Girls Camp Part 1

So for Girl's Camp this year, I was a 5th year and had so much fun.  I was assigned a "Secret Sister" and it took me forever to find gifts.  After ransacking Pinterest and Google, I realized I would have to be creative by myself.  I was just talking about this with my cousin Shaylee...because of Pinterest, we never actually have our own ideas anymore, we just use someone elses.  

Here's what I did--feel free to copy! 

I attached the EXTRA Diligent thingy-ma-bobber to a pack of extra gum and gave it to my secret sister with the Galatians scripture, and I put the Camp Blow Dryer card in a bag with a balloon. And just for fun I put a water bottle with a Drink Mix attached to it on her pillow. I put the Spiritual Directory Assistance on her pillow the last day of camp. Scroll down for links.

“Creation brings deep satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take unorganized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty. —Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “Happiness, Your Heritage,” Nov. 2008 general conference

By the way, if you don't know what Girl's Camp is--it's part of my religion.  We young women go to camp and have so much fun as well as strengthen our testimonies in the gospel.  I'm a 5th year which means this is my fifth year going and I get to help plan/prepare for it as well as have leadership experiences.

***Click here for Camp Blow Dryer, Spiritual Directory, and Extra Gum message***

Sorry- in the Google Docs page it's a little off- I made it in Microsoft Word.

and the Galatians quote was given to me by a YW leader, but I searched and found it here.

Leather Backpack

I got it off Ebay from a Japanese company. It's a brown backpack with leather straps (pic below).  It was cheap and I loved it.....but of course the straps were cheap plastic leather.  They broke, got em fixed, broke again.  So this time my sewing teacher, Alice Hiatt, told me to use fabric/material to make a piece to hold the straps together.  I just did and...good as new!  Word to the wise....you get what you pay for.

Happy New Year

Last night was a blast! We went bowling...I won't tell you what my score was.  Then we came back home and watched Mamma Mia.  We played Uno Attack and Rummikub till midnight.  At midnight Jaki and I went to the bishop's house for a fun YW/YM breakfast.  I couldn't bring myself to eat any pancakes though after a chocolate fountain, pretzel maker, and cookies.  I posted pictures of the mini pretzels we made.  Tons of fun...