Jacque Made: a place to share my creative side.

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...

This month our Relief Society Activity was a book exchange and guest speaker. Jaime made this adorable invite for it. I love it so much.  I gathered some things from Party City, Target, and World Market.. how cute are those wooden stick pencils?! And the little owls and toadstools?! I spent a lot of time wrapping books with the wrapping paper for height on the tables.   Jaime made some adorable food labels and quotes for me. For the food/snack table, we had books set up with treats that matched the books somehow - for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we had chocolates,   for the Very Hungry Caterpillar, we had gummy worms, for Diary of a Wimpy Kid, we had cheese, for Harry Potter, we had chocolate wands, and for Popcorn Popping, we had popcorn. When the women came in, we had this table set up outside the room. They wrote their names on the paper and put it in the bucket for a drawing.  We gave away these adorable book bags...

Thursday night was our monthly Relief Society Activity I was in charge of. This is an activity we have for the women in our congregation meant to help them get to know each other better, learn something, and be uplifted.  We decided to have the activity be about pioneers (the early  members of our church and how their faith can strengthen ours... and pie ;)). Jaime helped me so much with the design of the invite and the other printables.. as well as helping me with the activity idea itself. I think this may be one of my all time favorite invites Jaime has ever designed! I love it! These oil paintings of pioneers were also found by Jaime and inspired the feel of the dessert table. Aren't they gorgeous? I got the flowers at Trader Joe's, of course. We had pies and bread/rolls with jelly and butter for the refreshments. I love how it all looked together and felt it really had a pioneer feel to it.    This was the table in the front o...

I was so thrilled when my daughter, Avery, said she wanted to have a Beauty and the Beast themed birthday party. I loved the new movie and thought the theme would be so pretty and fun to execute. As always, my twin sis did an incredible job designing the printables for the party. This invite inspired the whole party design. Isn't it gorgeous? I loved how this enchanted rose turned out. I found the rose and domed glass at Hobby Lobby. The stand is an old one I got at Target. I used a tutorial online for making Belle themed slime and loved the idea for party favors. Isn't it so pretty? The rose beads added such a great touch. (I found the beads on Amazon.) I found these adorable Belle bracelets on Etsy for party favors. Avery loved them, and I did too!   This is what the favors looked like all wrapped up and with the thank you tag.   Amazon Prime became my best friend while prepping for this party. I got these paintable teacup planters for the ki...