I jumped to my camera when I saw this assignment. Green! My favorite color in the whole wide world.
So here's "green" around our house...
30 June 2010
You Capture: Green
I jumped to my camera when I saw this assignment. Green! My favorite color in the whole wide world.
So here's "green" around our house...
I Made It: Coffee Cozy
I have been sewing up a storm and I am so proud of myself. My stitches are getting straighter, my cuts are getting better, and my final products are getting a whole heck of a lot cuter.
I love these!
I used the tutorial found at Our Soft Spot. So fun!!
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29 June 2010
Don't Do It
If you love the way your blog looks but you think, "i'll just play around with it for fun," don't do it! In a matter of minutes, I lost my whole blog and then found it again. I can't handle the roller coaster of emotions!
Blog Swap: a little lovely
Hello! i'm so excited to be guest posting here on along for the ride today. i blog over at a little lovely and would love to have you stop by!! i share lots of yummy recipes, fun diy projects, simple yet lovely craft projects, as well as interior design tips.
today i'm going to share with you how to make a rosette necklace from things you probably have laying around your house!!
first, grab a chain that you don't really use anymore. i choose this gold one, but any kind will work.
next, tie a knot in your fabric {i used jersey but cotton broadcloth would work great too}.
twist the fabric and wrap it around using hot glue to secure it every so often.
lay your rosette on a flat surface, put a dab of glue on the back and lay your chain in the glue. you can add a little more hot glue on top if you'd like.
then, to add a little texture to my necklace i tied some tulle in a bunch like the above picture and hot glued it in a few different places.
it was pretty ugly from the back so i used an extra piece of fabric to cover it up.
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today i'm going to share with you how to make a rosette necklace from things you probably have laying around your house!!
first, grab a chain that you don't really use anymore. i choose this gold one, but any kind will work.
next, tie a knot in your fabric {i used jersey but cotton broadcloth would work great too}.
twist the fabric and wrap it around using hot glue to secure it every so often.
lay your rosette on a flat surface, put a dab of glue on the back and lay your chain in the glue. you can add a little more hot glue on top if you'd like.
repeat this process with however many rosettes you want.
then, to add a little texture to my necklace i tied some tulle in a bunch like the above picture and hot glued it in a few different places.
it was pretty ugly from the back so i used an extra piece of fabric to cover it up.
simple and cute!!
hope you'll stop by sometime and visit!!
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28 June 2010
Woolen Wonders Winner!
The winner of the beautiful felt wreath from Woolen Wonders by Ellen is...
Bridgette and Rebekah from All Thingz Related! Yay! I'm e-mailing you right now.
27 June 2010
Divine Chicken with Green Beans
Kyle's the chef in our family [thank goodness]. I like cooking, but not when I feel like I have to, like dinner. What? We have to eat??
He tried a new recipe the other night that I thought I'd share.
Divine Chicken with Green Beans
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - diced
1 tablespoon minced garlic, or to taste
1/4 cup thinly sliced onion
12 ounces fresh or frozen green beans (we used fresh)
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
3 tablespoons heavy cream
Directions
1.Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook until browned. Add garlic and onion, and reduce the heat to medium. Cook and stir just until fragrant. Mix in the green beans, cover and cook to your desired doneness, at least 5 minutes.
2.Uncover, and stir in the cream and cheese just until everything is coated. Remove from the heat and enjoy.
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He tried a new recipe the other night that I thought I'd share.
Divine Chicken with Green Beans
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - diced
1 tablespoon minced garlic, or to taste
1/4 cup thinly sliced onion
12 ounces fresh or frozen green beans (we used fresh)
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
3 tablespoons heavy cream
Directions
1.Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook until browned. Add garlic and onion, and reduce the heat to medium. Cook and stir just until fragrant. Mix in the green beans, cover and cook to your desired doneness, at least 5 minutes.
2.Uncover, and stir in the cream and cheese just until everything is coated. Remove from the heat and enjoy.
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26 June 2010
25 June 2010
Saturday is Crafty Day #9
You all never cease to amaze me. You know that? All your projects are just awesome. I'm sorry I didn't comment on them all last week...I definitely looked at them though.
Here are some of my favorites:
In His Grip made this adorable herb basket. What a happy color!
These darling cupcakes were made by Megan at Fowl Single File. They look too pretty to eat.
Check out this awesome kitchen redo at The Family BLT.
This cute travel change purse came from a and w.
And I adore this dress from The Train to Crazy. If you could just make it in my size that would be great!
If you were featured I'd love it if you grabbed my "featured" button up in the button page of my blog.
And now it's your turn. I'd love to see what you've been working on!
My Personal Kindness Challenge
I am so humbled by all of you who have taken the 90 days of kindness challenge! I have received lots of comments and e-mails about how you have incorporated this into your daily lives and the areas in which you are going to focus your energy. I fear, however, that I have fallen a bit behind in providing you support. I have read every post and e-mail and comment and am so grateful for them and am trying to write you back in meaningful ways. Please trust that I value each and every word you share!
In all my talk of challenging you, I realize that I have not shared my kindness plan, and in all honesty it's in part because it's so hard to put into words.
I find that kindness toward strangers comes fairly easily to me. I love going out of my way to help others as they walk past me on the street, come into my office, and enter and exit my life throughout the day. I am by no means where I need to be in my efforts and feel called to extend this kindness in more intentional ways to those in the community who are struggling.
There is an area, however, where I fall short most of the time. There is a person that I sometimes have little patience for. The times when I lose my temper the most, hold grudges, put myself first, and bring up faults has to do with the most valued, trusted, and loved person in my life: my husband.
Writing those words just makes me want to crawl under a rock for fear of being thought of as the most horrible wife in the world. But why is it so easy to show strangers kindness when I struggle to show kindness to the most important person in the world?
Before I go to bed I pray that God will help me become the wife that he calls me to be. That he will show me how to love my husband with the love of Jesus. That he will take away my impatience, my selfishness, my stubbornness, because it's all there. All that ugly stuff of a sinner is there.
These things do not come out for lack of love for my husband. I love him more and more every day. I love him so much that it hurts to think of ever spending one day apart from him. But throughout my daily life, my responsibilities at work and to my students, I often find that when I get home in the evening, my energy is gone, my kindness is used up, and all I have for him are the "leftovers." The frustrations that I can't tell my colleagues, I often let out on him. The impatience that I've had throughout the day comes out on him. And I hate that I do this.
For the next 90 days (or the next forever perhaps?) I want to focus my energy on treating my husband the way he deserves to be treated. He is the head of our family, the king of our household, the one God called to be a leader in every way.
"Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything." Ephesians 5:22-24
The word "submit" used to give me the willies, but I think God has been softening my heart through marriage. This book also helped. As a follower of Christ, I don't get to pick and chose which parts of the bible sound good and which don't. If I believe in the words of Jesus, that he is my savior and died for my sins, and that he is coming back some day, then I sure better believe that I need to submit to my husband.
Ephesians calls me to respect my husband unconditionally, as in without conditions- not after he does the dishes, or takes out the garbage, or does the budget, but always. This is hard for me, and it is one of many elements I want to focus on through this challenge.
So there you have it...that was a lot of words. I hope you don't think less of me for not always being kind to my husband. I swear I love him. I do! But I can always love him more, the way Christ loves me.
In all my talk of challenging you, I realize that I have not shared my kindness plan, and in all honesty it's in part because it's so hard to put into words.
I find that kindness toward strangers comes fairly easily to me. I love going out of my way to help others as they walk past me on the street, come into my office, and enter and exit my life throughout the day. I am by no means where I need to be in my efforts and feel called to extend this kindness in more intentional ways to those in the community who are struggling.
There is an area, however, where I fall short most of the time. There is a person that I sometimes have little patience for. The times when I lose my temper the most, hold grudges, put myself first, and bring up faults has to do with the most valued, trusted, and loved person in my life: my husband.
Writing those words just makes me want to crawl under a rock for fear of being thought of as the most horrible wife in the world. But why is it so easy to show strangers kindness when I struggle to show kindness to the most important person in the world?
Before I go to bed I pray that God will help me become the wife that he calls me to be. That he will show me how to love my husband with the love of Jesus. That he will take away my impatience, my selfishness, my stubbornness, because it's all there. All that ugly stuff of a sinner is there.
These things do not come out for lack of love for my husband. I love him more and more every day. I love him so much that it hurts to think of ever spending one day apart from him. But throughout my daily life, my responsibilities at work and to my students, I often find that when I get home in the evening, my energy is gone, my kindness is used up, and all I have for him are the "leftovers." The frustrations that I can't tell my colleagues, I often let out on him. The impatience that I've had throughout the day comes out on him. And I hate that I do this.
For the next 90 days (or the next forever perhaps?) I want to focus my energy on treating my husband the way he deserves to be treated. He is the head of our family, the king of our household, the one God called to be a leader in every way.
"Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything." Ephesians 5:22-24
The word "submit" used to give me the willies, but I think God has been softening my heart through marriage. This book also helped. As a follower of Christ, I don't get to pick and chose which parts of the bible sound good and which don't. If I believe in the words of Jesus, that he is my savior and died for my sins, and that he is coming back some day, then I sure better believe that I need to submit to my husband.
Ephesians calls me to respect my husband unconditionally, as in without conditions- not after he does the dishes, or takes out the garbage, or does the budget, but always. This is hard for me, and it is one of many elements I want to focus on through this challenge.
So there you have it...that was a lot of words. I hope you don't think less of me for not always being kind to my husband. I swear I love him. I do! But I can always love him more, the way Christ loves me.
24 June 2010
Beautiful Blogs
I usually read my favorite blogs in my blog reader and I have found that I rarely click on the blogs anymore (which means I need to comment more!). I made it a point to actually visit these sites this week, and you know what, there are some really beautiful blogs out there!
No. 17 Cherry Tree Lane
No. 17 Cherry Tree Lane
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23 June 2010
Funny Break
I saw this here and thought it was hilarious!
Let me draw your attention to a few items:
"Never try to sew with a sink full of dirty dishes or beds unmade." If that were the case, how many of us would actually sew?
"When you sew, make yourself as attractive as possible."
Then you do not want to see what I looked like last night when I made the camera case!
How funny! Now get back to work!
I Made It: Camera Case
I am most definitely a beginner when it comes to sewing. My sewing machine intimidates me, but I've been trying to get more comfortable. I'm still not very good, but my stitches are getting a bit straighter.
I made this last night using the tutorial found here.
I love it! And I can't believe I actually made it!
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