tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85169134208539162232024-02-19T07:54:25.517-08:00Pattie's PlaceA place to blog about life's big and little events!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.comBlogger267125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-76633169571575131952016-05-15T22:20:00.001-07:002016-05-15T22:20:17.140-07:00RESTORE Deck Painting Restore Deck Painting is a great product for fixing dry, cracked and chipped decks that are still in pretty good shape as far as the wood goes. Sometimes you just want to do a little quickie project to make it looks clean and fresh on your deck. This is the product you need to do the job. It is a very thick, textured paint that almost looks like it has bits of sand in it.<br />
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It goes on very thick with a roller. It dries pretty quickly too.
We have an old house. I think it is around 35 years old. So this deck may be really, really crotchety! That means old in pig latin. And we redid the flat part last year. This year we wanted to redo all the posts and cover up those dumb hearts. <b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">(Who puts hearts on balconies except the Swiss? Are we living in the Swiss Alps or what?</span>)</b><br />
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When we started the project last year we had to do a lot of PREP! Oh my GOSH the deck was flaky. Is yours that way too? Yuck! I took the power washer and washed off the entire deck really good. It took me an hour or so. Then I let it dry.<br />
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This Deck Restore Paint is the greatest product EVER! It is from Home Depot. If you don't want to redo your whole deck in Trex, this is a good alternate solution. It really made our deck look better.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RESTORE DECK PAINT comes in a gallon can and we bought an applicator roller that had a texture to it. You can add your broomstick to it so it isn't so backbreaking to apply.</td></tr>
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We sanded it with just a big wire brush, just to loosen anything that might chip off. We picked a dark brown but unfortunately they didn't have our exact shade. You have to choose from their color selection which isn't a huge variety, but there are about 20 colors. And we could have color matched. I think we should have, but we are getting ready to paint the house anyway, so no worries.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Here is a short video showing HOW to spread the DECK RESTORE PAINT onto your old deck. It looks really easy, AND IT WAS! Especially for me because all I did was watch! Well, and I cleaned up too. :D</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is my cute hubs doing the <span style="color: purple;">MANLY WORK! </span> We got a color matching THE RESTORE PAINT for the deck posts and the railings around the deck. I still haven't done it.....I am such a procrastinator! <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="color: purple;"> <span style="color: red;">Maybe I can get him to do THAT TOO! hmmm.....</span></span></b></span></span></td></tr>
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I decided our old umbrella had seen better days. So I got a fresh, new, green umbrella and some cute outdoor cushions and a few decorations for the deck. It was so boring before! But don't the deck planks look fantastic? Oh yeah! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love the new umbrella and the oil lamp on the table. I found it from Pier 1 on clearance! It was only 8 bucks! Woot! </td></tr>
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The flag above I won in a blogger contest. Yay for me! It is so pretty out on the deck post. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fake flowers in pots around the deck mixed with real ones. I got that tip from JOY IN THE GARDEN'S radio show. She does it even with tulips and daffodils! Great idea! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We added these copper, solar lights to the end posts of the deck, they were about $15.00 each at the end of the summer last year. Aren't they pretty? Check them out <a href="http://www.homedepot.com/buy/outdoors-decking-post-caps/summit-4-in-x-4-in-copper-and-plastic-solar-post-cap-182948.html">Here at Home Depot.</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I took a break from home improvements and got season passes for the hubs and I to go to Cowabunga Bay. They had a Buy One Get One Freebie deal so I bought 4 more tickets so if some of my relatives come we can go play.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swimming at Cpwabunga Bay is so fun the 98 degree heat! Oh yeah. I can't wait! </td></tr>
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She loves all the slides at Cowabunga Bay.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love my daughter's new house and how cute she has decorated the kitchen and dining rooms. They also did a blue and gray kitchen backsplash remodel. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the first kitchen backsplash. I love it. She started with a gray glass in this multiwidth pattern. But she didn't love it with the granite. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So they tore it out (big job!) and decided to change to this subway pattern with some little flecks in it. They loved it. So do I. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I decided to snap some pics of her cute dining room too. I love how it turned out. This lamp is so pretty and glittery. When you touch it...you can hear the chiming of the glass pieces. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty candlesticks from me, her cool mom. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This gray colored plate is pretty large on the wall and adds a neat texture piece to the room.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close up of these pretty white matted pictures in different scrapbook papers. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We enjoyed some good food while we were there. I loved these cute straws and napkins that match the house decor. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is her grandmother's china, my mom gave it to her in her will as she was the first granddaughter in the family. It is still timeless. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favorite little grandson. He's my only grandson too. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty decor in the gray and white room. The tray ceiling is pretty too. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I loved the rug and the blue tufted chairs too.. I love it all. It's such a pretty place.<br />
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I think she likes decorating as much as I do. She is really good at it too I think! </div>
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Happy 4th of July! I decided to make some cute 4th of July Crafts and Food today. It is America's Birthday after all! Woot!
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<span style="line-height: 1.5;">I'm making cream puffs and cupcakes but I'm going to use these </span><a href="http://www.seasidecreative.com/archives/1337" style="line-height: 1.5;">Freebie Cupcake Toppers</a><span style="line-height: 1.5;"> on toothpicks and some little </span><strong style="line-height: 1.5;">AMERICAN FLAGS</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5;"> like the ones below. I'll have to sprinkle some patriotic sprinkles on top of the cream puffs for pizzaz! </span><img alt="4th of July 025" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-7513" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/4th-of-July-025-1024x768.jpg" height="480" style="line-height: 1.5;" width="640" />
Cute 4th of July Cupcakes are always easy and a hit. Try some cream puffs for a change of pace. They are easy too and feed a large crowd. <img alt="4th of July Cupcakes " class="wp-image-7512 size-large" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/4th-of-July-028-1024x768.jpg" height="480" width="640" /> Patriotic 4th of July Cupcakes made with fresh blueberries and strawberries and decorated with marshmallow cream mixed with cream cheese and cool whip. Recipe is <a href="http://www.food.com/recipe/the-best-and-the-last-cream-cheese-frosting-youll-ever-make-451481">HERE.</a><a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/july-036-e1436027484478.jpg"><img alt="Last 4th of July pictures. " class="size-large wp-image-7511" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/july-036-1024x768.jpg" height="480" width="640" /></a> Last 4th of July pictures.[/caption]
I wish I had my doggie Bruce to dress up all Patriotic! But I'll have to just enjoy seeing pics of other doggies all decked out in their amazing best of the red, white and blue. Here is our granddog Gunner in his cowbow wow tie.
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 24pt;"><strong>FOODS for 4th of JULY: </strong></span><a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9881-e1427215412227.jpg"><img alt="Pasta with Lemon Garlic Alfredo Sauce " class="wp-image-7127 size-full" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9881-e1436028656689.jpg" height="432" width="640" /></a> Pasta salad is always a good choice for hot summer days because you use vinegar and oil dressing (I love KRAFT House Italian the best). Here I used a pretty bowtie and added fresh veggies, chicken and some Parmesan cheese.[/caption]
I'm making a pasta salad today to go with the potato salad we love. Click on the link below the picture for the recipe.<img alt="I also really like Girrards Greek dressing. But it is hard to find. I sometimes see it at Target. It is great with artichoke hearts in the pasta salad. RECIPE HERE. " class="wp-image-7528 " src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/parade-of-homes-051-1024x768.jpg" height="480" width="640" /> I also really like Girrards Greek dressing. But it is hard to find. I sometimes see it at Target. It is great with artichoke hearts in the pasta salad. <a href="http://weekdaychef.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-years-yummy-artichoke-pasta-how.html">RECIPE HERE.</a><a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/potato-salad-007.jpg"><img alt="Potato Salad that only has 4 main ingredients but tastes out of this world. Recipe is HERE. " class="wp-image-7514" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/potato-salad-007-1024x768.jpg" height="479" width="640" /></a> Potato Salad that only has 4 main ingredients but tastes out of this world. Recipe is<a href="http://weekdaychef.blogspot.com/2012/08/creamy-potato-salad.html"> HERE</a><img alt="veggies 001" class="wp-image-7498 size-large" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/veggies-001-1024x775.jpg" height="484" width="640" /> Here is one way to arrange your veggies and dip. But I found a better way. Much more creative and fun. Here is my variation after staring at pinterest for a while. haha.<img alt="Veggie Tree and Dip. " class="wp-image-7500 size-large" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/IMG_9911-1024x901.jpg" height="563" width="640" /> Veggie Tree and Dip. And some fun foods for the occasion. Here is a cool way to display veggies and dips for the 4th of July Par-tay! Woo Hoo. Fireworks here we come!<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/parade-of-homes-046.jpg"><img alt="Delicious fresh summer fruits on a skewer really can't be beat for any summer celebration too. They looks so much fancier on wooden skewers too, and kids can help make them! " class="wp-image-7524 " src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/parade-of-homes-046-1024x775.jpg" height="484" width="640" /></a> Delicious fresh summer fruits on a skewer really can't be beat for any summer celebration too. They looks so much fancier on wooden skewers too, and kids can help make them! <img alt="I just need to add some red flowers and an American Flag! " class="wp-image-7496 " src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/muffins-181-1024x683.jpg" height="426" width="640" /> I just need to add some red geranium silk flowers to this pot of hydrangeas and add an American flag! <img alt="grandpa's party 005" class="wp-image-7515 " src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/grandpas-party-005-1024x768.jpg" height="480" width="640" /><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: 24pt;"><strong>GAMES and Decor for 4th of July: </strong></span>
I liked this cute printable<a href="http://www.kidscanhavefun.com/july4th-activities.htm"> Tic Tac Toe game</a> that my granddaughters will love playing. We are going up to our lake cabin for the weekend. So it will be fun to watch them playing games during our down time. Here are two of them with red white and blue tongues! haha. We are SO Patriotic around here.
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For decoration, I dug through the storage room and found my patriotic box. It took forever because the hubs got involved in reorganizing down there (don't ask!) and now I can't find anything. WTH?<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/june-2015-082.CR2_.jpg"><img alt="Uncle Sam is fun to hang out in a corner for the 4th! " class="size-large wp-image-7530" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/june-2015-082.CR2_-879x1024.jpg" height="640" width="549" /></a><br />
Uncle Sam is fun to hang out in a corner for the 4th![/caption]
But I did get out my placemats and of course I'm ready with my firework stockpile. (we are big spenders, I think this was 5 bucks on sale at Smiths Market).
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A fun game I think my grandkids will like is this magnetic match game I put together using 4 sheets of Patriotic Dollar Store magnets. They seem to have them every holiday so look for them in the picnic/kitchen supplies area. I am going to write on each pair the addends of 10, so the kids will start to memorize them as they pair them up.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"> The kids can use cookie sheets and play match game with the 2 double sets of magnets. 2 groups can play at the same time. I could also have done "doubles" and put the double equation on one magnet and the answer on the other. Fun! </span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/pulled-pork-014.jpg"><img alt="How about doing a lemonade stand at your gathering and put the kids in charge. It will keep them VERY BUSY! " class="size-large wp-image-7526" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/pulled-pork-014-1024x775.jpg" height="484" width="640" /></a> I have lots of good ways for keeping the kiddos busy. How about doing a lemonade stand at your gathering and put the kids in charge. It will keep them VERY BUSY!<br />
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I got this cute Lemonade Stand at Target. You could also have a big metal pail full of cans of pop to "sell" so the kiddies don't have to work too hard.<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/chelsea-and-Park-City-Art-and-Megan-Bday-013.jpg"><img alt="chelsea and Park City Art and Megan Bday 013" class="wp-image-7508 size-large" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/chelsea-and-Park-City-Art-and-Megan-Bday-013-1024x768.jpg" height="480" width="640" /></a> Isn't this the cutest picnic blanket? My daughter made it out of red and white calico prints. I love it. I'm making my own version that has taken WAY too long using old Levi's jeans pockets and denim from old jeans. The quilt could back the wall of your garden party or Backyard BBQ at the food buffet. Quilts can be great decor ideas<br />
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Use striped towels for food tables. Towels can be great decoration helps. I will add blue and white tin pails I got at the dollar store for silverware and napkins.
<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/june-2015-080.jpg"><img alt="The tin pails came in blue and white and red and white stars for only a buck at All a Dollar! " class="size-large wp-image-7534" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/june-2015-080-1024x683.jpg" height="426" width="640" /></a> The tin pails came in blue and white and red and white stars for only a buck at<br />
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Another fun game is Patriotic Tic Tac Toe. The printable freebie is HERE. You could also use red and blue dollar store checkers or jewels for the markers.<img alt="chelsea and Park City Art and Megan Bday 023" class="wp-image-7509 size-large" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/chelsea-and-Park-City-Art-and-Megan-Bday-023-879x1024.jpg" height="640" width="549" /><br />
Hope you all have a great holiday. I am heading out to the lake to have some fun there and relax after finishing my last week of school Thursday. Proud and thankful to be an American<img alt="Having fun at Bear Lake. " class="wp-image-7520 size-large" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-writing-023-1024x576.jpg" height="360" width="640" /> Happy Red, White and Blue day everybody!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-83793406302333791032015-03-23T19:22:00.002-07:002015-03-27T19:58:59.194-07:00Easter Decorating I love to decorate for the seasons and for all the holidays. Easter is coming up and so I put away all the St. Patrick's day decor and got out the stuff for my Easter Table Decorating.
<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9872-e1427162197735.jpg"><img alt="Easter Table Decorating - I love all the spring colors and baby chicks and bunnies. " class=" wp-image-7148" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9872-1024x683.jpg" height="426" width="640" /></a> Easter Table Decorating - I love all the spring colors and baby chicks and bunnies here on my kitchen table.<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9864.jpg"><img alt="IMG_9864" class="wp-image-7149" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9864-1024x683.jpg" height="426" width="640" /></a> My Kitchen buffet has some new pictures and cute little eggs everywhere. I always start my Easter decorating in the kitchen, and do the Easter Table Decorating there first. Gotta have a lovely Easter Dinner table, now dontcha? Next I go into the entry way and decorate the little table there. Those are two<br />
areas I fuss over the most.<br />
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Easter Decorating is about done at my house. Yay<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9839-e1427159262756.jpg"><img alt="Next I do my formal dining room Easter Table Decorating. " class="wp-image-7136 " src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9839-1024x691.jpg" height="431" width="640" /></a> Next I do my formal dining room Easter Table Decorating.<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9836-e1427159381796.jpg"><img alt="I got a new rustic, whitewashed table and these cute blue nailhead trim chairs. " class=" wp-image-7135" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9836-1024x691.jpg" height="431" width="640" /></a> I We got a new rustic, whitewashed, dining table and these cute blue nailhead trim chairs for the formal dining room. We hardly ever use this room except on holidays.<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9838-e1427162629292.jpg"><img alt="Formal Dining Room table. I love the yellow and green and coral decor in here. " class=" wp-image-7153" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9838-1024x691.jpg" height="431" width="640" /></a> Formal Dining Room table. I love the yellow and green and coral decor in here.<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9828-e1427159502561.jpg"><img alt="I love to decorate the entry table with these cute bunnies, eggs and chicks. " class=" wp-image-7137" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9828-1024x683.jpg" height="426" width="640" /></a> I love to decorate the entry table with these cute bunnies, eggs and chicks.<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9830-e1427162381834.jpg"><img alt="IMG_9830" class="wp-image-7150 " src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9830-1024x691.jpg" height="270" width="400" /></a> This sad Mr. Bunny lost his eye in a doggie-bunny stand off. Our bad boy Bruce bit it off. We called him Brucifer THAT day. snicker...<br />
<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9832.jpg"><img alt="Then I do the coffee and end tables. I have gobs of stuff. I have to stay away from Hobby Lobby! Eek" class="wp-image-7138 " src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9832-1024x683.jpg" height="266" width="400" /></a> I do the coffee and end tables last. I have gobs of stuff. I have to stay away from Hobby Lobby this month! Eek!<br />
<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9842-e1427160898741.jpg"><img alt="I love this little bunny pair on my living room end table. It goes with the brown/neutral decor in there. " class="wp-image-7141 " src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9842-603x1024.jpg" height="400" width="235" /></a> I love this little bunny pair on my family room end table. It goes with the brown/neutral decor in there.<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_98431.jpg"><img alt="IMG_9843" class="wp-image-7142" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_98431-1024x708.jpg" height="442" width="640" /></a> Darling little "Chickies" and bunnies. My grandkids love this light up Easter Bunny house.<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9840-e1427161319268.jpg"><img alt="Great Room end tables have lots of baskets of my favorite Mercury crackle mirror eggs. " class="wp-image-7143" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9840-1024x691.jpg" height="431" width="640" /></a> Great Room table has some of the leftover doo-dads. My 3 Easter bins are almost empty! Woot!<br />
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The kitchen island always has some bright and cheery flowers of some sort. These have some egg pics along with the florals.<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9845.jpg"><img alt="IMG_9845" class="wp-image-7145 " src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_9845-879x1024.jpg" height="400" width="343" /></a> These mercury mirror glass eggs are my favorites. I used to have more of them. But since the grandkids.....well....you know how that goes. :D<br />
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I think I'll add some Easter Egg picks to the greenery all over the house. Maybe there IS an excuse to go look at Hobby Lobby tomorrow after all!!
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Next I'll do the grandkids' two tables for Easter Sunday Dinner. I'll have my Chicago peeps here sometime around Easter. So I will need two tables for all the 6 grandkiddos to sit. And THAT will be such fun! Happy decorating!!
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-15594993295818343112015-03-11T09:31:00.001-07:002015-03-11T11:38:19.381-07:00Blue Beachy Bathroom Remodeling I decided to redo my 90s bathroom that was dark green and yellow. All the decor was so dated. I found some really pretty paint in just the perfect blue-gray color that I wanted to redo these 80's light oak cabinets with.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Old 90s bathroom decor with dated light oak cabinets has to go. </td></tr>
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Bathroom Remodel Part 1. My bathroom cabinets were all this light oak that I wanted to paint a pretty color. So I bought the paint at Home Depot called GRAY MORNING in the BEHR paint line. I like the paint and primer in one to make the job easier. I really only had to use 1 coat and just touch up the edges and ridges with a 2nd coat. It looks beautiful!<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/DSC08429-e1426086456640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GRAY MORNING from BEHR paint turns out the perfect gray blue shade. I got flat paint. I probably should have gotten eggshell or satin. " class="size-medium wp-image-7032" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/DSC08429-300x225.jpg" height="225" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love this BEHR paint called GRAY MORNING. It is a light blue gray that looks great!</td></tr>
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GRAY MORNING from BEHR paint turns out the perfect gray blue shade. I got flat paint. I probably should have gotten eggshell or satin. But I wanted it to look like chalk paint. Did you know you can add 1/3 cup plaster of paris and 1 cup water to a gallon of paint and it makes chalk paint? Well, that's what the Home Depot guy said. I'd check that out online before doing it though.<br />
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After painting the cabinets they still needed a little something. So I bought some pretty brushed silver knobs and 2 little, wooden, doo-dads for each of the false drawer tops. I have two of them since I have 2 sinks in that bathroom. I think they were $3.50 each.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cabinet doo-dads really add a little flair to boring old 80s light oak cabinets. </td></tr>
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The easiest way is to glue them on the cabinets first, then paint it all together. That's what I did in my master bathroom. And I think I lightly tacked them on with tiny finishing nails till they dried. But this one I bought them after painting so I had to glue them on painted wood. It is definitely harder that way. Glue them first, paint second, just a heads up. I used a little bit of tape to hold them on while they were drying but they curled up at the ends. I'll have to do some more gluing. Bummer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bear Paint and Primer in one is the way to go. I only needed one coat and then a little touch up.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />Bathroom Remodel Part 1 - First Step was the definitely the ugly cabinet repainting.Then we ordered our granite. I wanted dark granite for this bathroom since we already had pretty, dark, variegated slate floors. The dark granite looks good with them. I thought I could brighten up the rest of the bathroom using a light gray paint. I wanted to get rid of all that yellow. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey, they look pretty good! Finished painted cabinets look a lot better now! This is where I added the wooden doo dad. It looks a lot better. I'll post a pic when I'm finished with the knobs.</td></tr>
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Now they just need the silver knobs. I needed 12 cuz this is a big bathroom with a bathtub and 2 sinks and lots of cabinetry. So I got 3 sets of 5 in the clearance bin at Home Depot. They were $7.00 per set. What a deal! I love how the cabinets turned out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty Tin Shelf I got at Home Goods for $15 bucks! </td></tr>
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Next I went shopping for accessories. My first stop was Home Goods of course. This cute metal shelf will look great added to the new bathroom remodel. I think I might replace my old wooden shelf with this one. I'll have to decide how it looks after painting the rest of the room. Maybe it is a tad too greenish. I think it will look okay though, since I have a Beachy painting I bought as my bathroom inspiration.<br />
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I bought this pretty beachy candle at Home Goods too. It was only $5.99. They have great deals on candles there.<br />
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Bathroom Towel Basket I got from Taipan Trading.<br />
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I got a few things for the countertops too, now that my granite is all put in. I thought this would look good with rolled towels inside. I may try nailing it up onto a wall, just depending on how the other stuff looks when I'm done. It was only $12.99 from Taipan Trading. And it has the nail holes if I want to screw it up onto the wall.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This area I need to add the pretty tin shelf to and maybe the wire towel basket, I have to see how they look after I paint the walls gray. </td></tr>
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Now I've got to paint the walls. I have to redo all the decor in here. It's gonna take me a few days. It's gonna look great though! I'm excited how everything is turning out so far. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-71821789351114327582015-03-02T06:18:00.005-08:002015-03-02T06:18:53.581-08:00Snow Weekend We haven't had snow in a long time in Utah. And this weekend it snowed lightly, but the weather is still really nice and warm.<br />
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Here is my granddaughter Marisa and I enjoying the soft peaceful falling snow yesterday. And today look what it looks like out on the back deck!<br />
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It will melt off quickly. I think we will have an early spring.<br />
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And in the backyard! Whoa.<br />
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He loves romping around in the backyard when there is a pile of snow to play in!<br />
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We made some sugar cookies and decorated them too. It's been fun having my grandkids stay with me.<br />
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But sadly, there house is now done and they are moving into it tomorrow. Whaaaaa....(sounds of sniffling).<br />
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I have soooo loved having them here. Especially getting this sweet little guy out of his crib in the mornings when he is warm and has bed head. He and I are the early birds at our house. We hang out together eating fruit loops or oatmeal and bananas every morning together. I will miss that time with him.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are about 6 inch circles. You can either buy frozen bread dough, or just make up a batch of your favorite 2 loaf recipes for bread. I use this one from allrecipes.com <a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/amish-white-bread/">Here.</a> It is kind of a foolproof bread recipe that my family loves. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I rolled mine out pretty thick but if you like light Navajo Tacos, roll them thin. Or experiment and have some that are thick and some that are thin. You know the insides are done when big bubbles appear, kind of like pancakes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 16px;">One bread dough recipe will make about 8 Navajo Tacos. I used a 2 loaf recipe of bread and made about 14 pieces of Indian Fry Bread.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Navajo Tacos are great meal to make when you have leftover chili at home. Fry up the Indian Fry Bread for about 2 minutes per side......</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fry up the dough in a frying pan with 1/2 inch of hot, canola oil. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then dry the Indian Fry Bread on paper towels to soak up excess oil. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is the Indian Fried Bread....this would be good with honey and butter OR cinnamon and sugar on top. I do this with the leftover dough and make small "donut" twists. That's a fun thing for kids to do with the leftover dough! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spread the warmed up chili on top and add your favorite Mexican shredded cheeses. Then add your toppings like tomatoes, lettuce, olives and avocados! Yummy! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I cut up all the veggies while the leftover chili was warming up on the stove......and then put them in individual bowls. Everybody just made their own Navajo Tacos. Some added salsa and sour cream to theirs. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And there you have it! Navajo Tacos are a great way to use up your leftovers from Chili Night! You can also just bake the flattened dough pieces if you want to reduce the calories. We baked ours for about 8 to 10 minutes at a Girl's Camp one year.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-75470794868474343782015-02-14T13:30:00.000-08:002015-02-18T19:16:31.708-08:00Valentines Decorating FunI've been remembering family fun times I've had over the years, as I dragged out all of the Valentines pink bins a few days ago. I have the old house all decked out for the big day. It is always fun for me to get out the pink bins of February and get reaquainted with my sweet hearts and cupids and roses and pink junk. And I think about times we've shared as a family, and all the love I have in my heart for all of the people in my life. And I think of how lucky I am.
<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cookie-butter-005.jpg"><img alt="cookie butter 005" class=" wp-image-6907 size-large" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cookie-butter-005-1024x768.jpg" height="480" width="640" /></a> Remembering Family Fun Times; One of my many happy places spent with my kiddos caught in pictures. Here is little Danny, tubing in the mountains of California, probably near Big Bear.<br />
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Here in Utah in the dead of winter we usually need a little perk this time of year. Surprisingly though, this winter has been so mild and beautiful. I got on the freeway today at 8:00 in the morning and the sun was shining so brightly I couldn't even believe it was February. It is like spring weather here, and I am LOVING IT!
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I love you, a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.<br />
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I found a few fun Valentines things to get my little grandkids, who live all over the place. I have 6 of them now. And I went to the post office to send my Chicago peeps some little doo dads. I just HAD to get my son Devin these little Simpsons characters I found at the dollar store. He was such a funny Simpsons nut when he was in middle school. He could repeat literal lines of some of the shows, word for word. He had a Simpsons book we got him one Christmas or birthday. And he pored over that thing for months!! So cute. He'll get a chuckle.
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The Simpsons were a lot of fun to watch back in the day.<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_9612.jpg"><img alt="IMG_9612" class="wp-image-6768" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_9612-300x200.jpg" height="267" width="400" /></a><br />
Remembering Family Fun Times; making Valentines sugar cookies is always a favorite of mine.<br />
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I got my little granddaughters Disney Princess and Minnie Mouse pencil sharpeners. I know they all love those in school cuz I see kids with them in my classroom. The teachers hate them because they open unexpectedly and the shavings all land on the floor. But I know the kids LOVE sharpening their own pencils at their desks.<br />
So too bad, teachers! haha.
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I have so many memories of fun times with all of my children through the years. In my mind's eye I can see them all laying on our giant trampoline (before trampolines were popular we had one, the only one in our neighborhood in fact). I had sent away for it from San Francisco, some trampoline company. We had so much fun on that thing. The boys would put the hose on it in the summer and a swimming pool under it and jump really hard so they landed down in the pool, and the hose would splash all over them as they jumped, letting go a spray of cool water all over anybody nearby. I have a picture of our whole family lying in a circle of heads in the middle of that trampoline. I think about how much fun we had on that thing for years.<br />
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Remembering Family Fun Times this Valentines Day.<br />
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I've got my table and buffet decorations all up. I remember taking them so many times to a place called Mother's Beach near Seal Beach, California. There was a playground at the top of the beach, and there was, well, a beach with waves and water that was safe inside a kind of manmade little jetty. The kids LOVED that beach, and we spent many happy hours there eating our picnics in the afternoons after school or in the summertime. I'd bring a stack of magazines to read lazily in the sun. And every 15 minutes or so I'd have to chase down the beach to collect my 2 year old, who had a tendency to run away in a crowd. It was fun. And I have happy memories of going to the beach with my kids.<br />
<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cookie-butter-011.jpg"><img alt="Buffet Decorations for Valentines Day." class="wp-image-6912" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cookie-butter-011-1024x775.jpg" height="454" width="600" /></a> Remembering Family Fun Times.....Here's Buffet Decorations for Valentines Day.<br />
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Sometimes we'd go to Bolsa Chica beach and make a fire in one of the firepits at dinnertime with friends. We'd roast corn in a big pot and cut up a watermelon and do hot dogs on a stick. Fun times at the beach.
Newport Dunes was one nice place we did the dreaded camping. You can see from the picture below, that I probably liked this place better than a rustic woods. But I still remember my baby, at the time, cried all night long and we were whispering feverishly trying new ideas to try to keep him quiet. We were with a group of neighbors and friends we didn't want to keep awake. But I still remember all the kids having a blast, sleep or no sleep. Kids are like that.
<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/newport-dunes.jpg"><img alt="Newport Dunes private manmade beach. We camped there I think 3 times over the years. A super fun resort! " class="wp-image-6913 size-full" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/newport-dunes.jpg" height="406" width="988" /></a> Remembering Family Fun Times. Newport Dunes private manmade beach. We camped there I think 3 times over the years. A super fun resort!<br />
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I remember going camping at Yellowstone and at Newport Dunes and the Redwoods and even in Utah. I absolutely hated camping. I still do to this day. But the kids always loved it. And my hubs was such a great camper. He always made everything fun. And he would do all the work. I have never put a tent up by myself in all these years. I AM a bad camper. I admit that. :D
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Hiking and Touring a few summers ago seeing lizards, mountain goats and various flora and fauna.<br />
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Marisa and Meg finding a squirrel or a chipmunk or something foresty.<br />
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I describe my worst camping experience at Yosemite. We ended up in a 12 x 12 "parking lot" campground on Memorial Day with campfire smoke EVERYWHERE so you couldn't even breath, and lots of beer drinking campers surrounding us, and my 4 kids covered in mud running and riding their bikes around with our friends who had 7 kids. That was Yosemite. All I remember from that trip were yellowjackets everywhere and trying to keep my baby clean who just wanted to crawl around and get dirty. And all the people everywhere you turn. Yuck.<br />
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Yosemite and the Redwoods and Sequoia, we went to all of these, and I didn't love camping at any of them! lol. But the kids did.<br />
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I'm thinking of the fun trips we went on where I actually had a blast. Probably everybody's favorite was Hawaii. I'd beg, borrow and steal money to do that again with my family. We had 2 teenagers when we went and 1 middle schooler and 1 in elementary.<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/hawaii.jpg"><img alt="Hawaii with the family was probably everybody's favorite vacation spot. It was relaxing to me too. I loved it. But not as much as the hubs. He still talks about surfing Hawaii someday. " class="wp-image-6916 size-full" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/hawaii.jpg" height="452" width="630" /></a> Remembering Family Fun Times; Hawaii with the family was probably everybody's favorite vacation spot. It was relaxing to me too. I loved it. But not as much as the hubs. He still talks about surfing Hawaii someday.<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Dole.jpg"><img alt="Dole" class="wp-image-6917" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Dole.jpg" height="269" width="400" /></a><br />
The Dole Pineapple Plantation maze and tasting the Dole Pineapple Whips. Yum. That was a lot of fun.<br />
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We had a great time seeing all the sights like the Polynesian Cultural Center, the Dole plantation where we went in the maze and had pineapple whips. And then the blowhole on Waikiki Beach, Pearl Harbor, and eating crab and lobster for dinner. But the best part for me was everybody buying surf shirts and pooka shell necklaces at a little seaside tourist shop on the beach. That was a fun memory.
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Pearl Harbor tour and the U.S.S. memorial there.<br />
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Another fun trip we had was going to see Niagara Falls in New York, and going to the Mormon Pageant and seeing Donny Osmond acting as Samuel the Lamanite. After the spectacular outdoor show he was signing pictures of Jesus with his autograph. My middle schooler asked why he was doing that. We all just laughed. Why was he doing that? It was really funny.
We drove down the east coast stopping in Philadelphia to see American history sights there. Then on to New York City to see the Statue of Liberty and the Twin Towers (before September 11th happened) and some museums, and the Empire State Building of course. Maids of the Mist at Niagara Falls getting sprayed and screaming at the top of our lungs is one of my all time family favorite moments, though.<br />
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Remembering Family Fun Times. Maids of the Mist boat tour on Niagara Falls.<br />
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On that same trip we then down to Washington D.C. and saw the Smithsonian and all the sights there, including the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. The kids all went into the gift shops and got little momentos. I still have giant silver and copper coins I got for use in my classroom. We still have metal Statues of Liberty we got from New York, and Liberty Bell bronze pencil sharpeners, and little mini canons we got in Philly after we watched a historical reenactment in <a href="http://historicphiladelphia.org/once-upon-a-nation/historical-performances/://">Philly</a>. They are still hanging around here somewhere.<br />
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<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/statue-of-liberty.jpg"><img alt="Statue of Liberty trinket. " class="size-full wp-image-6919" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/statue-of-liberty.jpg" height="220" width="219" /></a> Statue of Liberty trinket.<br />
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Being there was a lot of fun. I'd go back anytime.<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cookie-butter-008.jpg"><img alt="Gallery Wall with glittery red hearts and greenery in the cones. " class="wp-image-6937" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cookie-butter-008-227x300.jpg" height="396" width="300" /></a><br />
Gallery Wall of fun memories , and with glittery red hearts and greenery in the cones.<br />
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When it is a holiday or a Super Bowl or New Year's Eve, we get invited to parties by good friends we have. But the funny thing is, I always just want to hang out with my kids. We joke about going on their vacations with them, like tag-a-longs, Like Everybody Loves Raymond, buying the house next door to them. haha. Wouldn't that be SO FUN! <span style="color: blue;">not really. I know what you are thinking</span>.
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Ball of Roses hanging on the great room door for Valentines Day.<br />
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We never know if they are serious when they invite us on their vacations. We've been invited to Disneyland from each one of our kids. But we've never gone.....<strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">yet</span></strong>. John imitates us going along on the cruise with my daughter's family and her husband's brother's family, when they invited us. He uses his geek, nasaly voice and says "Hi guys! Here we ARE! Your sister-in-laws PAAAAREEEENTS!!" We both just chortle and roll our eyes. How bad would <span style="color: blue;"><strong>THAT</strong></span> be? But I would love to tag-a-long secretly. And someday I actually will. <span style="color: red;">geek that I am.....</span><br />
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Kitchen Buffet covered in Valentines junk.<br />
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One time recently I dragged them all along with me on my trip to Lake Powell for the first time. All my kids had been there. And my hubs had gone multiple times with the boy scouts. I wanted to go. So we went to Zions and Lake Powell and I bought tickets for everybody to go see Aladdin at Tuacahn Outdoor theater in St. George. We had a really fun time seeing and hiking to Rainbow bridge, going to the Dam tour, and eating out every night. I would do that again, anytime. Someday, maybe in a houseboat. But for now, it was fun to stay in a hotel and swim in the pool.<br />
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Cliff jumping and swimming at Powell. We found our own little private pool.<br />
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Remembering Family Fun Times; Rainbow Bridge hike was fun too. Hot, but fun<br />
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.<a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Lake-Powell-057.jpg"><img alt="Lake Powell 057" class="wp-image-6930 size-medium" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Lake-Powell-057-290x300.jpg" height="300" width="290" /></a> Jeff and Josie at Zions.<br />
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Touring through Zions National Park.<br />
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The whole family. Remembering family fun times this Valentines Day.<br />
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Devin and Caitlin at Zions.<br />
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Boating on Lake Powell.<br />
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Lake Powell was probably one of my most recent favorite vacations spots I have loved going. It is a magnificent place full of beauty that just mesmerizes you. And going through Zions National Park on the way to Lake Powell is the way to go. You get two great places in one easy trip. I want to go again soon. This summer Tuacahn has Beauty and the Beast playing. The girls would love it.<br />
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Tuacahn Outdoor Theater in St. George to see Aladdin.<br />
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Tuacahn's Aladdin with real live camels was one of Tuacahn's best shows ever.<br />
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Anyhoo, as I think of all the people and places I've loved this Valentines Day, the kiddos and the grandkids, my hubs and 4 kids, fill my heart with love and happy memories.<br />
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I wish them all the happiest of Valentines Days! <a href="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cookie-butter-013.jpg"><img alt="In My Life....I Love You More..I remember dancing to this Beatles song at my son's wedding. sniff. " class="size-medium wp-image-6938" src="http://www.pattiesplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cookie-butter-013-258x300.jpg" height="300" width="258" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/UKQpRgxyyqo" title="In My Life, I Love You MORE. ">In my life, I love you MORE</a>. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-89963145618470522812015-02-11T05:29:00.001-08:002015-02-11T05:30:05.627-08:00Trader Joe's Cookie ButterMy friend Kim, a fellow kindergarten teacher, came over the other day and brought me a treat. It is my new favorite obsession! It is Trader Joe's Cookie Butter. And it is fabulous!<br />
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It is kind of like peanut butter in consistency, but it tastes like a mild gingerbread. It is great for dipping fat pretzels into, or crackers. She brought over a bag of both, and a green apple. It is great on all three!<br />
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But the best part of all is the cookie butter cookies! Oh my! They are so delicious. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SM1MFQG?psc=1">Check them out HERE. </a>They are better than Oreo cookies! They are my new fav thing. I'm crushing on this Trader Joe's Cookie Butter. I have heard it also comes in other flavors, too.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think I'm in love with my new obsession! This is bad. It is gonna be really bad for me, the overweight foodie. Dang that cookie butter. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There is also Trader Joe's Cookie Butter Cheesecake! OMGosh. Where have I been?</td></tr>
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And guess what Trader Joe's 2nd most popular item sold is? Yeah, you got it. Cookie Butter. I'm going to have to go try them all, I think!<br />
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I decided to join the book club in my neighborhood. I tried once before but I didn't like the books they all chose to read. I'm not a Jane Austin fan like everybody else. I think her books are boring and too provincial for my taste. I like to read biographies and non-fiction more than any other genre anyway. So I thought it was interesting that this non-fiction book I'm reading now, had a Strength Finder test in chapter 7. I love taking these kinds of tests to show my strongest traits.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love the song "TRY" song by <a href="http://colbie%20caillat/">Colbie Caillat</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXoZLPSw8U8">HERE </a>. </td></tr>
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So it was a happy surprise to find out my two top strengths are CREATOR and TEACHER. Go figure. And the quiz said I probably mostly read non-fiction and that whether I write, draw, paint, sing, make presentations, or bake, I am drawn toward making things and creating things. Maybe this is why I have 5 different blogs. This hit the nail squarely on the head for me. Take the test above. It is fun!<br />
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I'm finishing the book <b><span style="color: red;"><u>Find Your Strongest Life</u></span></b> this 3 day weekend. It says since I'm creative, I should walk around with a notebook in my hands, to jot down my creative ideas. haha. I actually already do that in some shape or form. I talk to Siri, I write stuff down in my blog, and I take notes. lol.<br />
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The book talks about how when they did recent research on Women, and their descriptions of how happy they are in life, the bar graph had a downward trend as women got older! What the heck! But, it ran totally the opposite for men, as they have an upward swing as they get older. This is intriguing to me and a little upsetting too!<br />
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I wondered why, in this day and age, with so many choices and so much freedom and economic ability we as women have, why would our feelings of contentment be lessened? It doesn't really make sense.<br />
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But, as the book details, it has something to do with all the myriads of choice women DO have, and the judgements we make of ourselves, and the judgement we feel from others, and then there is always the guilt we feel. We do that to ourselves a lot as women. Men don't feel as much guilt, nor do they feel so judged, like women do. That is a big part of it, according to the research the authors did.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We need to love ourselves more....and guilt ourselves LESS! </td></tr>
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I've decided this year to not feel guilty anymore. And to apologize more and faster. So I don't feel guilty. lol. Seriously though, I remember when my son Danny died in a car accident. I felt guilty for letting him drive to school that day when he woke up late and was going to be late. I had a premonition to just let him sleep in instead of waking him. Who knows why I wouldn't wake him up though. But I felt that premonition. It was like a sixth sense. So I felt guilty.<br />
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I felt guilty looking at his math packets left on the kitchen table that he was trying to finish for credits that he needed to graduate. I felt guilty that he only reached Life Scout as I looked at all the merit badges he had earned, trying to reach his Eagle Scout. He had always hated scouting though. I pushed him just to get him to achieve life scout! So why feel guilt? Why do we do these things to ourselves? Feeling guilty after the fact is just silly. It was just sad. Especially on top of every other emotion I was feeling at the time. But that is what we do. We are SO hard on ourselves!<br />
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I'm not feeling guilty anymore for my messiness, my creativeness, (which causes my messiness) and my bluntness. It is the person I am. Why do women always over-guilt themselves? That is why we probably have less happiness as we get older as a whole. Although I don't think I personally am less happy. We do have so many duties as women. I think more so than my mother's generation had. She had the card club and the coffee klatch, and didn't work outside the home. In my generation, our work is never done, We have a lot more of it, and we make it seem like what work we do is never done well enough! We need to stop doing that. We are enough!<br />
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I listened to this song on the radio called "Try" yesterday morning on the way to work. It is a great song by<br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/LhM3uOXJUqU"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TRY </span></b></a> is all about this stuff.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You don't have to try, try, try"</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">....she sings over and over again.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "You just have to "Get up, get up" and "When you're all alone do you like YOU? You don't have to change a single thing, you don't have to bend until you break, you don't have try so hard". </span></b><br />
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She knows the heart of a woman. We think we have to be everything to everybody and be perfect, and it just isn't so. We need to relax a little more and be maybe a little more tuned in to our own wants and desires. I know for me just going shopping with a $20.00 bill sometimes makes a bad day better. (I call it retail therapy with a little chuckle lol) Chocolate always helps too. And maybe going to get a favorite movie dvd and watching it up in my bedroom with some popcorn. Sometimes just going to a bookstore or the library and getting some books helps refresh my world view. Whatever it is, that time spent alone, helps me feel better about life, if I am getting the guilts or feeling overwhelmed, or just not very happy.<br />
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We need to give ourselves days off like that once in awhile. Especially if we are in the young mother stage, where you get used up and feel unappreciated a lot. My those clean toilets don't really ever sing your praises now do they? No they don't unfortunately!<br />
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So take some time to take a leisurely bath, take some ME time, and find out why you feel guilty sometimes, or figure out a fun thing you can look forward to and set it up on your calendar. <br />
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We went to a party the other night and a counselor friend of mine was telling everybody research he'd read on happiness.<span style="color: red;"><b> He said there were basically 3 things we need to be happy. </b></span>And it was <b><span style="color: magenta;">1) feel passion about the work you do 2) feel passion about something coming up that you look forward to (plan fun things) and 3) give back in some way (give service to others).</span></b><br />
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Those were the 3 things researchers have come up with. And they make sense. If you are unbalanced in any of those 3 you feel low. Some people give too much service and they get drained. Some people hate their work and don't want to get up in the morning. Some people never plan anything fun and never have new experiences to look forward to. It has to be a balance of the three.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember to give back or give service to others once in awhile. That always fills my bucket back up. Unless my bucket is empty. It is a fine line, that giving to yourself before you can give it away to others. </span></td></tr>
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So I am taking away from that that I need to appreciate myself and my work that I do. And I need to plan more fun stuff. (I already do that though, don't I, maybe too much! ) I think they need to add 1 more thing to the list. Don't put guilt trips on yourself for things that you are not all that great at, but appreciate your gifts instead.<br />
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Don't beat yourself up about things that are not perfect in your life. "You don't have to try, try, try". It is a losing battle this guilt thing we do to ourselves. Accept your weaknesses and just forget about it. Make your strengths the thing you feel good about.<br />
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Nobody is good at everything. Nobody is perfect. Nobody is always put together. And nobody's kids are perfect or good at everything either. We don't lead lives of perfection and we shouldn't be seeking after it I don't believe. I think an escape to the cabin and skipping church once in awhile does me good. And although I feel guilty just saying that, I'm going to overlook it, and smile, remembering the good times we had there.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Find things that you love and make more of your focus on those things this year. Find the joy along the way more. </td></tr>
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Take the test above. And focus on something about yourself that is a strength or that you love about yourself, a talent, a gift. And appreciate what you are good at. Go out and be creative, be a leader, do your craft, or be a fantastic teacher, or whatever your gift is. And give back a little something, and plan your calendar so there are happy road trips and getaways, or concerts or plays or whatever you love.<br />
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I'm going to try doing more of it this year. That is my goal. Less guilt. More creativity, more planning for fun, and a little more giving back. More joy in the journey. More happiness. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hanging out at Bear Lake....happy times. </td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-61675618755879720482015-01-19T19:34:00.000-08:002015-01-21T05:51:24.147-08:00Happy Martin Luther King Day <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS8KdL_pPv_mA7QB1E4UbKkQy6kp04x06HYzUJpPzBA1WWuLxHZSPuMpIeobSTi9dvAJe1qrhhR_Djjts1QnToXvKqqVMKQTmtN-_3FqM3E98KVy1aB5uzg7O9ALwKBiC0nB-xM21qFnA/s1600/IMG_9642.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS8KdL_pPv_mA7QB1E4UbKkQy6kp04x06HYzUJpPzBA1WWuLxHZSPuMpIeobSTi9dvAJe1qrhhR_Djjts1QnToXvKqqVMKQTmtN-_3FqM3E98KVy1aB5uzg7O9ALwKBiC0nB-xM21qFnA/s1600/IMG_9642.jpg" height="640" width="426" /></a>I have kindergarteners this year. So I wanted to do a little bit of the activities I've done in the past but just make them a little simpler. My Martin Luther King posts from the last few years are <a href="http://pattiesclassroom.blogspot.com/2013/01/martin-luther-king-dreams.html">HERE</a> and <a href="http://pattiesclassroom.blogspot.com/2011/02/martin-luther-king-day.html">HERE.</a>
These little guys did such a good job. I told them some of the stories of the civil rights movement, and nobody thought anything sounded AT ALL FAIR. It is amazing the adults of the time thought things were when 5 and 6 year olds can tell they weren't.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They did a great job writing some Dr. King quotes and phrases for Martin Luther King Day. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I told the kids all about how blacks had to ride in the back of the bus, drink out of their own drinking fountains, and be refused service in restaurants. Nobody thought it was fair at all! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I told them about the fire hoses that were sprayed on people who were marching peacefully with signs because they didn't like the unfairness of it all. They didn't think that was very nice either. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I told them about the marching people did in large groups holding signs. They wanted to change things for blacks. It wasn't fair the way things were. The key was that the marches were peaceful. Dr. King helped people to dissent without violence. Boy do we need some of Dr. King's influence these days!!! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So maybe Dr. King day comes at a good time in our country. America needs to feel more unified and peaceful after the recent events in Ferguson and other places in our world. There is so much violence! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Show that you care......what a great sentiment! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. King would be proud of these students who really got his message. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one kind of resembles Al Sharpton! How did that happen? lol </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I thought this one turned out great too. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We had a good day learning about a Great American Hero. Dr. King lives on even though he was assassinated. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Treat people kindly. That is one of his messages and a great take away from today's discussions. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy Martin Luther King Day! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We will try to follow his example this week and this month and always! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Martin Luther King day is this coming Monday, January 19th. </td></tr>
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I like this writing paper I found on TPT as a freebie. I like the dotted lines for my little kinders to help them form good habits and proper handwriting. It is <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Freebies-461114">HERE at TPT.</a> There were some cute coloring pages also.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Martin Luther King, Jr. art and writing for K-2. We read the poem and wrote phrases from it in Kindergarten today. </td></tr>
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I liked these activities for Dr. King Day too. Check them out <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Activities-FREEBIE-Print-and-go-1056250">HERE at TPT. </a> Another cute one with an "I Have a Dream" header for a bulletin board or a shared writing is <a href="file:///Users/patriciamoss/Downloads/FREEMartinLutherKingJrColorForFunPrintableColoringPages%20(1).pdf">HERE </a> <a href="file:///Users/patriciamoss/Downloads/MartinLutherKingFreebie.pdf">from TPT.</a> A cute wordsearch is <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Martin-Luther-King-Word-Search-Freebie-1068179">HERE too.</a> Some writing stationery is <a href="http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/acharrod05/martin-luther-king-jr-day-freebie">HERE. All are freebies. </a>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream quote was a springboard for writing our dreams for the world. </td></tr>
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DIRECTED DRAWING of Dr. King.......INSTRUCTIONS: I do it on the board then turn and walk around to see who needs help. Some kids will have to try the head a few times to get the right shape.
The directed drawing I did was easy. Tell the kids to use a brown, black, red and blue crayon only. Tell them to watch you do it first and listen carefully. Then they do what you did and WAIT for you to go on to the next instruction. Tell them to color in light even strokes using the side of the crayon.
1. First draw a large oval with the brown crayon. Find the middle of the oval and Add a nose that is like 2 small mountains or a capital M with a C on the left and a backwards C on the right. NO top on the nose.
2. Then in between the top of the head and the nose draw in 2 black eyes dark and round, but leave a little circle of white in the very middle. Then draw a half-circle arch above each eye in black.
3. Then above the eyes draw 2 bushy black eyebrows kind of like a caterpillar.
4. Then under the nose draw bushy black mustache like a caterpillar.
5. Then in between the nose and chin we will do a mouth kind of shaped like a rounded-at-the-bottom heart. Color it in light brown with a hint of light red.
6. Then put 2 ears on each side of the head even with the nose and color them in with brown.
7. Then use black and make circular swirls of black hair all around the head like a short afro cut.
8. Then draw a suit coat with a V neck in black but then color it in with blue, in an even direction. Be sure it is BLUE and not aqua.
9. Inside the v neck draw a red tie kind of diamond shaped. Then draw a small black W right under the chin, so it will look like a white shirt collar.
10. Then add some fireworks shaped like a plus sign and an X in blue and then go over it also in red. 11. Then put the name on top Dr. King.
12. Older kids can also draw an American flag on a pole.
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Martin Luther King was a great American leader. We have so few that really stand out these days don't we. I hope all the kids catch a glimpse of him on T.V. this weekend. Happy Martin Luther King Day!
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making Playdough out of Kool-Aid is so easy, I'll never buy it again! </td></tr>
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I had bought a pile of Kool-Aide packets to make playdough for my classroom. So my granddaughters each chose some colors (flavors!) and I mixed up a batch in about 2 minutes! Seriously, I'm not Kidding! It was FAST! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are only 5 ingredients in Kool-Aid Playdough besides the water......</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Granddaughters picked out their favorite Kool-Aid flavors for the Playdough and I mixed up a batch of white. We divided it into bowls, and added the Koolaid last. It worked perfectly! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It took me about 2 minutes to mix up the Kool-Aid Playdough! Super EASY PEASY! </td></tr>
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It is soooooo super quick and easy. It calls for the playdough in the mix before adding the hot water, but I wanted to divide the one batch into 4 colors. So I experimented with it and tried to add the Kool-Aide after it was all mixed up. It works!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kool-Aid makes great Playdough....it smells so good! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here were the colors we chose today for our Kool-Aid Playdough. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Do you think they're getting excited to start mixing them up? Oh yes they were! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the before picture....nobody has rainbow fingers yet. :D </td></tr>
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It worked fine except for one thing; all our fingers were rainbow colors! It dyes you fingers pretty good, but after a few washes you can't even tell. I should've taken a pictures of our rainbow fingers! What fun we had! And the playdough smells yummy too! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meg chose Orange and Cherry-Red for her Kool-aid Playdough! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marisa chose purple-grape and blue-raspberry Kool-Aid for her Playdough. </td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: orange; font-size: medium;">KOOL-AID PLAY DOUGH RECIPE</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 1/2 cups flour</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1/2 cup salt</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 pkg kool-aid (unsweetened) </span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 tablespoons cream of tarter</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mix together then add in:</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 cups boiling water</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 tablespoons oil</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mix and knead for 4 minutes or until cool. </span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We mixed it all in the Mixmaster for 4 minutes</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">then separated it into 4 bowls. Then we dumped</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Kool-Aid into each bowl so we'd get 4 colors! </span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Such a great rainy day activity.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-62175118093228140462015-01-03T09:38:00.001-08:002015-01-04T17:06:26.100-08:00Why Amazon Echo and Superman are COOL!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7pNSQMIoGCs" width="480"></iframe><br />
We've been having a lot of fun with this VERY NEW and VERY COOL musical toy my hubs got me for Christmas. It just came in the mail on Friday. It is called the Amazon Echo. We can talk to it just like the iphone's Siri. It answers your questions in a fun way. It can save your grocery list and help your kids spell their spelling words. But the best part is that it will play you your favorite music. It can be left on your kitchen or desk. It will play anything you feel like listening to. It will start and stop when you tell it to. It is amazing! Check it out!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dylan in his Little Superman outfit. He's the apple of my eye. </td></tr>
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I am in wonder of modern technology. I am living the life of the Jetsons (a childhood cartoon...lots of robots and spaceships). Marty McFly was right in Back to the Future. It is not out yet in general distribution. We won an invitation lottery and were invited to purchase it for half off the $199 price. What a great gift. I love my new Amazon Echo. It's the bomb.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The coffee table in the den is cute little snowmen. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My kitchen table is all snowmen decor too. They make me giggle. </td></tr>
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My kitchen is red and white for the holidays. Mrs. Claus and her cupcakes and the Nutcracker music playing just make me smile. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I hated putting away all this darlingness. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dessert buffet. I forgot to take pictures after we had all the brownies, cookies, cream puffs and cupcakes on these platters. bad me. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drink station at the holiday parties. We have sodas and lemonade sparkling cider and all kinds of yummy things. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My light up snowman wall hanging I keep up all January. My little grandson loves looking at it. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love this little snowman above on the left. He changes colors from green, to red, to blue. It's fun to watch him when it is dark in the entry hall. He gets to stay all January. </td></tr>
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I luckily have a few bins full of January decor. Otherwise the place would look really depressing and sparse. I have lots of snowflakes, snowmen and some blue and white glittery ornaments I save to put in glass jars for January. And I have my light up snowman from Christmas I leave up all month long too. He is cute.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have pictures in cute holiday frames I only put out for one month a year. I hate putting this one away, it is so cute of my oldest son and his little family. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some more guest tables I had set up. I had cute Santa chairbacks for this card table. The little kids all wanted to sit here in the Santa chairs, even though I had 2 little kiddie tables! lol. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Advent Tree filled with gingerbread man lollypops for each day of the month leading up to Christmas. </td></tr>
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I set up lots of tables when I had a family dinner party recently. This was the little kiddie table. I had two of them. I brought some projects and crayons from my classroom so the kids could color gingerbread houses.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's the gingerbread houses and the cute, kid's table. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The only nativity I put out anymore is the unbreakable one. If I put out any of my others, somebody loses a head or a leg. This year it was a wise man. Too bad I wasn't the wise woman who left him back in one of the Christmas bins. </td></tr>
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Stairs going up to my bedroom. I will miss these cute, long-legged mice smiling at me on the way up to bed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It is so easy for me to forget the reason for the season. Here is another unbreakable nativity my son Devin brought me back from Armenia, where he served a mission. </td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: start;">I have tried hosting parties for family and friends always hoping that everybody has a good time; but I've learned that some people won't have a good time no matter what you do, and that isn't your fault. You just try to enjoy yourself and hope that everybody else does the same. But it is kind of out of your control. </span></div>
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Another one of the adult tables set up for dinner. I loved the glittery runner and holly berry placemats and simple Christmas colors and decor here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And I have good memories of My daughter playing Christmas carols and us all singing along with her. </td></tr>
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I have learned not to have huge and high expectations for Christmas gifts and all the drama it can cause. If people like what I gave them good, but if not, I just leave the receipt at the bottom of the box and they can return it and buy something else. And I don't mind at all. I used to do that when my mom bought me clothes I didn't like. And it was fun to go shopping after Christmas was over.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another dinner party table set up. This one has Santa placemats and gingerbread-men salt shakers and candleburner. </td></tr>
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Some of these snowmen decorations I will leave up through January. I have 2 light blue bins to house my January decorations. I got them out today and started the taking down Christmas process.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stockings hung on the mantle. I will miss these pretty ones my daughter made herself for her family. They are staying with us this month waiting for their house to finish getting built. It has been a wonderful time to be able to see and play with my grandkiddos daily. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All these end tables will go back to being just blah looking after taking down Christmas is done. Sniff. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My cute kitchen counter. I will miss the bright and happy Santa stuff. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And I will think back fondly on having The extended family doing the nativity and Christmas caroling together with them. </td></tr>
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I have tried to appreciate the little things this year. I have loved seeing little messages my 7 year old granddaughter leaves on my office whiteboard every time she is in there. It has gotten to be such a funny interchange. I look forward to seeing any new thing she has written. Sometimes they are generic funny thoughts. Sometimes they are messages to grandpa. Sometimes they are notices of things coming up in her classroom, like the time she was worried about a fire drill and the screeching alarm that made her nervous. (snicker) And sometimes they are all for me. Lucky me. I love her so. This particular one her little sister wrote to her, sharing the love. So sweet.<br />
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So even though Taking Down Christmas makes me kind of sad, I have little gems like this to brighten up my day. And the little things I've seen and experienced remind me of how good it is to celebrate the holidays. I know if I only lean in a little more often, I will see the little gems that are happening all around me. Things that make me smile like these things do.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great Grandpa and great grandson enjoying a photo op (NOT) ... and there are TWO WHOLE generations in between! Someday this photo will be even more precious to me than it already is. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cousins enjoying their matching bigwheel trikes. There was a third cousin missing this day. But someday they'll all be together again riding them. </td></tr>
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And these little gems, these little moments in time just make the little letdown of putting away Christmas, a little bit better to me. Things just look a little brighter after all. Here is all 6 of my grandkids blowing bubbles on the deck outside one day during the holidays.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And I won't soon forget the Monday night we all went to Hogle Zoo for Zoolights with the entire family. It will be one of my favorite memories this holiday season. And those are the things I will think on, as I am taking down Christmas.<br />
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Putting up January....snowflakes and snowmen. </div>
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Not quite as cute as all the Christmas pizzaz......</div>
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But winter is here....with all that snow and so I will embrace it I guess. Snowmen make it more bearable....:D<br />
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Now the front entry doesn't look AS CUTE as it did previously....but it's filled with January finds.....snowflakes, snowmen and cute little grandbaby pictures in January frames.<br />
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Changing out all the red and green for blue and white......<br />
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And January placemats, snowmen, and snowflakes......<br />
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Snowflakes made from paper. Super easy but fun for the kids on a snowy day. We didn't want to go outside on this cold, wintery Utah day. So we stayed inside and played instead.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This GIANT snowflake was from the Scholastic site and tutorial is <a href="http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2012/11/10-quick-ideas-spread-holiday-cheer-your-classroom">HERE. </a> At my school these are lining the ceiling in the front office foyer. They are soooooo beautiful! Kids made them too! So cool! And they are just made from 6 pieces of copy paper! Super CHEAP decoration for winter! </td></tr>
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Q. What kinds of math do Snowy Owls like?<br />
A. Owlgebra. Haha. I love a good joke.<br />
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I found many tutorials for these giant snowflakes on the web. One<a href="http://www.paperzoneblog.com/2010/11/3d-snowflake-pattern.html"> Tutorial with pictures is HERE</a> at Paper Zone Blog for how to do a cool, giant paper snowflake. I used 8 1/2 x 11 copy paper sheets. You could have each of your kids do 1/6 of the snowflake. Another one with cool photos is <a href="http://calm-energy.blogspot.com/2011/12/make-some-snow-of-your-own.html">HERE at A Cup of Calm. </a>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Cup of Calm had cool pics to guide me through it! </td></tr>
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You start by using a perfect square of paper, just like in Japanese paper folding, or doing a square snowflake.
Then you fold twice. The side where there is a single fold you cut 4 lines almost to the edge, that line up with the side with the long side of the triangle.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">SNOWFLAKE 2</span></b> - My Kindergartners made cute, LITTLE snowflakes using coffee filters folded 3 times then triangles cut out of each edge. These were a part of our Frozen Party activities we had <a href="http://pattiemoss.blogspot.com/2014/12/21-frozen-party-activities.html">HERE.</a> Depending on the child's age you could do one of these 3 styles of Snowflakes. </td></tr>
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Fold the square diagonally to form a triange. Then fold that triangle in half again to form a smaller triangle. Unfold carefully. Attach the 2 outside tips of the square to each other in front. Then attach the next tips in back with tape. Then the next tips in front with tape. That the last inner tips in back with tape. Do this 4 or 5 more times. Attach the ends together with a stapler. You will have a 5 sectioned star snowflake or a 6 sectioned snowflake. hang up in the center of your room for quite a breathtaking display.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just staple all the 6 parts together to form the snowflake! All Done! </td></tr>
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A fun interactive snowflake making website with magic scissors that cut a new snowflake every time is called <a href="http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/">Snowflake Barkleys.com HERE</a> is the link. It's a cool and fun website for the kids to get an idea how to cut a snowflake.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snowflake Bentley is a book I read to my class each January. He was mesmerized by snowflakes. He made them his life's work as a photographer. They are so beautiful and interesting<br />
Another Kind of Paper Snowflake making is using just strips of paper. I used about 12 for each one, but you could use less, maybe 8 or 10. There is no particular size. I used a sheet of copy paper.<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Snowflake 3 Tutorial </span></b>Step 1. Cut an 8 1/2 x 11 paper into 1 inch strips the short way. I got 11 or 12 and placed them into an even pile. You can use any size really, longer strips will make a larger snowflake; smaller strips will make a tiny one.<br />
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Snowflake Tutorial Step 2. Put into 1 pile, fold in the middle and staple into the middle of the strips Then fold the first corner down and glue strip to the center near the staple. Then do the next one of the strips the same way gluing a small bit into the center as you go. <br />
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Paper Snowflakes...Continue folding each piece down to the center and glue. Go around the whole pile of strips.<br />
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Snowflake Tutorial Step 3. When each piece of the snowflake is glued and dried, hang a string from your light fixture or ceiling fan to decorate the table area. Use lots of different styles of snowflakes to decorate.<br />
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You can use colored paper in the springtime to make hanging flowers too. Or use 2 colors like red and white for Valentines Day or green and white for St. Patrick's Day. Or solid pastels for a baby shower would be really cute too!<br />
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Snowflakes made from just copy paper. So easy. We also do snowflakes the old fashioned way using coffee filters and folding them 3 times and cutting out triangles. We've had fun making snowflakes today. </td></tr>
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Here are some funny winter riddles to brighten up this dreary gray weather we are having. Ugh! I have to search for things to give me strength during the coldest month of the year in Utah.<br />
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Winter Riddles to give you the giggles!<br />
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Q. What did the big furry hat say to the warm wooly scarf?<br />
A. You hang around while I go on ahead.<br />
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Q. How do you keep from getting cold feet?<br />
A. Don't go around BRRRfooted!<br />
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Q. Where do seals go to see movies?<br />
A. The dive in!<br />
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Q. What kinds of math do Snowy Owls like?<br />
A. Owlgebra.<br />
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Q. Why is the slippery ice like music?<br />
A. If you don't C Sharp, you'll B flat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 16px;">I have a snowflake book by W.A. Bentley that has pictures of thousands of real snowflakes he took with an old fashioned camera. He proved that no two were alike! Each one is different and unique. It's one of the truly amazing facts of nature! I love snowflakes! They are a cheap and easy decoration for winter. And a fun way to pass the cold wintery afternoon! </td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-48436970671109736422014-12-23T21:48:00.002-08:002015-02-11T05:06:51.323-08:0021 Frozen Party Activities Here are 21 Frozen Party Ideas I used for a winter party in my classroom, and also for a little grandkids' Frozen Party we did the weekend all my kids were home for the holidays. We had lots of fun!<br />
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<b><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">5 Crafts to Make </span></u></b><br />
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1. Blue, glittery slime making. Check out the recipe <a href="http://www.growingajeweledrose.com/2014/05/frozen-slime-recipe-for-kids.html">HERE is the recipe.</a><br />
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2. Snowflake Making using coffee filters - 1. First, fold a coffee filter once like a taco, then twice like a piece of pizza and a third time like an ice cream cone. Cut out little triangles along both sides leaving the tip and the curve alone. Unfold to reveal a snowflake!<br />
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3. Face Painting using glittery stencils. I found some really easy glitter stencils at Target for $6.00. They include 3 colors of glitter, stencils and a tiny bottle of face glue and a powder paintbrush to dab on the glitter. They are reusable! <a href="http://www.kohls.com/product/prd-1984919/Disney-s-Frozen-Glitter-Tattoo-Kit-by-Glimmer-Body-Art.jsp?ci_mcc=ci&srccode=cii_17588969&cpncode=45-12742802-2&CID=shopping15">HERE are some from Kohls.</a> They were easy and the girls loved them!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is the Kit I used for Glitter Face Painting. It was $6.00 at Target. I recently found another one for $5.00 at T.J. Max. They had a Frozen Glitter Tattoo Art Kit at Kohls for $9.00 recently too. Check it out <a href="http://www.kohls.com/product/prd-1563088/glitter-tattoo-manicure-set.jsp">HERE.</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glitter Face Painting for the Frozen Winter Party. It was a fun activity. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glitter Face Tattoos. Marisa wanted a peace sign. She was probably thinking of Peace on Earth! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My cute granddaughter I did some swirls and doo dads with makeup for the Frozen Face Painting. </td></tr>
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4 .White playdough with glitter "Snowball Playdough" and free printable tags for the playdough <a href="http://www.yellowblissroad.com/snowball-playdough-recipe-free-printable-gift-tag/">HERE at Yellow Bwnliss Road.</a> I will just use ziplock bags and tape the tags on. If you make this at home you could use little baby food jars and wrap a blue glittery ribbon around each one with the cute tags. Tutorial for easy Playdough is <a href="http://pattiesclassroom.blogspot.com/2013/07/making-playdough-from-kool-aid.html">HERE at Patties Classroom.</a><br />
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5. <span style="color: magenta;"><b>MAKE A BRACELET FROM BEADS </b></span>using white, light and dark blue, and purple and pink beads and chenille stems. Add an enamel snowflake in purple, blue or pink to each one. These are easy to make for even young children. Use pony beads from the craft store or walmart. The faceted clear beads in blue and purple are pretty to use too. Get the enameled snowflakes from <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/snowflake-charms-mm-a2-13672064.fltr?Ntt=charms%20snowflakes">Oriental Trading</a> for $6.50 for a dozen charms. Or find them at a bead store.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Make bracelets from <b><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">pony</span></b> beads and chenille stems. These were green ones for earth day we did in April, but I've done them for Valentines with red, pink and white, for Easter in pastels and Pirate day in black and white. They are really easy for kids to make. Use special foam beads from Oriental trading for more choices in beads.</td></tr>
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<b><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"> 4 Fun Games to Play</span></u></b><br />
6. Snowball bowling with white whiffle balls. Use printables taped on each blue, plastic cup and draw numbers on each cup for challenge points. Kids could add them up to see who has more points. I taped <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/327918416591260687/">OLAF cupcake toppers </a> on 10 blue plastic cups.<br />
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I placed 4 on the bottom, then 3, then 2 then one on top to knock over or to bowl. I bought a few bags of white whiffle balls to use as snowballs from the dollar store. But then at the last minute I couldn't find them. I think I put them in a "safe place" I wouldn't forget. Do you ever do that too? haha. So at the last minute I raided the white socks drawer and put 1/2 cup of rice in each old, white sock and then tied a knot. It worked great! Simply made bean bags!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frozen Party Games - Snowball Rolling or Throwing was a blast! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We tried putting these cups in the traditional bowling pattern but it wasn't as fun as the loud CRASH effect you got when you threw the beanbags. I think with whiffle balls it may have worked to bowl. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My kindergarten kids LOVED this game. And my 2 year old grandson loved it too. Every time we set up the cups he would sneak over and knock them over before anybody got a chance. It was so funny!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's my beanbags I made at the last minute with 1/2 cup of rice tied inside of old socks. They worked great! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prizes for the Frozen Party were card games, pencil and eraser sets, books, blue and pink mini-finger polish and giant, blue gumballs in a tall jar. </td></tr>
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7. Pin the nose on Olaf the Snowman. Olaf coloring page is <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/241998179952669781/">HERE.</a> I Blew it up on an overhead projector and then traced it with a black marker on white paper. Then I cut it out and glued it on blue poster board for Pin the Nose on Olaf.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pin the Nose on Olaf game. I used a document camera to blow up a coloring page of Olaf <a href="http://family.disney.com/activities/olafs-summer-coloring-page">HERE at Family Disney. </a> Then I traced it and cut it out and glued it on a blue poster board and added black buttons and eyebrows and stick arms.</td></tr>
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Punch out some die cut snowflakes or make some out of white paper to put around the edges. I made up the sign too for this "station" or center. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 16px;">Pin the Nose on Olaf Game was the sweetest game to watch the kids do. All the kids who played it had a blast.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 16px;">Cut out the carrot noses for Pin the Nose on Olaf. Let kids write their own names on them with black Sharpie. Then give them a piece of tape and cover their eyes with a sweater cap or snow hat, twirl them a few times and let em go!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 16px;">Pin the Nose on Olaf. Here is One of my cute little granddaughters in her Elsa costume getting ready to play!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In my classroom we wrote about "People Who are Worth Melting For". We had everything from dogs to little sisters and of course grandma and grandpa! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olaf Frozen Art Project turned out easy peasy. I had the shapes cut out. (3 white ovals sized properly, orange carrots, white tooth, black mouth shape. Kids did arms, eyes, and glued on round black paper buttons. I die cut snowflakes and each got two to paste on. I would add 2 round legs next time and a few black sticks of hair. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute little Olaf the Snowman Art - I forgot about his hair though! My bad. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is kindergarten writing. I am very proud of my kiddos! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great handwriting guys! Woo Hoo! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olaf the Snowman makes a very Cute Kindergarten art project! We just forgot to add 2 legs and hair! Woops! </td></tr>
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Some cute stationery with lots of FROZEN ideas and free printables I found <a href="http://www.frugalhomeschoolfamily.com/2014/09/09/free-frozen-themed-writing-prompts/">HERE at Frugal Homeschool</a>. The paper below I just added an Olaf free printable <a href="http://family.disney.com/activities/olafs-summer-coloring-page">HERE</a> to some cute paper I already had. Then I typed "Some People are Worth Melting For" on the bottom.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who do you think is Worth Melting For? I have all of these Olaf art projects and writing ready to go for an after the holiday bulletin board! They will go up on the wall in January. </td></tr>
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8. Freeze Dancing to "Let it Go" song. Play the song and let everybody dance or move around the room. Then quickly stop music and everybody freezes. It is fun. Good 1st game for ice breaker.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">21 Frozen Party Activities; Frozen Bingo Game was fun. We used calling cards with the characters written on them. </td></tr>
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9. Play FROZEN Bingo. The free printable Bingo Cards are <a href="http://eng.ohmyfiesta.com/2014/08/frozen-free-printable-bingo.html">HERE at Oh My Fiesta.</a> There<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To Play FROZEN BINGO, I put out little cups of blue Hersey's kisses with snowflakes on them. They were great for Bingo Markers. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I found Frozen Fruit Snacks to use for prizes for the Frozen Bingo Game. I also found a big bag of giant, light blue bubble gum balls and put them in a tall jar. The kids could choose gum or fruit snacks when they won a round of Frozen Bingo. </td></tr>
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The only bad thing about this game is that there are only 3 picture cards and I needed at least 5 cards. So I printed out 2 of each and then cut out a few squares and changed positions with 2 of the 6 cards. Then I glued each onto light blue cardstock and put each into a page protector so it would keep its shape. I used the words on the 4th Bingo card as calling cards.<br />
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10. Blue Jello Squares. Just use half the water to make jiggler jello. Cut into squares and place in a bowl.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frozen Party Food Table; we had gummy bears and Jelly beans, M and Ms, Gumdrops, Carrots, donuts, Chex Mix, Taquitos and Guacamole (forgot to take a picture). You could also order a few pizzas and make your life easy. I make some killer guac so I had frozen chicken taquitos in the oven ready to go. </td></tr>
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11. Carrots "Olaf Noses" and apples and fresh oranges sliced up were easy and healthy snacks. I bought Chex Mix and had Candy for decorating Olaf the Snowman and Sven the Reindeer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I printed out a cute little OLAF printout and taped it to the Blue Hawaiian Punch. The blue gumballs and kisses are in the background and front area. </td></tr>
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12. Punch Blue High C or Hawaiian Punch (Blue colored) with 7 up or Sprite.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">13.Kettle Corn Popcorn Balls or Colored White and light blue Chocolate Popcorn. You can also drizzle with Blue candy melts in the Popcorn.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Molengo;"><span style="font-size: 18.2857151031494px; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">(Just melt a 1/2 cup of blue disks in the microwave. Then drizzle over microwaved popcorn). In my classroom I just did 4 bags of kettle corn and gave each table a bag and a big plate of cut up fruits. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SVEN Cookies from Frozen made from Nutter Butter Cookies. These were easy for even the very youngest of my grandkids to make with just a little bit of help with the icing. The nose and eyes are mini M and Ms. The antlers are small pretzels. The moms just put a blob of icing where needed. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "SVEN" Reindeer Cookies turned out pretty cute. Kids made these! </td></tr>
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13. Sven (Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Cookies) cookies with round pretzel antlers and M & M nose and eyes. Even my two youngest granddaughters could do it with mom's help (2 year olds). Easy way to do the icing is put 1/4 of the white tub if icing into a ziplock baggie. Then use sharp scissors to cut a bit off the tip. Then seal them and roll them up and squeeze to get a dot of icing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I got these cute, blue, square plates from Target. I placed all the things needed to make the Sven cookies and the Olaf donut snowmen on the plate for each partygoer. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Olaf Donut men had 2 toothpicks ( I used colorful ones) and 2 orange Mike and Ikes for the nose and belly button. Then M and Ms were eyes and buttons and a gummy bear cut down the middle (not all the way) and opened up, made the "scarf". </td></tr>
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14. Olaf powdered donut making. Use 2 white mini donuts, a Mike and Ike nose and belly button in orange, Little mini M and Ms for eyes and buttons, break off a curved pretzel for smile, and use colorful toothpicks for arms. Easy!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olaf the Snowman Donut Making Station....These cute plates and cups were from Target too. I love their children's dinnerware. They are SO cute and inexpensive I have a set of 4 for just about every holiday. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olaf Donut Snowmen and Sven Reindeer Cookies. The smile on Olaf is from a broken pretzel (just check the bottom of the bag!) and the "scarf" is a cut-open, Sour Patch Kids gummy bear. You could use just about anything; a strip of fruit roll ups would be good too, or gummy worms cut down the middle would be even more fun, and longer. We improvised on the scarf. </td></tr>
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15 White Cheese Sticks with Olaf stickers on them or Olaf faces drawn with black Sharpie markers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lovingmountainlife.com/2014/01/23/olaf-the-string-cheese-frozen-snacks/" style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;">Loving Mountain Life </a><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"> had a cute idea to use Sharpies to draw Olaf on some white mozzarella cheese sticks. Here is a picture. I ran out of time and just layed the cheese sticks on the table in a bowl. But these would be good to add a healthy snack to your treat table! </span></td></tr>
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I popped a box of Chicken Taquitos in the oven and made ahead some fresh guacamole.The moms and dads loved the taquitos and guacamole and you don't need extra plates since they are a finger food. I also bought a bag of Chex Mix and a package of mini carrots (Olaf noses) for munching. At school we had orange and apple slices and microwave Kettle corn. You could also add pizzas.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">21 Frozen Party Activities - Make a Frozen Christmas Tree!! Isn't this one super cute? ....Keep Calm and Let The Storm Rage On.....Good advice! </td></tr>
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<b><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">3 Party Invites and Take Home Favors.</span></u></b><br />
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16. Coloring Pages <a href="http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/e3/b9/7e/e3b97ec61f29a02aeed3f517b4e345db.jpg">HERE at Media Cache.</a> I used for the party invitations for my FROZEN party. I added a date and time and what to wear/bring. Also you could send coloring pages and some colors home as a party favor. More coloring pages can be found <a href="http://www.momendeavors.com/2013/11/disney-frozen-printable-activities-coloring-pages.html">HERE.</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 16px;">I found all these FROZEN coloring pages online as free printables. I had the kids come choose one of these and color while they were eating their finished donuts and treats.</td></tr>
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17. Party favors could be "make a snowman" kits with bag toppers. The kit includes 3 large marshmallows, 2 pretzel sticks, some mini chocolate chips for eyes, mini M and Ms for buttons and an orange Mike and Ike for a nose, and 2 toothpicks for arms. I used colorful toothpicks. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I bought giant coloring books for my grandkids in the dollar section at Target for take home gifts. They included a little tiny pack of colors! SCORE! For my classroom kids I just had snowman baggies and we put candy and little chocolate marshmallow snowmen inside each one along with some Hershey's kisses, and gumballs. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had these Frozen Dolls out at my Frozen Party for my grandkids. Mostly because I had bought 2 of each type of doll (magnetic dress the Frozen Dolls, Elsa and Anna Barbie type dolls, and Tiny set of 6 characters) for my granddaughters and I mentally noted which one each seemed to like best. Then I wrapped them up for Christmas presents! SCORE AGAIN! </td></tr>
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18. Build your own candy buffet, take-home bag. I tried to keep the table blue and silver with blue and silver candies Kisses, light blue, giant, bubble gum balls, candy suckers or ring pops in blue too. Provide "snowflake" type bags with twisty ties. Check out bulk candy in the supermarket for "blue" candy ideas. I liked <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Buffalo-Bills-LolliCubes-cube-shaped-lollipop/dp/B00JBBX8PI">THESE Lolly Cubes</a> blue, cube-shaped suckers. Or try <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Blue-Raspberries-Gummy-Fruit-Flavored-Gummi-Candy-Candies-1-Pound-/231399714501">These blue raspberry gummies.</a> I used blue bubble gum balls and blue chocolate kisses and blue dum dum suckers and a big jar of marshmallows. Display them in clear, decorative cookie jars and vases with "scoops".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I tried to copy this and do a "blue candy" table but I just ended up using lots of snacks and candy. It was really fun anyway. Nobody cares if you do your own thing and add your favorite candy. Kids will love any kind of candy or treats you come up with! I promise! I've been a teacher 20 years. </td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>3 MORE TAKE HOME TRINKETS: </b></span><br />
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19. <a href="http://www.ourthriftyideas.com/2014/03/frozen-movie-release-with-a-party-free-printables.html#.VHXYPIuOao8">HERE at Our Thrifty Ideas </a> is a treat bag topper you can print out and fill with marshmallows, pretzel sticks and chocolate chips to make a "take home"snowman. But you can find all sorts of free printables to use as free take home fun. All you need are some ziplock baggies.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This would be a great take home Frozen Party Gift baggie full of ABC Flashcards with the Frozen theme. These were FREE PRINTABLES! Ye Ha! <a href="http://delicateconstruction.com/2014/05/free-frozen-alphabet-card-printables.html">HERE is the link at Delicate Construction. </a></td></tr>
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20. Match Game in a baggie for take home fun. Frozen Party match game can be found <a href="http://www.momendeavors.com/2013/11/disney-frozen-printable-activities-coloring-pages.html">HERE.</a> This one was a store bought game from Target. It was little cardboard squares, very durable. I've used it on rainy days in my classroom for recess time. The kids all love it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a Frozen match game I found for $3.00 at Target in the Dollar section up front. We played this one while we were at one of the stations when they finished early making snowflakes. We never used the card game which was also $3.00, but I'm still working on that. It was a great prize so I bought several. </td></tr>
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21. Color some Frozen Movie Coloring Pages <a href="http://www.disneymovieslist.com/coloring-pages/theme.asp?t=Frozen">HERE</a> while eating Kettle Corn and white chocolate dipped pretzels. You could also roll up a few coloring pages for take home gifts and attach a small 8 pack of crayons to each. Crayons go on sale before school starts for 25cents. I stock up and use them as gifts.<br />
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This was one of the most fun parties I've ever planned. We made several videos of our fun time playing the games at the Frozen party. Check them out on Youtube . I should have them up very soon! <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-66717735851840860442014-12-14T08:29:00.002-08:002014-12-14T09:18:00.622-08:00Festival of Trees 2014 Salt Lake City Here are some of the highlights of the 2014 Festival of Trees in Sandy, Utah at the South Town Expo Center.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We enjoyed looking at all the hundreds of themed trees at the Festival of Trees. I liked this Dr. Seuss tree.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My very favorite of the night was this Pirate Playhouse. There were a dozen playhouses for kids in different designs. Wouldn't my grandkids just adore this pirate boat at my cabin? Um...Yeah! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They had lots of crafts made and sold by kids' groups. All the proceeds go to Primary Childrens Medical Center. These snowmen had cokes inside! I thought they might be fun to make sometime using old socks. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rows and rows of Gingerbread houses at the Festival of Trees. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"> There were also quilts, gingerbread houses, wreaths and lots of candies and homebaked goods at the Festival of Trees. Here is the Salt Lake Temple! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a gingerbread house of It's a Small World ride at Disneyland! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another fun playhouse for kids. I think these sell for thousands of dollars! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">University of Utah Teepee versus the BYU Teepee. There's always a school and football rivalry going on around these parts. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Captain America and Spiderman Tree was lots of fun. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I loved the Girl Scout Cookie tree. Cute! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This "Castle" playhouse came with its own princess and prince costumes! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Candy tree at the Festival of Trees. What kid wouldn't want the shelf full of candy to go with it? I would and I'm not even a kid! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The additional items around the tree get auctioned off as well as the tree, so many of the trees go for several thousand dollars depending on the toys or additional things go along with the tree. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of the trees just have themed colors like this silver and white tree. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sometimes the trees were made in honor of somebody who has died and they use their favorite colors, or favorite things or both to design and decorate the tree. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then they will put that person's picture in a frame near the tree telling about their life. It is very special. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pirate Treasure Matey! We were the recipients one year of this special kindness. The year our 17 year old son Danny was killed in a car accident the kids in our neighborhood did a Danny tree. It had hockey stuff all over it. The Grizzlies signed a hockey stick and the red and black ALTA High School flags and colors were all over it. It was very special. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then somebody anonymously bought and had the tree delivered to us. We keep it up at our cabin. I love it every year. sniff. I think that is why the festival keeps going and getting bigger every year; it is all done because of love and service for others. That is a great motivation too. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I loved this Frozen tree. "Keep Calm and Let the Storms Rage On." Good motto. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A little Mexican tissue paper flower tree, with some pinatas in there too. Super cute! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aqua and Pink and silver with these animal skins made a striking tree. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Being a teacher I recognized "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" tree; a book by Eric Carle. And all the goodies that go along with it would be super fun to get.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "Minion Mantle" had a crowd around it the entire night. I loved it too. Super creative. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There were dozens and dozens of quilts. I loved this one for a little girl's room. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This quilt was a Christmas Tree Advent Calendar. How cute is that? Cuter than the one I have that's for sure! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Snowman Quilt reminded me of Olaf in Frozen. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Side by side BYU and UTES quilts. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There is also entertainment at the Festival of Trees. One stage has dancing going on all night, and the other stage has singing groups and instrumental groups the whole night. It is very wonderful! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is a cute section of the festival where you can buy gifts for anybody and everybody. These cute things were all made from felt. I loved them all! Inside was a candy treat. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think this was a missionary tree. Their are ties and flags from all over the world, and little missionary dolls with nametags. So cute! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think this was a cell phone tree? huh? Tree of the times I guess. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I loved this silver and pink tree. What little girl wouldn't love this in her room? </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was made for a music lover. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Golden highlights and stars on this pretty tree. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And this tree was for a "Frozen" lover. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can hardly tell but this weird tree lit up with fire and twirled. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another cute cabin with a loft. Super sweet! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Was this a "Sneeches" tree? Something Dr. Seuss for sure. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I just thought this one was so pretty with the coordinating pink and green presents all around it. I think it had angels all over it. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was my very favorite kid's cabin; a Pirate Ship Cabin! I would love to buy this! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I would put it in the backyard at our Bear Lake Cabin. I may have to just copy it in miniature and make the hubs create it for my grandkiddos. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A modern looking riverboat cabin. It was too modern for me. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peanuts tree with all the Charlie Brown characters and Snoopy's doghouse. I have a Snoopy Christmas Cookie jar I bring out every year. It is bright red just like this one. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another Superhero tree. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's me and my granddaughter Meg in a photo op. It really does look like we are just pictures on a wall doesn't it? Crazy! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A "Dickens" playhouse with carolers. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We sat and listened to this troupe of violinists. They were fantastic. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at how tiny some of these little kids are! Amazing. My daughter started playing violin at 8. We loved going to the orchestra concerts for years and years. I miss that! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As we were leaving the Festival of Trees these little ballerinas were on their way in to perform. Aren't they sweet? It is a fun night and an even more wonderful tradition. The Festival of Trees in Salt Lake City, Utah is one of the best things about living here. Yup. </td></tr>
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Marisa and Meg danced tonight at their winter recital at Corner Canyon High School last Saturday night. It was so sweet!<br />
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My granddaughters looked so pretty with their silver and black and white costumes and cute black gloves.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marisa is perusing the crowd till she finds her row of fans! What a doll! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They were so proud of themselves. I love watching dance in any form. I used to dance in Dance Company in high school. It was a fun memory. I tap danced in middle school. haha. I wasn't very good. But I still love to see ballet and tap anytime, anywhere. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at these crazy half slippers they wear. I had never seen them before.</td></tr>
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Then everybody had to get in the posing thing. lol. It was a fun Saturday night event. Happy holidays!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-55343801424813443502014-12-02T15:50:00.003-08:002014-12-09T15:51:45.022-08:00Hogle Zoo Zoolights Fun <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: center;">We took our family to Hogle Zoo's ZOOLIGHTS last night. It was an awesome family outing and it was one of the most fun outings we've had all year. It is SO WORTH the money. It is $7.00 for adults and I think it was $5.00 for kids over 3. Two and under are free. My little grandkids all loved it. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zoo lights is so pretty! This is the first thing you see when you walk into the zoo! The wheels on the train spin and the people inside move! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My hubs loves to do this crazy look in pictures lately. I promise he's not that crazy though....lol. This cute little house was Santa's Hut. Inside sits Santa Claus and a really cute backdrop. You can take as many pictures as you want in any combination with the kids in your party. I LOVED that. </td></tr>
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They had a house with Santa and his helpers inside. Kids and even adults go sit on his lap and take pictures with a really cute background. They passed out color books and crayons too. They had paper to write Santa a letter and a giant, red mailbox to drop it in.<br />
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Meg having a conversation about the drum set she wants for Christmas. lol<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Santa, I want that drumset. My mom and dad aren't so sure about it. But Santa, I've been really GOOD this year!!" </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see the cute Santa mailbox in the background. The table with paper for writing and crayons was just to the left before you get into line to see Santa. Only there wasn't a line! How great is that? </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Notice she has drawn a picture of said drum set.....just in case Santa forgets what it is she is hoping for... lol. And her brother is not so happy to be on Santa's lap. haha. Good picture for the album. Someday he'll think this is funny. But not today. </td></tr>
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Cute cousins sat on Santa's lap together. You really don't get this kind of time in any other Santa place that I know of. It was wonderful! It was not even crowded all either. We walked right up. Every group got about 6 to 8 minutes alone with Santa to take pictures galore!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cousins enjoying some time on Santa's lap. I forgot to take pictures of the reindeer outside of Santa's hut. They were neat to see. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Other areas inside the Santa hut where pictures could be taken, for family groups. Here's my son hanging out, waiting for all the kids to finish writing their Santa letters. The elves handed out crayons and color books too. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some more grandkids on Santa's lap at Zoolights. We got gobs of great shots because we had time! </td></tr>
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Outside of Santa's hut there were some real reindeer we could see inside a little gate. Did you know they lose their antlers every single year? They told the kids the male reindeer lose their antlers in November and the females in May. Very cool. I hope I run across a set of antlers around the hiking trails this spring! I bet they are hard to come by!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My son from Chicago was visiting for a week so we planned some fun night time activities. Zoolights was one of them. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My son-in-law had the day off so we were all there for Zoolights at Hogle Zoo. It is from 5:30 to 8:00 most Mondays, but they were nice enough to leave it open till 9:00 the Monday we were there. Thursday, Friday and Saturdays Zoolights is open till 9:00. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We got a few pictures of almost all the family. But it is a big group! </td></tr>
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The zoo keeps some of the animals outside for Zoolights. We saw all the cats and tigers, etc. and they left the inside animals houses open. We saw bats and turtles and monkeys too. It was freaky seeing the bats all hanging around together. My son Devin turned on his phone light and held it up right near the lump of 25 bats and they all turned and looked at his light with their freaky red eyes. I think he scared them, because one of them shot a stream of pee right at the window where his face was. If they hadn't been inside the glass, he would have been drenched. It was no accident. They did NOT like his light! But boy, was it funny! We were all cracking up!<br />
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Marisa in the monkey house. There was one set of 4 monkeys sleeping and all 4 tails were curled together. It was so darling! I should have taken a shot of it! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here we are in the tunnel. It was just starting the aqua blue light wave. Those columns of lights start up in a wave and when it gets to the end of the tunnel, it changes colors and whirls and spins colors. It is AWESOME! </td></tr>
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Zoolights has a beautiful tunnel of lights that moves colors with the Christmas songs on the speakers. It was fun to walk along inside and look up at the wave of colors changing as the music played pretty Christmas songs. It was a delightful experience! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think my favorite animals we saw were the cute monkeys, the snow leopard and the sleeping bears and tigers. </td></tr>
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They had food booths with snacks like popcorn and hot chocolate and hot dogs and stuff. Lots of kids were in wagons and they had lots of strollers and things to rent for just a few bucks. It is such a fun and worthwhile evening of fun. I highly recommend Zoolights. It is open November 29th to December 31st. Closed on Christmas Day. <a href="http://www.hoglezoo.org/promo/zoo_lights/">Here is all the information.</a> Go see it! Plus, on Thursday’s December 4th, 11th, and 18th you’ll be able to get in to see ZooLights for $3.00 bucks with a vouch from any Utah’s Wendy’s. This just in! O<span style="background-color: white; color: #684e3d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 21px;">n Thursday’s December 4th, 11th, and 18th you’ll be able to get in to see ZooLights for $3.00 bucks with a vouch from any Utah’s Wendy’s. That is less than half price! Go for it people! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Downtown at Abravenal Hall to see the genius comic "Jim Gaffigan, Dad is FAT" show. </td></tr>
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"Hey Mrs. Moss did you know my mom is pregnant?" another child rebuts with "Hey MY dad is the President!!" another child "YOUR dad is American?" another child "My dad is the judge!" Another child, "Well, My dad works at McDonalds, I saw him there when I was a little kid!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Funny Monkey stocking I saw yesterday at Hobby Lobby. It just cracked me up! </td></tr>
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I just HAD to stop and write it all down. 1 minute of kinder kid discussion. Unbelievable. These kids could be doing stand up comedy! They all stopped in awe of the lucky McDonald's kid. Tee Hee. Oh this made me chuckle today! And #McDonalds, take note.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was browsing around Hobby Lobby yesterday and these ugly sweater party invitations and decorations caught my eye. I want to have an Ugly Sweater Par-tay! I have plenty of them to decide between, that's FOR SHORE! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ugly Sweaters are the BOMB! I Agree! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute Snowman in his ugly sweater holding your cookies for your Ugly Sweater Party... tee hee. Gotta Love it! (And I could dress Mr. Moss up funny for the Par-tay!" Ha! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me and the hubs enjoyin' life and laughing our guts out. Happy Holidays!! And Happy Ugly Sweater Parties one and all!</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-91425948168917066662014-11-08T09:12:00.000-08:002014-11-16T09:54:03.900-08:00Turkey and Scarecrow Cupcakes and Candy Pilgrim Hats for Thanksgiving<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How about making some Thanksgiving Cupcakes for the kids this year? If you want something different in addition to the pumpkin pies, how about Turkey or Scarecrow Cupcakes? Or a Pilgrim's Hat from a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup? Yum. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These Scarecrow Cupcakes were made from Orange Slices (and other colored gumdrop flavors) and candy corn and Chocolate chips or M and Ms for eyes. The hair is Chinese crunchy noodles. I just used chocolate icing and a writing tip to do the Scarecrow stitched smile and the stripe on the hat. Then I added a leaf cupcake pick I got onsale in the cake decoration section. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 16px;">I also bought a Wilton Package of Cupcake toppers in leaves and pumpkins. I added the leaves to the Scarecrow heads for a hat decoration on the Thanksgiving Scarecrow Cupcakes. On the Turkey Cupcakes I added the pumpkins for an added decoration. Check them out below. They were on clearance at Joannes Crafts in the Wilton Cake Decorating section. You could use a 40% off coupon to get the deal too. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turkey cupcakes have a jawbreaker or lemonhead for a head and candy corn beak and feathers. I like how the cupcake picks add some dimension to the turkeys and scarecrows. That's always cool! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are really so easy to decorate a child aged 4 could do them. Just have an adult do the dab of icing for eyes. I just used a cake decorating tip and chocolate and vanilla icing. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These turkey "heads" were leftover treats from Halloween. Giant Lemonheads or jaw breakers for a turkey face work great. You could also used Malt Balls, but they wouldn't be as colorful. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then I added candy corn for the feathers and some icing eyes. Here is a Thanksgiving Buffet we set up for a School Party and this was my contribution, as well as some cheesy, twice baked potatoes. I added some silk flowers and fall leaves with ribbons to my serving plates. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 16px;">These Peanut Butter Cookies I added Reese's Pieces to them for fall colors. They were gobbled right up on Thanksgiving Day! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Easy Scarecrow Cupcakes. They were tasty and cute too! </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> And the Thanksgiving Cupcakes made a very cute dessert buffet table too! The kids in your family (big kids or little kids) will all love them. You could also use this as a fun activity after Thanksgiving dinner too. Kids would love to decorate their own cupcake with candy!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last year we made gingerbread houses and these cute Cookie Pilgrim Hats from a Keebler striped cookie and a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. The "buckle" is a cut up gumdrop. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I just added some Milk Chocolate chips to the Cupcake batter to make it a little bit richer and yummier. Sometimes I add a small chocolate pudding box to the dry mix and a cup of sour cream if I want them super rich and tasty. </td></tr>
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Try adding some chocolate chips to your next batch of chocolate cupcakes. You will love it. If I use yellow cake mixes I might add butterscotch chips to the batter for cupcakes. And I'll add a vanilla pudding small box (dry) and a cup of sour cream to the mix too.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> I frosted the cupcakes and used chocolate sprinkles on them before decorating them further. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute little Turkey Cupcakes would be super easy for even 4 year olds to put together You would just have to add the frosting eyeballs. I just used a writing tip and made dots with white and chocolate icing. You could also buy the premade eyeball candies. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Have some fun this Thanksgiving for your kiddos and grandkids; make Turkey Cupcakes! Or Scarecrow Cupcakes. Or make both kinds on Thanksgiving Day for a fun activity after everybody has enjoyed the turkey dinner! We have made gingerbread men and houses too. It's a fun activity for kids and a sweet memory.<br />
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Then when you are all done eating. Play some Thanksgiving <a href="http://crazylittleprojects.com/2013/11/thanksgiving-bingo.html">BINGO HERE FREE,</a> or else play Pin the Hat on the Turkey. I got mine from the dollar store! :D Have more fun on Thanksgiving Day. </td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-58629281822833924952014-11-05T20:22:00.002-08:002014-12-07T18:18:10.279-08:00Frozen Finger Puppets Made From Felt I have 5 granddaughters who all LOVE FROZEN, the movie. So when I saw some patterns for some cute, little, finger puppets of all of the characters, I knew we had to make them!<br />
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I went out and bought about $7.00 worth of felt squares of every color. I looked at this picture I saw on Facebook <a href="http://www.theidearoom.net/2014/10/frozen-finger-puppet-patterns.html">From The Idea Room </a> and then I freehanded the puppets. It was pretty easy to also embellish with glitter, sequins, buttons and gems. And we made little faces out of fine, Sharpie markers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sven the Moose? Oops. I guess he's a reindeer. My bad. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We kept laughing at ourselves for putting what we called a "spork" on her head with felt. haha. Then we added glitter and a little earring and glittery button to her outfit. And Tiff got out her makeup and dabbed on some real blush. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elsa and Anna Finger Dolls from Frozen were the most fun to make of all the characters. We added eyelashes to the wiggly eyes. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olaf was super funny. Wendy came up with the design and made all the Olaf puppets for the girls. I crafted Hans and Kristoff adding a few little sequins for buttons. Tiff did all the hair and cut out just about all those clothes. Then we had an assembly line going with the glue gun. The girls picked out the buttons and beads and embellishments they wanted. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I know we'll be playing with these for a long time. I think Dylan just tolerated all the "dolls". He would have rather had some Hot Wheels cars instead I think. lol. Tiff was nice enough to let us all come over and mess up her pretty house making crafts. Thanks Tiff. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frozen Finger Puppets made from Felt. Super Easy and so fun. I found these little Frozen tiny lunch box tins for the girls to keep the dolls in. They were at the Target Dollar section. I should have bought more of them. I found these cute playing cards there too. Only a buck! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frozen little Lunchpail tin mini with Frozen playing cards. We'll keep the dolls in the tins. I scored these at the Target Dollar section. The tin was $3 and the cards were $1. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frozen Fingerpuppet patterns. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Frozen Felt Finger Puppet patterns. I'll make these into a PDF today after school. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here we all are after our FROZEN Finger puppets were all made! That was a fun crafting afternoon with almost all my granddaughters there. </td></tr>
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Then one of the girls got out her mini boombox and they all started singing "Let It Go" together. It was pretty much like every other one you've seen on youtube. Funny only to us, probably. Lots of pretty, off key singing while we were all laughing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My granddaughters were two of millions who donned the Elsa and Anna costumes this Halloween. At my school there were dozens of them in every classroom! It was the MOST popular costume I'd seen in years! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frozen Trunk or Treating! Aren't they just super cute? </td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.familyshoppingbag.com/img/thumb/jump/2998/Banner_3#.VFacOvmOao8">Family Shopping.com</a> had some cute Frozen banners I liked with Olaf in the middle, great for a FROZEN kiddie party! It would be fun to have one in the dead of Utah Winter wouldn't it? Maybe some little, powdered donut snowmen and hot chocolate in ice blue mugs with marshmallows?<br />
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For future crafts we will be making beaded bracelets in the Frozen colors of light and dark blue and pinkish purple and white. I got these cute charms to put in between the beads from <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/snowflake-enamel-charms-a2-48_9821.fltr?Ntt=snowflake%20charms">Oriental Trading.</a> The multicolor snowflake charms come in a package of 36 for $7.00. I think these will be awesome and sweet!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-61406366086184335952014-11-03T06:28:00.000-08:002014-11-08T08:14:00.373-08:00Fall Table and Mantle DecoratingI'm starting to decorate my house for Thanksgiving now that Halloween is over. ( sounds of sniffling). I have ALMOST as much junk to decorate with for Thanksgiving as I do for Halloween. But not quite as much.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fall Table and Mantle Decorating has begun! </td></tr>
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I do love the FALL SEASON best of any other. I love the colored leaves, the pumpkins and turkeys everywhere, and I love fall linens and tablescapes. If you want to know my Top 10 Reasons Why Fall is My Favorite, see my rant <a href="http://pattiemoss.blogspot.com/2013/10/top-10-reasons-why-fall-is-my-favorite.html">HERE. </a> Here are a few tablescapes I snapped recently.<br />
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Here is my placemats and china I used last year. But I got some really pretty placemats with a lemon branch on them from William Sonoma a few weeks ago. I'm going with a green and yellow color scheme.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I just got these beautiful placemats at William Sonoma when I was down in Provo from the Chalk the Block Festival. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr. and Mrs. Pilgrim and the little tiny Thanksgiving peeps. My grandkids love to play with this little table and the indians and pilgrims. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You will NOT believe it but this scarecrow is made from a white mop. Yup. It's a mopcrow.....or....a scaremop.....or.....a scrop! Yes, that's IT! Or maybe it's a mop-a-row. hmmm....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is the coffee table decorated up with my cute scarecrow and those gross tasting but cute candy corns for Thanksgiving. They have some brown in them. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the funniest looking turkey you ever saw. WE always laugh at it every stinkin year! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Writing desk in the living room has some cute decor for fall now too! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is the front entry table. I love the cute table runner I got a few years back. It has all the fall colors. The turkey is from Kohls. I got it on clearance last year. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made these little pilgrims out of a 2 x 4 and our bandsaw. The boy has a little wooden turkey on a piece of brown twine. The girl is holding a small basket of "apples" but they are kind of reddish orange so they could be pumpkins...who knows! The hair is twine and the bonnet and collars are felt. </td></tr>
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I printed up this Fall subway art and matted it in pumpkin colored paper with a cool mahogany colored wood frame. <span style="font-size: 16.3636360168457px; text-align: center;">I got this printable from </span><a href="http://www.simplysweethome.com/2012/09/printable-fall-subway-art/" style="font-size: 16.3636360168457px; text-align: center;">Simply Sweet Home. I love it. </a>The free printable is so cute in a dark, 5 x 7 frame.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiddie table is cute and ready for Thanksgiving. I made this tablecloth from some clearance Thanksgiving fabric I scored. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My daughter Tiffany had this pretty mantle made up for fall that I loved too. We both like decorating a little bit for each season. Happy Fall Ya'll! </td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-5046540966790572792014-10-25T13:25:00.000-07:002014-10-27T06:27:57.766-07:00Bridal Shower for My Niece BeckyMy daughter Tiff and I went to a really cute Bridal Shower for my Niece Becky and had a real fun time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Besties Nikki, Becky and Elyse. All 3 have a foodie blog! All 3 grew up together. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I loved this pretty invite to the Shower. It was designed on photo paper. Cute! </td></tr>
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The hostesses were 2 of her best friends who are also bloggers. One was Nikki, of Chef in Training, and another one was Elyse, one of the Six Sisters Stuff sisters. As you can imagine, the food was delicously wonderful.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is a little bit of it. We had lots of fun and yummy party foods at the Bridal Shower. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There were so many things to choose from! Salads, sandwiches, finger foods and lots and lots of sweet treats!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This fruity salad with Asiago cheese, apples and berries and sliced almonds was my favorite. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some kind of bruschetta. It looked yummy. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I just really liked this water dispenser. Got to get me one of those. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of friends from the neighborhood and ward were there too. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of these girls went to high school together. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16.3636360168457px; text-align: center;">The brownie treats on the top were my favorite. Yum. They were to DIE for! I was a good girl and only ate one. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They are called "Samoa Brownies" and the recipe is <a href="http://www.chef-in-training.com/2013/11/samoa-brownies/">HERE.</a> These are decadent and oozing with flavor! Mmm. I want one in my mouth right this minute! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mother of the bride, my pretty sister-in-law Robin, and her youngest daughter pretty Becky. </td></tr>
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She had lots of friends there who were already married so they really spoiled her. She got lots of good loot!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of girlfriends at the shower. Many of them had been married a while so she'll have lots of peeps to go to for advice. :D </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I thought this gift was wrapped up so pretty! Great idea for a Bridal Shower. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guess the Groceries Game was a great Bridal Shower Game! </td></tr>
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Okay back to the food! These cake bites were so pretty. Mine never turn out looking this good. I think I need cake bite lessons. I think these were lemon flavored. And I did love them.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06547483434934339240noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8516913420853916223.post-76535094849814973962014-10-24T05:37:00.005-07:002014-10-27T06:16:01.493-07:00Cute Hobby Lobby Fall Decoration Finds<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I got this CUTE tin sign the other day at Hobby Lobby for 50% off! AND I had a birthday gift card. Yay! I love this sign. It's so colorful and bright. I am putting it in my yellow bathroom I think. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hobby Lobby had lots of these tin signs for 50% off. I saw lots of ladies buying "gifts" they said for relatives for Christmas. Lots of the signs had joke sayings too. There is something for everybody. I think this sign was $12.00 regularly, so I got it at a steal! 6 Bucks! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I also found this neato, giant clock at Deseret Book over the weekend. It was only $12.50 if you bought some other things there. We were shopping with friends so I didn't even have to buy anything but the clock! Woo Hoo! It will look nice in my den where there is a space on the wall for it. It would also look great in the kitchen, come to think of it.....hmmm.......</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Okay THEN I fell in love with this display at Hobby Lobby of black and white "Houndstooth" fabric animals and angels for Christmas. I especially loved this little snowman and the deer. They would make such a cute display during the winter months in my entry hall. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isn't that the CUUUUtest thing? I love the pearl buttons and the jewelry snowflake too. Houndstooth is such a classic fabric too. It is in right now. Love the fur boa too. So cute. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AND....you could use these angels at Valentines Day too if you got a pair of them. They would be darling in my classroom too. And they are dressed all warm and fuzzy for winter. I could keep them up for quite a while after February. It is COLD and WINTERY here in Utah sometimes till April and May! Brrr.... Get a 40% off coupon at Hobby Lobby online and get these for a deal! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">And my new greatroom is aqua and silver. I wanted to buy some of these sparkly silvery mirrored candleholders. They could be left up all year if you made careful choices. I love the holiday decor.</span> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the inside of the front door. It jingles anytime anybody comes or goes. Sometimes I hang the skeleton in the entry hall but the hubs hates bumping his head on it all the time....<span style="color: red;">.haha</span></span><span style="color: red;">....</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;">.I think that part is kind of funny, myself. :D</span> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Outside on the front door is this pretty wispy spiderweb wreath I got last year at Gardner Village at a 75% off sale. The spiderweb in the middle is purple glittered metal. I love it. I should add a few more orange and purple balls to it though. It is a little sparse. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of Halloween doo dads in the front garden patch. I bought some fall yellow and rust colored and purple mums. I just have to get the shovel out and replant them in the garden ASAP. <span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Happy Fall Ya'll! </b></span></td></tr>
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