Family Home Evening Liahona

I have a wonderful neighbor who makes some pretty AWESOME stuff! I always loved the idea of the hanging family home evening charts, but honestly I just don't have any wall space to hang one up. One day Kerry showed me this Liahona he had made for his family, and it was instant LOVE!

I knew I needed to have one.

I have ours sitting on a table in our house, it goes perfect with our decor. My favorite part is that it doesn't take up tons of space. I wanted some of your guys to see some of the great stuff that he makes. Check out his etsy site here. His blog here. And he also has a website here. I had him send over some great pictures to show you some of the fun stuff he has.

So here is Kerry....

This is the Liahona Family Home Evening Chart that I created mid 2009, I was getting ready to make a family home evening board with the tags for my family and started thinking of ways that I could do something a little different than the regular board and tags, so.....this is what I came up with!

It is a great new way to keep track of whose turn it is for which activity, just turn the compass star each week to show whose turn it is next week. It does the same thing as a family home evening board but much more attractive, does not take up any wall space and is a great table top decoration.

I have also done them for families that all the kids are grown up and moved out, a nice little decoration with all the family's names on the "Liahona"

Here are some other things I came up with for wall decorations, something a little different than the regular square or rectangle designs

This is my favorite; this sword is made from 1/8" aluminum, is 36" long the handle is painted and wrapped with leather, and has the words "Return With Honor" cut into the blade (for decoration only)

and some round ones

if you want to see more pictures you can check out my blog at
http://bangfabrication.blogspot.com/

these are available at our website
http://store02.prostores.com/servlet/bangfabrication/StoreFront

Here is the etsy shop too:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/bang435

Thanks Kerry! I love all of his things and I am sure you will too. Let me know which ones are your favorites!


Love,

Sweetwater Custom Labels

I am super excited about this post....Many of you saw the new labels I got....

I love them!

They were designed by Susan at sweetwater. The cute pea pod at the top of the blog was done by her. I have had some emails regarding the logo design and labels I had made.... So, I am going to have Susan explain a little more about you getting your own labels or your own logo.

I know my mom is excited to have some labels made for quilts she makes...she isn't interested in having a custom logo made up, she just wants the cute labels. Luckily sweetwater has a whole bunch of labels that are 'pre-designed' you just choose the colors and what it needs to say.
Susan shows some of them below, they are so dang cute!

I also have a friend who was curious as to who made the logo, because she is interested in having a new logo designed for a preschool she is planning on opening....see the possibilities are endless!

Okay let me just have Susan explain it to you!

First off - Thanks so much to Kristin for allowing us to create her logo and for letting us write something on her blog about our custom iron-on labels (we appreciate it!!!) She has told us that many of you are wanting more information on the labels and we are glad to give it.

The iron-on labels can be used to help personalize just about anything from clothing and bags to just about anything that you can iron and sew on. If you have a logo, we can use that image to create the labels or we would be happy to create a custom logo for you as well. Here are some custom logos that we have created -

We charge a flat fee of $100 to do a custom logo design. You will receive the file of the design and can use it on anything you would like - your blog, business cards, signs, etc., etc. It is yours to keep! If you would like pricing on iron-on labels with your logo on it please contact us at info@sweetwaterscrapbook.com and we would be happy to do a quote for you.

If you don't have a logo but would still like labels we can help you out as well! We offer a wide variety of pre-designed labels. All you have to do is tell us what color you want them and what you want them to say. Here are some examples -

For more information please visit our website!

Happy Spring - Susan

I hope you go and check out their blog, serious, spend some time.... there is so much to see!!! Let me also say, if you are new to all this type of stuff (like me). Susan will help you through the whole process. She made me comfortable with what was being done, and in the end I couldn't have been happier!

PS. If you head to there website today you could even enter for a giveway for some cute spring labels! Click here for that.

Love,

Re-usable lunch bag by Rhonda

I met Rhonda through my blog, and I am SO glad I did! I have enjoyed emailing her and getting to know her a little bit better. She has two fun blogs, one that is more personal but fun to read, it's called Life as I see it! The other that showcases her photography. I can spend hour looking at peoples photo's even though I don't know anyone in them, I just love great pictures! Yesterday Rhonda made this lunch bag, and I KNEW I needed to show more people! Seriously how Cute is this....



My mind has been going a million miles an hour thinking of all the cool drawing my kids have made that I would love to see 'eternalized' on projects.

I was also glad to know that one of my tutorials could actually be done, and even better could be done during nap time!

So here is Rhonda.....




"Hello! My name is Rhonda and I blog at here!

I spotted Kristin's post and thought hey I can make
that and I already have enough scraps around to do it.

I used her step by step instructions and it was super duper fast to
sew too!!

I cut out my pieces for the outside and the liner just as she said
and then decided I wanted to personalize the bag for my son. He is a
7 and a real artist. He has piles of art work and sketch pads full of
work. So I took one off this page



and traced it onto my outside material. (I used a thick muslin,
almost canvas, material I had in place of the Cord material Kristin
used)




I did some embroidery. Then it SCREAMS ALDEN to me :)



The finished product, full of lunch! I'd say the whole thing took me
30 minutes - mostly that long cause of the embroidery, without that
it would have been half the time at least!




Thanks Kristin!!!! :)"


Love,