Love is in the air!!
Do you like Valentine's day? Me too!
Today I'm sharing my Valentine's Day mantle.
Valentine's Book Page Heart Garland
Today I'm sharing my first Valentine post of the season!
A book page heart garland.
Young Women/Young Men LDS Missionary activity
Looking for a fun activity to do with your combined Young Women and Young Men group? A fun and exciting way to get the youth excited about missionary work is a
YW/YM combined Missionary Activity
DIY rice bag
So here in Tennessee, it's been really cold. Like REALLY cold!
Even though I grew up in Utah, I have lived here in the South for 10 years and I'm acclimating.
So I've been freezing!
One thing I love to warm up with is a rice bag.
When this simple bag of rice is heated in the microwave, it's thaws my frozen toes. I love it!
Here's how you can make one too.
Start with a piece of fabric. I found this remnant at Joann with the pattern of my fave girl!
I cut it down to about 8" by 10" or so.
Then I sewed a seam all the way around...
leaving a couple inches open at the bottom.
I don't have a funnel so I just folded some paper into a funnel.
I stuck the make-shift funnel into the hole I left while sewing, and filled it up with dry rice.
I couldn't take a picture of this since my hands where busy holding the fabric
and funnel with one hand and the rice with the other.
I sewed up the hole with a simple whip stitch.
To heat: just pop it into the microwave for 1:30- 2 minutes.
And there you have a toasty rice bag to warm up your toes!!
PS- it also works really well for aches, sore muscles and girl monthly pains.
One Little Word
Have you heard of One Little Word?
You chose one word to represent goals and actions
to be taken in the upcoming year.
I am not big on making New Years Resolutions but
choosing a word- that seems simple enough.
That was until I tried to choose my word for 2015.
I'm about to get personal again...
2014 was not a wonderful year for me.
Nothing major happened, really.
Everyone in my family is in good health, we have a house and vehicles,
my kids are doing great in school, etc. I know I am a very blessed girl!
Even knowing all of that- I didn't have a great attitude, I felt sorry for myself,
small setbacks were consuming to me, etc.
I just didn't thrive in 2014.
So that is the word I chose for this year...
This year is my year to THRIVE!
By thrive I mean be happy no matter what.
We all have trials every single day.
What sets a happy person apart from an unhappy person is how they deal with those trials.
I am going to look for the positive in myself, the people around me and in our situations.
I am going to figure out how to be happy and spread joy whatever comes my way!
Not only did I decide to do the One Little Word, I talked my family into it as well!
We all thought about it and chose words to represent what we want to do in the upcoming year.
We posted them on a magnet board in our dining room to remind us every day!
Did you choose One Little Word for this year?
linking up to: On Display Thursday
Vintage Door Knob photo holder
Earlier this week I posted on Instagram, (follow me for scintillating posts like that, haha) that I had received my photo order of this year's family photos.
I had a bunch of fancy new photos and needed something new to do with them.
I made a vintage door knob photo holder.
Last fall, I picked up these vintage door knobs and have
been waiting for the right project to use them.
The picture holder was the just the thing!
For the back board, I cut a 1x4 down to 3 feet. Then stained it.
The doorknobs all had different sized holes so I used a variety of dowels
to hold the knobs on the board.
I drilled holes in the board that matched the size of each of the dowels.
I cut the dowels down to about 1-1.5 inches, depending on the knobs.
Then I glued them into the drilled holes in the boards.
I had to use a variety of glues to attach to door knobs to the dowels because all of them were different. I used hot glue, e6000 and wood glue.
I ordered my photos from mpix, (Not getting paid for this, just passing on an awesome photo place.)
and had them printed in 10 x 13 and mounted to mat board to give them a little extra weight.
That way I don't have to frame them.
I looped some ribbon and simply taped it to the back of the photos with packing tape.
How's that for simple?
I had our family photo printed 16 x 20 and mounted on double weight mat board, then placed it into the frame I had last years photo in.
I'm pretty happy with how simple it was to do this!!
And looking at those photos of my babes makes me so happy!!
Winter Home Decor
I love Christmas decorations! But I also love when all of the
clutter and chaos is cleaned up!
It's still to early, for me, to pull out my valentine's day stuff,
so I like to do a little winter decorating!
I keep things pretty simple, with a few snowflakes and new year's things, here and there.
Do you like to decorate for winter?
Top posts of 2014
2014 has come to a close. It's really been an interesting year for me.
Mind if I get a tiny bit personal? No? Ok, good.
Truthfully, I struggled this year.
Nothing major happend, just a general meh.
I kind of lost interest in projecting, crafting and blogging in general.
I pushed through and turned in some less than stellar posts, but my heart really wasn't in it.
Near the end of the year, I feel like I got my mojo back a bit.
Now I have a renewed energy in doing crafts and projects and
am excited to see where it goes in the upcoming year!
Thank you for sticking with me, for coming here and being a part
of this blog and a part of my life!
Big Hugs to all of you!
Here are some of my favorite posts of 2014!
Mind if I get a tiny bit personal? No? Ok, good.
Truthfully, I struggled this year.
Nothing major happend, just a general meh.
I kind of lost interest in projecting, crafting and blogging in general.
I pushed through and turned in some less than stellar posts, but my heart really wasn't in it.
Near the end of the year, I feel like I got my mojo back a bit.
Now I have a renewed energy in doing crafts and projects and
am excited to see where it goes in the upcoming year!
Thank you for sticking with me, for coming here and being a part
of this blog and a part of my life!
Big Hugs to all of you!
Here are some of my favorite posts of 2014!
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