Table settings:

I had fun pulling the table together.  I already had the polka dot table cloth that I had made several months ago, I used scrapbook paper for the place mats.  I found the free printable to place next to each plate, added the family photos to the table for everyone to see and enjoy.  Cute polka dot paper plates from walmart.  I will be planting flowers into cans that will be placed down the middle of the table.

 Guests Gift bags:

Each guest will be receiving one of these bags to take home.

 Each bag has a candy dish, homemade chocolate chip cookies and some other little items.

I made the candy dishes with Target bowls and dollar store candle sticks.

I hope this has helped you put together a fun lunch for the important women in your life.

Happy Mother's Day!

I'll post pictures next week of the food and guests next week!

You can view the complete RECAP by clicking HERE

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