Some Favorite Quotes

  • “Stuff your eyes with wonder...live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” - Ray Bradbury Granger in Fahrenheit 451
  • “We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts. How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” - Socrates

Archive for 'Hobbies' Category

New Church Web Site

Aug 23rd, 2009 by admin | 0

I missed the whole month of July… not a single post! But I have been blogging (sort of). We just launched the new church web site. It is in Wordpress just like Home Sweet Homemaker. The last few months have been spent fine tuning the site and in so doing I’ve neglected my own!
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Strawberry Topiary

Feb 28th, 2009 by admin | 0

For the last four years I have been part of a wonderful event called Chocolate Delight Night at my church. This year we did something a little different in regard to the decorations. Table hostesses were responsible for providing the decorations and place settings for their table. The results were fabulous. Some people teamed up [...]

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Shutterfly Album Embed

Jun 15th, 2008 by admin | 0

Here is an album I made for my husband’s grandfather for Christmas 2007 using Shutterfly. It was fairly quick even for a perfectionist, and easy to do using their templates. Shutterfly allows users to post projects in personal galleries, which is a fun way to share albums with others as well as creative ideas. As [...]

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Dabbling to No End must End!

Jun 15th, 2008 by admin | 0

Recently at book club, we were talking about the latest trend of creating photo books online. Before scrapbooking was popular and all the cool tools came out, I would cut out photos, draw creative lettering with colored pencils, and use plain old tape to attach photos. Needless to say, the scrapbooks eventually fell apart. That [...]

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Chocolate Kisses Topiary

Feb 13th, 2008 by admin | 0

This is a topiary I created for a chocolate-themed event our women’s ministry sponsors every year. I got the idea from Hersheys.com. All I really did differently was in the details. I spray painted the terracotta pot and the rod of the topiary form gold. I used gold wired ribbon for a bow directly underneath [...]

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