Latter-day Village Square

I am sorry I am late with these bookmarks! Where does the time go? This month there is not a specific message for Visiting Teaching - we are invited to choose a message from the Conference Report to share with our sisters. I decided to use the photo on the front of the November Ensign - when have we more needed to know we are lead by a living prophet we can depend on?

Here is a link to the bookmark -
http://latter-dayvillage.com/sampler/article.php?id=552

God bless you all -
~ Debra
“Fear not - though the enemy deride! Courage! For the Lord is on our side. We will heed not what the wicked may say, but the Lord alone we will obey!” Let Us All Press On - Hymns, 243

I wanted to let you know that the September VT Bookmark is now in the Sampler Knowledgebase This bookmark features images of the Houston Temple and one of the statues from the Nauvoo Women’s Monument along with a quote from Russel M. Nelson that I particularly liked. Please feel free to share this with all your RS sisters.

Online information about the annual General Relief Society Meeting this month can be found at lds.org

Don’t forget that our Relief Society Lesson Handouts for the second half of the year are available in our store for instant download. We have gotten some wonderful comments from those who have been using them to
supplement their lessons.

A fun little gift for visiting teachers or those you teach is our Visiting Teaching Magnet, now available in our store.

If you have had successful events or created useful resources for RS that you would be willing to share, please send me an email with the details and attach any documents you have, and I will upload them to the KB for everyone to enjoy.

Thanks,
Debra Woods Hamilton

It’s late, but at last I have added the new August LDS collection to The CLUB!

http://latter-dayvillage.com/pages/VDDClub.htm

Every Needful Thing, by yours truly, is a preparedness - themed digital art collection I have had in mind for a long time. I hope you enjoy it - especially for Enrichment Night projects for preserving and storing food. There are some cute recipe cards and canning labels, and fun scrapbook Quick Pages so you can scrap harvest/canning memories or recipes.

The font is one I call DWHMaple. The capital letters have a maple leaf on them, the numbers have a maple seedpod, and the lower case letters have a fun divided up effect.

The extra projects this time round are two new delightful Quick Pages designed from elements of Serene Heiner’s 2007 Acorn Fun Collection.

I hope you have been enjoying the Quick Pages - just layer your own photos behind the page so they show through the transparent openings, and then add your own text on top of the page - in a few moments you will have a  beautiful finished digital page you can send to family and friends, post on your blog or print out!

CLUB SAMPLER free clip of the month is a ready-to-print pdf page of the Russett Canning Labels from the Every Needful Thing Collection - so be sure to go and save it now, before you forget - http://latter-dayvillage.com/pages/ClubSampler/index.html

Elise Black is still working on the illustrations for her LDS ABC Book, I will let you know when it is available!

DESIGN A FONT - honestly, I KNOW some of you have super fun hand lettering techniques, so why not share them with us and have your own font! Just write out all your letters, numbers and punctuation in black ink on white paper, and scan it at about 300 dpi - and send it to me! If I think it would be of interest to our Club members I will turn it into a font and send it to you at no charge. Then you can type it into all your projects, and be credited as the designer on the site!

We’ve had glorious weather here in Utah County of late, and I am so enjoying walking or swimming each day - have to admit, it is quieter now the kids are in school!

Have a great day,
Debra Woods Hamilton
debra@latter-dayvillage.com

I am excited to announce that the next set of RS Lesson Handouts are available in our store! This is the second set - for lessons 13-24, which should go through the end of 2008.

Each lesson has handouts, journal pages, posters, and quote cards.

New with this set, I added some EXTRAS - which are photos/illustrations and articles, mostly from the Ensign and other image archives, that go with the lessons.

I know many have been eager to get this next set of handouts, and they are beautiful. Courtney is about to pop with a new baby due any day, and has had a rough time, so I am grateful she has been able to finish it all up (plus several other collections she’s been working on for us) - and the
extras took me several extra days to put together. Sorry for the delay! I think you’ll see it was worth it.
The July Visiting Teaching Bookmarks are now available!

The pdf version of the July Ensign is available at lds.org
http://www.lds.org/gospellibrary/pdfmagazine/0,7779,592-6-1,00.html#

PIONEER DAY
We have two pioneer collections - one by Courtney is in our CLUB right now

And a lovely Pioneer Collection by Elsa Remund in our store

Take care,
Debra

July 2008 Sharing Times

New July Sharing Times have been added to the Primary KB. The July Friend is on lds.org in pdf format. This month I included some visuals, scripture word strips, a conference talk and a song chart that are mentioned in the Friend list of ideas, as well as the Friend articles mentioned.

New Primary MANUAL

There is a new Nursery Manual! Behold Your Little Ones. It is listed as a nursery manual, and I do wonder if we will be getting additional new Primary manuals soon. You can see it online at the Church Distribution website.

~~*2009*~~
So far I have not seen or heard mention of the 2009 Children’s Sacrament Meeting Presentation and Sharing Time Guide arriving in wards - if you get yours, please PLEASE let me know as soon as possible!

PIONEER DAY

The current Village Download Depot Club collection is a beautiful Pioneer collection by our wonderful photographer Courtney White.

And we have a beautiful pioneer art collection in our store,
with matching stickers.

More great Pioneer Day ideas can be found in our Primary KB.

VISITING TEACHING

In case you didn’t know, there is a free Relief Society membership at LDV
- and each month I design a Visiting Teaching Bookmark. You can get the July bookmark now.

NEW SONG

I wrote a new song! "What Would Jesus Do?" and with the help of my friend Jennifer Lerud, who did a lovely piano arrangement of it - I will be able to add it to the Primary Music KB next month!

	Hi! May Visiting Teaching Bookmarks have been added to the Relief Society category in our Free Sampler KB. They feature a portrait of President Monson with a quote from his latest conference address. I hope you enjoy them. I was just called to our ward Enrichment Board. Do you have such a thing in your ward? I am excited to be in a calling where I actually get to rub shoulders with other adults. Mostly my callings are things I do all by myself or with little children, so this is a treat. I hope the fact that I am now serving in RS will improve what we have to offer you at LDV.
	NEW!! - Relief Society Rubber Stamps! Come see these fun new products!
Enrichment Board Planner - I just attended my first Enrichment Board planning meeting and decided to design a planning sheet which I have added to the KB.
Enrichment Board Annual Calendar - this is a one page calendar for planning the year.
YOUR IDEAS - Please send in your ideas of what has been successful for you in your ward - many other sisters can benefit from your hard work and creativity! You can submit your ideas using our idea submission form, and send any files by email to me directly at debra@latter-dayvillage.com
	HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! You will just love this sweet Mother’s Day digital clipart collection by popular LDS illustrator, Elise N. Black. It includes lots of fun designs and projects!
Happy May! Debra Woods Hamilton debra@latter-dayvillage.com