Monica McConkey, Author at Equipping Catholic Families

Special Offer for Catholic Bookstore Owners!!! Free Fun Craft Kit to teach the New Mass for 10 Catholic bloggers!

November 10, 2011 by Monica McConkey 9 Comments

Catholic Conferences…it’s not too late to submit your favorite!

November 7, 2011 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

Is your favorite Catholic conference listed before the voting starts? I just extended the linky submission deadline. (1) Conferences (and retreats and prayer events) for Catholics (2) Conferences for Religious Educators (3) Conferences for Bookstore Owners (4) Conferences for Homeschoolers (5) Favorite Conferences…not necessarily Catholic! read more...for Equipping Catholic Families!

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A fun way to teach kids the new Mass! Countdown is on!

November 6, 2011 by Monica McConkey 2 Comments

My Countdown

Looking for a fun way
to teach kids the new Mass?

Color Me Catholic: New Roman Missal Edition!

Cathletics Craft Kit TM

Monica McConkey (Author)

Look inside Color Me Catholic

Check out the **NEW**VIDEO**
Color Me Catholic Tutorial

Filed Under: Catholic Crafts

Easy, Affordable and AWESOME Widgets & Services for Newbie Bloggers: Lists of Links (5)

November 5, 2011 by Monica McConkey 1 Comment

(1) inlinkz Link Tool
$19.99/year for thumbnail linkies: text linkies are FREE….but thumbnail linkies are way more interesting!

(2) Grab my button Generator FREE and easy to use! I tried generating my own, following other tutorials, but this is so easy! I do love designing buttons and I like to share them.
(3) e-Junkie pdf manager $5/month to sell pdfs online. I was trying payloadz, but it costs quite a bit more

Filed Under: link-up, Catholic Bloggers Network

Catholic Conferences: List of Links (4)

November 2, 2011 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

Please note: this is a work in progress!

I am gradually adding as many conferences as possible within the different linkies. Please be patient…we’re on the 4th sick kid in the family…in a week. Feel free to speed up the process and add some conference links! Don’t worry if you can’t add the thumbnail images…I will try to add them later.

Voting for your favorite conferences
will begin in a few days!
(I hope to have all the conferences added by then!)

(1) for Catholics

(2) for Religious Educators

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Cool Stuff about Catholic Conferences

November 2, 2011 by Monica McConkey Leave a Comment

(1) Cool Catholic Stuff! Over the years we have collected many treasures at Catholic Conferences. It’s so wonderful to see what cool Catholic stuff is out there! (2) Familiar Faces (and voices!) It was so nice to see Lisa Hendey again (and hear her familiar voice from Catholic Moments!) and to flip through her new book A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms (3) New Friends! We met lots of DREs and teachers and principals and signed up many new friends to our mailing list…and even a couple for our school fundraising program! We hope they drop by soon to EquippingCatholicFamilies.com! Please subscribe to EquippingCatholicFamilies, say hello in the comments…or “like” us on facebook! We will announce our next product winners shortly! (4) Great Talks! OK…we heard they were very good… but unfortunately we could not attend them because we were busy at the Arma Dei booth.

(5) Cool Places to see!

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Links of LightBulbs (3)

October 26, 2011 by Monica McConkey 4 Comments

All Saints Party Links!

Please refer me to your own favorite All Saints post in the comments or join the Cele-LINKY with the SAINTS (1)

(1) Cele-LINKY with the SAINTS from Equipping Catholic Families
(2) All Saints Day Games and Party from Faith and Family Connections
(3) All Saints Day Resources: Games and Printables from That Resource Site
(4) All Saints Printables from Catholic Icing
(5) All Saints Costumes for Boys from Catholic Icing
(6) All Saints Costumes for Girls from Catholic Icing
(7) All Saints Costumes from Catholic Missionary Family
(8) All Saints Day Party Games from Catholic Icing
(9) All Saints Costumes and Games from Faith & Family (there’s even a plug for my book here…but the email address reflects the article is from 2008!)
(10) All Saints Day Party from Paper Dali
(11) All Saints Party Games from Memories of a Catholic Wife and Mother
(12) Saint Parade from Raising Little Saints
(13) All Saints Party Decorations by Under Her Starry Mantle
(14) All Saints Party Food from Catholic Icing
(15) All Saints Costumes from Family at the Foot of the Cross
(16) All Saints Bingo Game from Shower of Roses (30 different bingo card printable!)

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as scary as it gets in our house: our own friendly Ghostbuster!

October 26, 2011 by Monica McConkey 1 Comment

It was fun making the backpack…with extra lids, orphaned baby dishes, random bottle spouts, flapped lids, baby bottle collars and $1 store dish towel holders on a spray-painted cardboard box. The hose is a couple of white-duct-tape wrapped paper rolls. The latch for the hose is a the leftover duct tape roll. The utility belt was a prized custom-made gift a few years ago and the flashlights and goggles were neat ‘finds’ around the house. The little viles are those little water containers for the ends of cut flowers. I knew I’d figure out another use for them someday. The classic ghostbuster logo on the T-shirt and the backpack were found online and copied and colored with my trusty sharpie markers. read more...for Equipping Catholic Families!

Filed Under: link-up, Catholic Bloggers Network

Homemade Armor

October 24, 2011 by Monica McConkey 2 Comments

Joseph is a knight for halloween…again.

We were able to re-use some of the pieces of armor…and modify others. Joseph no longer wanted a visor, but he wanted the back of his head protected better!

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new Christian Blog Badge

October 20, 2011 by Monica McConkey 5 Comments

I am honored to receive my first nomination for a blog award. Thank you to Noreen of Rosary Mom for the Stylish Blogger Award. I plan to reciprocate by nominating a couple of blogs and responding with a special post, but I was thinking…

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