Saturday, February 20, 2010

New Beginnings

New Beginnings is an annual program in the LDS church to start off the year for the young women and their parents, and we had our first ever in the Spanish Branch a few weeks ago! We decided on the "Olympic Opening Ceremonies" as our theme for the evening. (Inspiration came from sugardoodle.net) Here are a few of the things we talked about:

The Young Women Logo:
Just like in the Olympics, the Young Women’s program has a logo that is a torch. It is surrounded by the Young Women motto to “Stand for Truth and Righteousness.” The torch represents the light of Christ, inviting all to “come unto Christ.” It reminds all young women to hold up the light of Christ, and be a good example to those around them.

The Young Women Values:
The Young Women also have a set of 8 values with coordinating value colors to remind them to be virtuous and pure and to live the standards that will help them be happy and reach their divine potential. The Young Women Values are: Faith, Divine Nature, Individual Worth, Knowledge, Choice & Accountability, Good Works, Integrity & Virtue.

We made our own version of the Olympic Rings to represent each of the values and their corresponding colors. If you would like the image I created for this just let me know! (I also have cute invitations & programs and would love to share!)

After the presentations we had ice cream sundaes (Mmm!) and I played the olympic theme for background music. Of course I forgot to take any pictures while people were there, but I did remember to take a picture of the board before I took it down. I hung flags from all the countries we rempresent in the young women's. I had to add Canada up there for me, even if I am only half!
If you would like to know more about the LDS church and it's wonderful programs that I love so much (like Young Womens) visit this website:

Saturday, February 13, 2010

A little hippity hop

My wonderful CRHS Cheerleaders performing a dance I choreographed and taught 26 weeks pregnant... They were very patient and didn't laugh at me too much. ;)

Project #6- Hairbow Holder

Etsy inspiration for this project: $20 each

Picture from:



My finished project: $0 (I used scraps from the crib skirt)


I don't think you really need a step-by-step for this one. Just play around with it! There are a million tutorials for tying tutu's like this one:



I just tied my tulle to a wire for more stability, glued on the hanging ribbons, glued on the waistband ribbon, then glued on a cute little bow. There ya go!


Here it is on the wall. :) I think I'll add more ribbons if I ever get around to making more flower or bow clippies... Oh, I need to make a post about those too!



28 weeks!