Brown Farm Relief Society Birthday Social 2016

Our theme for this years Relief Society Birthday Social was

Few of our favorite things.

I know, I bet you're already singing...

Brown paper packages tied up with string, these are a few of my favorite things,

The Sound Of Music. I had that tune running through my head for months while we planned this lol


So, we went with the Brown Paper Packages as the decor.

I made origami boxes using brown lunch sacks. Tied them with string and added the saying

brown paper packages that I printed off on card stock. Then the rest of the relief society board helped assemble, glue the remaining 60 boxes that I had prepared.

I made a poster from poster board.

Using more lunch sacks I cut out triangles to make a banner.

Bought large brown gifts bags from Zurchers for display on the food table

This was the front display.

I used some of 'My Favorite Things' to display.

Welsh Wool Blankets, Picture of Christ and a picture of the famous

Rain drops on Roses...etc which I purchased from Esty UK

One another table we had the sisters display, 'their fav things'

that they all had a chance to tell us about after the light dinner

For a little decor we strung paper lanterns I also picked up from Zurchers.

For dessert we assigned a sister to bring a centerpiece cake for the table. 

I must say they all looked yummy.

I made two.

A carrot Cake

before and after shot!

There wasn't any left by the time I went to get some lol

And the second one I made was a simple vanilla/strawberry cake.

Cupcakes

Chocolate Oreo creation - that I had. it was so good.

Bundt Cake

Kit-Kat/M&M

German Chocolate

We also had two of the board members sing the song to and after we all joined  in

All in all the evening went great. Great food, great company, great fun.

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Drop Cloth 'Give Thanks Banner.'

Time 

To

Give Thanks.

If you have a spare 30 minutes, then you can make a quick 'Give Thanks' Banner.

I used Scrap Drop Cloth, Twine, Painters Black Pen, Glue Gun, Scissors.

I always keep the hard backing from scrapbooking, they make great templates.

Take your Drop Cloth and trace around your template.

Cut out your pattern, using a pinking shears

Next I used chalk, to draw my letter on to each section.

Take your Painters Pen and trace over you chalk outline.

Next I filled out the lines

Then filled the letter in.

Added a little extra

Now when you painting on drop cloth material, the pen will become matted with the fibers

So just take some kitchen towel and wipe off.

When you have finished filling in your letters, Its time to add you twine.

Using a glue gun glue a line close to the top and glue your twine on.

I added a blob of glue over the twine at the ends and middle, just to be safe :)

Cut some  thin strips of the drop cloth.

Tie them onto the twine, in between each letter.

Now its ready to hang 

Give Thanks Banner

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