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Letting Them Play

June 16, 2009

My grandpa bought me a guitar. I wrote about it in a post here about a year and a half ago.
Tony and I both have picked it up every now and then. Messing around with it long enough to get blisters on our fingers and then getting distracted by other things in life and setting [...]

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Garage Sale

June 15, 2009

We had a garage sale this past Saturday. The whole family pitched in and all in all, it was a success. We won’t be buying new furniture or anything with the money made, but it does feel nice to have purged some excess stuff and to have accomplished a task together.

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Rest: Saved In Rest – Wk 4

June 15, 2009

Rest: Saved In Rest – Wk 4 from Mandy Steward on Vimeo.
Scriptures referenced in video:
Matthew 11:28-30
Isaiah 30:15-18

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I’m Afraid to Disappear

June 9, 2009

I sometimes think I’m a philosopher. I can spend hours in my head or in my journal, tracking down the answers to my life problems. I seek out advice from books, from friends, from articles, from God. I want to find the best way I can be living.
I recently read a book called Culture Making. [...]

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Rest – Made to Rest (Wk – 3)

June 7, 2009

Here we go. Week 3!
You know the drill. Watch the video beforehand if you have the chance. We’ll meet Monday nite in the chatroom located under the Angry Homemade Noodles tab at the top of my blog at 8:30 PM Central. We love to have new people, so come, even if you’re new. We’ll make [...]

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We Played Dress-Up

June 7, 2009

I am amazed how much fun dress-up clothes can be. This weekend we dumped out our three big baskets of dress-up clothes and had at it. I was just planning on helping my kids get in and out of outfits, until I realized that a few of the dresses would fit me. Then I got [...]

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I Love My Kids

June 4, 2009

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My One Prayer: God Is Enough

June 3, 2009

The church I am apart of is gearing up for OnePrayer.
Church Online is participating even more in-depth by extending the prayer to individuals, asking them to create their own video. The question asked is – what is my one prayer for the church using this prompt: God is…

My OnePrayer: God is Enough from Mandy Steward [...]

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Custom Notebooks

June 3, 2009

I did a post recently on the Scrap Girls Blog on how to make custom notebooks. There was further interest expressed on the exact details of binding the book. So I made another one and took photos along the way.
The notebook cover size is 5.5 x 7 when laying open. I used one of my [...]

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