Young Womens New Beginnings 2014

 New Beginnings is an evening that introduces the Young Womens program and the Personal Progress program to all the incoming 12-year old girls.  We used the 2014 theme, "Come unto Christ" and added in the quote "When yo give your heart to inviting people to come unto Christ, your heart will be changed."  We wanted to use all the eight value colors but also tie it into the Valentine's time of year and quote with hearts.  The program was really wonderful - we had eight girls speak for a couple of minutes on the different Values and we had our Personal Progress leader talk to the girls and families about that program.  We served strawberry shortcake afterwards - delicious!

The invite we printed out and mailed to all the girls and their families.

I made the heart garlands by sewing together all the hearts that were cut on my Silhouette. The larger hearts were first printed with the Value that is represented by that color.

We found this poster print on Etsy and added some beautiful colored flowers.

One of our leaders put together these cute frames for the incoming girls with the year's theme. We also gave the a little bag of value gumballs with the cute "heart" quote attached.

 A look at my gumball tower - the pink should really be gold but that wasn't possible. I got a huge box of gumballs at Sams Club (850!) and layered them into a tall glass container. Then added a yellow striped ribbon on the top (see photo above) - I love how it all turned out.

Young Womens in Excellence 2013

I've been a bit behind on blogging due to my crazy family life the past few months!!  I just wanted to share some things we've done in Young Women's at church lately.  The first is Young Womens in Excellence. This is an evening where the girls can showcase what they have accomplished in the Personal Progress program.  We had displays all around the room showing off the talents and achievements of our girls. I decorated around a theme that I got off Pinterest - Seek the Sweet.  It was fun and right up my alley!

 I covered the large chalkboard with wrapping paper from Hobby Lobby (love their wraps!). Then designed out this poster and printed it out as a 30"x20". Used coffee filter and tulle poms with ruffled streamer garlands.

To the side of the room, we had our main decor and sundae bar.  Made up different sized pom pons out of tissue, tulle, and coffee filters.  Then hung white plastic tablecloths to cover the curtain fabric. I attached streamers up to and twisted to create backdrop.

 We gave each young woman a take-home box with lemonade cookies inside (have to keep with the color scheme :)

 The sundae bar was a hit - this doesn't show it with all the topping like the hot fudge, caramel sauce, and whipped cream. We had Blue Bell ice-cream! Yay for living in Texas!