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Wedding Gift Wrap Idea

June 17, 2010 By Michelle Barneck 15 Comments

It’s summer and wedding season is in full swing! Ever thought of using part of the wedding present as the wrapping? I love to do this. I choose a group of items from their registry that coordinate and include an item to hold them all. Then, I am spending money on things they will actually use rather than something that will be destroyed and thrown away. I of course doll it up with tissue and ribbon, but the actual gift container is re-usable.

Below I did a bathroom theme and included a shower curtain, a pack of wash cloths and wrapped them in a garbage can.

I have also done a bucket full of some of my favorite cleaning supplies. Everyone needs them and let’s face it what new couple wants to spend their wedding gift cash on Lysol wipes and toilet cleaner?!

I love how the tissue paper kinda looks like suds.

Other fun ideas are:

Laundry basket with towels, hangers, laundry soap
Mixing bowl with measuring cups, spoons, hot pads
Pot with Pasta Scoop, Strainer, Garlic press

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New Sew Fleece Blankets and Disney’s Give a Day

March 11, 2010 By Michelle Barneck 6 Comments

Everyone has seen cozy fleece blankets, but have you made your own? They are really easy and require only five supplies.

Supplies Needed for No Sew Fleece Blankets:

Fleece (I used 2 yards for each blanket, $4.44/yd at Wal-Mart)
Cutting mat
Rotary tool
Measuring tool
Masking tape

1. Lay out your fleece and cut off the selvage.
2. Cut 3 inch squares out of each corner. Mark with masking tape from corner to corner so you know where to cut your fringe to.
3. Cut two finger thick and 3 inch long strips with the rotary cutter down the edges to make the fringe.
4. Fold the fringe up toward the center of the blanket and cut tiny slits in the center of each strip.

5. Pull the end of the strip through the slit. Repeat with all strips going through the slits in the same direction.

I think they turned out really nice and the best part is they went to Project Linus who makes blankets for children in the hospital.

We did this as part of Disney’s Give a Day, Get a Day Program where you give a day of service and receive a voucher for a free day at Disneyland. Not bad! But, I hear they have almost reached the limit of one million people for the free ticket program so act fast if you are interested in volunteering. See all the info here.

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YW lesson 6 Handout: Sharing Work in the Home

February 12, 2010 By Michelle Barneck 6 Comments

So I was pondering what to give my church girls this week as handout. Lesson 6 is on sharing work in the home so I immediately thought something “houseworky” but not totally lame. I took a trip to the Dollar Tree and this is what I came up with.

To incorporate the wands, I am going to talk about the fairies in Sleeping Beauty and how everything was done by magic, so when they went to make the cake and the dress for Sleeping Beauty’s birthday and could not use magic it was a real mess. I am going to compare it to how sometimes we think things will be magically done by our mothers, but we need to learn to do them ourselves so when the time comes and we are own our own we aren’t stuck in a mess.

I think they turned out rather cute. I got the “magic erasers”, the heart sticks and the tulle all at the dollar store so I was only out 3 bucks! I hot glued two corners of the message on so it would stay together, but then they could rip it off and use the eraser.

Here is the handout 8 to a page if you would like to use it. Just click on the pick and it will make it bigger.

As a bonus idea that would be fun for some Sunday service you could make these adorable Rice Krispie Hershey Kisses. I got the idea from Homemaking Fun. Use the funnel trick! It makes them sooo easy!! They have her funnel at Dollar Tree, saw it today! Mine is a little different, but I just squished the top a little after I took it out to round it a bit. I made the message with a Sharpie (I wish I had a blue one!) and parchment paper so it would have that thin feel like in the real kisses.

We did heart attacks this week for our Young Women activity. We cut out tons of paper hearts and then picked a few family’s in the neighborhood who we thought could use some extra love. We spread out tons of hearts on the porch along with a Rice Krispie Hershey Kiss for each family member. Then, the girls would ring the doorbell and run.

The girls loved it and one of our less active girls even said it was the funnest thing she’d ever done. Score!!

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Toasty Heart Valentine Breakfast

February 11, 2010 By Michelle Barneck 14 Comments

Here’s a fun little Valentine Breakfast idea I like to lovingly call the Toasty Heart. Yep, totally just made that up. It warms your heart doesn’t it. ha ha So all you do is use a cookie cutter to make a hole in your bread (buttered on each side so it will “toast”) then add an egg in the center. Cook like a fried egg.

Butter the little heart toast and throw it in the pan to toast.

Nice and golden brown.

Then, dip your little toast to your hearts content. While growing up, my parents would make these for us all the time. Not with a heart, they would cut out the hole with the rim of a glass. They called them Egyptian Sandwiches. Why, heaven only knows. They traveled to Egypt multiple times, but when they took me along a few years ago these were no where in site.