Wednesday, August 18, 2010

My Take on Temple Blocks

For those of you who might read this blog, I am LDS or a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (for more info go to lds.org).  So for me this idea was just awesome, which I found at Lil' Luna.  It's for Temple blocks, that she made for her Young Women group and I thought it had such a great thought to it, by using some of the words to the Primary song "I Love to see the Temple". The great thing is she has several different temples to choose from and she notes on her blog that they are not copyrighted pictures so to feel free to download for personal use.  (click HERE for the tutorial) 
I wanted to make one for my daughters room but realized that I really didn't have a place to put it, so I came up with my own take on this great idea.  My daughters room is white and pink striped all the way around except for this one wall where there is a kind of shelf built into the wall.  I left the top of that wall white because I thought it was the perfect frame for something special to be put up.  The problem being that I have been having the hardest time trying to figure out what that something "special" was.  I've thought of "word art" and tried to find some kind of picture(s) to put up there but nothing ever seemed right for the space.  I finally found a couple of metal flowers but they were not enough to fill the wall, so....I thought that since these pictures where not copy righted I would just have one printed off in a larger size and frame it.  I had to make the file bigger giving it more pixels in Photshop so that it would print off clear but it worked out so great.  It just completes her room so wonderfully and gives her a reminder of a goal that she can achieve.  She loves it especially since I let her pick out the temple.   She picked the Salt Lake Temple since that is where "Mommy and Daddy" were married although she almost picked the Alberta Temple (I'm originally from Southern Alberta). 
Thank you so much Lil" Luna for such a great idea, you made my day and my little girls year!

1 comment:

Jeanna said...

I love the flowers! What a good idea. I wish was 1/2 as creative and crafty as you are. Love the tree pictres you did as well!