Pinterest Party @ Clever Pink Pirate's

Hey y'all, what's up?

Who loves PINTEREST?  Awesome!  Me too!!!

Sara at Clever Pink Pirate had a super fun Pinterest Party at her home some time ago

(I am way backlogged on sharing the good stuff)

Sara plus Laura from Pink Cake Plate were SO PREPARED to make this an amazing get-together!

The swag was GREAT!  They are unbelievable!

Another luscious name tag!

Girl's Camp...that's what it's OWL about! {Gifts and Decor}

Last year I shared my camp DECOR and GIFTS for the girls.  

Those have been popular posts, 

so I thought I'd share our bigger and better camp decor and gift's from this year too.

Our theme?  OWLS!

And if you're reading this, I'm pretty sure you're OWLready a bird fan.

Soooo, what's cuter than ONE owl?

TWENTY OF THEM!!!

Wild Animal Print Owl's

What's black and white and wild animal print all over?

THESE PSYCHEDELIC OWLS!

As soon as I saw a similar owl on Instagram, 

I just knew I had to make these for my YCL's (youth camp leaders) for girl's camp!

Girl's Camp Banner and Other Camping Decor :)

Yep, I said it.  I decorate when I go camping.

Doesn't everyone???

Well, okay, if I were going camping with Cowboy 

I wouldn't decorate...very much.

He just doesn't get it.

Nor does the rest of my family.

But when I go to CHURCH camp, and it's pretty much ALL GIRLS, 

then totally yes, I'm DECORATING!

The woods are gorgeous to gaze upon, that much is true!

But when you're looking at the CABIN, well, it just needs a little sumn sumn.

Or....maybe......a LOT.

My cabin mom partner, Ronnie and I LOVED sprucing things up a bit!

Since summer is almost here and we're about to embark on another girl's camp adventure, I thought I'd share some ideas on how you can liven up your camping quarters.

You can also see HERE what gifts I gave the girls each day.

CAMP.  IS.  FUN!

First of all, I made this banner

 out of a bunch of super fun paper that I already had in my stash.

(THIS is why you need a stash, ladies!  

So that when you get around to making something with it,

 it feels like it's free......lol)

I staple-gunned it to the beam, one corner at a time.  

Yeah, it was a pain, but so worth it.  

Dontcha just love the color and joy it adds to our cabin porch?

Ronnie brought the pink sheer curtains (***BIG HEARTS*** for those!)

and the pink feather boa!

All we were missing was buckets and buckets of pink paint and an air sprayer!

Girl's Camp Handouts and Gifts

Only one week of school left, and it's almost that time again for....

GIRL'S CAMP!

If you're like me

you're already thinking about and preparing ways

 to enrich the experience at camp this summer.

Last year I had the awesomely fabulous privilege of being a cabin mom

 (for the first time) 

over a group of 14 year old girls.  

Ohmygosh, what fun we had!

I loved girl's camp as a youth growing up in Las Vegas!!  

My young women leaders were fun, inspired, and dedicated!

But I gotta say, camp in Vegas was like REAL camping.

I like girl's camp in Arizona MUCH better!

More on that later

....watch for my upcoming post on how to

 make your camp experience more beautiful!  lol

Anyway,

Six days, six handouts

(any of these would also be great to give to your secret sister!)

Our camp theme was 

Happily Ever After

and a lot of focus was on recognizing that you are a daughter of God

which makes you royalty!

And on being prepared to be married in the temple

DAY ONE

Princess Survival Kit

This is the front of a card I made for each girl.

I actually got the 'Princess in training' graphic from my Silhouette software.

We used the same design to make t-shirts for the girls in our ward

(which is different from the girls in my cabin

...although I did have three of my ward girls in my cabin

...which was FUN!)

The inside of the card

The other cabin mom and I signed our names under 'Your Cabin Queens'

I thought this might break the ice

 and let them know right away that we were there for them.

Here is their 'survival kit' that was placed with the card onto each of their pillows.

PSYCH NIGHT

Our Girl's Camp isn't until summer 

(that's why we call it GIRL'S SUMMER CAMP...hehe), 

but every year our {awesome} stake Young Women's leaders have a night 

several months before camp to 

• get the girl's PSYCHED UP for this year's summer camp
• have a reunion (complete with super-fun slide show of the previous year's camp)
• have the 'new' girls see what it's all about 
• announce what this year's camp theme will be
• brush up on our camp songs
• give our {awesome, mixed with some crazy} Priesthood leaders a chance to show off their 

RID-DIK-OO-LUS DANCE SKILLS!

*insert hip hop music here*

Can you guess what our new theme is?