Category Archives: Faith

Book Review: A Call to Mercy; Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve

When I was growing up the model of perfect goodness was Mother Teresa. If anybody could be classified as holy and saintly, it was her. Before reading A Call to Mercy the only thing that I knew about Mother Teresa … Continue reading

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Autumn Cross Project – 1-17-17

I realize that today is not January 17th, but that’s when I took my last progress picture. So, here where I was on Jan 2nd: That was all stitched while I was off of work right after Christmas. Man, those … Continue reading

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Epiphany Concert and Exhaustion

This past weekend we had an Epiphany concert at church. The choir sang songs of the season and we had a few solo singers who added to the festivities. The turn-out was smaller than we had hoped, but we had … Continue reading

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Autumn Cross Project – 1-2-17

Here I am, yet again, cross stitching another seasonal cross. I have two down, two more to go. First I stitched the Winter Cross. Then I stitched the Summer Cross. That leaves Spring and Autumn. I decided that I would … Continue reading

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Mini Advent Wreath Stand!

By now you are probably sick of hearing about this: Too bad. There’s one more tiny installment. And I mean TINY. Last week Jay presented me with this: A miniature advent wreath stand!!! This one fits in our house a … Continue reading

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Advent Wreath Stand – On the Altar (Part 6)

It all started with a question, “Would Jay be able to build an Advent wreath stand?” Then an example was given… Ideas were passed around and a drawing was produced… Wood was procured… Power tools were revved up and put … Continue reading

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Advent Wreath Stand – Part 2

If you read the first part of the Advent Wreath Stand build post then you know that Jay and I are using wood that came from the ‘old’ church. Knowing that not only is our supply of this wood limited, … Continue reading

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An Advent Wreath Stand – Part 1

Last month the choir director at church asked me if I thought Jay would be willing to work on a project. When I asked what kind of a project I was told it was a stand for our advent wreath. … Continue reading

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Care Wear – Charity Sewing – NSM

Since it’s National Sewing Month I wanted to once again highlight one of the reasons why I sew: charity projects. For the most part I’ve just been sewing dresses for my Dresses for Missions ministry through my church. The dresses … Continue reading

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Summer Cross Finished!

Here is the summer cross at the beginning of July. I was working on backstitching the bottom half of the cross. Unfortunately, I didn’t save the picture that I took after the backstitching was completely done. So you’ll just have … Continue reading

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