hello! i am revamping my long forgotten blog! let's turn this blog into a "vignette" diary! i love vignettes! do you?
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
clozepinnies
i needed a quicky little gifty today...and packaged up another little bag of clozepinnies..i adorned the header with one of my newfound favey thing to do...homemade paper flowers..and VOILA!...taaaa daaaaa....i wrote a little personal note on the back of this double sided paper so it is beeeee uuuuu teeeeeeee fulllll on both sides...stapled the header into place...and gifty...DUN....of course...i had the clozepinnies done beforehand...(that always helps in the speed process..duh)....they can be used for bag clips or for anything involving CLIPPING...(another duh).......also...magnets can be glued on the back and they can be used on the fridge or any magnetic surface to hold "stuff"...(DUH)......anyway...that's it for today
i mean...taaaa...duh!
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
W.O.W. lookie at this ORGANIZED, VINTAGE studio!
hey peeps!...you gotta check this out....oh my word!...i am so "in heart" with this room..on SO many levels!!!
(sigh)
check out her organization...
ya know..
some of us "got it" and well,.....
some of us "don't"...
unfortunately i am in the latter category...
(another sigh)
Monday, August 16, 2010
i la la la LOVE this!
i "stumbled" upon this great Etsy seller...and when i say stumbled...that is really what i do, most of the time...i do have several favorites that i have inserted into my "daily check" folder...they are just "too" good to pass up...even tho i really don't have time to daily check every one of them, since i seem to be expanding that particular folder all the time....i have a tendency to do that...and almost always everyone seems to be "my fave"......and then i have to clean it all out, eventually...but mostly my folders on my computer look rather like my studio...chaotic, full, unorganized and out of control...yeah...that's pretty much how i feel most of the time too...i am organizedly challenged and if there was a medication for such a thing i surely would be first in line for it!
anyway...i found out this gal lives in IOWA...yahoo....and her stuff is A-dorable to the M.A. X.....love her style all the way...and of course you KNOW i love anything vintage...i am quite shocked to see how vintage has hit the BIG TIME...wow...it is everywere now...i actually am really loving that!!! i also LOVE it that "re-purposing" is really the "in" thing too...i think it is a marvelous and wonderful idea...which has been around for a long time, trust me...i have been doing it for a long long time...not becuz it's cool, but becuz it saves money...(it has always been "cool" to me)..........but i am really glad it is getting a good "rap" for now!!!!........i am just waiting for my dream "farmhouse" to come along to really let my imagination go!....hmmm....oh...and also my little piece of farmland to come along so i can build that chicken house i have previously talked about...and have a garden...and have a pig or two...and maybe a cow...and maybe...????????
ok...dream's over for today...who would have ever thought i would be dreaming of returning to a farm?
....certainly not me!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
this could make me a Goodwill shopper!
hey!....i "stumbled" upon this WONDERFUL blog...and right out of the box saw this great project...NOW...if you saw this kitchen cart for SEVEN DOLLARS at your Goodwill store...would YOU buy it????.....ummmmmmmmmm....hellllllooooooo?????.....i wouldn't think TWICE!!!...even if i had only seven dollars to my name!...(well...i "might" think twice...THEN DO IT)...........what an adorable solution!!!...this is the truth...i have always wanted a kitchen, rolling cart...and i am NOT kidding....i have never, ever seen one this cute for so little money...ok...i am on the prowl now!
from this:
to this!!!!..
FABULOUS, huh????......what is YOUR best bargain??....hey...that is a good idea for one of my next blogs!!!...i have some GREAT best bargains i could share too!!!
Saturday, August 7, 2010
my dream of chickens and chicken houses
that's right...i sometimes dream of having chickens...wouldn't it be delightful to have fresh eggs right in your back yard????....i mean..not a TON of chickens...just a few...you know...CUTE chickens...and if i had cute chickens...i would like to have a CUTE chicken house...and oh my word alive...this is the stinkinest, cutest ,chicken house i have EVER seen!....you must visit this blog and drool over her beyond fabulous photography, not to mention her darling little french chickens...(i think they're french, anyway)...now she knows how to build a fabulous chicken house!!!....
if hubs and i ever get to fulfill our dream of getting a little peice of land in the country...i promise you he will be building me this chicken house...!!!! (wink*)
Friday, August 6, 2010
the holy sigh
the following devotion by Max Lucado resonates deeply with me today..i just had to share it...i have recently had something happen to me that has shook the very foundation of my soul...i have had to face a reality that hurts more than i can put into words..i have cried bitter and distraught tears ...and now i am just SIGHING...a LOT...and sighing some more...trying to face this thing like a "BIG GIRL"...trying to accept it....trying to be Godly through it....but it's not easy...and it hurts me more and i sigh some more...and sometimes i still cry some more too....
When God Sighed
by Max Lucado
Two days ago I read a word in the Bible that has since taken up residence in my heart.
To be honest, I didn't quite know what to do with it. It's only one word, and not a very big one at that. When I ran across the word, (which, by the way, is exactly what happened; I was running through the passage and this word came out of nowhere and bounced me like a speed bump) I didn't know what to do with it. I didn't have any hook to hang it on or category to file it under.
It was an enigmatic word in an enigmatic passage. But now, forty-eight hours later, I have found a place for it, a place all its own. My, what a word it is. Don't read it unless you don't mind changing your mind, because this little word might move your spiritual furniture around a bit.
Look at the passage with me.
Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. There some people brought a man to him who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged him to place his hand on the man.
After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man's ears. Then he spit and touched the man's tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him,"Ephphatha!" (which means, "Be opened!"). At this, the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly. (Mark 7:31-35)
Quite a passage, isn't it?
Jesus is presented with a man who is deaf and has a speech impediment. Perhaps he stammered. Maybe he spoke with a lisp. Perhaps, because of his deafness, he never learned to articulate words properly.
Jesus, refusing to exploit the situation, took the man aside. He looked him in the face. Knowing it would be useless to talk, he explained what he was about to do through gestures. He spat and touched the man's tongue, telling him that whatever restricted his speech was about to be removed. He touched his ears. They, for the first time, were about to hear.
But before the man said a word or heard a sound, Jesus did something I never would have anticipated.
He sighed.
I might have expected a clap or a song or a prayer. Even a "Hallelujah!" or a brief lesson might have been appropriate. But the Son of God did none of these. Instead, he paused, looked into heaven, and sighed. From the depths of his being came a rush of emotion that said more than words.
Sigh. The word seemed out of place.
I'd never thought of God as one who sighs. I'd thought of God as one who commands. I'd thought of God as one who weeps. I'd thought of God as one who called forth the dead with a command or created the universe with a word ... but a God who sighs?
Perhaps this phrase caught my eye because I do my share of sighing.
I sighed yesterday when I visited a lady whose invalid husband had deteriorated so much he didn't recognize me. He thought I was trying to sell him something.
I sighed when the dirty-faced, scantily dressed, six-year-old girl in the grocery store asked me for some change.
And I sighed today listening to a husband tell how his wife won't forgive him.
No doubt you've done your share of sighing.
If you have teenagers, you've probably sighed. If you've tried to resist temptation, you've probably sighed. If you've had your motives questioned or your best acts of love rejected, you have been forced to take a deep breath and let escape a painful sigh.
I realize there exists a sigh of relief, a sigh of expectancy, and even a sigh of joy. But that isn't the sigh described in Mark 7. The sigh described is a hybrid of frustration and sadness. It lies somewhere between a fit of anger and a burst of tears.
The apostle Paul spoke of this sighing. Twice he said that Christians will sigh as long as we are on earth and long for heaven. The creation sighs as if she were giving birth. Even the Spirit sighs as he interprets our prayers. (Romans 8:22-27)
All these sighs come from the same anxiety; a recognition of pain that was never intended, or of hope deferred.
Man was not created to be separated from his creator; hence he sighs, longing for home. The creation was never intended to be inhabited by evil; hence she sighs, yearning for the Garden. And conversations with God were never intended to depend on a translator; hence the Spirit groans on our behalf, looking to a day when humans will see God face to face.
And when Jesus looked into the eyes of Satan's victim, the only appropriate thing to do was sigh. "It was never intended to be this way," the sigh said. "Your ears weren't made to be deaf, your tongue wasn't made to stumble." The imbalance of it all caused the Master to languish.
So, I found a place for the word. You might think it strange, but I placed it beside the word comfort, for in an indirect way, God's pain is our comfort.
And in the agony of Jesus lies our hope. Had he not sighed, had he not felt the burden for what was not intended, we would be in a pitiful condition. Had he simply chalked it all up to the inevitable or washed his hands of the whole stinking mess, what hope would we have?
But he didn't. That holy sigh assures us that God still groans for his people. He groans for the day when all sighs will cease, when what was intended to be will be.
From God Came Near: Chronicles of the Christ
Copyright (Thomas Nelson, 1999) Max Lucado
Thursday, August 5, 2010
oh be still, my heart
oh my goodness....i stumbled upon this posting from urban farmgirl...(a FAVE for sure)....and my heart wants to jump..well..it is jumping...i am sooooo homesick for a good flea market...i have not been to one for so long...and if i had been to this one...and if i had seen this ALL WHITE booth...well...i probably would have had to breathe into a brown paper bag...just looking at it on my computer almost neccesitates it anyway!...i am so glad i can live in a computer world of "pretend"...aren't i pathetic????????????
dreamin' of Fall....(yall)...just couldn't resist
this is a picture of Susan Branch's stovetop...SO cute!...i heart her stove!!!!!!!!
Susan Branch dreams of FALL too..enjoy her fabulous blog..and dream with her!
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