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Te Manu Rongo - the Bird of Peace

9/20/2017

A song about Baha'u'llah by a Maori Baha'i - Chuck Aranga.

Te manu rongo
E rere, e rere
E rere ra
Ki hea, ki hea
Ki te maunga tapu
Te waahi tapu O te Kororia

Whakarongo mai
Ki te kupu o te manu rongo
Titiro mai
Ko tona rere e
Ki hea

Kaore e tairoa
Ka whakarere tonu atu aa koe
Ka ngaro e
Me whai mai ra i te manu rongo
I tona kupu
Te manu rongo

The bird of peace
That flys about
To the sacred mountain
To the sacred place Of Glory

Listen To the words of the bird of peace
Watch, see The bird's flight to where it goes.
Do not linger Or you'll be left behind
Or you'll be lost
Follow the bird of peace and its words

Ridvan 2017

9/20/2017

For my daughters day care, we (my daughter and I) made gift bags for each of the children. They included the following:

Brown paper bag with "Happy Ridvan" on the outside (I had cut a stencil, and we used a little spray bottle with watered down ink)
A Happy Ridvan card as you can see below which we decorated with stamps (same stencil as the bag), and on the bag of the card we glued a little blurb about what Ridvan was! (Charlie and her family are celebrating the Festival of Ridvan which celebrates the declaration of Baha'u'llah in 1863, which happened in a rose garden!)
Some rose scented playdoh
A cookie iced with pink icing.

At home we decorated and hung up the letters for "RIDVAN".

Bicentenary Invitation #fairfield

9/20/2017

I don't have photoshop, so I'm always working out ways to macgyver pretty posters etc through microsoft word, and every time I learn something new! So this time I learnt:

It's super easy to change the background colour of a microsoft word document (under design, page colour - suprised I've never actually done this before!)
Making an image e.g. our bicentenary logo (isn't it beautiful?! what an awesome design from our NSA here in NZ) transparent! This took be quite a while, and easiest way to do it is in powerpoint!! literally put the image into a powerpoint slide, under format, chose colour tab, "set transparent colour", click on the white and BOOM transparent image. SO EASY.
Flower vectors! High quality transparent images that you can drag and drop onto your poster. These ones are from fox and hazel.

invitation_to_treeplanting.pdf
File Size:	1201 kb
File Type:	pdf

Colouring in Page

7/11/2017

Made for my daughter's last day at her day care, coloured in by her friends there <3

JY Lesson Planning Template (will be trying this for next little while)

3/15/2017

programme_template.docx
File Size:	12 kb
File Type:	docx

Fundraising for Camp

9/12/2016

Our terrific FF Junior Youth Group did awesome mahi fundraising for our most recent JY camp.

We had a 2 day camp in Pirongia Forest Park Lodge.

Key learnings:

Try for a long weekend next camp - JY were just starting to get into it by the last morning.
Make sure animators are buddied up, so constant mutual support. A couple of times, animators by themselves came up against defiant behaviour which would have been much more easily defused if the animators weren't by themselves.
Make sure the rules and expectations around behaviour are clearly stipulated at the beginning of camp
Using the JY groups current books of study (glimmerings, breezes etc) are perfect study material.
As camp organiser, having all of the food logistics completely delegated to the local Baha'i Community was a life saver.
Having animator reflections every evening was spot on, very valuable.
Having a written survey at the end of the camp by the JY was also very valuable.
At the end of the camp, the different JY groups have tentative service project plans that they can execute in their neighborhood. So will be exciting to see how that develops!!
Need to develop a service project planning template - will start the hunt to see what I can find!!

Fundraiser - Making T-shirts + Bakesale @ Markets

Current Print in Progress

9/12/2016

This was the first print - a print for my brother.

Am cutting another BG stencil, so hopefully will look better and better.

O God, for the sake of Thy love, will I leave everything and wander in the deserts and over the mountains, calling out the appearance of Thy kingdom and proclaiming into every ear the tidings of Thy call.
O God! I am prepared to meet all calamities in Thy way and desire every trouble for Thy sake with all my heart and soul, but keep me, O God, in Thy hour of test. Thou knowest that I have left every thought and occupation save Thy mention and praise and that I ask nothing save a strengthening power, which shall enable me to devote my life, my mind, my heart, my soul, and my spirit unto Thee, O God.
O Lord of the worlds! To teach is to learn, to learn is to work, to work is to serve, to serve is to love, to love is to sacrifice, to sacrifice is to die, to die is to live, to live is to strive, to strive is to rise above all earthly limitations and enter the eternal realms."
Alláh-u-Abhá

CC/JY Flyer

8/23/2016

Fonts used:

Besom 2 - download HERE.
Ludicrous - download HERE.

Make Some Snazzy Posters/Flyers EASY

8/12/2016

Here's 2 softwares that I like to use:

On my phone - snapseed app. (the last two images)

On my laptop, www.canva.com. (the first image)

Here's some low stress easy as things that I've been able to put together over the past couple of days...

#GettingReady

5/14/2016

O Varqa' Thou shouldst recite three times in his right ear;

"I have come by God's command, have been made manifest for His remembrance and have been created for the service of Him Who is the Almighty, the Well-Beloved."

- Baha'u'llah

Child of Mine (references for all things babies n__n)