some weekend projects.....

i've been in the mood for change lately.  all the little changes i did the other night resulted in a big change last night.

i rearranged the living room furniture!

it opens up the room & makes it less boxy.......seems bigger.


and i'm not done yet!!!

i've been wanting to paint my bedroom furniture for a long time.  but i have no money.  so i can't buy any paint right now.

but i've been itching to do a "project" for a long time!!!  i remembered i had a bunch of black acrylic craft paint in the garage.  and some polyurethane.

that will do for the bookshelf!!!!!   

so i took all the books off the shelf -- yes, the books that i just took off, dusted, & rearranged a few days ago!!!!

don't know why i piled these on the bed!  i'm going to have to move them to sleep!


took the bookshelf to the garage, gave it a quick sanding & wiping down.  (i've had it for a longgggggggggggggg time, but it's only been stained. 



then i painted it black!!!!

i'm waiting for it to dry then i'm going to sand the edges a little to give it some "character" then i'll poly it!

it will satisfy my desire for a change & a project.

for

a

little

while!!!!!


i've had another project in my mind for a long time too!  while i was waiting for the paint to dry, i did it!!!

you know how i said the other day that i'm trying to learn/live habakkuk 3:17-18?

well.......

in deuteronomy 11:18-20 the Bible says:  "you shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart & on your soul; .....you shall write them on the doorposts of your house & on your gates......."

so

i wrote them on the "doorpost" in the foyer!!!

even if.

even then.

i LOVE it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   it was hard writing sideways, on the wall, but i didn't make any mistakes.....the address at the end is a little crooked, but oh well!!!!    i just wrote it with a big sharpie marker!  the texture is really cool in person!   i love it!!!!!!  and now everytime i walk past it, i will stop & read it - or i'll have it memorized on my heart & will just say it!!!!

i'm facing a really big problem right now.  but i know that God loves me & i will be happy with Him & find joy in Him.  because He saved me.

my proverbs31woman devotional this morning was another love letter from God!   it was about feeling unloved.  i've been doing a lot of that lately.  i know i have no reason to, but the truth is, i do.  last night before bed i was reading & was thanking God for saving me. 

ME! 

He didn't have to.  but He loved me enough to do it!  He loved me enough to protect me from some very stupid decisions on my part when i was younger.  He never gave up on me.

HE loves me.

why is that so HARD for me to remember?

but it's so neat how He always reminds me!!

from the devotional: 

You are loveable.

Yes. You. You are loveable.

There is an all loving Creator who is sovereign. This is a big word with bigger meaning: all powerful. He had the choice to concoct you in His mind. He had the option to create you. He had the wherewithal to call you by name. He didn’t have to.

He could have said,
Nah, I know how that one turns out.

Depression and doubts are her go-to’s instead of Me.
Guys are allowed to violate her body.
Her marriage falls apart.
Her relationship with her parents isn’t good.
Her kids can’t stand her.
She’s frumpy.
She’s not worthy of My time or talent.
She’s not lovable.

But He didn’t. No.

Instead, He said,

I know how that one turns out.
She trusts me despite her teetering emotions and difficult circumstances.
She redeems her past to inspire purity in young girls.
She encourages and invests in other’s marriages.
It’s My delight to be her Father and call her My daughter.
Her knees hit the ground in fervent prayer for her children.

She’s beautiful.
She’s worthy of my Son’s life and death.
She’s so lovable, I call her Mine and nothing she does—nothing that happens to her—can take My love from her.

I don’t know why you don’t feel you’re lovable. Or what lies come trying to convince you that your past, your actions, your shame, your guilt disqualifies you from love.

What I do know is this: you are worthy of love. You are loveable. And you are qualified as a child of God. But don’t take my word. Take His…

This is what the LORD says: ‘[Insert your name] who survives [insert what makes you feel unlovable] will find favor in the desert; I will come to give rest to [her].’ The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness. I will build [Insert your name]  up again and you will be rebuilt.’” (Jeremiah 31:2-4a, NIV 1984

sarah & i played in the craft room tonight.  i'm going to kidnap her for the the next 2 weeks!!!  kevin can have her back after they move to alabama!  we planned & cut paper for the september stampin' workshop.  i've got october's & november's workshops planned.  we'll cut the paper for those another night.


bahamas for sure this weekend & maybe a little time in the virgin islands!!!!  going bike riding with sarah & jack at 6:30 am.   life has got lots of problems, but it's still good.

i'm so blessed!!!

i had a feeling.........

...........when i came home tonight that someone had been in my house.


i carefully stood in the doorway & looked around.


nothing seemed to be out of place.


nothing missing.


nothing extra.

except these........................

these were NOT in my fridge this morning when i left for work!!!!!



suzanne came home from san antonio a day early!!!!!


and instead of her usual little "nests", this is all she left!!!!


..............before she headed off to somewhere else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



so it's just me & the yogurt here ......................



prayer meeting was a real blessing to me tonight!  i love God soooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!   i'm trying to learn (& live) habakkuk 3:17 & 18.  right now it's my favorite verse!!!! 

"even if the fig tree does not bloom & the vines have no grapes; even if the olive tree fails to produce & the fields yield no food; even if the sheep pen is empty & the stalls have no cattle---even then i will be happy with the Lord.  i will truly find joy in the God who saves me."


even if.




be blessed - i am!

one thing leads to another

it all started with repotting this prayer plant.

which lead to repotting these 2 little "rose of sharon" plants that my secret sister gave me.  (she apparently doesn't know that i KILL plants!!!!  except for the prayer plant.  i've had that plant since my dad died 7 years ago.  the poor thing has been on the verge of dying many times, but so far hasn't.  my mom had one of these plants when i was growing up & hers was HUGE!  she was good with plants.  like i said before, i can kill dirt!!!)

 which lead to cleaning off the window sill above the kitchen sink & rearranging the things there.  moved stuff around, took away some things.......

which lead to cleaning out the pantry & moving some stuff from the lazy susan corner cabinet to the pantry.....

so i could move some of the appliances off the counter to the lazy susan corner cabinet!

which lead to moving my "collection" of pitchers to the windowsill in the dining room!  they say 3 or more is a collection!

 this plate & pitcher were in my parent's attic.  i got them a few years before their house burned.  so glad................

the plate has the date 1869 on the bottom of it!

i love all the little cracks ...........

which lead to having to move these: 

and replacing the easter book on the rack with the southern living cookbook........
which made me hungry, so i sat down at the dining room table to eat dinner.

then i looked up at the light & the cobwebs caught my eye!!!

as i was wiping the cobwebs off, i touched the hot light with the wet washrag -- that popped the bulb!  don't ever touch a hot light with a wet washrag unless you want to pop the bulb!!!!!

so after i finished cleaning the light & changing the bulb, i started to notice cobwebs in other places!!!

which lead to........................

 no, not canning.............

cleaning.  washing all the dust & cobwebs off my mason jar collection that was on the shelf between the living room & dining room  where i have the kids' old toys & some antiques.

which lead to putting the mason jars on the shelf where the pitchers & rosin box used to be.......

 they were becoming invisible on the display shelf.  (ie, there for so long that you didn't even notice them anymore. 

time for a move!

which lead to.................................rearranging the things on the display shelf!!!!!!  i moved the birdhouse that i made over 15 years ago............moved the sewing machine over & made room for suzanne's little rocking chair with the amish dolls.  the chair used to be next to my big rocking chair.  now it's not so cluttered looking there.

which lead to moving the bucket "collection"!!!

here's a view of the whole thing:

rosin box & baby food cans from my parent's attic are now in the kitchen where one of the pitchers used to be!

all of this dusting & rearranging also lead to dusting off the books & bookshelf in my bedroom!

which lead to...........

rearranging the bookshelf!!!!!!!!!!!

all because of

one

little

plant....................

all of this was done when i should have been getting some scrapbooking supplies gathered to take to a friend's house tomorrow night for our monthly scrapbooking time!!  guess i'll have to do that tomorrow after work right before i go to her house.....

it's not like i've had a whole month to prepare for this event!!!!!!   shhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

if i know us, i probably don't even have to worry about lugging stuff over to her house.  we'll probably talk more than we scrapbook anyhow!!!!!!!!!!!   that's what we did when she came here to my house last month!!!!

oh.................i promised some pictures of cards that i made with jeannie on friday........we did more talking than card making,

 but who cares?! 

 we had a wonderful time together & talked about lots of things & solved most of the world's problems!!!!!  (if only the world would listen to US!!!!!)

here's what we did......

be blessed!!!