Jacque Made: a place to share my creative side.

As a leader of the children's group at church, we have an annual meeting in January for all the kids who will turn 8 the following year. We talk about baptism - why it's important and how they can prepare for it. (In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, kids are able to be baptized after they turn 8, the age they are aware and mature enough to make a big decision like that and to be accountable for their choices. It's a very special time for them, and always great to celebrate them.) My friends who lead the group of kids with me put together this Great to Be 8 meeting for the kids, and it was really special. We had some speakers and a discussion about baptism.  We had desserts and fruit afterwards. My friend made these adorable 8 shaped sugar cookies.   Jaime made me these adorable prints to frame.  They are lyrics to one of the kids' songs at church about baptism. This was a fruit tray shaped like a rainbow. I didn't get this pic ...

For our Relief Society Activity, we decided to have a get to know you night. We have had a ton of new families move into our congregation, so we thought it'd be great to have an opportunity for everyone to get to know each other better. I found a cute idea on pinterest to do a "soda" theme kinda 50's feel, and I loved it. My sis did an amazing job on the invite. This print inspired it all. I framed this for the table. We kept the table pretty simple with a few desserts and décor items. We had sodas with vanilla ice cream. This ice cream sprinkle table cloth from Target was perfect. I wished I'd gotten pics of the games we played. They were fun! We did one in a circle with a bouncy ball that had questions written all over it. When you caught the ball, you answered the question closest to your right thumb.  Then, we played the shoe game. Everyone put one shoe in a pile in the middle of the room with the lights turned down...