Wand Giveaway

Head on over to Elle Apparel and enter their Jose Eber Wand Trio giveaway!!! An AWESOME giveaway, in my opinion!!! :)

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Doughnuts–Gifted Item

I am doing a placement in a Kindergarten class this semester and they have a ‘Tim Hortons’ center in their classroom. They were using Playdough as doughnuts and timbits, bit they always dried up. Today they made the comment that there was no Playdough left to make food anymore…. little did they know.

I made a bunch of doughnuts and timbits out of felt last week. Not only is this class going to be able to use them, other classes will too. And they have the whole shabang in that center now!!! :) They have boxes and cups from last year, and a parent donated a couple of shirts and hats. Now they have food too!!!

The looks on their faces was the best part. Oh, and the hugs were too. :)

Macro Shots

I had fun with my camera when we were up north on the long weekend. I can’t get very good macro shots most of the time, even with oodles of patience. It just won’t pick up the detail very good. I guess that’s what I get for not having a DSLR.

These are pretty good, but I also cropped and edited them a tad. :)

Some of my favorites:

Youth Group Trip. 02/15-18/2013

On the Family Day weekend our Youth Group headed up north to Lowell Lake Lodge in Temagami for a weekend of fun, relaxation and awesomeness!!! Oh, and it was cold. It was –30 C when we left on Monday morning.

For those of you who go up in the summer, you’ll know what I mean when I say this place looks so much different in the winter and with a couple feet of snow!!! :)

The Guys got the skates out and shot the puck around. Too bad the ice wasn’t better.

On Saturday afternoon we went to the fire tower up in Temagami. After a long hike and lots of steps we got to the top. On a clear day you can see about 100 km in each direction, but it was snowing on the horizon, so we couldn’t see that far.

St. Jacobs Farmers Market. 01/26/2013

A while ago we spent the Saturday in the Kitchener/St. Jacobs/Elmira area.

Our first stop was the Farmers Market on King Street in downtown Kitchener. My sister works there, so we said hi, had coffee and bought her and her co-workers a treat. :)

We then headed to the St. Jacob’s Farmers Market and then to Crossroads Restaurant in Elmira. Crossroads doesn’t just have an amazing homemade buffet, it also has a beautiful gift shop and a quilt shop, called “The Quilter’s Patch”. And yes, I got fabric. lol. ;)

Here are some snap-shots from St. Jacobs Market. There aren’t oodles, but I had fun. :) Oh, and even got ‘the look’ from an Amish person because you have a camera in your hands??? I would never take a picture of them, but I get why they don’t like me.

Baby Girl’s Outfit–Gifted

A friend of mine had a little girl about a month ago, and I wanted to make something really special for her.

I went to Children’s Place and got an adorable little cardigan, size 6-9 months, and then based the rest of the outfit off of that.

A cute little jean dress lined with lavender and white – checked sweet sucker and a matching diaper cover with the same material.

Here are some of the details.

Again, the doll comes in handy. ;)

I am glad you loved it Rebekah!!! :)

GOD Makes All Possible

Matthew 19:26 – “But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With me this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

I think God is trying to tell me something. It seems that whatever I do, wherever I go, and whatever I hear, I always get hit with the same thing:

“GO and do it.”

           “SAY it, boldly and with faith.”

“With GOD all things are POSSIBLE.”

I go to church and hear a sermon on God using even the least of men, and the greatest sinners. I hear a message that stresses that we don’t have to present large and important things to God for things to happen – we present what we have and God will take it and expand it and bless it beyond our imagination. ALL things are possible with Christ. On Thursday night I went to a youth speaker evening and heard about Effectual Calling – God will never leave me or forsake me. And He CHOSE me as one of His own, not because of what I have done, but because He desires to change me and mold me into the person He desires me to be. Then I find something about going and taking up the challenge the Christ has called us to. Tonight I watch a movie [Facing the Giants, just so you know :)] and all I hear is that EVERYTHING is possible with God. NOTHING is impossible with God.

I have been a bit discouraged lately. I feel that I have taken on too many things and can’t give my all-in-all to everything anymore. And then I want to do more, but don’t know how that will ever happen. I look to the future and worry about how everything is going to work out, how I am going to get enough money to pay for school next year and pay off the debt that I owe my Dad. I worry about if I made the right decision to open the Etsy shop or start with Aloette.

But, I am now a qualified Aloette consultant. I met the deadline and sold $1.00 and a few cents more than the requirements. My deadline was Monday.

The Etsy Shop, well, that still has a long way to go. But, I have ideas and plans and I am praying that God will bless that. And I just dropped off another custom order today.

And school, well, I LOVE it. I know I am doing what is right. God has confirmed that over and over and over again.

You know what. I can do this. So can YOU!!! Our Youth Group can make a difference [fellow board members, we CAN do this!!! Pray about tomorrow and Monday nights!!!!]. Our families can make a difference. Teachers, parents, students, Opas and Omas, EVERYONE!!!!

GOD CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE THROUGH YOU!!!!

What about you? Where will you start? What ideas do you have? What, big or little, do you have to serve God with? USE IT!!!

We all face giants in our lives. We all stumble and fall. We all have something that we would love to do, but don’t think we could ever do it, or make it possible.

GOD can DO IT!!! He give us the strength to stand. And to stand amazed before Him. He will not fail, and He will not leave or forsake us.

And you know what, we all have access to Him through PRAYER. Let us be a praying, trusting and dependent people. Let us put our lives in the hands of Christ and allow Him to take the lead.

How God has been calling you to serve Him? We don’t have to do this alone. We have Christ and OTHERS. Sharing with others give encouragement. Asking for prayer [I promise you, it is hard and seems weird, but do it!!!], it is a HUGE blessing!!!

Romans 8:37 – 39 – “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities not powers, not things present not things to come, nor height nor depth, not any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Praying for you ALL!!!! Have a blessed Sunday!!!

-Emily