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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Heart and Soul Skit ( my rewrite)

Some months back, I offered to mail out copies to those who had wanted them of the rewrite of the "Heart and Soul" program that I rewrote to fit an Adult Visiting Teaching and Home Teaching night that was held together for all adults.  It turned out really cute. Anyway, I finally scanned it with a new and really cool tool that my husband just bought me, and put this play on my Visiting Teaching Surprise storage blog. ( It is too many pages to put on this blog ) Here is the link and feel free to copy it off for yourself to use. BUT... if you do, I would love to know, so please write a comment. 

Here is the link http://visitingteachingsurprisedocuments.blogspot.com/2010/09/visiting-teaching-skit-heart-and-soul.html

Now for the really cool tool my husband bought me.  He knows that I love genealogy and also knows of my frustration of making copies of things I find at the library or family history center.  They usually turn out dark, and then I have to rescan them to put them on my computer at home.  ANYWAY... He and I took a little fun weekend trip and stayed a couple of days in SLC, and road trax, and went to all the touristy places in SLC.  We went to Gateway and while there we went to Brookstone, looking for something that he wanted to find.  While he was looking, so was I, and I found this really neat hand scanner that is only about the size of a hair straighter, or curling iron.  What you do is scan down the pages of whatever you are needing to scan, and it saves the image in a tiny little micro memory card.  This tiny card holds well over 100 scans.  Then when I got home, I put that micro card in the memory card converter case and inserted it into the memory card slot on my computer.  The rest is history, with saving all my scans on to my computer.  WOW was I excited!!!!  No more crappy copies!!!!!  Anyway, I love to pass on good tips, so I thought I would let you know about this one.  ( It was what scanned the copies of the above Heart and Soul skit)

It is a Portable Document and Photo scanner ( scan receipts, letters, recipes, photos and more) 
iConvert makes it and Brookstone sells it.  I think I paid somewhere around $100, and I feel like it was well worth the price to get the quality of copies that I want.  Here is the link to Brookstone http://www.brookstone.com/portable-document-photo-scanner-handheld.html?bkeid=compare%7Cmercent%7Cgooglebase%7Csearch&mr:trackingCode=69CAEFAC-3E30-DF11-AE5B-0019B9C2BEFD&mr:referralID=NA

I don't have anything to do with the selling of these great scanners, but I definitely would become a spokesperson for these.  When I went down to the library in the Genealogy and old records room, they would not let any of these books be checked out.  There were many of these books loaded with family history of my family and ancestors, with photos and newspaper clippings, clipped obituaries and such.  Well after I found this great scanner, I went back to the Library and opened up the books and scanned to my hearts content.  I will show you an example of something that I scanned....  These are some old checks that my Great Great grandfather signed back in the early 1900's for Lehi Roller Mill, which is my Robinson side of the family. 

I even found an old newspaper clipping of myself many, many, and I won't tell you how many years ago. I am the one at the bottom of the stairs.  It was so fun to remember about the good old days.  This was right in the binding side of the old Newspapers that the library keeps, and I was able to get this scan right up to the edge of the binding.  Anyway.... I think you can see the possibilities.  Once again... I like to pass on good tips and t his one is a really good one. 

Monday, September 6, 2010

The Family: A Proclamation to the World

The Visiting teaching message for the month of September, 2010 suggests that you take a copy of "The Family:  A Proclamation to the World" with you and give to each sister you teach. You can find it at the following links:

For some reason, this link will not automatically come up for me so you have to copy the link and paste it into the address bar in order for it to come up on your screen.  Don't know why  but we don't always know these mysteries.  This PDF has crop marks on it so that you can cut it and paste it to come pretty paper to give to your sisters.
http://lds.org/Static%20Files/PDF/Manuals/TheFamily_AProclamationToTheWorld_35538_eng.pdf

This one looks just like the Proclamation that is pictured above on this post.
http://lds.org/messages/images/fr09oct14_sharing.jpg

ALSO... I finally had to redesign my Word document design of the Proclamation because the link from Google docs didn't work so... I have rededigned it and made it a jpeg so you should be able to just click on my design and print it out now.  Sorry for all the troubles getting it here.  I simply didn't have the time, and I am on my way again sooo happy visiting theaching. 

Thanks,  Katie G

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Fathers Day.... Quick, cheap and printable cards, and gifts.

I just had some fun ideas for Fathers day.......I thought I would add some links of some cute fathers day printables for you in case you find yourself wanting to do something creative and fun, lacking funds to buy a card or gift, or just want something original for you or your kids to do for fathers day.  I have inserted a bunch of links that can take you to some pretty awesome and creative printables.  The first site is one that I want to focus on as I just happened upon them today and LOVE, love, love, their site. The site is  http://thetoymaker.com/  They not only have fathers day printables but printables for just about any other holiday or occasion you could think of and soooooo cute!  They have some darling inline readable books as well that could keep your kids busy during the long summer.  I want to insert a photo of the darling Fathers Day box that they have that you can print off and fill with with some of dad's favorite treats......
If you go to the link located here: 
 http://www.thetoymaker.com/Holidays/Fathersday/DADBOX.pdf you can print it off.  Be sure to look through this entire site as you will find all kinds of fun things and they are sooooo cute!!!!!
More from that site can be found here for Fathers Day:
Card for Husband http://www.thetoymaker.com/Holidays/Fathersday/besthusband.pdf
Card s for Dad http://www.thetoymaker.com/Holidays/Fathersday/Bestdad.pdf
Thanks Toymaker.com for you talents, and hard work and for sharing!!!!

Other fun printables are here:
Coupons - http://familycrafts.about.com/od/fathersdaycrafts/ig/Printable-Father-s-Day-Coupons


Marble kids face magnets  http://crafts.kaboose.com/family-marble-magnets.html







Fisher Price Printables
http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=5254&e=thumbnail&mcat=pcFathersDay
Parents printables http://www.parents.com/holiday/fathers-day/printables/printable-fathers-day-cards/
Coupons http://www.associatedcontent.com/theme/1259/fathers_day.html?cat=74
Coupons  http://familyfun.go.com/fathers-day/fathers-day-printables/fun-fathers-day-coupons-704055/







Fathers day Certificate http://familyfun.go.com/fathers-day/fathers-day-printables/printable-gift-worlds-greatest-dad-certificate-704051/

King for a day crown http://familyfun.go.com/assets/cms/pdf/printables/fathers-day-crown-printable-0510.pdf


To go with the printable here is a darling king for a day cake by wilton King for a day cake http://www.wilton.com/about/pressroom/pressrelease.cfm?id=320FAF4F-1E0B-C910-EA39B599F655FF69
This cake would be fun to just do a King for a day themed dinner and tread Dad or your husband like Royalty.

I found a site that takes this idea one step further and it can tell you all kinds of fun things to do to make your husband or Dad, king for a day at http://beautyandbedlam.com/fathers-day-ideas-king-for-the-day/  They even have a cute fathers day coupon booklet to print off located here http://beautyandbedlam.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/FathersDayCouponBook.pdf
Wondering what to cook on Fathersday?  How about a "PAPA'S PIZZA"?  This darling idea comes from the same site I found the king for a day ideas.  Thanks again.... and here is the link http://beautyandbedlam.com/celebrate-dad-this-fathers-day-with-a-papa-pizza/  Thanks Jen at beautyandbedlam.com for all the great ideas!!

Enjoy these fun Fathers Day finds!!!!!  Katie G.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Printable Note cards

Before I create a first visit card of my own, I wanted to show you a whole bunch of free sites where you can print off some darling premade cards.

These two pages of darling cards can be found this link.  Be sure to leave a thankyou note.   http://keeleyskreations.blogspot.com/2009/02/free-printable-note-cards.html


Aren't these darling and I love the message.  They print two per page and you can find them at this link: http://www.operationnice.com/2008/09/nice-assignment-gratitude-notes.html  This is a great blog about being NICE.  You should spend some time looking at this blog as they have many other "Nice" printables too.  Oh and it would be Nice if you would write them a little not to thank them for their niceness!!! 
I just found a link to this site for these darling cards to print off and give out whenever you feel like it, just to be nice! http://melissahead.com/operation_nice/kind_over_matter_cards.pdf
It is part of operation nice... can you tell! Now go out and do something nice for someone!  It is another great site for you to go to and look at.  Worth your time!  http://kindovermatter.blogspot.com

I will take some more time to add some more great printable card sites and also include some of my own creations.... BUT I must leave my house right now, but I will be back!

Katie G.




Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Thursday, May 6, 2010

New Relief Society meeting idea

This is a darling invitation and idea sent by Meridith about a Relief Society meeting idea.  Go to this link to view... http://visitingteachingsurprisedocuments.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-just-have-to-share-invitation-to.html

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Your Hands are His hands.

Here is a handout to use either with President Uchtdorf's April 2010 General Conference talk if that is the one that you pick to use for your own Visiting teaching message for the month, or you can use it for a Visiting Teaching Centered  monthly Relief Society meeting.  One sister emailed me and asked me for ideas and I had come up with this one as I was rereading the General Conference talks.  Anyway, however you use this printable, enjoy and know that it was made with lots of love and hopes that you have a wonderful month doing your Visiting teaching.  The message on the bookmarks, comes from President Uchtdorfs talk.  For the R.S. meeting idea, go to http://visitingteachingtips.blogspot.com  Enjoy!  Katie G.

You know what they say about old friends and antiques? They grow more valuable with time.

Glad that you dropped by my blog!

This blog and it's contents go hand in hand with my Visiting Teaching Tips and handouts blog found at http://visitingteachingtips.blogspot.com/ If you by accident get to this blog first, make sure to go back to the other one and see all that there is for you there. This is sort of my overflow or stroage blog because I can't keep everything there, so I add my creations to this storage unit and that is my Visiting Teaching Surprise for you. Sometimes however, I do put in things that I think you would enjoy even if they aren't specifically related to Visiting Teaching, but my vision in life is that if I take all the time to make things, I may as well share them and get more use out of them. Sorta like hand me downs but brand new "Down loads". I hope you enjoy these freebies. Drop me a note to say hello in the comments under the downloads posts.