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!

Pinterest addiction

My peppermint cake got on the main page of Pinterest this weekend - now I have over 900 repins and links onto my blog - wow! I know this isn't anything exciting for most of you but it kind of tickled me :)

I've been spending a lot of time on Pinterest. The first time I went to the site, I just saw a lot of images posted and thought "what's the big deal?".  I didn't understand that when you "pin" images to your "boards" (just like pinning a picture to a cork board - you get the drift), you can click on those images and it takes you to the original website or blog from which it came.  So instead of adding dozens of bookmarks to your favorites - this keeps them all for you with images!!  

When you browse through Pinterest, you'll end up seeing all the best of the blogs and sites. There are tons of ideas and inspiration to be found. I really LOVE it - go and see for yourself :) 

Here are a couple examples of how it looks