Idea board~ Owls

Before our last YW in Excellence we met with our class presidents to descide what theme they wanted to do for this night. So before our meeting I did a little prep and gathered some ideas for them. Because we all know you should never just ask "ok so what do you want to do", having options is ALWAYS a good idea. 

I came up with 6 different themes and I'll be sharing them in different posts. 

The first is either Remember 'WHOO' you are or Be Wise with your choices (you get the idea) and using owls. 

Wisdom scriptures: Proverbs 4:7, D&C 88:118, D&C 88:40, Proverbs 3:13

1. owl pillow boxes from Kerry's Craft Blog

2.Owl treat bags from Clean & Scentsible

3. Owl treat bags from Stamp'n Connection

4.Felt owls from Factory Direct Craft blog

5. Cider in jar glasses from Whipperberry

6. Cute owl banner from Ultimately Plush

 7. Owl treat bags from Domestifluff

8.Owl caramel apple favors from Living Locurto

9.owl cupcakes from A Little Sussy

10. Owl place setting from Kara's Party Ideas

11.Felt Owls from Kara's Party Ideas

12.Felt Pine cones from Family Circle

13.Owl cupcakes from Save the Date for Cupcakes

 14. glitter acorn from Days of Chalk & Chocolate

15. ceramic owls from Oriental Trading

16.Owl invites from Kara's Party Ideas

17. Owl invitations from BHG

18.Owl chocolate suckers from The Sweet Saucy

19. favor tubes from Whimsy Love

 20.hung pine cones from Room Service

21. cinnamin stick candles from Here

22. pine cone tree from Focal Point Styling

23. paper trees from Hostess with the Mostess

24. Ornament tree from Hostess with the Mostess

25. Pine cones and branches from BHG

This last one is from Hostess with the Mostess, love the pine cone chandiliers.

Black and White night

Our theme for Young Women in Excellence this year was Black and White, taken from the Jennie Phillip page. The idea was that the gospel is black and white, there are no gray areas with the Lord. As we planned for this we divided up what needed to be done between the classes. The Laurels were in charge of the dessert, the Mia Maids were in charge of the invitations and favors, and the Beehives were in charge of the decorations.

I am 1st counselor at the moment so I had decorations which was great!!! The beehives helped me a ton by making the paper medallions and cutting the tulle for the chairs.

I again used a lot of paper and tissue paper. I made poms in graduating sizes and hung them together as well as cut circles out on my Cricut and stapled those together. The plan was to sew them together but since I don't own a sewing machine I improvised.

Here are the medalions the girls helped make I found the tutorial for them here, super easy and super cute!!

We held this in the YW's room and used class room table to sit at. For the center pieces I used some hurricane vases I had and got candlesticks from Dollar tree and attached them with hot glue (so that I can get them off at some point). I had images of the Salt Lake temple printed on transparencies and fit those inside. I had the girls glue on the gems to the ribbon and attached that to the base. I used a battery tea light inside. Love how they looked!

 The Laurels brought yummy black and white desserts and the cute favor the Mia Maids did was Hershey Kisses with black and white paper circles on the bottom. They packaged them in black and white cupcake papers and wrapped it all up in a cello bag. (wish I would have gotten a picture of those)

 

Here is just a few shots of the room. I hung my net lights behind white sheets and used the paper medallions to top it off. 

Wishing I still had my chaircover, would have looked fab on the chairs for this event. BUT you make due with what you have and on a budget. 

We kept the program simple. We had a guest speaker (the bishop's wife) talk about how there is no grey area with the Lord and to stay in the light. The girls did a musical number and we had closing remarks from the bishop. After the closing prayer we had dessert and watched a short black and white slideshow of the girls.

 

Bushels of Blessings

 This was a  program that I did when I was serving as Activities Day leader. It is a similar night to YW in Excellence.  The theme was "Bushel of Blessings", the many blessings you receive when you accomplish your goals.

This is the invitation I did in Photoshop

Programs

I found the red containers in the dollar section at Target as well as the apple scrapbook paper. Filled it with different apples and there's my centerpiece for the tables.

Each girl had a little something to take home. Again I found the baskets in the dollar section at Target (my go to place to find cute containers) and put a chocolate caramel apple wrapped up in it.

We had a dinner as well and for treats I found these cute apple cupcakes at Kara's Party Ideas, loved how they turned out.