YW Girl's Camp 2011 - Craft Leader

YW Girl's Camp 2011 - Crafts in Pictures

{with a little narration!}

That's my cute craft assistant Carla aka Carlo...but we are more like co-leaders.

We finish each others sentences, can have the same craft vision without explaining, and I love her like she is my blood sister. She has a little Baby Blake and I love that both our boy's names are the same.

I got to help her and her hubby with the delivery of little Baby Blake.

{I'm sometimes a doula. Like 12 times.}

We usually try to come up with five crafts and one 'share the love' craft for campers to make for other campers!

This was our 'share the love' craft. Sweet + Simple and the girls loved writing special notes to new friends and youth camp leaders. Like 200 sweet loves were passed around camp!

Paper covered composition notebooks. We figured this craft would help out the parents when the next school list was sent home. Kaia usually needs like 3 composition notebooks. Now the girls all have a handmade pretty one!

Friendship bracelets! A HUGE hit.

I even made one for Blake in the San Francisco Giants' colors. He loved it!

Flower bobbies. Each girl was able to make 4 total.

Our most time consuming and most loved craft....a felt flower necklace.

Carla and I shopped for the supplies together, talked about what it would look like and dreamed of how pretty they would be but we hadn't really figured out how to make one until we got up to camp.

We said a little prayer that our efforts and thoughts would be successful.

Our prayer was heard!

Chalkboard plaque. The girls love to paint up at camp. We gave them the option of either making a chalkboard plaque or just free painting on the wood board. I think it ended up being a 50/50 split.

These boards were left over from last year's camp from another craft and we loved being able to come up with a new craft using product we already had!

At one point we had 35 girls in the craft shack. We were busy but loved every minute of it.

I always go through a little Carla withdrawal after camp.

This was our third year together and just keeps getting better and better.

There is always a dance on Thursday night. We wore costumes...kind of.

We were dressed as nerds, danced like nerds and pretty much stayed in character all night long.

We decided Carla had a way cuter nerd face.....so I gave it another try.

I even did a cartwheel on the dance floor in between doing the sprinkler, the lawn mower, the shopping cart and the lasso. For the record though, Carla is an amazing nerd dancer and I need lessons for next year!

I ♥ my Carlo. And, being craft leader!

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