Night of Excellence

I'm in the Young Womens now, and I LOVE it! This month is a big month because we are having our Night of Excellence! I have never been in charge of one, so I was stressing big time! Night of Excellence is a night to say how awesome the girls are and let them show off some of the things they've been working on through out the year. And I get to participate too. :) So I have been wanting to learn how to make a ruffle for forever, but have been to chicken to try. So I decided to make it one of my projects for Night of Excellence. I decided to redo a shirt I already had. I had tons of how-to's saved online so I kinda combined a few. Since I'd never even made a ruffle before I used different material to try it out on, to see if I could even do it! Haha, well have you ever read the book If you give a mouse a cookie? That's how it went that night! I made the ruffle and decided it was so cute I had to do something with it, so I decided to make it into a flower, well that was so cute I had to do something with it, so I turned it into a headband! I never did start the t shirt that night. lol. But that's ok! So another night I got out the two old shirts that I no longer wore or liked. I cut one up into strips and made LOTS of ruffles and then sewed them onto the other shirt! Here's how they both turned out. (I'm pretty proud of myself! :))

The girls with the flower headband I made





My new shirt and a preggo me! (too bad I don't have a before! It was just plain with nothing on it)




So I did LOTS of art projects this month to get ready! The other thing we were doing for Night of Excellence was a scripture hero journal! I found it online HERE
Each girl chose a hero from the Bible or Book of Mormon and did a two week study on her. It was really awesome and I'm so glad that we did it! So I wanted to present the girls with something for finishing this project and to help them remember the things they learned, so here's what I made!



Here are some pictures from that night. (Each girl set up a table all about her)