Dreams of London

Today was the best day of my life. (You will probably eventually discover that I have many best days of my life's) While in the UK over the summer I came to love many new things, one of these things were caramel digestives. Caramel digestives are a "biscuit with caramel covered in milk chocolate"... so good. I will admit that that name "digestives" is not too appealing especially for a cookie, but do not let this small detail scare you away. Once you try them you will be hooked, I promise. No matter where we were in a hostel, on a bus, a walk in Hyde Park, or in our flat we seemed to have a pack handy. In London my roomies Mandie, Jenny, and I would eat approximately a pack a day. Seriously. I don't know why I didn't come home larger than I did. I brought a pack home and shared some with my family and then put the rest in my room in a safe place. One day I decided I would savor one of these sacred cookies and I came to find that there was only one left. I immediately knew the culprit who had eaten several on the car ride home from the airport... KORTNI! I went into her room and accused her of eating all my cookies. She responded very calmly with "what? I left one for you!". Unbelievable. I finished of the last one before anyone else could get their hands on it. Ever since that day I searched high and low for these cookies but have only come across the plain chocolate ones which are not comparable to the caramel ones. Today while in Salt Lake I was pulling out of a parking lot and eyed a little shop called The London Market, I immediately headed in that direction. To my greatest surprise they had them! In the UK they usually cost around one pound which is a little less than two dollars. Here they were seven dollars but that didn't stop me, I still bought them. I am very satisfied with my purchase and I can't wait to eat them! If you ever come across a pack of these buy them and don't forget to pick up a pack for me!

xoxo z

Headband Party!

On Saturday we will be having a headband party at Salon K in the Riverwoods mall from 1-5 pm. Come get the perfect Christmas gift that is sure to be loved. I will be selling my headbands which you can view at zoonyszippers.blogspot.com and Bryn will be there as well selling her beautiful crocheted items her website is batemanheadbands.blogspot.com. Salon K will also be offering 20% off their services all day! We will also be having refreshments so stop by for some food!

Winter Blues?!

It may be freezing outside (yes it was one degree when I went to school this morning) but there are LOTS of reasons to LOVE winter!

You can...

warm up by the fireplace

my favorite part of winter wearing fun colorful tights!

bundle up and go sledding

wear cute hats

and drink yummy hot chocolate. With marshmallows of course!
(If you want to try the best hot chocolate you have ever had in your life go get some from Borders you will never be the same)

How do you stay warm?!

Patina Market

This week I am very excited to be selling my stuff at Patina Market. Patina is a cute little store that sells handmade things and switches vendors every week. I think this is a great idea and I am so excited for them! The grand opening is this Wednesday the 18th. They will have free cupcakes and a free handmade gift for the first 50 people there!! There will also be free cookies and raffles all week long. Patina is located on 200 South Main Street In Pleasant Grove. For more info click HERE. I hope to see you there! xoxo

I love love love this video! Now you don't have an excuse to be creative!

Bijou Market

I will be selling headbands at the Bijou Market. There will be lots of other amazing vendors there as well! Come get some early holiday shopping done or just pick up a little something for your self (even though I doubt you could get out with one thing). I hope to see you all there!!

I'm going there someday.

This is the first place we were sent to for church I talk about it at the end (I don't know how to move it).

While traveling I have had the opportunity to go see two temples here. The Preston temple was closed for remodeling or cleaning or something but we stopped to see it and take pictures of it when we left London. It was perfect weather we finally got to see the sun. The gardens outside of the temple were beautiful!
Preston Temple

I went to the London temple with some of the other girls in my group and we did baptisms for the dead. When we got there they had to call down everyone to come help up with the baptisms because they are not use to having lots of people there. They brought down the clerk and the sealer. There was also a cute little French family there and the dad baptized some of the girls in French. The old man that baptized us was so cute! He was so excited because he had done sealings that morning and then he got to come down and do baptisms. He baptized about six of us fifteen times and he had a big smile on his face the whole time.
London Temple

This isn't a temple but I thought I would add this in here. While living in London we were all assigned to different wards. The first time we went to church they definitely gave us the wrong directions and when we got to the address is was an old sketchy school that had twenty foot high fences and huge chains around the gate not to mention all the signs in the town were written in Hindi. (see the picture up top). I know I good idea send five white girls in their nice church clothes in the middle of a scary neighborhood. There were few white people in our ward and they would all address us as BYU student. All the people in the ward were very welcoming and so happy to see us, they were so happy every single Sunday.

These are the cute primary children I taught.