Sugar Easter Eggs

4 Apr

Sugar Easter Eggs

sugar easter egg

To make the Sugar Egg I used a Taste of Home Recipe for a guide (or download here Sugar Easter Egg). I used their recipe for the egg, which consisted of:

3 tablespoons water

food coloring

4-1/2 cups sugar

I put all the ingredients in a ziplock bag and mixed up really well and then pressed into an egg mold, turned over on wax paper. I cut the ends off equally. I let dry for a few hours then carefully scooped out the centers. Instead of putting in the oven as the recipe calls for I just let them air dry for a couple of days.

I made the royal frosting with meringue powder. I followed the recipe that came with the powder.

Making sugar Easter eggs

Button Easter Egg

3 Apr

Button Easter Egg

A fun Easter craft was making a shadow box button Easter Egg

Button Easter Egg Craft

The idea came from another blog, but instead of putting it on a wood slab we used shadow boxes and then I let them decorate around the egg.

Spring Break

2 Apr

Spring Break

Spring Break this year was celebrated with Jen, Adam and our grandchildren. Jennifer had to have surgery and she came here to have it so she could have reinforcements.

Kansas City Missouri LDS Temple

31 Mar

Kansas City Missouri LDS Temple

Early one Saturday morning in March I snapped this shot of the Kansas City Missouri Temple with the moon hanging low over it…

New Beginnings Peace in Christ

2 Mar

New Beginnings Peace in Christ 2018

Young Women New Beginnings “Peace in Christ”

We used this year’s Mutual theme D & C 19:23 “Peace In Christ” for our New Beginnings theme. Where can we turn for peace, where do we go to find Christ? For some it is in prayer, for others they turn to the scriptures. Other people seek solace by going to a special quiet place, like a garden. Gardens have played a special role in the history of mankind. The Garden of Eden was man’s first home given to him from God. It is also where the fall occurred. Interestingly enough, Christ’s atonement also took place in a garden, the Garden of Gethsemane. So two of the greatest events in the history of mankind took place in a garden. Another great event took place in a grove of trees, when Joseph Smith prayed to seek the answers he sought. The Sacred Grove is a garden of trees.

Gardens have been where some of the most spiritual events in our history have occurred. So we decided to use the garden theme for our NEW BEGINNINGS theme this year.

Young Women New Beginnings “Peace in Christ”

Front table

Young Women New Beginnings “Peace in Christ”

PROGRAM

Our program included a special musical number: “Peace in Christ” sung by the Young Women. Opening song was Primary Song, “When I Am Baptized” and closing song Hymn, “Where Can I Turn For Peace?”

Four of the Young Women gave a “quiz” about the Young Women’s Program and Personal Progress and then went through the answers with everyone. We used the quiz idea from the website: The Red Headed Hostess. Three of the Young Women gave talks “Where Can I Turn For Peace.”

At the end of the program each girl received a white rose, necklace and pens with the mutual theme. (Necklaces were from the Etsy shop templesquares and the pens with mutual theme were from LatterDayPrintables.)

Our program: (our cover and posters in the room were from the shop Westwillow on Etsy.

Young Women New Beginnings “Peace in Christ”

Young Women’s theme (from the shop PixellePress on Etsy).

Young Women New Beginnings “Peace in Christ”

New Beginnings Program

GARDEN PARTY

After our program it was time for our garden party complete with white hats and gloves (everyone received their own white hat and gloves).

Young Women New Beginnings “Peace in Christ”

We sipped lemonade from cups and saucers

Young Women New Beginnings “Peace in Christ”

And of course all the proper tiny desserts! (Petit fours, macarons and macaroons, tiny brownies, cream puffs, tiny cinnamon rolls, mini muffins, shortcake and berries, shortbread cookies, madeleines, transfer chocolates with shortbread inside, kourabiedes, mini lemon and lime bars, pineapple cookies, sugar cookies with wafer paper, fruit, and finger sandwiches).