OWH!

I just signed up to become involved in the "Operation Write Home" for our service men and women. Making cards and sending them to our troops to write home is such an awesome way to say thank you to them for keeping us safe and "Land of The free" and not to mention how much the loved homes back home love getting a card that is handmade! This past weekend I made 6 cards and am hoping to have at least 100 done before the deadline of February 20th. If you are just making cards to be making them or receiving them from swaps and/or they are collecting dust in a box on your shelf, pull them out and donate them to this worthy cause. Check out the guidelines of what is allowed and isn't as well as allowed embellishments for all in the good of keeping our soldiers safe!

The thank you letters sent back to Sandy on the OWH blog just makes your heart melt as they are sincerely appreciative of receiving them and able to let their loved ones back home know that they are in their thoughts. Here is the OWH link to check out this amazing organization. You'll feel good knowing you are doing something for our "Awesome Soldiers"! There is even coloring pages for your children to color and write to them to include with your cards! So get on board for this wonderful cause you'll be so gratified knowing you are doing something to bring them a ray of sunshine and a smile during their difficult times over there. :)

Cards Made: 30/100

Its a New Year..

Hello Fellow Bloggers! I hope you had wonderful holidays and that the new year is bringing you new creativity ideas and renewed strength. The last time I was on here I posted about a friendship that had gone away. Yes, it hurt and took me almost two months to finally recover (about 1/2 way). Through the help of another sweet Christian friend, I have been able to see the light at the end of this dark tunnel I was traveling through. She reminded me of how much my talent was needed in this world of uncertainess and awful attitudes people seem to be experiencing. She reminded me that the talent that I have was given to me by our Lord Jesus Christ and reminded me that I needed to use it to reach others and show the love that he shows me on a daily basis. Her email was long but I know that her words were from the Lord himself as she so eloquently typed it with such love. I have started creating again and hope to have something to show you within the next week. I want to thank you for staying with me through this difficult path. I know I'm not the only one who has experienced this, but it just seems harder and longer to recover from it compared to when I was 20 years younger. I'm leaving this post with a picture of a rose that my husband took last year. Its beauty and warmness reminds me of the light that God sheds on me daily and that the color of the rose is the deep red for heart felt love he has for me. I pray you have wonderful weekend and I will be back in a few days to post what I have been working on. Again thanks for your understanding through my trying time. Hugs!

Happy Thanksgiving

Its hard to believe that the holidays are upon us. Life has been really complicated these last few months and the loss of a close and deep friendship has just sent me into a spiraling whirl. I have pretty much put all crafting aside as I cannot get my crafting juices flowing after this loss and with a move ahead of me in December it will be sometime before I will be able to craft again. I just wanted to share that I have not forgotten about my followers or other blogging friends. But right now I am staying really close to my hubby and to the Lord in this path that I am now walking and I know his love will be the one thing I can count on to get me through this trying time. Never knew how much it could hurt and disable you when you lose a close friendship. So with that being said I will be taking a hiatus from blogging or crafting until I am back to being myself. I wish all of you a wonderful Thanksgiving. May all the blessings that you have in your life continue to bless your lives. I promise to be back sometime in the near future. Thank you for your understanding during this time.

Another 3 months...

I have been MIA for so long that I hopefully have some followers left. Seems time has gotten away from me and my intentions have been there, just haven't followed up. A lot has been happening in our household from illness, new grandchildren being born, to worrying about getting laid off and with all that going on my mojo has somehow been put to the wayside. Sometimes we just have to sit back and place the priorities in the right place to make life gel together if you will.

I have learned in the last 6 months of what a true friendship is. I actually thought I knew until I met her . To have a friend so dear that you would lay down your own life to keep her living, shows me that God wants us to seriously take to heart his word in every moment of our day. She is one that does not judge you; one that helps you put forth your best talents and strong attributes and always points that out to whomever she may be talking too; loves you for who you are and not make you what she wants you to be; one who says yes you can do this and I will be there right beside you each step of the way to accomplish the goal that you have setforth to achieve because I have walked in those same shoes where you are at right now; one who prays for you for the littlest things that are important to you and not others; who loves your kids and grandbabies as if they are her own; who treats you with the utmost respect and is sincere in all that she says and does for you; who has no problem helping you with an unexpected bill and says don't worry about it, this is what true friends do for each other and as far as repayment, pay me when you can, whether it be your next paycheck, next year or not at all as I am glad I was able to help; one who you can share your most inner secrets, tears and concerns regarding your marriage, work, family and keeps those discussions locked in her heart and doesn't share with anyone else. That is what a TRUE FRIEND is and I have been so blessed beyond measure to be able to have found this one rare gem of a friend. I pray that all of you have one just like me. It takes a long time to build a relationship like this and I know we have many more facets to go through, but to be able to experience all this in this short of a time leaves me "speechless for words" and I know God had predestined this friendship long before we even knew each other.

I hope to be back in the loop of creating and be able to show what I am upto, but until then I pray your days are full of love, laughter and blessings from the Lord above and may you too have that one rare gem of a friend.