Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Be Mine Banner


Here it is!! My Be Mine banner! I am loving having this up for Valentine's Day!



Decided to do tags this time instead of pennants and I love that it's different from the other ones I have done.



Just some close ups of some of the letters.




What do you think? Will you BE MINE!?
Luvs,


Linking up to:

My Craftie Life

lil luna link party button




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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Birthday Boy!

Today is my hubby's birthday! He is 31....and one of the best men I know.
I love him for so many reasons. He is loving, caring, hard-working, funny, intelligent, giving, frugal, happy, sexy, adventurous, a good father, a wonderful husband.



He makes me feel like a queen, a goddess, an equal, a woman.


He brings me joy, happiness, love, peace, safety. He is a worthy priesthood holder, a patriarch to our little family.


He magnifies his callings and helps me magnify mine. He inspires me, lifts me up, gives me strength to keep going even when I think I can't. He's fun to be with, laugh with, talk to and I can't believe he is all mine!
Honey, I hope you have a wonderful birthday! I love you!

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Article of Faith Board


In Young Women's this year the theme is the 13th Article of Faith which says,

We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say we follow the admonition of Paul - We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy we seek after these things.

I wanted to make the girls something that would help them remember all of the key points, something that would remind them to be all of the things that the Lord wants them to be.


I saw this idea on Sugardoodle and just HAD to recreate it. Thanks to the help of my amazing sister (she has a vinyl cutter) I was able to make one for each of my girls! I think it turned out darling and I think the girls really loved getting one of these for their rooms!

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Valentine Wreath


Cute right? You can make one too...it is super easy.


Start with a heart shaped container. You could use a shallow heart box, this one is a serving dish I found at Michael's. It was $5.99 but with my 40% off coupon...it ended up being only $3.60+tax.


You'll also need coffee filters. These are super cheap too. They come in a package of 100 for like $1.50. I used the tan color, but you could also use the white. You'll also need a hot glue gun and any embellishments like lace and crepe paper to add some pizazz.


Start by making your florets out of the coffee filters, you'll need a good amount. I think I ended up using about 75-80. Simply flatten the coffee filter out, put a "glob" of hot glue in the center, fold it in half and then in half again and hold it together until the glue sets a little.


Like so....until you get a big pile....



Then simply start hot gluing them into the base of your heart tray/box until the entire thing is filled with your florets.




I wanted to add a little more to it, so I got some lace from Hobby Lobby, and hot glued it around the outer rim of the tray.


I then took some crepe paper and glued that around it as well. You'll want to kind of crimp as you go so it will give both the lace and the crepe paper a ruffled effect.


If you want to add a little more pizazz you can add some paper flowers. I used cupcake liners, the extra lace and the crepe paper to make mine, add a little pearl button in the center and you have some cute flowers to add to your wreath.

Then you can simply attach some ribbon to the back and hang!
Isn't it delicious!? The best part is it only cost me about $7.00. I just love it....haven't started decorating for Valentine's Day just yet, but I can't wait to put it up!

I've entered this project into Crafting With the Stars....go check it out.



and I have also linked up here!


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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Jingle Banner


Before it got too far past Christmas I wanted to post a picture of the Jingle Banner I made. Can you tell I love these things? I think all I need is one for Valentines and St. Patricks and I have every holiday covered.



Close up of one of the letters.


I love the way it turned out. I think I might sell kits for a Valentine Banner that says BE Mine if I get enough interest. Lemme know!

Monday, December 27, 2010

Christmas at the Heaps


We had a wonderful Christmas this year. The boys are at a perfect age and were so excited about this Christmas decorations, Santa, Charlie (our house elf on the shelf), cookies, presents and all the joys the season brings.





The night before we open our Christmas jammies and put our stockings out...as well as cookies and milk for Santa and a carrot for the reindeer.....this one is only for Prancer!


Hayden got his Light Saber...


and Gavin got his World Globe. (It also lights up and shows the constellations at night.



Santa was very good to all of us this year.



We relaxed all afternoon and then had a big Christmas feast at my moms with all the cousins....this isn't even all of them....it was a wonderful day!
Hope you all had a fabulous Christmas as well! Here's to the New Year!

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Hayden


I just had to post this picture of Hayden. He is in a Tough Kids class taught by a friend in my ward. He loves going to this class and it really wares him out. I just love seeing him pulling these weights....he looks so determined and I just think it's adorable.