Blessings Boards & Tissue Paper Flowers

I was able to attend a wonderful Stake Women's Conference last Saturday.  The theme was "Count Blessings", and our feature speaker was Emily Freeman, author of several books including '21 Days Closer to Christ', and 'A Christ Centered Christmas'.  My ward was in charge of the table decorations, and I ended up getting asked to make them.  This is what I finally came up with:

Blessings Boards!

The inspiration for these was the ever popular 'Lost Socks' boards that are all over the blogosphere.  They were a HUGE hit!!

I also made 29 (or so) tissue paper flowers (a tutorial can be found HERE) for the tables.  If you look closely in the picture above, you can see some in the background.

This picture is just to show you the size of the tissue paper flowers.  Love them!!

These decorations were truly a labor of love.  I had a vision in my head of what I wanted them to look like, but didn't think I'd be able to get that vision into reality.  Luckily, my SIL was able to get me the vinyl for dirt cheap, and my MIL helped me decide on what paper to mod podge to the clothespins.  After I got the first board finished (I made a total of 12), I wanted to jump for joy.  They turned out exactly how I had pictured them in my head!!  I love it when that happens!!     

Personalized Planner

I've been on the hunt for a new planner. My previous one worked for a few years for me, but it had a snap closure. Things kept falling out of it, and I always worried that I'd lose something important. So when I saw one at the DI that had a zipper closure, I snatched it up. It was only $2.00. And in perfect condition!

To personalize it a bit, I decided to break out some vinyl that I won in a giveaway a while ago. This is what I came up with.

I thought about making a bigger flower to put in the center of the front of it, but decided that less was more in this case.

I was out and about the other day, and had several people comment on how cute my planner is. One lady even asked me if I painted the name and flowers on......I wish I was that talented!!

I'm linking to:

Making the World Cuter, Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Keeping it Simple, Fireflies & Jellybeans