Sewing Days

We have some good friends who live on a farm and grow some wonderful beans and corn!  The young ladies of the said family asked Sarah and I to help them learn to quilt.   We have now had 2 sewing get-togethers and have finally finished 1 quilt top!  (When you get 5 girls together it is hard to stay concentrated on the sewing that needs to be done....)  We have watched many, many movies.  Ate waaayyy too much!  had lots of junk food, and in general, had a fabulous time.  :D  They have another house on their farm, and we were able to use my Nana's house while she went to Washington to visit my aunt and uncle. 
I am not sure how much they learned, but we did have fun.  Here are some pictures from our last get-together.

We played on my Nana's Wii game.  

  Here are the blocks all finished.  We made a scrappy quilt with all of their scraps!  It sure turned out really cute.  :)  For the finished quilt we just added some big blocks of material.

Getting some Sewing done

Sarah made her wonderful muffins!  (You should post the recipe!)

All of our "Junk" food!  I think we will not do as much next time.....

The Finished product!  This is one of the young ladies....

And this is Sarah's. 

We sure had a great time.  We need to get together again (or twice!) to finish quilting.  I don't know what we will do next!  It is a really fun time  to be able to get together with other godly young women and do a project and just have some fun together.  It was fun.

In Christ's Amazing Love,

Rebecca

P.S.  I have not added any faces of the young ladies as there has been a hijacker going around and stealing people's faces to do ungodly things.  (I tried to do Sarah's blurry).  If you notice friends saying nasty things on your blog it may be the hijacker.   ~RLH

What Makes a Dad

I thought this was so cute and very appropriate! 

What Makes A Dad

God took the strength of a mountain,
The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun,
The calm of a quiet sea,

The generous soul of nature,
The comforting arm of night,
The wisdom of the ages,
The power of the eagle's flight,

The joy of a morning in spring,
The faith of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity,
The depth of a family need,

Then God combined these qualities,
When there was nothing more to add,
He knew His masterpiece was complete,
And so, He called it ... Dad

- Author Unknow

Blessings,
Rebecca

The Diary of an Old Soul

A Dear Friend recommended this book to me so I bought it.  It wasn't quite what I was expecting, but I have really enjoyed it!  It is by George MacDonald (How can you go wrong there?!) and is 366 poems.  One for each day of the year.

Here are a couple that were really soothing the other day after the news of the ranch.

'Tis that I am not good--that is enough;
I pry no farther--that is not the way.
Here, O my potter, is they making stuff!
Set thy wheel going; let it whir and play.
The chips in me, the stones, the straws, the sand,
Cast them out with fine separating hand,
And make a vessel of Thy yielding clay.

Only, my God, see thou that I content Thee-
Oh, take thy own content upon me, God!
Ah, never, never, sure, wilt thou repent thee,
That thou hast called thy Adam from the clod!
Yet must I mourn that thou shouldst ever find me
One moment sluggish, needing more of the rod
Than thou didst think when thy desire designed me.

Isn't that beautiful?  It sets so many things back into perspective.  It doesn't help the ache, but it does make you realize that every scratch and hurt is just making a beautiful design that only the Master can see.
If you haven't read George MacDonald I really recommend him.  Even his fiction have many nuggets of gold to chew and think upon. 

Blessings!
Rebecca

I've Gone Etsy!

If you have never heard of Etsy, you should go check it out.  It is a really neat website.  A good way to explain it is as a Internet shopping mall and individual people (like me!) sell their special wares in their own "shop".  I have found some beautiful skirts and dresses, lots of earrings, cards, pictures, decor, antiques, trinkets, jewelry, mugs, plates, pens, etc. etc. etc.    You can find just about anything on there!  I already have a list for things to buy people for Christmas.  :)

Do I sound like I am selling a bit?  Ha ha, well,  I am.  I have my own "shop" up on Etsy!  I have really enjoyed doing weddings and other photo shoots, but I haven't had that many at the moment.  I am not ready to push it and get it going full time yet.  I did think that I could sell my pictures that turn out the best.  So I signed up with Etsy.  I am excited and nervous about it.  It is always hard to know what other people will buy. So I am just going to put different ones up and see which ones sell! 

I do have a long post coming out with what else has been fun in my life. (ha).  I do covet your prayers on the ranch.  We got the appraisal in and it wasn't what we were wanting.  Now it is time to rethink what we are going to do.  Not fun.  Please be praying for my parents especially.  They are the ones to have to come up with a game plan.

I hope you all are doing well!  For those of you who have blogs I am keeping up with you.  :)

Blessings,
Rebecca

Roses

We are finished with our first round of Drama!  We had 2 wonderful performances that went off smoothly.  :)  It was so neat to hear the crown laughing at parts we thought funny...at the beginning of the year.  By the end of 15 weeks we were a bit...used....to them.  It really came off well.  It was such a delight to see friends in the audience!  That was a bit of fun!  Sarah has had many laughs over her "chicken" performance. :D 

All of the moms banded together and bought Mom and I some Roses.  (since it was Mother's Day weekend they found some beauts!) They didn't have to, but you know how it goes.  I decided to put them to use so I pressed some of the petals and took the rest of the roses out for a photo shoot!  At one point, the unstable bench I had them on fell over.  Imagine how it was to be looking through the viewfinder at roses one minute and seeing them disappear the next!  It took me a second to realize what had happened...... :)

Here are some of my favorites, please let me know which ones you like the best!

Which one was your favorite?  I think mine are the 2 last ones...

Blessings,

Rebecca

Homeschoolers can too spell!

My Spell Chequer and Eye

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin know sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weight.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your please two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My Chequer Told Me Sew.

I through this was too cute! 

Have a wonderful Resurrection Day!
The Lord is Risen!  He is Risen Indeed!
~Rebecca

Back!

Our family is home from the CAPE Convention!  It was a bunch or work, but we all enjoy it. (somehow, my family was recruited to do registration.....) :D   Caleb wasn't old enough to go this year, so he had my Dad's mom all to himself- a treat for the youngest child in the family.  They had a lot of fun without us.  :) 

We changed a few things this year for the convention.  First is the location.  We changed churches.  This ones is really great (I think) for the convention.  The church was really helpful and wanted us there so we made things work.  We also changed when the graduation was.  Instead of Friday night it was Saturday afternoon.  I think that was really helpful.  (another nice things about this church was that there was more room for friends and family than the last church)  Since Friday night was open they had one of the guest speakers talk, and they had the homeschool showcase that night.  I am rambling about all this so that I can say that my family got to go to the evening programs. A nice break for us!  The speakers were wonderful!  I think everyone made it to at least one workshop during our time.  We just took turns on who went when.  :D

We had a bunch of great help this year (as always!)  It was neat this year as we had several young ladies who had graduated, and a few that are in high school.  I know as a young lady it is hard to find areas to serve, so they got to serve and we got help!!! :D  

We are all pretty tired and have just been taking it easy.  We have a busy schedule so it was nice to get a break in. 

Drama is this Monday and we are trying to squeeze in some more hours before our performances!  It has been neat to do this, but we are feeling a bit like we are drowning....  Thankfully we have a bunch of moms willing to help and pitch in so I know we will get it done and everything will go well!!! 

Speaking of which, I had better go do some work for Drama....

In Christ, Rebecca