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First Week of School Gift for Teachers

349 · Aug 12, 2014 · 6 Comments

It’s great to be back this month! We are Pam and Lisa from Over the Big Moon and we have a fun idea for your First Week of School Gift for Teachers! It’s a great way to help “C” your teachers through their first week back to school! With Carry Out, Caffeine, and Chocolate!

All you need is some delicious chocolate, a gift card for lunch, and a gift card to a local soda shop.

We put our chocolate in a canning jar with the couple of gift cards.

Then we cut a circle of cute paper to put on top of the jar!

You could also package it differently and attach the chocolate to a soda bottle with a Subway or Pizza gift card.

We hope you all have a great time going back to school! You can download the Free Printable tag below!

You can also check out our other teacher appreciation ideas HERE!

Mission Bound Shop + Stylish Tees for a Fabulous Cause

1 · Aug 11, 2014 · 7 Comments

I’m over the moon excited to share with you a project that I’ve been working on for a bit… Our new Mission Bound Shop!

So, what is Mission Bound? Many of you know that I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Our family has a really good friend named Austyn, who has recently joined the church. He’s 18 years old and he is so excited about his new found faith, and he can’t wait to go and serve a two year mission to share the gospel to some lucky place somewhere around the world! The issue, he is a first generation member of the church and will need to raise the funds for his mission on his own. You can read more about his story here…

This did not get him down one bit, he sprang into action and said, “What if I were to sell t-shirts to raise money for my mission!” And that is where it began. Austyn and I teamed up and created some stylish tees with up lifting messages and that is how The Mission Bound Shop was born!

Today is the grand opening of the shop. We have three designs to choose from…

Forget

Dream

Work

Soon we will also have a couple more designs in the shop…

Faith

Mormon

We will also be adding regular tees along with colored tees, hoodies and bags in the near future. We also carry extended sizes, extra small through 3XL.

We are super excited about the designs that we have to launch today and hope that together, we can help Austyn get out on his mission! Once Austyn’s mission is funded, a percentage of the sales will then go to help other missionaries pay for their missions as well, through the Church’s mission fund. Go #teammissionbound

Oh, one more thing… each month we will be giving away a free Mission Bound shirt to one lucky member of Team Mission Bound. If you take a photo of yourself with your Mission Bound shirt and add the hashtag #teammissionbound on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, you will be entered to win a free shirt!!

You can follow Mission Bound on Instagram and Facebook!

The Party Bunch Link Party // no. 40

0 · Aug 7, 2014 · 4 Comments

Oh my stars… Have we really been doing this for 40 weeks! CRAZY!!

Before you link up please let me introduce to you The Party Bunch!

Amy from The Idea Room, Mique from 30 Handmade Days, Heather from Whipperberry and Desiree from The 36th Avenue want to thank you for partying with us… You guys are the best!

Here are some of our favorite recipes this week!

Heather’s Favorite

Preserved Lemons at Eliza Ellis

I would love to do this just for the pretty jars on the shelf!

Mique’s Favorite

Candy Necklace Party Favors by Five Marigolds

These are so cute! I love a clever printable.

Amy’s Favorite

Imperial Stout Coconut Shrimp at Confectionalism

I love coconut shrimp and these look so delicious!

Desiree’s Favorite

Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Cheesecake Filling by Some of This and That

Oh my! This looks so amazing!

As always thank you for so may fabulous projects and recipes!

We hope you take a minute and button up HERE!

Also we want to invite you to click here and follow

The Party Bunch Favorites on Pinterest.

We are featuring more of our favorite projects and recipes from the link party on this board!

Now it is time to party!

TPB Party Bunch Link Up... Every Friday to Sunday link up your projects over at theidearoom.net , thirtyhandmadedays.com , whipperberry.com or the36thavenue.com Four bloggers = ONE BIG PARTY! We can't wait to see your projects!

Here are a few things to remember before you link up!

Please make sure to share the love and grab a button here to let your readers know that you linked up with us!
By linking up with The Party Bunch, you are giving permission to any of us to feature your projects and recipes on our social media with a link back to you. Thanks!

An InLinkz Link-up

BB Frösch Chalk Paint Powder

10 · Aug 6, 2014 · 11 Comments

If you have been following me on Instagram for the last little bit, you’ve seen some of the fun furniture projects that I’ve been working on using BB Frösch Chalk Paint Powder.

What is BB Frösch Chalk Paint Powder? It is the most amazing paint product that I have found… EVER!! This is seriously a game changer in the paint world.

We know we all love to use Chalk Paint for all kinds of projects, whether they are furniture projects for the house or simple craft projects. The issue is that boutique chalk paints have a PREMIUM price tag which is typically too expensive for most consumers. Another issue… You have a limited selection of colors. You only have at most, 35 colors to choose from. What if you want the chalk paint look but they don’t have the color that you would like… You are out of luck.

You can try to create your own chalk paint with common items like Plaster of Paris, but you have several issues there as well. First off… Plaster of Paris is meant to harden. So… whatever paint you mix, within a few hours turns to rock. Second, did you know that some components in Plaster of Paris are on the list of the hazardous chemicals? You can actually burn yourself using the stuff!!

I’ve teamed up with a good friend of mine who has developed the perfect product… Chalk Paint Powder.

You add this powder to any flat latex paint and turn it into chalk paint for a fraction of the cost. Plus you can mix up smaller batches if you want, cutting your cost even further. For example…

I painted this dresser in three hours, start to finish, with an 8 oz. sample pot of paint from Home Depot. The dresser was purchased on Craig’s list for $16, the sample pot was $2.95 at Home Depot, the BB Frösch Chalk Paint Powder cost $2.50 and the soft wax used to finish the project was less than $1.00. Total… I was able to refinish this dresser for $6.45!!

Total cost for the dresser… $22.45!!

That’s INCREDIBLE!!!

This desk…

Again, it took a sample pot of Behr flat paint $2.95 at Home Depot, $2.50 for BB Frösch Chalk Paint Powder less than $1.00 for wax and gold spray paint. New hardware was $12.00 and the cost of the desk from a garage sale… $10.00.

Total for the entire piece (including the desk)… $28.45!!

Like I said before… GAME CHANGER!!

How fun is this!?!?

Krisitin and I will be traveling the country teaching workshops on how to use this aaaaamazing new product! Our first stop… DENVER!

We will have regular workshops in the Las Vegas, Nevada & Lincoln, Nebraska areas so visit the BB Frösch site for all of that information.

If you just want to get busy and start painting… Visit the BB Frösch shop to get your Chalk Paint Powder TODAY!!

We carry a full line of Chalk Paint Powder supplies, the powder, brushes & wax. Everything you need to get started.

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