Come Follow Me (MAY) How can I strengthen my testimony?

(I am attaching a cute little anchor bracelet to this handout. I will post a picture when I have the bracelet complete).

A digital Fast

I am challenging my YW and all the leaders this month to have one day a week that they have a digital fast. To go along with our "UP" themed year. I am calling it Turn it Down so you can Listen Up.  We'll see how it goes(:
(business card size)

(4x6)

Conference Polish

I like to take a little "treat" to my YW over Conference weekend. Just so they know that I am still thinking about them (:

I found the nail polish at Target for $0.84, Cheaper than the dollar store and way cuter color selection!

 For those that used our Adventure awaits theme...

 Here is a slightly different handout without the UP theme

{Come follow Me} March Lesson: Faith in Jesus Christ

You could attach this to a Powerbar or a bottle of Crush Soda

Popcorn Bar

 We had our YW girls Camp Kick off last night. It is a night we introduce the Stake camp theme, and our ward value & Color. This year we are Faith (WHITE). I've been wanting to do a popcorn bar ever since I saw one HERE The white popcorn would be perfect for our ward and popcorn is so cheap! Even better! The girls LOVED making their own little bags of popcorn. It was so fun, alittle messy but FUN!

I found all the seasonings at Walmart by the popcorn. Each little 3oz bottle of seasoning filled 2 salt shakers. I found the salt shakers at the dollar store and it came in a 2 pack for $1. The seasonings I bought were Ranch, Butter, White Cheddar, Garlic Parmesan, and Kettle Corn. I also mixed up some cinnamon sugar.
For mix-ins I just bought random things that I had a coupon for or were on sale. Sweet tart jelly beans, m&m's, oreos, honey roasted peanuts, white chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, mike & Ikes, etc...

A&K wedding Details

Jane and I just finished decorating for a wedding reception. It turned out beautiful!

 This was outside where the guests came in. I love the little reception crossroad sign

 Cute little Candy bar.

 This was my favorite thing about this reception. The cake stand. To say I was obsessed would be an understatement. I love how it turned out. They had 7 cakes and every 1/2 hour they would cut another cake to serve.

 This was in the lobby where the line was

 Isn't this the cutest little sign in table?

 The bride and groom love books. We tried to incorporate them into the wedding decor. I love how this little stack of books turned out.

 Jane whipped up this amazing chalkboard for their menu. Too cute

 Love the vintage feel of the babies breath. such a light delicate flower perfect in the baskets.

 This was the gift table. The suitcase is where guests could put their cards.

 another cute grouping

I thought the fireplace and mantle turned out so romantic. 

Adventure Awaits... New Beginnings

We had our New Beginnings last night. It was a fun casual night. The theme of our Night was Adventure Awaits... Come see what the YW will be "UP" to in 2013

We will be using this theme along with the Stand in Holy places throughout the year.

 

I Love President Monsons Talk Your Celestial Journey 

I thought it went perfect with our Adventure theme.

 

Gaze upward,

Look inward- This is where I introduced the YW values and the purpose of Personal Progress

Reach outward,

 and Press forward.

Jane found a bunch of these old suit cases at a local thrift shop. We painted the outside and then modpodged cute scrapbook paper on the inside. This is where everyone first came in. The suitcase had the program for the night, and also a little packet of what is going on in 2013.

I used 2 build-a-bear boxes for my UP house. I cut one in half to do the porch side of the house. I then covered it with Scrapbook paper I had on hand. (build-a-bear was so nice and just gave me the 2 boxes for free)

 I forgot to take a picture of our cute food table until it was almost gone... We had cute little make your own fruit pizza's. We had fruit in all the YW value colors (Pineapple, kiwi, strawberries, mandarin oranges, blueberries, purple grapes, golden bananas, and the frosting was white)

  For the new beehives coming in 2013 we gave a cute little 7-up, and UP2You gum. We had each laurel "interview" a new girl asking her simple questions like her favorite color, subject in school, what kind of animal she would be, what she's most looking forward to about YW etc...

 We are giving the girls these cute little bottle cap necklaces for their birthdays this year. They are like the cute lil bottle cap pin Ellie gives Carl in the Movie UP. I found them at Hobby Lobby and just used metal stamps to put their initial

In my talk I talked about how anywhere we stand can be a holy place. (which is the general YW theme this year)

 We  gave each girl her own lil adventure book. We challenged them to fill it up this year with all their adventures. A place they could put little handouts, pictures of YW activities, notes from lessons, anything that reminds them of all the places they "STAND".

My Bishop in his closing remarks talked about the Adventure book in the movie. He said that in the beginning they put the picture of Where they thought their adventure would be. But at the end of the movie Carl finally sees that Ellie had put the adventures of their everyday lives.  He said we should make everyday good and something we are proud of.
I thought it was cute he Tied in the movie with his remarks (:

I got these smash books on such a good clearance sale at twopeasinabucket.



We added alittle pocket in the front where the girls can put handouts if they'd like.

 Here is an outline of our program

 

Here are a few things we put in their little packet. Things we will be "UP" to this next year

 And here are the invites incase you missed the previous post.
We rolled them up and attached them to balloons!

 

New Beginnings 2013

 the rest of the details from our UP Themed new Beginnings are

http://alittlecrafting.blogspot.com/2013/01/adventure-awaits-new-beginnings.html

We have our new beginnings coming up next week. It is going to be an UP themed party. Here are the invites. I rolled them up and attached them to a balloon, (just like Ellie does in the movie).

 

 

Valentine Printable

 

8x10 valentine printable

 

Globe redo

 

My mom had an old globe she said I could have for YW for my new beginnings.

 

I used some american craft thickers for the letters and then spray painted the globe white. After it was dry I took off the thickers to reveal the map. I then applied a thin coat of mod podge. I love how it turned out. I will have the girls write in black sharpie ways they make the places they stand more holy.