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Don't Strain Your Eyes

When it is dark,

When you can not seem to focus,

When things never seem to change,

When you feel like there is a dark cloud floating over you,

When you keep looking for a sign.. for a change... for just a glimmer of something..

Don't strain your eyes.

 

 

Remember, just because you can not see it or feel it, there is HOPE and a future because HE is there, He said it and it is a promise.

It's called Faith.

Yay!

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."  Jeremiah 29: 11-13

Happy Valentine's Day

Remember this from a few weeks back?

Well, my intention was to post a picture of a cute little bag full of chocolate kisses tied with ribbons and then attach this cute little valentine to it..

but we ate all of the chocolate kisses before I could put it together...DANG IT!

so...

I bought another bag of kisses with the same intention...and then we ate those, too!!!

Hey, at least I am honest!

So, Download Valentinecards...go ahead, buy the kisses, print out the valentines and good luck!
 

Two Things..One Word

One word & two simple things, that we as human beings completely complicate:

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew 22:37-39

It is a new month...Happy February...let's do this..together...as much as we maybe do not want to..

push through it and do it...

Let's create a domino effect of Love.

Doodlin', Sharin', Teachin' & Knowin'

I arm wrestle with myself about my doodling "art" on a daily basis. (That is the "Simply Complicated" part of me, which for the most part, is completely unnecessary.)

The thing is, I love doodling because I love the way I can relax while coloring something, and that seems a tad selfish, because, really..it is not about "me"..duh....but I also love that I can take a plain piece of white paper and turn it into a picture by adding colors, lines,  shapes, a thought and usually a heart. 

I do not know it it is the thickness of the black lines, the colors of the pens I used, the phrase, or a little of all three, but I kinda love this little lost doodle (I have alot of them, lost doodles, that is)

This is another part of my self-arm-wrestle competition...the fact that I have a HUGE, bulging, over flowing file STUFFED with "little lost doodles" and the confusion of what to do with them.

For now,

I will just keep doodlin' what I am doodlin', sharin with you what I am sharin, teachin you what I am teachin and knowin (with out seein) that I am goin in the right direction...

That my friends, is Faith. 

The "P" Word

One of my things, you know, the "P" word (PURPOSE) is to "inspire" others.

BUT but the other "P" word is PINTEREST and the inspiration that comes from that PLACE is something I can not describe.

Actually, I can use the word "Over-Stimulated" to describe myself when I am on the PINTEREST site, which usually results in  falling off my axis, losing all focus and ending up a bigger Whirling Dervish than I already am...

anyways, in my quest to only visit PINTEREST in 15 minute increments (75 times a day!, just kidding) I came across these which I instantly wanted to make, like right then because I knew I had loads of the PERFECT fabric from the napkins I made almost five years ago (can you believe it has been five years, eeek!!!) ..

anyways.....
in my PURSUIT of PRACTICING all kinds of things this year, I waited...until yesterday, which really was only two days since the day I saw them, but, I did not POUNCE on them as if I was Tigger. 

 to be continued....

A "Sorta" Mission Statement

My faith, beliefs and everyday life of family, home, life, love, & laundry inspire and fuel my creativity. I share it here with the hope that you will be inspired to share and create for yourself and for others.

With that said, I have developed new techniques to go along with new classes based on mixing faith and creativity AND adding back in "the element of being together"  Getting together with others to create is becoming a lost art and I for one do not want to sit and watch it happen.

I have taken almost an entire year off of teaching in-store, except for a few trips and I am almost ready to get out and teach again, with several changes to the way I teach.

I am hoping that you will have an open mind to my new ways and that you will consider taking some time to be together with other women to create, to experiment, to create a mess, to be inspired and to relax.

Corner!

I have never worked the job as a waitress, well wait, I mean "in a restaurant and with a paycheck".  I am a mom, so I have been and continue to be a sorta waitress...

anyways...my point is, I like the way they yell "corner" as they are buzzing around the, um...corners.  It is a great way to let people know what is coming so that they don't crash.

I wish GOD would yell "Corner" a bit louder so that we could know what was just around the corner..

or maybe we should just sit down...shut up and just listen, duh.

The fact is, we need to be quiet and just listen.  It is not going to be a thunder-and-lightning-clouds-streaming-across the sky-moment where we hear something...sometimes, it comes in the form of a beautiful rock that was hiding and buried under millions of other rocks, just waiting to be found and listened to.

                                        photo taken by blog reader & another sorta mom waitress, Kendyl