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Aug. 2012 Visiting Teaching Handout

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The message this month is “Taking Action in Time of Need”  It tells us that as visiting teachers, one of our purposes is to help strengthen families and homes.  The sisters we visit should be able to say, “If I have problems, I know my visiting teachers will help without waiting to be asked.”

So I decided that “Visiting Teachers Can be the Cherry on Top”  would be the perfect thing to go along with this message, because we want our sisters to be able to say this about each of us! Continue reading →

May 2012 Visiting Teaching Handout

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Here is the May Visiting Teaching Handout.

 The message should come from one of the conference talks of your own choosing.  So I decided that since it was the month of May that  I would put “May” we let ourselves be Blessed with the talks from Conference. (Get it?!)

I just stuck this card in a cute little potted plant that you can find anywhere right now.  But if you want to do something else with flowers, you could do sugar cookie flowers, Oreo Cookie Flowers, fresh cut flowers or paper flowers!

Here is the printable, just right click and go to copy.  Open your favorite program like Word or Presentations and right click again and go to paste.  Print and cut out.

Happy Visiting this month!

April 2012, VT Message: Love, Watch Over and Strengthen

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The message for this month is a great message to teach us all how to be better visiting teachers, but for the message to give your sisters I chose to concentrate on the title, “Love, Watch Over and Strengthen”.  It is a great message for anyone and this title exemplifies what we should be doing in the church!

 I included the 9 different steps to help us be better sisters on the flower petals.

To print, right click on the image and go to copy.  Open your favorite program like Word or Presentations.  Right click again and go to paste.  You can re-size to any size.  I printed mine in 4″ x 6″.  I like to print on photo paper or glossy card stock paper.

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BYU Women’s Conference 2012

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I have been asked to help with one of the service projects for the BYU Women’s Conference this year.  I am excited to be a part of this organization.  They always do so much good in these service activities.

This year, one of three of the projects that they are doing is making felt backpacks for school children.  The fun thing about this project this year is that it is going to stay right here in our own communities!

I was asked to help sew some of the velcro on the backpacks.  This was done by machine and that is the only thing sewn by machine.  The rest of the backpacks are all sewn by hand!  That is what all the women will doing Thursday night of the conference!  It will be quite a sight to see so many women doing service all at the same time!

This is only a very small percentage of all the  backpacks that will be made that night.Isn’t this one of the cutest little “Backpack” models that you ever did see? Continue reading →

Story@ Home Conference

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I am excited to tell you about a conference that I am going to attend this weekend.  It is called Story@Home 2012.  It is being held in Salt Lake City, UT at Temple square.

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This is the description of the conference:

Blogging • Family History • Storytelling

“No matter how you tell your stories – through your family history, at your child’s bedside, on your blog, or from a stage – your stories matter. Join us for a conference that will change the way you see your stories and the world, and help you connect in new ways with those you cherish most.

Workshops and performances by award-winning storytellers, performers and speakers, will help you explore ways to use the power of story in your home. You’ll be able to record your own story, start on some research to learn more about your family’s history, get started on a blog and learn how to tell your story through social media.”

If you are anywhere in the area, there are still tickets available here: Story@Home.  One of the speakers is Leigh Anne from your homebased mom.  She has a fun blog that I have followed for a long time, so I am excited to get to meet her and to listen to her class!

If any of you are attending, please come and say hi if you see me.  I would love to meet you!

March Visiting Teaching Handout

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This month the message is titled “Daughters in My Kingdom” and it has a great message about how we are daughters of our Father in Heaven.  He knows us, loves us, and has a plan for us.

How wonderful the world would be if everyone knew just this one eternal principle!  So my handout this month is titled: “Lucky Me – I know:”

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February Visiting Teaching-Guardians of the Hearth

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The message this month is another great one.  I feel like I say that every month but this one is so important to us today.  The family is on attack so much by the world that it is sometimes hard to remember how important our role as mothers are.  I love the quote by President Hinckley where it says: ” No other work reaches so close to divinity as does the nurturing of the sons and daughters of God.”  This is so true yet we forget it so often!  We sometimes say that we are just a mom, and yet as a woman that is one of the most divine callings that we can have!  I love how Sister Barbara Thompson also states that you do not have to be a mom to nurture others, you have a responsibility to nurture all those in your family and even if you were the only living member of your family, you are still a member of God’s family.

For the handout this month I concentrated on the quote from Pres. Hinckley:Here is an idea that I did to go with this tag:Come back tomorrow and I will show you how to make Chocolate Dipped Oreo Flowers!

Jan 2012 VT Message

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The message for this month is titled “Watchcare and Ministering through Visitiing Teaching”  I love the quote by President Monson about, how small acts of service are all that are required to lift and bless some one else.  We do not have to do big, grand things, but it is our small acts that bless others!

So this is the quote that I used for this months handout:

To print, just right click on the image, go to copy, then open your favorite program like word or presentations, right click again and go to paste.  Then you can print it the way it is or you can re-size it to whatever size you want,

Because it is winter time here in Utah, (even though we have had very little snow this year!)  I decided to tie this message to a snowman cupcake!

I love this idea, that I found on pinterest on how to package a cupcake in a clear 9 oz cup, then put into a clear bag and tie with a ribbon!  How cute is that?  You could also tie a plastic spoon to the package if you wanted to.

This idea is also a cute thank you idea…Thank you “snow” much!

Come back tomorrow for a super idea on how to frost your cupcakes with no mess!  I’m serious!  I tried it today and it works like a charm.  So stayed tuned…

Ruffled Tree Skirt

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One down and two more parties to go this week!  Last night we had a really fun party that has become a tradition in our ward (congregation).  The ladies get together for a progressive dinner.  We have been doing it for about 6 years.  I live in a cul-de-sac and so for the last couple of years we have done it all in our cul-de-sac, because then we can just walk from home to home.  It is so fun.  Everyone started at my house for the appetizers, then we walked across the road for a wonderful meal and then back across the street, to my friend, Susan’s,  for the best part of all…desserts!  It was a really fun evening and we had about 50 people there!

So needless to say, I was cleaning my house all day and getting the final touches on my decorating, before the party started.  One of the projects that I did was this cute ruffled tree skirt.  It was so fun and I completed it in a couple of hours!  It has NO SEWING, can you believe it!  It is all hot glued!  (I know me and the glue gun sometimes don’t get along, but I did not burn myself once this time!)

This little tree is in my bedroom and it goes perfectly with a bedspread that I made. 

I am so tickled with this tree skirt and I love all the ruffles!  (Imagine that!)  If you would like to try to make one of these go to Studio 5 for a great tutorial.  I used a small piece of dowel to stick my ruffles down with and that is why I did not get any hot glue burns, in the video, she uses some kind of a glove, that would work too, but I like the dowel, because then my hands were more free.

I will show you a couple of more projects that I did tomorrow, but for now it is off to do some shopping and to get ready for the next two parties! (But at least now my house is clean!)

November Visiting Teaching Conference Bookmark

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This month for visiting teaching you will pick a talk from the conference Ensign, so for the handout, I decided to do a bookmark.

You can use it two ways.  It has a paper clip at the top so you can clip it to the page you want to save, or if you are cross referencing or studying two different talks, you can take the paper clip off and use it on another page, like this…

I cut a slit in the top of the bookmark to insert the paper clip.  Tie a couple of ribbons on the paper clip to make it a little cuter :) I think that ribbon makes everything cuter!  Some day I will show you my ribbon stash!

I had Alphagraphics print my bookmarks on a heavy, glossy cardstock and it cost me 69 cents!  I have put 4 book marks on one 81/2 x 11 sheet, so there should be enough for you to have one too!

To print, just right click and go to copy, then open your favorite program, like Word, then right click again and go to paste.  Or you can send it to your favorite copy center like I did.

 Here is the free printable for you to use:

Happy Thanksgiving to you!

We hope your family like ours, continues to have more to be thankful for each year!