She's Crafty...

For the Young Womens' activity the other night Annette and I wanted to show our love and appreciation for these wonderful girls. We organized and planned the activity, lesson, prayers, snacks, in short - everything. We wanted to thank them for all that they do for our branch and the community. We asked the Branch presidency and the Relief Society and Primary presidencies to write individual notes to each girl and we did this as well. Annette put together a wonderful spread of snacks and I made Valentine cookies. I also thought that it would be nice to give these girls a little gift to show our appreciation so I arranged teacup bouquets for each of them! I used mugs instead of teacups, but the idea was the same. I was able to get the mugs at the 100 yen store and the flowers at the open market that I love to go to. I really had a lot of fun putting these together and I think they turned out great! The girls really loved them and I think they had fun at the activity.
I love working with flowers and although I have a long way to go before I open my own floral shop... ha! I really do enjoy arranging different colors and textures.
A couple of close-ups!

It's funny... when I was younger I hated carnations and thought that they looked cheap. Now I LOVE them! I thought they looked so great with the roses and honestly. who cares if they are cheap? That's a reason TO like them now that I am older! More bang for your buck!

For the letters/ notes that I wrote to each girl
Homemade note cards.
Name tags
Flowers with name tags attached and note cards
I have also started scrap-booking again. A little...
And painting again too... but don't get too excited. This all takes place when Lilia is either napping or in bed for the night and we all know how well she naps....
That said, I'm glad to be DOING something with my art and creativity again. Keeps me busy while Cliff is gone!