The Whoville/Grinch Christmas Party

 

Had so much fun

decorating for our ward's Christmas Party this year.

Had some great friends who all rallied together to get decorating and a

 program ready for the activity.

 

A backdrop was made for people to
come and take a picture in front of. 
Everyone was told to dress as a Who from Whoville,
the outfits and hair were amazing.

 

 

That's right we had a Grinch too.

 

 

 

 

*See the program below for a link to the Grinch's performance*

 

 This is the gym during set up,

 before the napkins and cups (red)

 were set and

all the center pieces were on the table.

 It ended up looking so colourful.

 

Wrapped the tables in paper

 so the kids could color on them

and had

extra Grinch colouring sheet

and cups of crayons on the tables too.

 

We made coloured poof trees (tissue paper puffs) and garland for the walls

and one of our friends made the 3D snowflakes

 

 

 We had 3 different center pieces.

 

This one was made from a dollar store tree. 

We squeezed it into this

cute "whoish" shape

and glued mini pom poms on it

and then hung an ornament from the tip.

 

We decorated the cute white pot

with red circle stickers and green garland.

 

 

This one was just bought from the dollar store.

So easy and a nice pop of colour.

 

 

The red springy red balls were also bought

from the dollar store and

added to a tall
 glass vase full of

 green Easter basket filler

and then tied with a ribbon.

 

 

The program was short and sweet, with a great message at the end.

 

We modified and shortened the

story of the Grinch for our narrator

 

and had some musical numbers through out.

 

Everyone sang the Whoville song "Welcome Christmas"

 and then my father-in -law sang "Your a mean one Mr. Grinch"

and then two little 6 year old girls came and sang "Where are you Christmas"

and then the whole Primary came up and sang "Silent Night"

and we ended with a portion of Pres. Uchtdorf's message on the Grinch.

 

*Here is the link to the performance of the Grinch in the middle of the program*

the worm is my favorite part.

 

https://www.facebook.com/#!/video.php?v=910558688968159&set=vb.100000421089196&type=2&theater

 

 

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and

remember the true meaning of Christmas.

The birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

 

 

 

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Chalkboards Cards

 

I bought a box of 40

blank chalkboard cards

 from Michaels

and

with my bistro chalk marker

have been having way too much fun.

 



 

I love having cards done ahead of time

 so that I'm not rushed when I need them.

 

 

Can't forget the thank you

 and get well

 cards too.

 

 

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Chevron, Jack and some Ombre

 

Who knew that when I mentioned on one of my

 posts that you could hire me to paint you a

Union Jack

 that someone would take me up on it.

 

 

A nice couple phoned me and we discussed

4 pieces of furniture

that they were interested in for their home.

 

I found the pieces on kijiji

that had

the modern lines

that they were looking for and bought them

 (they were all in really good condition, not something I get to buy very often)

 

The first thing I did was

a cute chevron pattern

 on these

two bedside tables.

 

Before.

 

 

 

 After

 

 

 

A long Union Jack dresser in grey on this long one.

 

Before

 



 

 After

( I love how this one turned out)

 

 

and the last one was a tall dresser done in an ombre

 

Before

 

 



 

After

 

 

It was so fun to do these and I am so

 happy that they

travelled well to their home.

 

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Summer Chalkboard

My friend bought a

 frame for her mother's birthday

 and wanted some cute quotes and sayings

  that she could change

out as the seasons change.

 

This is the summer one.

 

 

 

We've a had a great summer so far and life has been so good.
 

 Everything from
reunions
parades
Logan's Pass
two lakes
excellent live shows
water skiing
party island
glow in the dark dodge ball
root beer chugging contests
and the list goes on
and on
 and on.
 

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Light Green Dresser

Ah, I'm so glad summer is here.
 I love the warmer weather
(as long as I have my shade umbrella)
and long nights.

Living in the north means that at 10:30
 at night the sun is still up
and you can still be out playing. 

In fact I don't think the kids have gone to bed before
10:30 since school ended. 

 

With the return of warm weather, means the return of furniture hunting and painting.

 

I found this beauty

 I know, she looks rough and I
 almost forgot to take a before.
  (I think is just adds to the magic of the transformation.)

 

 

And now it's beautiful.

 

My husband did not "appreciate" the hardware,
but I love them. 

That's what made this piece.
The lady who bought it said that the unique drawer pulls are what sold it for her.

I couldn't agree more.
I love finding things like these.

 So well made.

 Solid wood.

 Nothing could be better.

 

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Wedding Chalkboards

 

My friend's daughter is getting married

and for some of the decorations on the wall

we are going to have chalkboards.

 

Found some cute quotes about love and marriage and did them up.

 

Here are two of them

(we are going to have six in total)

 

 

This is a quote the bride wanted.

 

 

These were done with a chalk marker

 

http://www.uchida.com/p-3-bistro-chalk-marker.aspx

 

on

 black poster board so that they didn't smear

 if someone touched them and then slipped the

 poster board onto a frame.

 

 

 

 

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Mother's Day Chalkboard

 

With Mother's Day right around the corner I

 found myself looking for a good quote for my chalkboard.

 

I came across this Mother's day quote.

 

I changed it a little to fit my chalkboard.

 

I love it.

 

But not as much as I love my mother!

 

 

 

Happy Mother's Day to everyone that has:

 

Slept on the floor next to a crib

Who's been puked, peed and spit-up on

Eaten the crusts on a PB&J sandwich for her lunch

Played  hours of pretend

Became a free hire taxi driver

Found everything that was "lost"in the house

Brought oranges for the whole soccer team

Embarrassed their child in public

Who actually listened to their child do home reading

Held a sick child through the whole night

Dropped everything at anytime

Replaced the toilet paper roll

Kissed all boo boos better

Packed a kajillion lunches and snacks

Put up with a public tantrum

Been a cheerleader.

and

Loved unconditionally.

 

 

Thanks MOM.

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4 Easy Steps to Art

 

It's spring break here and I'm trying to keep the kids busy.

 

So far we've....

 

We've gone to a movie

(Mr. Peabody and Sherman)

 

Iced sugar cookies

 

Played with our friends

 

and made some cool looking art with our cousins.

 

I found this artist on

pinterest and thought it

would make a fun project for the older kids.

 

 

It's so easy and I think the final results are terrific.

 

 

1.First we cut out shapes from cereal boxes and covered them in magazine pages.

2. Then we covered out canvases with paint

3. Then we glued around the edges of the cardboard shapes with seed beads (which then were painted gold) or "dot art" with gold paint.

4. Then we arranged them and glued them down.

 

Voila

 

 

This is a close up of the seed bead technique.

 

 

and this is a close up of the "dot art" technique.

 

 

Super fun and super easy.

 

I think I might have to try my hand at it.

 

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Donkey Kong Party

 

Ah, another birthday party has come and gone.

 

This one was very busy, but I had lots of help from my older girls and their friends and I think it turned out wonderfully.

 

First we made tiki masks with clay and cereal boxes.

 

 

I think they turned out cute.

 

 

Some of the kids really got into the acting of the crazy tiki's.

 

Some of them just make me laugh.

Then there were the games.  This one was animal hockey.

 

These belonged to the tiki knockdown where kids got to shoot a nerf gun and hit them.

 

 

 

The kids had to focus and try and find the gold (chocolate) coin under the cup

 

 

 This was toss the banana into the barrel.

 

 

At each station they earned tickets that they got to redeem at the prize table.

 

 

This is the cake.

 

GO DONKEY KONG!!!

 



 

And this is the birthday boy and his donkey kong pose.

(I saved you from a billion more of this pose and opted for only one)

 





Happy Birthday!

 

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