The Junk Box

2011-11-05T18:53:00.000-07:00

Photography Tips from Kelli

2011-06-29T19:39:00.000-07:00

I sometimes take photographs for people. In doing so, I get some questions. Here are some answers to some common questions that I am asked. To see my official photography website cick Here or visit us at www.utahphotographicmemories.com or check us out on our blog at www.utahphotographicmemories.blogspot.com

Q. When is the best time to take pictures?
A. About an hour before the sun sets
Here is an example....

Q. What should I wear for a picture?
A. Bright Colors

Here are a few examples:

A. You can wear bright colors, and you don't have to be matchy matchy.

Example:

Q. Where Should We Get Our Pictures Taken?
A. Chose A Location that is very Unique. Not somewhere, where everyone has had there pictures taken.
example:

A. Also, if you don't want a location that has a lot of scenery, then chose a location that has good textures or colors in the background.
Examples:

A. Chose a location with good lighting. Stay out of direct sunlight, but use light to your advantage.
Example:

My favorite tip, No matter who your photographer is, ask for them to take candid shots. They ALWAYS turn out to be my favorite shots

All pictures are copyrighted by Utah photographic memories.

YW Lesson: Our purpose in Life Handouts

2011-02-27T09:36:00.000-08:00

I found these boxes, paper,crown cookie cutter, and ribbon all at Hobby Lobby. I am going to put Oriental Tradings Princess Pops, Princess bracelets, and then my own crown shaped sugar cookies in them.You can also buy the pops and bracelets here. https://www.peanutandmagoos.com
I am going to put in the handout "Our purpose in life" with the box. The handout is from Bishop H. Burke's 1979 New Era talk
"A Royal Generation
My dear friends, you are a royal generation. You were preserved to come to the earth in this time for a special purpose. Not just a few of you, but all of you. There are things for each of you to do that no one else can do as well as you. If you do not prepare to do them, they will not be done. Your mission is unique and distinctive for you. Please don’t make another have to take your place. He or she can’t do it as well as you can. If you will let Him, I testify that our Father in Heaven will walk with you through the journey of life and inspire you to know your special purpose here." You can find it on Lds.Org
I love zebra with hot pink and decided I would use it for this lesson~ On top you can buy crown stickers and place them. I had some on there, but since they are copyrighted I am not going to put them on the blog. You can buy these also at Hobby Lobby. you can added shredded hot pink and black paper in the boxes as well! Enjoy
Jamie C

YW lesson: Creating a spiritual enviroment in the Home

2011-02-27T09:12:00.000-08:00

My idea is for a handout on Lesson 5: Creating a Spiritual Environment in the Home. I thought it would be cute to make a card saying “There is no place like Home” I found some free house clipart here and colored it in. I added glitter in a form of shoes at the bottom of the house, and used colored paper and ribbon that went with the Wizard of Oz theme. I found the poem "If Jesus came to your house” by Lois Blanchard Eades. I printed the poem on vellum and glued it down, onto I put the house clipart attached to a brad. I made sugar cookies using a shoe cookie cutter that you can buy at any cooking store or hobby lobby. I frosted it in red and added edible glitter/sprinkles on it to make it look like Dorothy Shoes.

I want to talk about what makes a home. I will use the example of the temple. It is clean, it is where we leave worldly matters outside and a place of peace. there is soft music and instruction that will help us in our lives. I also believe that home is a place of peace. A place where we recieve instruction to help us in our lives. I love having good smells of candels and sot music playing in my home. That all sounds perfect right? Well it's not always, all we can do is our best and focus on more important things like the family. I have come to realize that while a clean home is nice, I would rather be playing and teaching my kids to help out. I want to have a bunch of pictures of my family growing up and the family I have now. Sometimes having the spirit in our home isn't just the physical, it's the love that grows inside. The temple can be clean, but if people go there angry and mean the spirit is gone. At home I believe looking out for everyone, letting everyone be themselves and knwoing they will be loved no matter what is what lief is about. I want them to see picutres of my siblings with me and our sense of humor. I think when love abounds, the spirit is there watching, happily.

2011-02-23T16:30:00.001-08:00

Sunday was my lesson on "forgiving ourselves" I really wanted the girls to feel the spirit and know that they are loved. Why is it we can see the worth of others so easily, but it's so hard to see our own? I had a lot of positive affirmations on cute paper up on the board "you are more" "you are beautiful," "God allows U Turns," "just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are one" and so on. I started out by reading the definition of Cancer, which is evil, malignant, harmful and fast spreading. I then said that not forgiving ourselves will not kill us off and stop the pain. That this pain can be eternal if we let it. But there is a cure. I went onto talking about toxic shame and negative self talk. I handed them all out some ways to help the shame and talk in our head to turn it into something positive. I gave them a "positive Bin" to put things in when they are feeling down. On top was the 13th article of faith, and the front had a picture I bought at Deseret Book called "Forgiven." The box can be anything from poems to pictures. I then had each of the girls sit in one chair in the front and had everyone write something positive about her on a sticky note. The girls would come up and stick the note on her arm and whisper the positive all at the same time in her ear. The spirit there was strong, and I try to teach based on what would've helped me and hope that they can feel God's love the way I have so much. At the end I talked about Alma and how if he hadn't forgiven himself he wouldn't have been able to do the good in life that he did do. made heart shaped rice crispy treats with sprinkles and chocolate and wrote Alma 32:21 about his "Sweet" joy. I added the song "You are More" by tenth Avenue North in their bins.

Jamie

Neighbor Gift Idea

2010-12-10T17:37:00.000-08:00

You're Gettin' "NUT THINS" For Christmas:

go check out POPPIES AT PLAY for more ideas~!

2009-11-12T19:50:00.000-08:00

I am hosting a Lia Sophia party this Wed. Nov 18th at 6:30 at my house! Come and hang out and enjoy some snacks! Please don't feel obligated to buy anything, just come and enjoy yourself away from the kiddos!!! There will be games & Prizes so don't miss out!!! Let me know if you want to come.... anyone who reads this blog is invited, just leave me a message so I can send you the address. I know some of you that I blog stalk and you do the same, live close by me and would love to officially meet my you, my blog friends. ;)

JAMIE

P.s- I have posted a lot of new ideas on my family blog but it will be coming on here soon.. utahmama3.blogspot.com

2009-11-12T19:46:00.000-08:00

CUTE!! I HEART Felt!!! Check it out : http://blog.thecelebrationshoppe.com/2008/11/17/festive-turkey-table-runner/

My next Project for Christmas!!! Thanks http://needleinahaystackstitchery.blogspot.com/

http://holesinmyshinyveneer.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-tutorial-spool-doll-nativity-part.html

LOVE IT

http://oneinchworld.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/lollipop-tutorial/ THis would work awesome for my wizard of Oz book!

For preschool today we learned about Harriett Tubman! I love this courageous woman!!

Love this idea from http://www.lindseyscraftlist.blogspot/. Match boxes~ Go to her website to look at more How To

JAMIE

2009-11-12T19:45:00.000-08:00

Step 7- You have yourself a Snowman craft!

Step6- Add googly eyes, orange pom poms, and felt mouths!

Step5- cut strips of foam and glue sequences on it

Step 4- Paint the top half black and one whole craft stick black

Step3- paint the sticks white

Step 2- glue 4 of them onto card stock!

Step 1- get five craft sticks!

For thanksgiving, I am in charge of making a craft for a lot of kids. There are 13 siblings in my mother in laws family and each of them have a lot of kids. Just my mother in law has 8 children, and we all have about 3 kids each! So for 25 bucks I have to come up with a craft for a TON of kids. Here is something I have wanted to make for a long time that I once saw. I decided to try it myself.

JAMIE

2009-11-09T18:04:00.001-08:00

It's time for Christmas pictures!!! If you want some pics taken contact my sister and friend at this website: http://www.utahphotographicmemories.com/

Here is some of their work!

The above picture is the one where we were at a wedding and I told he she should get down by the flower... LOOK it turned out way better than I was even thinking!! I love these next temple ones!!

More Pictures from my sisters website!

JaMiE

2009-11-09T17:41:00.000-08:00

IF you know me I love things that sparkle. I love Dorthy Shoes and this is why I came up with an idea that I want to try. My problem is I can come up with the idea but putting it together is another thing. It never turns out the way I want it to. For Christmas I wanted to make a Wizard of Oz Quiet Book. On the front cover I would have the lion, scarecrow, and Tin man's face. Whoever I give the book to I would put their name above it in felt. Then you would open the book with the number 1 in felt. You would see a fuzzy little Toto dog. Number 2 you would see two red ruby slippers with sequences. Number 3- Lolly Pops. Number 4- Dorthy, Tin man, Lion, & Scarecrow strolling down the yellow brick road. Number 5- Maybe have the wicked witch of the west counting her flying monkeys. *Again out of felt.* Number 6- have Glenda with her 6 bubbles coming from her wand. I need some ideas for number 7, 8, 9 and then for 10 I would do munchkins. If anyone can put something like this together and show me what they came up with would be great, or if you have any other ideas let me know! Today I found Dorthy blue and white fabric, shiny metal looking fabric for the tin man, a witches hat, and yarn for the scarecrow hair. By the time you purchase everything it does become expensive so I didn't end up buying it all. This will have to be a project in the future. Just thought I Would share my idea. Here are some pictures of ideas I have found at the store or online. The Lion is a cute quiet book from www.thedixonstory.blogspot.com Awesome job she did!!

This material for Tin Man

make shoes out of felt and hot glue red sequences

I could go on and on... so we will see how it turns out later. Maybe I should have kept it a secret... nah I'm not like that, I will share with everyone my ideas!!
JaMiE

2009-10-09T15:59:00.000-07:00

LOVe Love this idea from Daily Digi

2009-09-28T14:41:00.001-07:00

I found these cute things to dazzle your daughter's!! Here is a great idea for clips, and here is a cute princess shirt.

Freebie Friday

2009-07-17T07:27:00.000-07:00

Go here for a free children's book- Peta

Click here for free veggie meal

Click here for free 30 day Dave Ramsey Total Money Makeover
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Hurry at 9 o'clock today go get your free choc late here
Free BBQ sauce at Albertsons. Purchase 10 for 99 cents each. Receive 5 dollars off instantly. Then 5 dollar Catalina coupons will print out making your purchase pretty much free. Thanks for the tip Fabulously frugal

Smiths in AF is closing so things are 20% off. Many times stores will up prices to make it look reduced so be careful when shopping at stores going out of style. Thanks for the tip Brea

2009-07-08T08:40:00.000-07:00

Thank you to our new followers and for those stopping by!! I have added your tags from your blogs to my other blog at utahmama3.blogspot.com *my website list/link and family blog*so others can link to it. The junk box is where my sister Kelli and I like to post ideas. If you have any ideas and would like to be featured let us know!!! :)

Jamie

Wedding Season Part 1

2009-07-08T06:20:00.001-07:00

Here are some cute ideas. I went over to Make and Takes blog and she found an idea from little birdie secrets to use for a shower. They made this pillow that says "In the mood" on one side and the other can say "In your dreams" or something. IF you want to be more discrete you could say "yes" and "No" like they said on their blog. They also said if you don't like that you could simply put "Mrs. Jones" on one pillow and "Mr. Jones" on the other. You could even do "His" and "Hers". They said you could sew it, use special markers, transfer or whatever else comes in handy. Check out their blog for more ideas!

I have also stumbled across this fun website for couples called Love, Actually !! There is even a link to a thing called "Hoochymail" which is quite funny. You put you and your loved ones name and it makes up a story. Anyways the author of this blog is named Cher and she has amazing ideas!! My favorite one is the "boot Camp"

How cute are these if you are doing a bridal shower?! I found this at wedding ideas
Some things I have done for bridal showers is get a vase of cute flowers and put it in a bigger vase with tons of candy (Depending on the colors of the wedding) If it's pink and red, I would use pink and red candies.

I found that on Martha Stewart a couple years back. Everyone has to guess how many candies are in the vase, whoever is closest wins. I also got some clothing pins at Dollar Tree (They look like little people) so I added some tole and made it a bride. Here is an example of how someone else made them :

IF anyone said the word Bride they had to give up their pin. You could also do famous historical couples in history game where everyone has to guess who their lover was. For instance you say "Cleopatra" and they have to come up with the answer "Mark Anthony"

Lately I am into the monograms. Here are some examples:

Layers of Love

http://www.weddingideas2u.com/

Jamie

2009-07-07T07:24:00.000-07:00

A big shout out THANK YOU to Jen at "A Thrifty Home" who nominated me for this award!! ( I have added your taglink to your blog on my other blog at utahmama3

The Rules to this award:
The Rules:
1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
5. Nominate 7 Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs, letting them know they have been nominated.

7 Things about myself:

1. I teach preschool in my home and I LOVE it!! I figured since I have three little kids and I was going to be teaching them until Kindrgarten that I would start my own preschool.

2. I love history,(I even teach the preschoolers some fun little historic people and are amazed how easy it is for them to rmember) I love books, movies, or talking with anyone who has experienced WWII or 9/11 personlly.

3. I am the third child out of seven. My sister on this blog with me is my older sister *She is also a twin* My husband is sixth out of eight. As you can tell we come from a BIG Family, and I love it. Let's just say there is never a dull moment.

4. I love scary movies. Not the normal slasher, gory kind. I love suspense and grew up on Alfred Hitchcock movies, my favorite being Vertigo. (Love James Stewart)What I love is scarring people, especially my husband, he jumps so hard while watching movies it makes me laugh(If he knew I said that he would kill me LOL)

5. I have a special love for people at nursing homes. I used to work at two of them the summer before I went to college. I loved getting to know the people, their stories, and even the Alzheimer's unit. I used to visit nursing homes as a teenager, and always told myself If I ever became rich I would start a charity for the old and the young. I Would love to do something during Christmas time and deliver things to those in nursing homes. I think it would be fun to get people to dress up as Cinderella and deliver gifts to the children with cancer up at the hospital.

6. I have three beautiful kids that keep me on my toes. I have an addiction of keeping my house clean. Maybe it' because that is the only thing I can control in this world.. my home. Those that were my roommates would be shocked, because I wasn't always like that, even though my mom was. I Guess he older I Get the more I become like her.

7. I dedicate everything to my husband. I met him while in college and thought he would become a great friend who I could rely on. Little did I know he would soon be my husband. He is my best friend, makes me the woman I have always longed to be, and helps me through so much in my life. I love him and realize I must have done something right for God to send me to him, or my husband must have done something wrong to be stuck with my through eternity. JK.

This was hard to chose but here they are:
7 kreativ Blog Awards to blogs I love and Check often:

1. Andy at Poppies at Play

2. (sorry this is two but can't chose only one) Sisters Stuff

3. Kelli for her photography and Ideas here and at packer family

4.Nicole at Livin Life Patino Style

5.Kari at U create

6.Stacie at The Creative Crate

7. Ashley- at The Brandes Family

2009-06-30T16:41:00.001-07:00

I just got back from the store and if you are reading this, tonight is the last night of this sale. I combined Savvy Shopper, Grocery Smarts, and the Grocery Guru to find these deals. I went to Albertsons and with my sunday newspaper coupons I was able to buy ten boxes of Kelloggs cereal ( I got the sale where you buy ten items for ten dollars you get five dollars back. I then had a three coupons. One coupon was 1.50 off of one box of frosted flakes. I recieved Three of these boxes for Free) I got 2 boxes of poptarts, 6 hamburger helpers, two cans of vegtables, 2 bottles of Ken's Salad Dressing, 2 bryers ice creams *normally $ 6.37 I got it for .50 cents* had Igone early this week I would have gotten hot dogs for really cheap but they were all out. soWhat do you get for10 boxes Kellogg's cereal2 boxes Kellogg's pop tarts6 boxes hamburger helper2 cans of veggies8 boxes of Kraft mac n cheese2 bottle of Ken's salad dressing2 boxes of bryers ice creamThis would normally cost 94 dollars. I saved $74 dollars in coupons and my final price was $20.52. I pay for three newspapers on Sunday for 12 dollars a month. One shopping Trip far outweighed that. I Then went to Smiths and bought other stuff I needed and still came back saving 12 dollars off the original albertson's price !! More to come in the future...

Jamie

2009-06-20T08:58:00.001-07:00

I love these ideas for Father's day presents and cards!

This adorable "milk carton" and card idea from Creative Itch
Here is a hand stitched card from Makes and Takes

From memory works
from Melstamps

From Alphamom

from Bakerella
Templates:http://www.bakelove.com/bakerella_fathers_day.pdf

from sister stuff

JAMIE

Ruth and Naomi

2009-06-17T14:19:00.000-07:00

Lesson today is on Ruth! When I think her and her mother in law, it makes me happy to know I have a good mother in law as well. If I had to leave I would be able to go with her and enjoy my life as Ruth did.

HERE is the lesson

If you want more go to thejunkboxes.blogspot.com

Save your toilet paper rolls:

Friendship Bread
Amish Friendship Bread thanks to :www.flbelt.com
IMPORTANT NOTES:
• DO NOT USE ANY TYPE OF METAL SPOON OR BOWL FOR MIXING
• DO NOT REFRIGERATE.
• LET AIR OUT OF BAG REGULARLY.
• IT IS NORMAL FOR THE BATTER TO RISE, BUBBLE AND FERMENT.

Day 1 Do nothing.
Day 2 Mush the bag.
Day 3 Mush the bag.
Day 4 Mush the bag.
Day 5 Mush the bag.
Day 6 1 Cup flour, 1 Cup sugar, and 1 Cup milk. Add to bag.
Day 7 Mush the bag.
Day 8 Mush the bag.
Day 9 Mush the bag.
Day 10 Follow the directions:
1. Pour entire contents of bag into a non-metal bowl.
2. Add 1-1/2 Cup sugar, 1-1/2 Cup flour and 1-1/2 Cup milk. Mix. Batter will have a lumpy appearance.
3. Measure 1 Cup of the batter into a 1 gallon bag. Repeat 3 times so you have a total of 4 bags with 1 Cup of batter each. Keep a Starter for yourself and give the other 3 bags to friends. Mark the bags with the starting date. This is Day 1.
4. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
5. To the remaining batter in the bowl, add:
a. 3 eggs
b. 1/2 Cup milk
c. 1 Cup oil
d. 1 Cup sugar
e. 2 Cups flour
f. 1 large box (5.1 oz) instant vanilla pudding (not prepared)
g. 2 teaspoons cinnamon
h. 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
i. 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
j. 1/2 teaspoon salt
k. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
6. Grease 2 large loaf pans. Mix additional 1/4 Cup sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Dust the greased pans with half of this mixture. Keep the other half for the top in #7 below.
7. Pour the batter evenly into the 2 pans and sprinkle the remaining sugar mixture over the top.
8. Bake for 1 hour.

If you keep a Starter for yourself, you will bake every 10 days. This bread is very good and makes a great gift. Only the Amish know how to create the Starter, so if given one, remember to keep a Starter for yourself.
JAMIE

2009-06-16T16:33:00.001-07:00

I had come up with an idea when a friend asked what she should do for a craft for YW's. I just had the song in my head " I love to see the temple, I am going there someday." I figured just to put " Going there someday" well today I ran across these cute little things!!! Great minds think alike, but I think this girl made it better then I Could any day!! Way Cute and only 3 bucks!
Also if you are in YW's or in the presidency, what a cute locker magnets to put at school! Thanks Simply Creative Crafts!
JAMIE

2009-06-16T14:58:00.000-07:00

I have a ton of file folder games and was trying to upload the sheets so anyone could print it off and make some of their own (I love FREE Things!) However, something is wrong with my scanner so I will try agian tomorrow. Here are the first couple ones that I was trying to upload:

JAMIE

2009-06-16T14:21:00.001-07:00

What a great Father day gift idea for the kids. You could even try to put it in the french fry box they made. All of these ideas where from Sisters Stuff HERE

French Fry Box CUTOUT (creative Keepsakes)

JAMIE

File Folder Church Games

2009-06-15T07:48:00.000-07:00

Our cozy nest had a wonderful idea for her children at church. She cut file folders in half and made file folder games for the kids to play. Here is the idea! Some of these ideas are LDS, but here is one for anyone who also believes in the bible! I will be making some of these for my kids!~

HERE is the church game website

That time of year!

2009-06-15T07:13:00.000-07:00

For Father's day, I thought these chipboard books were so cute! You can buy them here. If you want you can evn digitally scrapbook them then print it out and modge podge it on the boards.

If you want a cheaper idea, you could make this book for him. The bare books are CHEAP here!

Thanks to craftingchicks for the idea!

JAMIE

2009-06-13T17:11:00.000-07:00

This summer I decided to turn my preschool room into a scripture story learning center. I did this with my kids before I started teaching preschool. Each day/ week (depending on how I feel) I will teach the kids a scripture story along with some easy crafts/coloring pages.

Today we learned about the 10 commandments. We talked about Moses. Here are some things I used to teach them:
this is a "Men of the Bible" booklet. Each day I let them color the person we are learning about, so at the end they will have a complete little book of all those they have learned. I am going to try to make my own for a "women of the bible" as well.

Teacher's guide to tell story:

http://www.dltk-bible.com/exodus/moses_and_the_10_commands-cv.htm

They also have cute little clip art next to each of the !0 commandment calendar on their website that I copied and pasted into Microsoft word and let them color. We are going to watch "The Prince Of Egypt". We are going to make sugar cookies in the shapes of the Ten Commandment stone.
Something sort of like this, but hopefully it doesn't turn out looking like a grave LOL. Cheesy I know but hey they love it. Tomorrow is Noah and I have already found some cute ideas for that one!! Including an "Animal Cracker Ark" Will share more tomorrow~!

2009-06-13T17:10:00.000-07:00

1. Lesson :

http://www.dltk-bible.com/genesis/chapter6-cv.htm

2. Craft- You could get popcylce sticks and paste them on this boat to write goals your kids want to acheive. then glue on some animal crackers at the bottom.

3. Cross Word Puzzle and Mini Book:

You could even make a rainbow out of painted hand prints.

FOOD: Rainbow Cookies!

INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)
3/4 cup butter, softened
3 ounces cream cheese
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
assorted colors of paste food coloring
24 lollipop sticks
Add to Recipe Box
My folders:

DIRECTIONS
In a bowl cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat until smooth.
In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Stir till soft dough forms. Divide dough into fourths. Tint each with a different food color. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Working with half of each color, shape dough into 3/4 inch balls and for each cookie place 1 pink, 1 green, 1 blue and 1 orange ball together to make 1 large ball. Shape into a 12 inch long roll (like a snake), starting at one end, coil roll to make a 2 3/4 inch round cookie. Place cookies 3 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheet. Carefully insert lollipop sticks into bottoms of cookies.
Bake cookies for 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool and store in an airtight container.
Thanks to plumpudding,Dltk

Jamie

Summer Scripture Stories

2009-06-13T17:09:00.000-07:00

1. Lesson:

http://www.dltk-bible.com/cv/daniel_and_the_lions.htm

Activities:

Make sugar cookies and frost paw prints:

Play with me Sesame

2009-06-13T09:51:00.001-07:00

found this cute invite from "Couture Parties"

I told you earlier I was thinking of doing a "Sesame Street" birthday party for Faith! She LOVES Ernie from "Play with me Sesame" I showed you earlier the cute Elmo cupcakes and I now found these cookie monster ones!!! I am going to try to find a cupcake for a different character! For Oscar the grouch you can use dyed green coconut for his fur. OR maybe I will make three round cakes, one of Elmo, one of Cookie monster, and a small one of oscar. Kind of like this *but round*

JAMIE

"F"or Beauty Sake

2009-06-13T08:24:00.001-07:00

I have ran across so many cool ideas from other fellow bloggers, that I have decided on Fridays I will do a "For beauty's sake" day where I post all the things I liked that week.
1. I LOVE this girl, Andy's blog!!! "Poppies at Play" she find the best things at the DI or yard sales and creates them into works of art!! Here is one of my favorite things she found: before and after:

2. Some people have been asking more about the "washer necklace" and anklets that I have seen on other links to blogs. Thanks to "The Creative Crates" for the necklace idea & Here are the anklet website : http://thecreativeitchboutique.blogspot.com/

3. LOVE this adorable playhouse!! They did a great job!!
http://littlenannygoat.blogspot.com/2009/06/our-playhouse.html

4. Love this Chore chart from http://controllingmychaos.blogspot.com/ THANKS!

5. Once again "controlling my chaos" who found a beauty at a garage sale for 5 bucks and turned it into this:

2009-05-27T07:07:00.000-07:00

Jen from http://www.thethriftyhome.com/ has a wonderful idea on how to get rid of tough water stains. You have to go to her blog and see the before and after!! I have tried to clean the little water tray under the water dispenser and can never do it! On Jen's blog she said to use vinegar!! What a great idea. I am going to the store today!!

Jamie

2009-05-27T06:59:00.001-07:00

Love the idea of a "Washer Necklace" that I saw on http://thecreativecrate.blogspot.com/2009/05/fun-washer-necklaces.html. Such a great idea Stacie has!! Go to her blog for intructions.

Jamie

2009-05-06T13:11:00.000-07:00

On Sale:" Kelloggs Cereal Frosted Flakes, Bite Size Frosted Mini Wheats, Raisin Bran, Corn Flakes, Mini Wheats Maple, Strawberry, Blueberry, Cinnamon or Little Bites Mini Wheats Chocolate or Honey Nut
(Coupon Offer) Save $1.50 on Kelloggs Cereal 10oz or larger
Note: $1.00/1 www.smartsource.com
$1.50/1
RP 4/5-6" Thanks Savvy Shopper!
Final Price 0.38!!!

Jamie

TIE DYED EASTER EGGS

2009-04-10T13:33:00.000-07:00

My kids had so much fun doing this activity, that we actually ended up doing it two days in a row. It is simple, clean, and a lot of fun. All you need is some old silk ties, an old pillow case, and some white vinegar.

1. First find silk ties

2. cut ties take out the binding inside, so you just have the silk piece, cut silk pieces so they can wrap completely around the egg

3. wrap silk around raw egg as tight as possible with the pattern facing the egg

4. tie with a twisty or rubber band

5. cut squares out of white sheet or pillow case, wrap them around the silk eggs, tie with rubber band or twisty.

6. put eggs in pot, cover completely with water, add 1/4 cup white vinegar

7. boil eggs for 20 min

8. remove from water, when cooled take off material, and tada you have your TIE DYED EGG

2009-04-09T11:24:00.000-07:00

For preschool today we made Carrots out of Cheetos! The kids loved it. You just get cake decorating bags that are clear, add the Cheetos, and tie a green ribbon around it!

Another cute idea is to make birds nests. What you have to do is get chow main noodles and make them like rice crispy treats . You can add coconut and then add your Easter egg candy and peeps!

You can add them to cupcakes for fun!

2009-03-25T13:37:00.001-07:00

If you are looking for some cute hats, check out my friends website:

http://www.wilkersonivffund.blogspot.com/

Jamie

Easy Spring Craft

2009-03-19T21:10:00.000-07:00

This is a fun easy craft for any age child. (Craft and picture credit to Familyfun.com)

1. Have your child trace his hand onto a piece of white card stock (regular paper works too but isn't as durable) and cut out the shape. Cut two double leaves from green card stock and punch holes in the centers where the leaves meet.
2. Curl the paper fingers and leaves by wrapping them around a pencil.
3. Wrap the hand around the top of a green plastic straw and secure it with tape. Slide the leaves onto the straw and tape them in place. For the flower's stamen, fold half of a yellow pipe cleaner in half and curl down the ends. Insert the folded end in the straw.

food Storage 101

2009-03-15T20:43:00.000-07:00

With all the case lot sales going on this is a good time to discuss food storage. After much research, I put together this little Table on Excel. It tells you exactly what you need for four people for a year. Macey's is having a great deal on flour and Sugar. I got 50 lbs of flour for about 12 bucks.

needed for 4
Grains
Potato flakes
wheat 600 lbs
Flour 100 lbs
Corn Meal 100lbs
oats 100 lbs
rice 200 lbs
pasta 100lbs
total grains:1200
FATS & OILS
Shortening 16 lbs
Veg. Oil 8 gallons
Peanut butter 16lbs
butter
total fats 35 lbs

LEGUMES
Beans, Dry 120 lbs
lima beans 20 lbs
Soy beans 40 lbs
Split Peas 20 lbs
Lentils 20 lbs
Dry soup mix 20 lbs
dried eggs 24 lbs
Total Legumes(240lbs)

SUGARS
Honey 12 lbs
Sugar 160 lbs
Brown Sugar 12 lbs
molasses 4 lba
corn syrup 12 lbs
Jams 12 lbs
fruit drink 24 lbs
flavored gelatin 4 lbs
total sugars 224 lbs

Milk
dry milk 100 lbs
evaporate milk 48 cans
other 52 lbs

Cooking ess.
Baking Powder 4lbs
Baking Soda 4lbs
Yeast 2lbs
salt 20 lbs
vinegar 2 gall

Water 56 gallons
chlorine

Misc.
Potatoes Flakes
Apple slices
dry onions
cheese 24 lbs
fruit 30 lbs
meat subs. 12 cans

2009-03-11T15:44:00.001-07:00

Smiths has a promotion going on buy 10 participating items and get 5 dollars off. They have Kellogg's cereal on sale for 1.69 when you buy the 10. If you get the Sunday paper look in the Feb 22nd RED PLUM coupons and you will find a coupon there for $1 off one Kellogg's cereal, therefore making the price 0.69 a box! If you like Quaker Quakes they are on sale for 0.49 but if you use the coupon from Jan. 18th in RED PLUM you get $1 off of one, making your final price
-0.51 (FREE) I am so mad I didn't bring my coupons because I just bought five boxes and found out if I had taken my coupons I would have saved 3 bucks ( since I get three Sunday papers) An easy way of keeping track of your coupons is writing the date on the top of the Red Plum, Smart source, or any other coupon book and sticking them in a binder. Then when you find a good deal you just find the date at the top of the coupon book and go through that particular coupon book until you find the coupon you are looking for. If you cut all your coupons out at one time it is harder to keep track.

2009-03-10T16:42:00.000-07:00

I saw this and thought how cute this would be for my preschool! http://www.skiptomylou.org/ has this cute idea and directions for play food!!

2009-03-10T11:53:00.001-07:00

My sister in law has some cute fabric frames in her son's nursery! You can go to Michael's where they have unfinished wood frames and put fabric on instead of paint!! Another idea is find different wood shapes and instead of doing a clock wall you could do a fabric shape wall. Here is a picture to kind of get the idea.

door make- overs

2009-03-10T11:28:00.001-07:00

Now that spring is in the air, here are some cheap ways to put a little color on your home. First you can paint your door with a vinyl lettering on it. If you go to Rod Works they have vinyl already cut out for the door. They have a vinyl saying for each season of the year. They are $15.
When you are done you could add a cute wreath for it.

Free Give Aways

2009-03-09T15:40:00.000-07:00

For all of you that love Free things, my friend Kari recommended this site http://www.giveawaytoday.blogspot.com/

Apparently, they give away a free thing everyday. So, if you like contests and like to win things, check them out. .

My Latest Project

2009-03-06T21:16:00.000-08:00

I am making a photo book using the Proclamation to the World. I went to this great website,*made by legacy digital design) and downloaded her FREE templates. All I had to do is open the templates up in photoshop and insert my own pictures into the blanks. When I am all finished, I will upload the finished pages to Picaboo, or Blurb or snapfish, and then I will have all the pages printed off in a book. (If you don't have photoshop, you can still do this project. Just download a Free program called Paint.net to do this project.)

Yw Ideas

2009-03-06T11:34:00.000-08:00

I was talking to a couple people about YW ideas. Here is one that I found and absolutely love. You could do Pres. Hinkley's "B's" on a block. You can buy them here: polkadotthoughts.wordpress.com

The other day a friend was asking what she could make for a young woman night on temple marriage. I told her she should find some vinyl and say "going there someday" on a block of wood. This is something simple, but the girls will love.

BLOG BUTTONS

2009-03-06T10:59:00.001-08:00

For my first post, I wanted to tell you about how to make a Blog Button. I always see them on people's blogs, and wonder how the heck they get them on their blogs! After searching for way to long on google, I found the best website with instructions. It is very easy.
Click HERE for instructions