Who Knew What I've Been Missing?!

Dear Fellow Travelers,

Have you ever had the experience where you were doing something and didn't realize that other people were out there doing the same thing?

I've had a lot of that lately.

I'm not saying that I think I'm full of all these new ideas or anything. In fact, the opposite is true. I'm just surprised that I've been here in my little secluded corner of the world and I've actually accidentally hooked into some really cool stuff that's been out there for a while - and I'd been missing out here in Smalltown America.

#1: FaithArt Journaling. This is a real thing. It's not just ME finding scriptures and Faith quotes and writing them out in fancy lettering. It's a thing. Other people do it. And it even has a name. Who knew?

#2. People are listening to God, and He gives them a word to focus on for the year. I'm telling you I feel like I've been living under a rock! I assure you I didn't just get the Internet last week. As I was doing my daily Bible study last year, I noticed a crazy number of scriptures that used the word "Honor" showing up in my studies. After prayer and more study, I accepted this as a word from God and spent the remainder of the year working to see that He received Honor above all else.

This year, He very clearly asked me if He could be Enough for me. It's a humbling question. I will strive to make Him my Enough daily. He has something amazing to teach me in this area, in this year. I want to be open and watching for it. I'm using it as my Logos365 word on His Kingdom Come. See the link on the right.

#logos365












Oh! I almost forgot: Happy January! Here's my January calendar page. I did get those calendars done...



Prayer: Beloved Father, Thank you for loving me ENOUGH to want me. To care for me. To want what's best for me - which means YOU WANT TO BE MY ENOUGH. Forgive me for waiting so long to see it. Your patience with me is amazing! I am so blessed!! In Jesus' name.

Calendar Preparations

Blessings, Fellow Traveler!

So, my primary crafty gift of the holiday season is the SheArt Girls calendar I'm making in the style of Christy Tomlinson. This was a random idea that attacked my brain at the end of October. Yes, that's right. The end of October. So let's make 12 canvases, 12 girls, and design 12 calendar month pages in time for Christmas. Then let's make multiple copies and put them all together. And let's do it in less than 12 weeks. Because that sounds sane.

Okay. Not so sane. Because...I also made 2 advent calendars during the same time period.

Think big, or go home.

Well, the girls are done. The months are ready. I'm down to the "make multiple copies and put them all together" part.

And that's when I learned I have the flu. <insert sound of tires screeching to a stop here.>

Oh, and they have to be ready to go before Sunday. And it's Tuesday. Late Tuesday.

Life is an adventure. Enjoy the journey.

I'll let you know how it goes.


But here is November. *She's my favorite.

Prayer:  Dearest Father, Bless my intentions. Help me to heal in time for our holiday plans. Complete healing in this time frame will surely be from You. Thank You for doctors, medication and rest. May all the glory be to You.

Advent Update

No pictures of the advent progress today, but I will get some up this week. The weekend was very arty for me. I now have angels on Mom's advent calendar - the basic scrapbook paper shapes anyway. Yes, a different angel for each day. Next I'll paint their hair. Then I can move from the table and start the outlining, doodling, embellishing... Remind me why I decided to do this...

Because of Christ Jesus I am...

I also finished 3 more backgrounds for the 2015 calendar I'm making, and did a challenge page in my art journal:
 I used watercolor pencils in my Dylusions Journal and finished with my waterbrush. I don't usually do pages this quickly, but the prompt really spoke to me.

We had a great service in church this morning, and now I've got a dozen ideas for pages and such swirling in my head. There is not enough time in the day! 

Hubby and I also got a special word from a church member: his - he will see the doors that have been closed come open because he has FAVOR from God; mine - I have a destiny that will be fulfilled; I was almost destroyed but I have come through.

Wow! I have come through a bunch of stuff, and that was the message today: coming through the storm & that God has a destination for us.

Prayer: Beloved Jesus, because of You, I am alive, saved, loved, free, healed. I am a child of the King, forgiven, made clean and heaven-bound. I am at peace. I am whole. There is no other who can offer so much to one so unworthy! Help me to live each day in full appreciation of the marvelous gift Father God gave us - YOU!