Visiting Teaching POP Quiz

I know it's totally the end of the month but here's a fun printable to attach to a 2-liter bottle of soda pop. (I was born in Ohio where they call it "pop" and raised out west where we call it "soda" so I have always said "Soda Pop". Sue me.) ANYWAY, it's a "POP Quiz" about self-reliance for the September 2013 LDS visiting teaching message. I got four to a sheet when I printed them.

Redskins Fans

It's no secret we are Washington Redskins fans. If you are too, then here's a swell printable for your wall, or your facebook profile photo, or Twitter (#HTTR), or your Pinterest feed. :) Enjoy. (But do not sell my design as your own.)

Treat Gift Tag

Here's a simple little gift tag printable for cookies, fudge, brownies, popcorn...anything, really. I printed 6 to a page, cut them out in rectangles, rounded the corners to make them a little more spiffy and just tied them onto plates of cookies that we delivered tonight. :)

(Again, for a full-size view of the printable, right click on it and then open in a new tab.)

Find Your Purpose

"You are not on this earth to be entertained." We're here to love, to serve, to dream, and to learn.

Find your purpose, and then live your life on purpose.

Can you imagine how wonderful life could be for everyone if we stopped expecting to be entertained all the time and took some time to serve, instead?!

For Times of Trouble

A quote from this fantastic talk: For Times of Trouble.

Pain is Temporary

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." -Lance Armstrong

(8x10, in pink and green)

Agency

"Mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His son." ~ Robert D. Hales (5 x 7)

The Empty Jar

I recently gave this framed (5x7) quote to my son and his new wife along with an empty jar. It really helps to understand that the temple covenants we make are just the beginning of the happily (for)ever after!

Also in 8x10:

Familiar

A favorite quote.
"Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar His face is to us." ~ Ezra Taft Benson (5x7 print)

Being in Love

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better that your dreams." ~ Dr. Suess

I printed mine on white metallic paper. It's lovely! (8x10)

Influence

“There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.”- Sheri L. Dew

8 x 10 printable

Also in black & white:

 

Turn Your Face to the Sun

I started this rooster sign about 2 years ago, finished the rooster, got sick and never got the lettering painted on because my hands were always so shaky while on Prednisone, I couldn't paint anymore. Well...I am proud to say that I am finally finished, and it's hanging above the entryway to my kitchen, in a spot that gets a lot of sunlight to reflect the metallic paints.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb

The inspiration comes from a photo I clipped (years ago) out of a catalog of a rooster watercolor painting by Susenne Telage called Hope Dawns. Her rooster is A-MA-ZING! I can't paint like that. I just don't devote the time to it.

But I will share how I painted the letting.

I followed this tutorial. I used an embossing tool instead of a ballpoint pen (can you see the indentation?) and I printed my font (Lobster 1.4) in light gray to save ink. It was fairly easy!

Creative Knee Patches

I've added fabric to the bottom of cut-off jeans before to make them cute when the holes are too large, but that always requires making shorts out of them. If you want to save the pants...give this creative knee patch idea a try. I promise the hardest part was ripping out the seams in the side of the jeans so you could get in there with a sewing machine.

Since I was patching my daughter's holey jeans, I made her monster a girl monster. I should have made the eyelashes black so they'd show up better, but she likes the aqua blue color. I layered a piece of pink fabric and a piece of jean material (because I KNOW she'll rip right through that cute pink polka dot print,) pinned it in place, sewed around it, and then I cut off the excess material in the inside. She says they are really comfy, which is a plus since at her age, everything is "itchy."

This star patch was another great idea, and my daughter loved picking the fabric.

One of the knee holes is pretty bad, the other is just starting, so I made a quick star pattern, making sure it was large enough to cover the existing hole, and traced it onto the jeans with a white colored pencil. Then I pinned a layer of fabric and a layer of denim to the inside of the jeans (with the side seam ripped open, of course.) Make sure that the patch is larger than the star shape.

Then sew around the star on the pencil line. (I'm thinking as hard as my daughter is on pants that I should have sewn a double seam around the star, but I'm too lazy to rip out that side seam again.)

It was really easy to sew around the star and THEN cut it out about a quarter of an inch away, instead of trying to cut out the star first and then sew it.

Remove the pins, flip it inside out, and cut away the excess patch materials inside the jeans. Then sew the jeans side seam back together.

Ta-da! An adorable "new" pair of jeans!

(Update: For another really cute idea using pockets as patches, click here.)

Young Women Birthday Gifts

Part of our birthday gifts this year for the Young Women are these cute note cards that they are to use to brighten someone else's day. It goes really well with the theme to Arise and shine forth.

I followed these directions except that I cut my card stock for only 4 cards to a page and I don't own any cute paper punches.

You know what that means, right?

Yep, I cut out each shape by hand. With about 32 girls at 4 cards each, I decided not to do several layers of the shapes on each card and only sewed on one shape per note card instead. I made a stencil for each shape and just had it sitting out to work on whenever I had spare time using leftover paper scraps from this project. I did hearts, stars, butterflies and birds. It was easy!

Then I printed out strips of paper and wrapped up four note cards for each girl.

We also made the girls cute little zip pouches.

 

May Your Life Preach More Loudly Than Your Lips

Cropped to print 8x10. 

"May your life preach more loudly than your lips." -William Ellery Channing

Cropped to print 5x7.