Happy Third Birthday Nehemiah

April 17, 2009

We love you!

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Finding Rest in You.

April 13, 2009

You’ve got to be careful when you pick a word for the year. I knew this going in. And I knew my word IMPERFECT was going to be a daunting word in some ways. Daunting in the sense that it requires me to swallow pride and admit defeat, to admit I am not the woman [...]

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Color Study & Life Rainbows

April 9, 2009

Remember this post? Well we followed through and spent a week doing a color study. It wasn’t everything I dreamed it would be (I tend to overplan and overdo things in my head.) But it was a lot of fun, and something I think they will remember.
We have a digital camera (the first one we [...]

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Sick.

April 8, 2009

We’re sick around here this week. And we’re tired. And we’re trying really, really hard to be nice to each other and keep perspective.
This is my accumulating list of things I take for granted in my life:

Health
A good nights sleep
The laughter and energy of kids
The support of friends
A full belly
The sunshine on my skin

I am [...]

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We’ve Been Playing.

April 7, 2009

So my sister calls me on the phone and asks, “How’s school going?” There is silence on my end. Dead silence.
“Mandy? Hello, are you there?” My sister says.
I, meanwhile, am wracking my brain trying to figure out who is in school. Is Tony taking classes I forgot about? Is she referring to an online crafty [...]

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Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

April 3, 2009

This is the post where I get on with my life and start sharing some creative stuff again. For those of you who have been waiting…thanks for waiting!

The day I moved my sewing machine out of the closet and blew the dust off it, I also decided to rearrange some other things in the office. [...]

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Getting Out the Sewing Machine, Otherwise Known as Trying to Find the Loophole

April 2, 2009

I got out my sewing machine a week or so ago. Set it all up – my own little designated sewing station. That was a week or so after I stayed up until 2 in the morning researching what it would entail to open an Etsy shop. That was a couple weeks after I checked [...]

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And the slump hits again…

March 31, 2009

You know how life goes in waves, right? I’m sure you have experienced this firsthand. Riding the wave, feeling on top of the world and then just as quickly coming down off that high. Sometimes you’re blessed enough to get right back on another wave, but typically you miss a few. And typically you get [...]

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Scone Recipe

March 29, 2009

I was asked awhile back to share my chocolate chip scone recipe. I made them again last nite, and thought it would be a good time to post it. The recipe is just on the back of the flour bag. I accidentally bought some self-rising flour awhile back and didn’t know what to do with [...]

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The Ugly, IMPERFECT Confession & The Creative, FREEing Hope

March 25, 2009

Just last nite I was thinking I needed to write another post specifically pertaining to my word for 2009, IMPERFECT. And then, I had the audacity to think, well darn, everything seems pretty perfect right now with me.
HAVE I NOT BEEN LEARNING ANYTHING?!
Certainly the moment you think you’ve got it all together, life has a [...]

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