Category: Religious

My Conference Project

I call this my “Conference Project” because I usually only work on it about twice a year – during General Conference!  I think focusing on the Savior is a great thing to do at Conference!!!  And I know that I listen better when my hands are busy.
I started this in February 2006 so you can see it’s taking awhile.  It’s called “Lost No More” by Greg Olsen.  It’s the most intricate cross-stitch I’ve ever done.  I’ve never had to mix strands of colour before, and all the shading is very hard to follow so I better get it done before I need bifocals!!!  I really love this picture, maybe because I have a fascination with sheep and goats – must be that NewZealand part of me!!!
This is how it looked at the end of last year.
And this is how it looked a few days ago . . .
You can see the little sheep now!!!  And a lot of the background is only half stitches so it goes twice as fast – that was exciting to figure out!!!
I’ll post a picture after Conference and we can see if I’ve made any progress after about 8 hours of stitching and listening to the words of the Prophet and Apostles.
I love General Conference!!!
P.S.  This is the 181st Annual General Conference.

Religious Frames

I know frames like these have been around for awhile, but I really love them and wanted to share the idea again.
My sister-in-law made one for me and I copied and made some for others.  The Living Christ and The Family Proclamation pages can be picked up or ordered for free from any LDS Distribution Center.  I suggest you get that first so you can get the right size frame to fit it all (two of my Apostles names are not showing).  Then I used mini Greg Olsen prints of the Savior for around my frame – just glue them on to the matt.  Simple, classy and beautiful!
For The Family Proclamation, I used more family typed pictures from Greg Olsen, a few pictures of the Savior, and . . .
. . . our own family picture at the very bottom!
Just imagine the other possibilities too – black and white photos, or sepia around the outside would make a gorgeous frame for anything, like, for instance, your family name or monogram, or family motto.  My mind is racing here!!!

Temple Tile

Oh, I love this Temple Tile!!!  When another ward was doing it for their Super Saturday, I signed up for one myself.  You can’t ever have too many pictures of the temple in your home!!!
It’s just a regular photo enlarged to 12″x 12″ size and mod podged onto a tile (it could be done for any size of  tile though).  You could put the words onto the actual photo, but we used vinyl lettering.  I mod podged over top of the whole thing to protect it.  I did kind of a cross hatch pattern with the mod podge and it made the tile look like canvas.  Add a stand from the Dollar Store and voila – what a treasure!!!
(A few months later we ended up making them in our own ward!)

Family Home Evening Board

 We always need a good way to keep track of Family Home Evening assignments!  We made these 12 x 12 tiles at our RS Super Saturday a few years back.  The scrapbook paper is mod podged over a piece of sheet metal – so it’s magnetic.  We didn’t mod podge over the paper though because we weren’t sure how magnetic it would be through the mod podge.
The magnets are made by cutting your faces out of a photo (circle punch works great!).  They are then glued on the back of those clear little buttons (like half a marble) with a clear silicone glue.  And then the magnet is glued on the back as well.  You could also print names instead of pictures.  Works great and is so easy for changing assignments.  And when a child leaves home, they can take their magnet with them!!!

Come Unto Christ Write-on Board

The Youth Theme for 2014 is Come Unto Christ (which I love by the way!!!)  I’ve been seeing lots of cute boards and things on Pinterest with the theme on it, but I wanted to do something a little different.  I’ve already made a Menu board and a Message board, so why not make a Come Unto Christ board?I like this idea because it’s so much easier to wipe off and change what you need to focus on.
It was super easy to make – I just printed the words out on card stock, chopped them up the way I wanted them, added a little distressing then glued them in place.  The frame I bought was certificate size so it fit an
8.5 x 11 piece of paper much better.
I felt a need to create something today!  My daughter is a missionary for
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Today was the day she was flying from the Provo Utah Missionary Training Center, where she’s been for the last six weeks, to her mission – the Mexico Mexico City Southeast Mission.
So I’ve been watching her flights all day!!!  The craft gave me something to do and not be too far away from the computer!  Oh, and she safely arrived about half an hour ago.  Now she’ll get to see if she actually understands anything in the Spanish she’s been learning for the last six weeks!
 Back to my craft . . .A dry erase marker is all you need now to write the goals you’re working on to help you Come Unto Christ.  Write it right on the glass and wipe it off with your finger or a kleenex.
These aren’t my goals – I’m a little old for EFY!  We’ll be making these next week in our Laurel class activity.  So I wrote possible Young Women goals on here. Some other ideas include:

Daily:  personal prayers morning and night, read my scriptures, write in my journal, attend Seminary, review Scripture Mastery, have family prayers, serve someone in my family

Weekly:  attend all my Sunday meetings, worthily partake of the Sacrament, attend all youth activities, participate in Family Home Evening, index 25? names, read Sunday lessons in advance, work on Personal Progress, bless someone through an act of service

Monthly: read the New Era/Ensign/or both, complete a full 24 hour fast, pay a full tithe and fast offering, attend the Temple, index 100? names, write to missionaries, bare your testimony (either verbally or written in your journal or inside a Book of Mormon), read your Patriarchal Blessing

Yearly:  watch General Conference in April and October, watch the women’s broadcast, attend YW Camp, attend Standards Night, attend Especially For Youth, read the Book of Mormon or the scriptures that you’re studying in Seminary, attend Tithing settlement.

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