I'm so excited! The speaker, Shari Braendel is coming on Friday to talk to us all about "What Not to Wear"! She is so fun and full of energy and I promise you will laugh and learn a lot about yourself and what does and doesn't look good on you!
Join us by e-mailing us for tickets at realbeautyweekend@gmail.com.
See below for all the details!
You probably have seen or at least heard of the tv show on TLC called “What Not to Wear.” On this popular show Clinton and Stacey help those who are fashion challenged make over their wardrobe by throwing out the old wardrobe and replacing it with the right clothing that accentuates and enhances your body.
You are invited to a Christian version of “What Not to Wear” on May 8 & 9 with nationally known speaker, fashion consultant, and author Shari Braendel at Grand Ledge Baptist Church. Shari (www.sharibraendel.com) firmly believes that “good girls don’t have to dress bad” and will be sharing her tried and true tips of how to dress so that the clothing highlights the entire being rather than just a few suggestive regions. She offers practical image and style advice for all shapes and sizes.
Friday evening ($10 for adults, $5 for girls 18 and under) will be a night devoted just for girls (ages 8 & up) and their moms. Every girl loves a fashion show! What better way to raise awareness of the impact of how we dress can have on every one. What Not to Wear- Teen Edition is an exciting event packed with music, videos, and fun. Shari involves every girl as they discover how to be fashionable and feel wonderful about who they are. She will be sharing age appropriate style and fashion tips, the truth about real beauty, and the value of raising the bar on modesty and purity. The girls will leave having experienced the joy of loving themselves exactly as they are and exactly as God intended.
Saturday ($20, 2 tickets for $30 with lunch) is a day devoted just for women. What Not to Wear- A Girlfriends Guide to Glamour will be a day of opportunity for women to hear a Christian perspective on Fashion and Beauty. Women everywhere ask the same question, “How does this make me look?” Women will learn how to become the whole package as Shari details professional and practical tips to accentuate your God-given natural assets while unveiling your true, inner beauty.
She will share how to do the following:
· determine your real body type and clothing styles that suit you best,
· the truth about color (including individualized color analysis)
· share fashion tips that make you slimmer, more confident and inspire you
· tips to accessorize with confidence
· tips for buying jeans that fit
· why God thinks you are beautiful.
All events will take place at Grand Ledge Baptist Church on May 8 & 9. Friday evening is from 7-10pm with doors opening at 6 pm. Friday tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for girls 18 and under. Saturday is from 10 am to 3 pm with doors opening and individual color analysis available at 9 am. Saturday Tickets are $20 or 2 for $30 which includes lunch. Tickets can be purchased at either Grand Ledge Baptist Church office or Immanuel Community Reformed Church office. Or can be requested by e-mail at realbeautyweekend@gmail.com (you will receive directions for payment with a return e-mail.)
Monday, May 4, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
End of our 3rd year
A Barbie cake $10
A few more snacks $20
A few more snacks $20
The group of women at Club Mom and Girlfriends $$PRICELESS$$
We took our flowers off the wall tonight...the flowers that we worked on the first week of Club Mom and Girlfriends! We each had 6 petals and on each petal, we wrote down what we wanted to work on throughout the year. The 6 petals were: YOURSELF, EXTENDED FAMILY, CHILDREN, YOUR MARRIAGE, YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST, and FRIENDSHIPS.
Some of us looked back on what we wrote and were surprised that we actually did work on what we had written down. Others saw that they still needed to work on these petals of our lives. We learned a lot this year, we laughed, we cried and most of all, we grew closer in our relationship to our Lord and Savior and to each other.
I thank God for each and every woman who stepped foot in the door of Club Mom and Girlfriends and I pray we touched their life in a way they will never forget.
We look forward to seeing you all back next year!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Friendships of Women
Tonight our speaker was Heather Vanderlaan! She gave a great talk on how important friendships are.
Friends can be helpers, protectors, and an emotional support. Heather told us it's normal to have friends that are annual friends and friends that are perrenial friends. Annual friends are ones that are in your life for a season and you may help them or they may help you and then they are gone from your life and that's O.K. Perrenial friends are friends that will always be there for you. You may not see them everyday but you know they will always be there for you when you need them.
Heather told us "Relationships are more important then accomplishments."
She told us the story in Mark 4 about the paralytic man whose friends brought him to Jesus and when they saw the crowd and saw that there was no way to get through the crowd, they went through the roof instead! What incredible friend and what incredible faith they had, so much faith that Jesus told the man that his sins were forgiven and he was healed because of the faith of his friends.
From this story, we learned the we should persue friends like the paralytic man's friends persued him. We learned that we should serve one another, being the hands and feet of Jesus-like the man's friends were his hands and feet that got him to Jesus. We learned that we should believe for each other, Jesus healed the man because of the faith of his friends.
Thank you Heather for reminding us that we need to make friendships a priority.
See you next week for our end of the year celebration.
Friends can be helpers, protectors, and an emotional support. Heather told us it's normal to have friends that are annual friends and friends that are perrenial friends. Annual friends are ones that are in your life for a season and you may help them or they may help you and then they are gone from your life and that's O.K. Perrenial friends are friends that will always be there for you. You may not see them everyday but you know they will always be there for you when you need them.
Heather told us "Relationships are more important then accomplishments."
She told us the story in Mark 4 about the paralytic man whose friends brought him to Jesus and when they saw the crowd and saw that there was no way to get through the crowd, they went through the roof instead! What incredible friend and what incredible faith they had, so much faith that Jesus told the man that his sins were forgiven and he was healed because of the faith of his friends.
From this story, we learned the we should persue friends like the paralytic man's friends persued him. We learned that we should serve one another, being the hands and feet of Jesus-like the man's friends were his hands and feet that got him to Jesus. We learned that we should believe for each other, Jesus healed the man because of the faith of his friends.
Thank you Heather for reminding us that we need to make friendships a priority.
See you next week for our end of the year celebration.
Nurturing Your Friendships-a little late
I'm so sorry, I forgot to blog last weeks lesson so here it is a week late!
Pastor Rich talked to us about Nurturing Your Friendships and told us that strong friendships require nurturing and protection.
He said that building friendships can be just as complicated as maintaining friendships. A friendship starts with self-disclosure, then requires taking risks, opening doors and taking down walls. It requires active listening and time.
For a friendship to remain strong and healthy we need to do some work! Friendships are often sacraficed to the business of life-job and family. But friendships can help you get through life by being a support system, an escape from stress and an avenue to express a part of you that you may not be able to express in other avenues of life.
He asked us to take a friendship test:
1) Make a quick list of all your "good friends"
2) Now, write the date when you last communicated with them in any way
3) When was the last time you tried to find out about the struggles in their life?
4) What is the ratio of your telling them your problems and your asking them about theirs
It was good to review how much we need our friends and how much they need us! I found a study that stated that when women are able to connect with women on various emotional levels it can assist in lowering blood pressure, heart rate and cholesterol. So, what that says to me is that you should go have coffee, dinner, desserts or just water with your friends, explaining that it's all for our health!
So, enjoy your friends and spend time with them!
Pastor Rich talked to us about Nurturing Your Friendships and told us that strong friendships require nurturing and protection.
He said that building friendships can be just as complicated as maintaining friendships. A friendship starts with self-disclosure, then requires taking risks, opening doors and taking down walls. It requires active listening and time.
For a friendship to remain strong and healthy we need to do some work! Friendships are often sacraficed to the business of life-job and family. But friendships can help you get through life by being a support system, an escape from stress and an avenue to express a part of you that you may not be able to express in other avenues of life.
He asked us to take a friendship test:
1) Make a quick list of all your "good friends"
2) Now, write the date when you last communicated with them in any way
3) When was the last time you tried to find out about the struggles in their life?
4) What is the ratio of your telling them your problems and your asking them about theirs
It was good to review how much we need our friends and how much they need us! I found a study that stated that when women are able to connect with women on various emotional levels it can assist in lowering blood pressure, heart rate and cholesterol. So, what that says to me is that you should go have coffee, dinner, desserts or just water with your friends, explaining that it's all for our health!
So, enjoy your friends and spend time with them!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Learning new recipes is always fun!
Tonight, we were blessed to have special speaker, Deanna House. She shared some incredible recipes with us and a few of us were able to take some of the goodies home!
She shared recipes for Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwiches, Asparagus and Carrots, Sunny Fruit Salad and Rhubarb Lemon Muffins.
Deanna loved our wild group and enjoyed talking about our awesome MSU Women's Spartans who are in the sweet 16. She recommend we top our sandwiches with a mayo "S" if they get to be a bit dry.
She also loved how one of our group misunderstood her story about Martha Steward being incarcerated and thought Deanna was talking about her mother being in prison!
We had a fun evening and lots of laughs. Thank you everyone for coming!
An update on our birthday bags...Marcia Kamphuis will be bringing all 26 bags to Lansing Christian Services for them to distribute, along with 12 ziploc bags with wrap, ribbon, tape, and balloons and 24 ziploc bags with wrap and ribbon and tape. Thank you ladies for all the donations to make these bags possible!
We'll have two weeks of spring break and then we see you on April 15 to hear Pastor Rich talk about "Tending to your friendships".
She shared recipes for Cranberry Chicken Salad Sandwiches, Asparagus and Carrots, Sunny Fruit Salad and Rhubarb Lemon Muffins.
Deanna loved our wild group and enjoyed talking about our awesome MSU Women's Spartans who are in the sweet 16. She recommend we top our sandwiches with a mayo "S" if they get to be a bit dry.
She also loved how one of our group misunderstood her story about Martha Steward being incarcerated and thought Deanna was talking about her mother being in prison!
We had a fun evening and lots of laughs. Thank you everyone for coming!
An update on our birthday bags...Marcia Kamphuis will be bringing all 26 bags to Lansing Christian Services for them to distribute, along with 12 ziploc bags with wrap, ribbon, tape, and balloons and 24 ziploc bags with wrap and ribbon and tape. Thank you ladies for all the donations to make these bags possible!
We'll have two weeks of spring break and then we see you on April 15 to hear Pastor Rich talk about "Tending to your friendships".
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Birthday Bags
First, an update about the awesome aprons we made last week... Here are a few of the guys wearing them! They loved them and they loved picking out which ones to wear. Thanks again for all the hard work you guys do each week to help us enjoy a night off from cooking...we love you!!!
Now, onto the fun of the evening...we made Birthday bags for Lansing Christian Services to give out to people who are in need. Children of parents in need can receive a special present from a church and we made up bags to go along with those presents which will allow them to have a fun birthday. We brainstormed for a few weeks about what would be in the bags...we came up with :
Cake
Frosting
Candles
Streamers
Balloons
Wrapping paper
Ribbon
Tape
Party Favors
A Birthday Card
We prayed over the bags, knowing that God will bless everyone who receives a birthday bag.
Thank you ladies for your generosity and we'll see you next week to hear Deanna House!!!
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
A creative group
Wow...when you give this group creative freedom...they provide!!!
Tonight we were supposed to have a speaker talk to us about growing closer to God, but our speaker cancelled. Instead, we gave away 2 devotional books...not the same but still fun! We also had some special giveaways from The Preppy Princess-always a treat!
Then, we did a special project...APRONS for the men who serve in the kitchen each week. Since there can be a rotation of men, we didn't put specific names but gave them special names...check them out:
We brainstormed ideas of names and then the women picked which one they wanted to work on and these are the results...so creative! I can't wait to see the men's reaction next week when we present it to them. We really do appreciate all the hard work the do to provide us dinner each week! (And we appreciate all the hard work Sally and her helpers do as prep and shoppers! Thank you!)
Here's a few more...
We'll see you next week as we prepare Birthday bags!
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