Birthday Giveaway {The Benson Street}

Hey Friends,  The Benson Street is celebrating its 1st Blog Birthday! I am so excited to share in a celebration with lots of great prizes! This is huge!!! The grand prize is a $225 gift card to Amazon! This would be perfect for back to school shopping or even to shave for Christmas! The First Prize is a $35 Ribbon Retreat gift card. If you haven't check them out they have the best selection of ribbon and fabric. Lots of cute stuff and it is all online. For the second prize is frames from Cut It Out. Along with these sponsors there are a ton of AMAZING bloggers participating. Check them out for real. You will love them I'm sure! Let's Get to know them.

You can find all the fabulous bloggers here! Stop by and give them a little love and don't forget to enter to win these super awesome prizes!

Maybe I Will

Dimple Prints

Cupcake Diaries

Ginger Snap Crafts

Wait Til Your Father Gets Home

Do Small Things with Love 

Flats to Flip Flops

Girl in the Garage

A Thrifty Mom

Capital B

Everyday Art

Solace Amid the Chaos

Create & Babble

Mellywood Mansion

Free Time Frolics

Restoration Redoux

Polka Dot Poplars

Cleverly Inspired

Simplistically Sassy

The Benson Street

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LDS Young Women- August 2013 Lesson Handouts

As a new Young Women's President I found myself looking through the new LDS Youth curriculum and wanted each lesson to have a handout.  I loved getting handouts on Sunday and kept each one.  I still have a few of my favorites.  I think having that little handout is a reminder throughout the week of how we can hold to our teaching and promises. I have tried to make a free printable for each lesson or have a link to someone who did one.  If you have a free printable for the new curriculum I would love to add it to my post.  Please send me an email (cosettescloset{at}gmail.com) with your link!

For the Lesson  Why is Family Important?

Why is a Temple Marriage Important? 

For the lesson why is Chastity Important?

I used a quote from Elaine  Dalton's talk "Return to Virtue".

Please right click the color wanted (Print as 4x6) and save to your computer or click on the link 

for 3 to a page.

Turquoise 8.5x11

Gold 8.5x11

How I can prepare now to become a righteous wife & mother?

Please right click the color wanted (Print as 4x6) and save to your computer

For a 8.5 x 11 print of both check out this link.

Wife & Mother Printable

How can I strengthen my Family? 

Doctrine & Covenants 88:119

For this handout I used the scripture Doctrine & Covenants 88:119

Prints as a 4x6

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Gospel Grab Bag

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Princess play Capes {Riley Blake Designs}

With Christmas in July at an end I wanted to share a product from one of my favorite companies.  Riley Blake Designs. They sent me there new Super Hero and Princess cape panels to try  out and share. My little Miss is obsessed with blue right now so of course I had to make the turquoise princess cape panel.

Dinosaur Quiet Time Playmat

Yesterday I posted my Lil' Traveler Race Track.  Today is the Lil' Traveler Dinosaur Play mat.  I found this post with Serving Pink Lemonade.  I love the little mat she made for traveling on the airplane or car and wanted to make one for my little guy.  I just never got around to it until I had my Race Car Mat idea.  Both of these mats are the perfect size for carrying around. Not Bulky and will keep your lil' guy occupied. Here is how I did it.  

Quiet Time Play Mat Tutorial

For the Vinyl version I used the layout from Serving Pink Lemonade but used iron on transfer vinyl from Expressions Vinyl. I just picked a few colors and went for it. (Note: When buying vinyl make sure you have a piece long enough to work.) I love this method.  I just cut everything out one night while watching my favorite show and the next morning I put it together. For the back ground I use 2 fabrics. One for the sky and one for the ground using equal parts.  Just sew them together and Iron.  Then finish the instructions in the play mat tutorial.

Vinyl Version

For the felt version I followed the same method except I really like having my felt sewn on.  So I sewed mine into place instead of ironing

Felt Version

Fold them up and you are ready to go!

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Lil' Traveler Race Track Quiet Toy

A few months ago my in laws came into town. They brought each of my kids these little mini race cars.  Each of them pulled back a went for a short drive. They all loved them.  This gave me an idea.  Why not make a small race track to drive them on. So I started coming up with ideas on how to make it and voile here it is.  There is two way to do it.  Purchase the vinyl race track or cut one from felt and sew it onto your mat.  Here is what I did. The cars were purchased at a local place.  But you can purchase micro cars at Target and Toys R Us us as well. 

Future MacGuyver Kit {Maybe I Will}

Do you have a guy who love gadgets and gizmos?  If so this may be the perfect gift.  Do you remember Mac Guyver from when you were a kid?? My family loved it.  Know you can watch it on Netflix.  So I sat my kids down and showed them a few episodes.  It is a little hokey looking back but if nothing else it brings back the creativity and problem solving kids need. Andie from Maybe I will came up with this adorable kit for her son and he is in love.  I used it as part of my TV segment. He was thrilled when I brought  it back home. Needless to say it was a hit!  So head on over and check it out! 

Future MacGuyver Kit @ Maybe I Will

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