Easy Christmas Gift Idea with Free Printable

My kids needed some quick Christmas gifts for their friends,

and I remembered a cute gift one of them got a few years ago from a cousin.

It was just a can of soda pop and a bag of microwave popcorn 

tied up in a cellophane bag with a tag that said:

Pop, Pop

Fizz, Fizz

Oh, what a good friend you is!

I searched online for some ready-made tags,

and didn't have much luck.

So I made my own :)

Here is how we packaged ours.

(I wish I would've bought larger cellophane bags)

If you'd like the tags without the watermark,

you can download it HERE.

Merry Christmas!

'Sweet is the Work of Personal Progress' YWIE 2014

This past Sunday was my ward's Young Women in Excellence.

(this is a program in my church for young women ages 12-18 to celebrate 

what they've accomplished in the Personal Progress program throughout the year).  

Our theme was

"Sweet is the Work of Personal Progress"

(based off THIS IDEA).

I wanted to incorporate the Young Women Value colors as much as possible,

but couldn't find any digital papers that had all 8 together.

So I used one that had most of them to make my own invitations and printables.

Here's our invitation

(with our ward name crossed out for privacy)

And I made this printable to put in a frame for display.

(Print your own without the watermark HERE).

Here it is framed that night.

We purchased this YW Value Kiss Stickers printable for our take-away treat for the girls,
and printed off the poster in wallet size for the tags.

The girls wrote their names on these to put by their table displays.

(Print one without watermark HERE).

And this one was made to use for our programs.

(Print without watermark HERE).

One of our Beehives made cupcakes for our refreshments...

...and we also had candy in the YW value colors.

Everything turned out wonderful, 

and the girls really wowed us with their presentations!

YW Christmas Gift

Although it's too late to use this gift idea this year, 

I figured I'd share what we gave our young women for Christmas anyways.  

It's never too early to plan for next year!

We loved THIS IDEA, and decided to give our girls a pair of gloves.  

We found the gloves at a dollar store, and packaged them up 

in a cellophane bag topped with a tulle bow.  

The girls LOVED them!

Since we used gloves instead of mittens, 

I ended up creating my own version of the printable.

If you'd like a copy of my version of the printable without the watermark, 

you can find it HERE.

Stake Girls Camp 2013

Last week I was able to go to my very first Girls Camp since I was 

in the Young Women's program as a teenager.  I was a bit worried for a few reasons, 

the main one being that I don't enjoy camping!  But we all got through it 

and had a GREAT time!

The theme for our Stake Girls Camp was:

CARS  

"Driving Standards for a Divine Purpose".

Each ward was given a car from the Disney Movie as their 'mascot', 

as well as a value from the Young Women's Program.

Our ward got 'Fillmore' as our car, and Faith as our value.  

I made this cute poster to hang up in our camp.  

(sorry...I blocked out our ward name for privacy!).

The highlight of camp (besides testimony meeting), was being able to do 

a service project for  Tiny Tim's Foundation for Kids.  

We helped sand and stain hundreds of wooden toy cars that will eventually 

be sent to kids all over the world.  The girls LOVED it!! 

Another highlight was participating in "Singing in the Trees."

It's a tradition that started several years ago in our Stake, and the girls 

look forward to it every year.  It is done at dark, right before our testimony meetings.  

Each ward gathers in a spot in the trees, and waits for their turn 

to sing a song (we sang "I Walk By Faith"), as we shine flashlights

into the trees.  I'm not explaining it super well, but it was a beautiful, spiritual moment, 

and was the perfect way to head into our Ward Testimony Meeting.

Instead of using flashlights for 'Singing in the Trees', our ward made Mason Jar Lanterns

to use.  They were super easy to make, and looked beautiful in the dark!

(HERE'S a great tutorial.  We used contact paper instead of vinyl, 

and electric tea lights instead of candles).

I was terrible about taking pictures of everything while we were there, but did get 

some pictures of 2 handouts that my secretary and I made for the girls.

This is the one made by my secretary.  She got the idea from HERE.

And here's the one I made (quote is from this talk, handout idea from HERE).

I don't have a file from my secretary, but if you'd like a copy of 

the 'Glow' handout file without the watermark, you can access it HERE!

We ended up having 20 girls from our ward attend Girls Camp.  

I loved being able to spend time with them away from 'real life'.  It gave me a chance 

to get to know them better, and to just have FUN together!

Can't wait until next year! 

End of the Year Teacher Gift

It's hard to believe that the school year is nearly over!  

My kids have had GREAT teachers this year, and we wanted 

to give them each a little something to say thank you for being so wonderful.

We ended up going with THIS IDEA from Kiki & Company

via I Heart Naptime.  Adorable, right?!

Our Summer Break officially begins on Friday!!  Can't wait!

Bat Treat Bags

Still looking for Halloween treat ideas? 

How about this cute Bat Treat Bag?!

There's plenty of room inside for a few sweets!

Bats and I don't get along well.  We've found one too many in our house, and let's just say that I'm NOT a fan!  But if they were this cute in real life, I wouldn't mind them so much.

This idea came from the fabulous Amy @The Idea Room via Eighteen25.  She was generous enough to offer the free printables for this bat treat bag, as well as several others.  Check it out HERE, and make one of each!

Last Minute {Halloween Treats}

Waiting until the last minute is something I'm pretty good at.... I seem to do it a lot lately!  But I wouldn't have found these cute printables if I hadn't procrastinated. 

My kids will be giving giant sized Hershey's candy bars to some lucky people.  Isn't the candy bar wrapper adorable?!  You can find it HERE.

And I made these treat bags for my clogging class.  The printable bag topper can be found HERE.

Have a fun, SAFE Halloween!!