Christmas Gifts for the Highland Hills Sisters

If you signed up to purchase a gift for one of the sisters at Highland Hills, we are asking that they be turned in this week. The Relief Society Presidency will be dropping the gifts off on December 22nd to Highland Hills. So if you would drop your gift(s) off to one of the presidency, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much in your generous giving this season!

A note from the bishopric:

Discuss with your family how you can better remember and celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. Focus your holiday season on giving and love. Make a sacrifice to help another famiy build their emergency supplies. Manage Finances Wisely.

7th Ward Christmas Celebration

Join us for Christmas tree Decorating for the Highland Hills sisters, Potluck dinner, devotional service, and Christmas carols. If you didn't already sign-up for the potluck, please bring a side dish to share.

If you have some small ornaments that you can donate for the Christmas trees, please bring them with you.

On Thursday morning we will be delivering the Christmas trees to the nursing home residents at Highland Hills. Join us at 10:00am to spread the Christmas cheer!

Relief Society Christmas Dinner

Date: Thursday, December 3rd
Time: 6:00 PM
Bring your favorite holiday dish to share.

We will have a spiritual message and a musical presentation to start off our Christmas season right.

Relief Society Christmas Dinner

Our Christmas Dinner is only 2 weeks away! We hope each and every one of you will be able to make it this year. It is going to be a relaxing night away with a big spiritual uplift to get your Christmas season started off right. We will be having a spiritual message shared by Charlene Lee and a special musical presentation by Tiffany Topliff. The main part of our meal will be provided, but we are asking that each of you bring your favorite holiday dish to share. We will be starting our evening off promptly at 6:00pm on Thursday, December 3rd in the Fairway building Gymnasium. We look forward to seeing you then!

Mini-Craft Night and Cookie Exchange

Christmas Countdown Blocks *Price $8
The kits come with everything you will need to make these fun countdown blocks! We will have paper for each kit, but if you would like to purchase your own and bring it, you are more than welcome to do that.

Watches *Price $16 ($5 for the face & $11 for the band)
If you already have a face, you can purchase and make just the band. Or you can buy one face and make a couple of bands to interchange with the face. Please do not sign up for this if you aren’t absolutely sure that you want them! She cannot afford to purchase all the materials for our large group if we have people back out at the last minute.

Cookie Exchange *Bring 6 Dozen Cookies
If you would like to take part in the cookie exchange, please make 6 dozen cookies and bring a container to bring your cookies home in.

Quilts
We still have quilts that need to be tied, and we would appreciate some help! We will have the quilts set up, so if you aren’t doing a craft or the cookie exchange, we would really appreciate your help with this project.

Sub for Santa for the Highland Hills Sisters
We will have more information to come on this service project.

Clocks & Recipe Boards
Due to several requests for making more clocks and boards, I’m offering these crafts again. Depending on the number of people who want to do these, I am attempting to do another round near the end of November or beginning of December.

Clocks $35
Recipe Boards $13

Super Saturday was a HUGE success! Thanks to our committee for doing an excellent job in putting it on. They did a lot of hard work to make sure that everything went without a hitch. Thanks to everyone to who attended. We hope that you had a wonderful time and learned a lot from our speakers.

Money Is Due For Super Saturday!

Money is due for your Super Saturday orders. Please make your check out to the Highland 7th Ward. We need to put in final orders this week so we can start picking up the items needed for the crafts. You can drop off your check to either Shirley or Kari.

Also, I've added additional information below on the aprons and the first aid kits. If you are planning on making an APRON, please call Ashley Baker and let her know. She needs to have an idea of how many aprons you are planning on making and if you will have a sewing machine you're bringing with you.

We also have sign-ups going around for the salad bar. If you haven't signed up for anything yet and can bring something, please let Kari know. The sheet will be going around again on Sunday, October 10th. Thanks again for all of your participation! We are excited to have a day together with our Relief Society!

Super Saturday Information

Come join us for Super Saturday FUN!

October 17, 2009

9:00a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Fairway Building

Attend our mini classes and learn how to give yourself a makeover from your clothes to your toes. Lunch will be provided. We are doing a salad bar (there will be sign-ups for salad toppings going around).

We will also be doing the following craft items. If you are interested in doing a craft, please let Shirley Hawks or Kari Elordi know. We need to have money collected by October 11th. We will need a final number on clock orders before October 3rd to give our supplier ample time to fill the orders.

24" Round Clocks

Change the look of any room with this beautiful clock!

Will have personalization (family name, etc) and your choice of either ROMAN NUMERALS or TRADITIONAL numbers.

Kit: $35.00

Recipe Boards
Super cute recipe board to hold your recipes! You also have the option of having "Family" in vinyl rather than "Recipe" so you can hang a family picture on it.
Includes back board (black shown), beaded board (antiqued cream shown) and metal with vinyl lettering
Kit: $13




Magnets
Glass marbles with photos or scrapbook paper behind. So cute and easy to make. If you'd like to use a picture, please bring photos with you.
Kit: (5 magnets) $2.50




Retro Aprons
Makes a GREAT gift!
Simple Pattern--cute ruffle and adjustable straps
Bring your own fabric & sewing machine
We'll be on hand to help with the pattern & instructions
Grab an information sheet at church for fabric yardage and materials

What you need to bring:
1. Fabric yardage:
Front 3/4 yard, Back 3/4 yard (if you would like to use the same fabric for the front and back, buy 1 1/2 yards total), Rubble & Ties 3/4 yard

2. Matching thread

3. Other Supplies: Rotary cutter, cutting mats, scissors, pins, measuring tape, any other sewing supplies you like to use.

*Irons and ironing boards will be available for your use, however, if you would like you can bring your own.

** I created the hem on the apron ruffle using a Rolled Hem Foot on my sewing machine. If you are comfortable using one, bring it with you. If you are not comfortable using one, the same hem can be achieved by pressing twice then sewing--no worries!

Please fill out an information form and return to Ashley Baker! (IF you didn't pick one up and still would like to do the aprons, please call Ashley or Kari with the following information: Name, Phone #, Number of aprons, Size(s), and let us know if you'll be bringing your own sewing machine or not.

FIRST AID KITS

Materials you will need to bring: One fabric mat -- approx. 13' X 18" and Grosgrain ribbon -- approx. 1' X 36"

Ziplock baggies and Velcro strips will be provided. We will also have thread and a sewing machine available.

Welcome!

Welcome, Sisters, to our new 7th ward Relief Society blog. This will hopefully be a great way to keep all of your informed of upcoming events. I would love for this to be a place where we can post pictures of our events and give you sisters a place to post suggestions and comments regarding our activities. Please let me know if you have any annoucements or would like anything posted. Kari E.