Daughters in My Kingdom, Guardians of the Hearth, "There's No Place Like Home"

Daughters In My Kingdom— Chapter 9

"Guardians of the Hearth"

and

"There's No Place Like Home"

This is our Chalkboard in Relief Society.

Guardians of the Hearth— Chapter 9— Daughters In My Kingdom

Place posters up one at a time:

1.  Guardians of the Hearth

Introduction to Lesson

2.  There's No Place Like Home.  

Intro to the Proclamation  & Pg. 162 Glimpses of Heaven

3.  Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Outline of the Proclamation and Pg. 148, also tie in the Iron Rod to the Proclamation

4.  I'll Get You My Pretty

Pg. 157 WWII,  Pg. 159 and Pg. 158 Quote

5.  If I Only Had a Brain

Pg. 153, Overcoming Self Doubt, and Teaching Each Other

6.  Aunt Em, There's No Place Like Home

Pg. 154

Also quote from Sister Holland's talk about Mothers.  Adam called Eve "Mother" long before she had any children of her own., etc.

See Mother's Day Post last year

7.  Lions & Tigers & Bears, Oh My!

Pg. 156 Responsibilities, and Pg. 165 Final Quote.

8.  Final Picture of the 2nd Coming & Testimony

We happened to have one framed in our church library.  Can use the libraries big poster.

We had a basket with "The Family Proclamation" to hand out.

I borrowed some Red Sparkly Shoes from a friend.  So cute!

These are the printouts I used on the board.

Prints are 24" x 36".

Print at your local Blue Print place.  Approx. $1.80 a printout.

You can email them the file, and then pick it up.

Double Click on the image below, and then download.

We invited all of the sisters in from Primary and Young Women, so we wanted to hand out something

extra special.  We made muffins, and then put these bookmarks in to decorate the muffins.  We decided on no frosting- so the bookmarks could be saved easily.

We then decorated a rolling cart from the kitchen with a cute tablecloth, and arranged the muffins on 3 tier muffin stands with little chocolates also.  

Tip:  Bake muffins in non-stick pan, and place in the liner after they have been baked.

Link to aBakersPlace.com

Link to cupcake liners

Link to Dorothy diecut

We used this image to decorate a few muffins also, and the muffin tier.

This is also a cute link to "There's No Place Like Home" logo.

170th Relief Society Birthday Video

Compliments of Sister Hawkshaw, with music by Bro. Hawkshaw.

We also had a Cake Decorating Demonstration by Sherline.

Click on the flyer below for tips on decorating cakes.

Shirlene's Buttercream Frosting Recipe

4 cups confectioners sugar (powdered sugar)

1 stick of butter

2 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 cup heavy cream (or milk)

She used 3 batches of frosting to frost the basket cake that you see in the video.

*  If you keep frosting in the fridge a bit, you'll make nicer flowers.

My wish list to get after watching this demonstration:

Large Scraper.  Frosting seemed to go on really smoothly on the top and sides with this.

Turn-table.  Don't know how I ever frosted a cake without one.  After watching her, it was amazing!  It turns around as you frost the cake, make little decorations, whatever.  

Food Coloring.  Stick a toothpick in a few times to your color, and voila!

Many cool frosting tips, as well as the famous nail, used for making flowers.

In my case you need many so that when they go through the sink disposal, you can use a different one that is similar.  :)

Disposable frosting bags.  Totally worth it!

A butter knife is not going to do a good job.  You need a spatula without the teeth a knife has.

A really big tip.  She used this to frost the cake very quickly, and then the scraper (1st pix) to flatten it out.  It also can make cupcakes look cute very quickly, as well as large borders.

Cake board.  She butter creamed the cake, and then after it was frosted, she transfered it onto a cake board (made from smooth cardboard.)  

As always... isn't every hobby expensive!

Good thing there are 40% off coupons at Michaels!

And, now we see why this is my WISH list.

Now, I need to wish for a bigger kitchen to store them in.  ;)

Big thank you to everyone who participated in our 170th Relief Society Birthday Celebration!

Especially Sandy- for putting it all together, Sherline for teaching our class, Chris for filming it, and Portia for our tribute to Relief Society.  Thanks to our note taker too.  I already forgot so much of what Shirlene did, which I knew would happen.  Good thing we have a video!

Candi