You're a Star!

 

My Friend wanted a special notebook made for her brother who participated in the Special Olympics on a basketball team.  Jeff loves to draw and write and this notebook is probably filled in completely by the time I post this, but it was fun to make a special one just for him.

While I'm at it I will show you the journals that I made for the four gals 

who were on the Women's Retreat Committee with me. 

I couldn't resist making each gal a Petite Purse with a treat

Who knows, maybe this cute purse may end up being one 

of the treats for next years Women's Retreat

 

As a Thank you the Women's Ministry gives us gals a separate night at the Haworth Inn and Conference Center so we can read all the evaluation forms from the ladies and do a post retreat recap.  This is a fun time for the five of us to spend some time together that is not work.  

In fact, this is where we are right now.

Click HERE if you missed the post on our Women's Retreat.

This was the first year that we had a group photo taken and I wanted to incorporate that photo along with the color scheme (brown and red) for the retreat.  I also wanted to make each one just a bit different from the others.  I chose a retired Designer Paper called Love Letter.  It has always 

been one of my favorite Designer Papers that Stampin' Up! has had.

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Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Women's Retreat

Remember the picture of the day from yesterday?  Did you guess what it was?
This was the carpet in the meeting room where our Women's Retreat was held.
 AND...
Just as I promised I am going to show you the favors that we made for our Women's Retreat for our church.  This is such an amazing weekend, immersed in the Word of God, and fellowship with the women of our church body and several friends and family members who were invited to join in the weekend.

The theme of our weekend was CONSIDER HIM from Hebrews 12.

¹ Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, ² fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before Him He endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 

³ Consider Him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. 

 

We start in September preparing the details for the retreat.  

We are given the name of our speaker, and what she will be speaking on and we wrap our decorations and favors around all this.

Each year we hand out an evaluation form and we laugh at how often the ladies will write down  "We need more chocolate"  This came on the tails of changing locations due to our increasing numbers and not able to have each lady bring in a baked good to share.

We decided to give these ladies more chocolate than they could imagine.

It started out right from the beginning when they received their invitations to attend the retreat, wrapped around a chocolate candy bar

Each lady was given a beautiful bag (this photo doesn't do it justice)

A booklet with the sessions and schedule in it, a pack of tissue, and an ink pen.

 

The room is decorated beautifully with donated tulips 

(can you tell our color scheme is red and brown?)

 

  Fresh, cold water on hand at all times




  Games on hand for Friday evening for those who like the late night hours.

Using the stamp set EAT CHOCOLATE we decorated a Petal Cone and filled it with a variety of chocolates.  Using the Retired Wheel called CHOCOLATE CHIP we made fun 'cookies' to adorn the Chocolate Chunk scented hand sanitizer holder.

When the ladies arrived they found these Hershey Nugget Trays on their beds

 The dark chocolate mint scented candles were their favor at their seat 

Friday evening after a delicious dinner.

We made cute little dessert boxes for the ladies filled with cake balls, mini cookies, 

 

trail mix, and a home made peppermint patty.

 We even decorate the band of the water bottles and supply a variety of 

Crystal Light flavor packets.

Half of the tables were decorated with these beautiful red glass candle globes - and who thought you could make it intriguing by adding some dried out branches and red berries?  Some Kisses rounded out the look - gotta love the extra chocolate touch.

The other half of the tables were decorated with these darling lanterns.  We usually use a lot of candles in our decorating to give the room a warm feeling.

And here is a photo of the ladies who attended this years retreat.  We are so thankful to serve on this fabulous committee, but also thankful this busy time is done.  come September we will be glad to get going on next years retreat.  So for now...

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Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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Women's Retreat

It was my pleasure to once again serve on the committee for the annual Women's Retreat at our church. This year we had 106 ladies join us at the Haworth Inn and Conference Center in Holland, MI for an AMAZING time of learning more about our God, the Great I AM.

My particular role on the committee was in the form of 'favors' for the ladies. We do our best to make the ladies feel pampered and loved on. All the way from how they are greeted when they arrive, and a little chocolate treat on their pillow to decorating the meeting room and giving them a treat when they arrive...

These are the goodie bags each lady found in their room on their beds

filled with some yummy goodies to get them through the weekend snack attacks.

At every session they received a treat. Starting with Friday evening these are the items they started out with.
A Prayer journal and highlighter that we would be using throughout the weekend,


Fancy packaging for the post-it notes that we would use in our journals,


A water bottle with a bottle neck favor and packets of Crystal Light lemonade


Haworth Inn and Conference Center treated us well with a delicious dinner of pretzel crusted chicken, potatoes, veggies, and this yummy salad and rolls.

I thought these butter balls were so cute.

Our speaker was Unbelievably inspiring and humorous all at the same time...


The music was uplifting...


Our pastors wife lead us in understanding how our prayer journals would work for us to help us stay connected to the Great I AM.


On Saturday just prior to lunch we have a habit to schedule a Discipline of Silence. As a woman you know how hard it can be sometimes to be silent, but this has come to be everyone's favorite time where we can reflect on what we had learned up until then and spend some time in prayer. Who would think 45 minutes could go by so quickly and you are wishing for more.

LUNCH!!
An an after lunch chocolate treat...

I think they picked these with me in mind :)

At breakfast the ladies found a set of 2 CD's on the Lord's Prayer, but I forgot to take a picture.

Finishing up the day with praise and worship through song. How beautiful to hear 106 ladies lifting their voices up in worship.
After clean up time we spent some fun about-town shopping in the quaint stores of downtown Holland.

So thankful to be a part of this amazing time. Already looking forward to next year.

Have a Blessed Day!!

Christi

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