Summer Swim Days

Here is the Schedule for our Summer Swim Days:

Thursdays from 2 -4 pm

July 1st: Donna West's Home

July 8th: Rachelle Larson's Home

July 15th: Andreasen's Home

July 22nd: Kathy Carlson's Home

July 29th: Patty Barger's Home

August 5th: Kathy Carlson's Home

Super Saturday/Christmas in July

Sisters...we are having our annual "Super Craft Saturday" on Saturday, July 10th from 9am-1pm! The classes are the following: Vinyl lettering, Christmas Countdown, Covered Book of Mormon, Twine Heart in Frame, CTR towels, Reverse Applique Kids shirts and skirts, and Crayon/Colored Pencil Roll-ups. Be sure to check out what they look like and sign-up at the display table by the Primary Room on Sundays! We are really excited!! And bring a snack to share!!

Make-Ahead Meals

Get ready to have some fun cooking! Learn how to save time, money and supplement your food storage by making bulk meals for the freezer. Meals are scalable for all family sizes. We'll be learning techniques, preparing a base batch of meaty marinara sauce for freezing and sampling finished meals from the freezer. If you'd like to take home a bag of marinara sauce, please bring $2.50 to cover the cost of food. We'll be sampling the following recipes:

Chicken Curry

Chicken a la King

Swedish Meatballs

Four Cheese Baked Ziti

Zesty Chili

You can get all the information we'll be going over tonight, including recipes, right here:

MAKE AHEAD MEALS INFO AND RECIPES.

FREEZER LABELS.

Parenting Class

We are still meeting at Megan Purcell's home for the parenting class, tonight (Tuesday, March 23), based on Chapters 8-11. Hope to see you there! Our next class is at Rachelle Poulsen's home on April 6th, based on Chapters 12-14. Come even if you haven't read! Yummy treat will be waiting for you!!!

Relief Society Birthday Dinner

We hope you all come and enjoy this evening of Sisterhood.

Parenting 101

Our new parenting class has begun.

Children: The Challenge by Rudloph Dreikurs

Here is the current schedule, as we progress through the book we will continue to schedule more classes

Class 2: Chapters 4-7 Taught by Kathy Foster March 2 7pm at the Foster home.

Class 3: Chapters 8-11 Taught by Megan Purcell March 23 7pm at the Purcell home

Class 4: Chapters 12-14 Taught by Rachelle Poulsen April 6 (tentatively) at Poulsen home.

Class 5: Chapters 15-19 Taught by......any takers?? call me :)

Try and read the chapters before class, but if you haven't PLEASE don't let that stop you from coming. And as extra incentive I will bring yummy treats too :)

I am really excited about this class and hope your are too. If you ordered a book through me, call me so we can get them passed out. I have all but 6 books.

They should be arriving this week though.

Any questions please give me a call - rachelle p.

Homemaking Class

Happy New Year sisters!!! It's time to learn something new this year! Come join our Beginning Sewing class taught by Sister Gail Purcell. It's on January 26th at 6 p.m., in the Primary room, and the second class will be the following Tues., same time, same place. Bring your own machine if you have one. Sign-up sheet will be going around Sunday with more information, including fabric needs, so sign-up if you are interested!! We will be starting this class by making a "Miss Sixty - Friday Night Special" apron (see picture) and it should be really fun!

Needed:

Friday Night Apron (size 4-14)

1.5 yards of fabric-if you want it all the same color.

or

Bodice & Pockets 1/2 yard of one fabric

Waistband & Ties 3/8 yard of another coordinating fabric

Skirt 5/8 yard of another coordinating fabric

and 1 spool of coordinating thread.

Ward Activity Luau Pictures

Ward Activity Tower of Babel Pictures

To obtain any pictures, just click on the image and save to your desktop.  If you have a Mac, just click and drag to your desktop.

Elder's Quorum Family Home Evening

Bring your family to the Elder's Quorum FHE at Crafton Park, tonight! Monday, October 26th, at 5:30 pm. Bring your own dinner if you want to eat there, and a blanket. We are carving pumpkins so bring your own pumpkin and carving tools! The kids had a blast doing this last year and playing on the playground together. Even if you don't want to carve a pumpkin, you can come just to mingle with everyone! It's a lot of fun! Cookies and punch will be served. See you there!

Super Saturday Follow Up

So we had a great day last Saturday and we got lots of things done. And as promised here is the information for the
ROLL-UP Chalkboard.
Here is where I bought the FABRIC
Nancy's Notions
(One yard will make 9 12x15 boards)

Here are the tutorials we used for our inspiration.
Little Birdie Secrets
Not So Idle Hands

We sort of took ideas from both and made our own variation. We followed Little Birdie Secrets Tutorial but added the tie from Not So Idle Hands to make it a roll -up board. Then Myra made this awesome little pocket for the chalk to go in. So just ask her or myself if you want to add the pocket to your board and we will show you how. It really turned out fantastic and I can't wait to whip up a few more for Christmas Gifts. Another little option that Anne showed us is to use iron on vinyl with your fabric making it a good water-proof place mat. If you have any other questions just give me a call. - rach

Sisters,
We have a lot of Events coming up or in the works for Relief Society.
October 10th from 9am to 4pm
we will be holding our Craft Day in the church gym. These are the projects we have planned...Vinyl Lettering
There are 4 projects to do as well as 5 wall phrases(not listed). Call Cheryl before October 6th if you want to order some.








Freezer Paper Art Go wild on this one. You can put your image on T-shirts, baby clothes, bags, pillows etc. Bring your own Image, Material, Fabric paint and x-acto knife.


Roll-up chalkboard mats Bring your fabric (fat 1/4 big enough) bias tape and thread.


Crocheted purse you need to bring a "G" hook, darning needle and 1/2 skein of yarn for each color (max. 4 colors). Crocheted Slipper bring a"G" hook, darning needle and 2 skeins of 100% WOOL. This is very important because it need to be felted after crocheted.

Embroidered Nativity Ornaments there are 12 ornaments embroidered on red felt. If you don't want red bring your own color.


Nativity Finger Puppet felt will be provided but if you have any to share please bring it. If you want to make the sack bring fabric cut at 6.5 x 12 inches and 20 inches of ribbon, thread.

Survey Says....
Redlands 2nd Ward Sisters we want to hear from you and what you want our Relief Society to provide as classes in the up coming months. So participate in our survey and if there is something you want to do but isn't on the list please leave a comment and let us know what you are interested in doing. Have fun and tell your friends to VOTE!

Lighten Up!
Come to our Enrichment Night
Sept. 15th @ 6pm

Come be spiritually feed and learn how you can lighten your load and shine to your greatest potential. It's outdoors at Glenna Randolph's house, and bring a sweater, it's a bit chilly up there!

Hello sisters
We have been successful and made our Quiet Books. Some have put in the grommets and are using their books. If you haven't hammered your grommets into your pages please contact Cheryl. She has the tools.

Quiet Book Tutorial

Hello there Sisters,
I have made a Quiet Book Page tutorial for you to help you over the next few months. This is my first time ever doing a tutorial via internet so it is very low budget. (Please overlook my errors and crazy loud family. )It is the little touches that make the page so darling and cute such as stitchery, texture and color. There are some great ideas to inspire your page check out these websites http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com/or shelleywallace's shop . We have a lot of sisters involved in our swap so help each other and work with and communicate with your partner. Infact our number went up from 15 to 17 pages now. Stephanie W. and Rachelle L. have joined the swap. By the way, you two can be partners, OK! This is exciting and fun for everyone and we wanted to give everyone the opportunity to be involved and participate.
A little reminder***you will have to make your own front page of the book but not the last page and design it the way you want to suit your family.

This is the first half of the tutorial. Instructions # 1-8

This is the second part of the tutorial. Continuing at Instruction#9.

Alright, I think we have it finally working. Thank you Cheryl for all the work you put into making them. They are very helpful. Let's see, did I forget anything Cheryl?  Anyways, ladies give us a call if you have any questions. - Cheryl H and Rach P.

Quiet Book Kick-off

Quiet Book Kick-off

Tuesday May 19th 12:30 @ Cheryl Hallen's Home

Potluck Luncheon

Hey Sisters, we would like to invite those interested in making a quiet book to join us at Cheryl's Home at the date and time listed above. It will be a potluck luncheon so if you have a yummy snack please bring it. We will be discussing and deciding on page ideas, so if you have any cool ideas we would love to hear them.

If you have any questions please call Cheryl Hallen or Rachelle Poulsen.

**Sorry, I forgot to add that children are welcome, of course. :)

Hanging Gardens Class TONIGHT

Hey Everyone, I know this is a last minute post. I just wanted to announce one more time about the class we are having tonight. We are putting together Hanging Tomato Planters. It's at Rachelle Poulsens home at 6 or 6:30. I can't remember which one we announced, pathetic I know :)  Be sure to bring your buckets, soil and starter plants. I know the priesthood are having some sort of meeting tonight, so go ahead and bring the kiddos if you need to.  If you have anymore questions give Rachelle Poulsen or Cheryl Hallen a call. We hope to see you tonight. 

** I just wanted to give a little reminder to those who want to participate in making a quiet book, the kickoff will be at Cheryl Hallens home on the 19th. I will post again about it later this week with better details.

***One more thing...How many of you use facebook? I was wondering if it would be worth while to set up a group there for announcements also. The YW use it, and I was wondering if it would be helpful to you all with getting the word out about activities and etc.  Just a thought, leave a comment and let me know. Thanks - rach

May Enrichment Cancelled

May 16th Redlands 2nd Ward  Women's Conference Enrichment Activity is 

CANCELLED!!!

We have decided to cancel our May activity because the Stake is doing a similar activity.

Enrichment Activities

Alright Ladies!
We have a set date and time for our Composting Class:
April 28th 6pm @ John and Nola's Home
Husbands are welcome to attend. We hope to see you there.

I also just wanted to mention a few other activities that are in the works:

May 16th is our ward Womens Conference, so mark your calendars and keep an eye out for the class sign ups they will be out soon.

We are also putting together a Quiet Book Swap and a Recipe Book Swap in the next couple of months. The sign up for the Quiet Book is going around now so if you are interested and haven't seen the sign up sheet yet give Cheryl Hallen a call and she will sign you up.