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watching wednesday

Natalya had her "purity" ceremony on Sunday at church. What an awesome young women she is- to recognize that God calls her to be pure in all areas of her life, not only sexually.  She found a beautiful ring to wear to remind her of her commitment.  It is 3 small bands twined together ( Father, Son and Holy Spirit). 

 I thought I would share Natalya's own words from her faith art journal about her week with you today.

 

"  March 11: Awesome day I got my ring. Yeh! but its too big. It slips off when I put my hand down. I am so happy, I can't waite to to the ceremony. 

March 12: We had a grea day today. I had a lot of fun. Mom had an open studio today and I had a lot of fun helping people.  We had Penny, Rusty and her daughter and Doris. I had fun because I was busy.

March 13: Today was a great day. I had my ring ceremony. I mad a commitment to stay pure. I am excited because I want to grow with my relationship with God and I want to be closer to him and trust him with my life. 

March 14 Today was awesome. I felt so close to God that its amazing to feel the love of God and I just want to grow with God- trust and be honest with him.  Today I had a great day at school. When I got home Mom had a woman who is a friend and she loves crafting to mom is really excited because she has been praying for God to send her a person who will minister with her and hold classes.      When I am honest with myself others and God, I can have a great life. I feel very excited about my faith in Christ. I feel like this is a journey into the land of great joy and happiness."

I love how Natalya lives in the moment, feeling close to God, wanting to please Him and is finding joy in the everyday.

What a blessing she is!

 

Open Studio 3/12/11

We had a wonderful day in the studio on Saturday!  3 people made canvases for their one little word and one person learned the foil art technique.

Look at the beautiful work God created through their willing hands!

Doris' word for 2011 is Diligent. She really was diligent as she redid the piece 3 times to get the right color combination!  Way to go Doris!

 

Penny's word is plan- to plan her life so that she can live out being unique.  Love the color scheme and her technique.

 

Then we have Trust, which is a beautiful watercolor inspired version of the word trust. Love Rusty's color combination and effects.

then we have patience by Heather.  Her first time at the studio and she did a great job with the color, the embellishments and enjoying learning more about faith art!

one little word studio day

On Saturday Jan 29, 5 women from New Hope Church created their own faith art canvas that displayed their one little word.

We had 3 women focusing on "discipline", one working on "obey" and one "sacrifice". Using the one little word worksheet, they were able to determine where they would be focusing their time in 2011.

checking in...

I have been so busy- I mean sooooo busy!     My job is taking much more time and I have been working so hard supporting Create by Faith. We just launched a new project an Advent Devotional 2010 group project. I am so excited about this and hope God will bless the project and draw lots of people to our network and to HIM through this devotional.

Also, I was chosen by Julie Fei Fan Balzer from Balzer designs to participate in her Holidays Handmade project from Dec 6 to Dec 12. Each day she will post Christmas projects from at least 4 people and I will be featured on 12/8. I have been busy making a new version of my Teach the Children book and creating a technique document with pictures. Stay tuned for pictures and new techniques.

Personally, I have been enjoying my grandson, and my family. We are busy planning our annual family picture- and trying to decide what to wear this year. Each year my family is growing!  This year will feature my daughter-in-law Vivi and my grandson Patrick. Andrew's fiance will be with us also, as they are getting married October 2011.

We had so much fun at Trunk or Treat on Sunday 10/31 at New Hope Church. Pat and Vivi came with baby Patrick and they dressed him as Little Shrek, so we all dressed up in medevial costumes. Love this picture of Pat, Vivi and Patrick as The King, Queen and baby Shrek . I am a blessed mother and grandmother, but don't call me a grandma,  I am now "grammy".

I was dressed as the scullary maid to the king and queen, and the girls were beautiful.

 

 

Transformation

On Friday my friend Doris came to the studio and finished her scrapbook/mixed media journal. Doris has been in the process of transforming herself spiritually and physically and this book is part of her journey. God is doing a wonderful work in her, filling her up with HIM and HIS words while losing over 80lbs.

The blessing continues~

Techniques: we used a children's board book ( Dollar Tree $1.00), covered it with gesso, acrylic paint, embellishments, stamps, stickers.

Doris is also an encourager and mentor for me to open my own Etsy shop!  She helped me write the introductions of my art work and yesterday I opened the shop. Please check me out Adore HIM Creations  out!

Delight yourself in the Lord gift book

I was given the wonderful opportunity to create a gift book as a going away present for Lisa, a fabulous young women in my small group at church. She and her family are moving to AZ since her husband is being deployed to Afghanistan. She was a great addition to our small group and it was an amazing gift to see her grow in her faith with the Lord.

We asked the ladies in our group to email me a verse that would be an inspiration and a note for Lisa and I was responsible to create a gift book for her. Lisa loved it.

I used a children's board book that I covered with gesso, then used craft paint to do my backgrounds of blue and green. I printed the bible verses and various notes to Lisa and then cut them up, and pasted into the book in a variety of formats ( frames, circles, etc) for an interesting adventure in reading. My first doodling project!

Loved creating this gift book of blessings for Lisa, who will be greatly missed in our small group.

Memorial Day deck building

God provides for his family and my New Hope Church family provided for us with a new deck!  Mark and Steve are two wonderful men of God who's are like my own family. They came on Saturday at 7:00 am and we built a floating deck!  My neighbor and his son helped too and the girls are becoming really handy with saws, nails, and shovels. 

Before:  

Mark making the plan  

Steve working very hard and long. He and Vera worked till 1:00 am!!!  

It is beautiful. Vera is still working on finishing the nailing.

Next we are building the flower beds around the deck.

  Thanks Mark, Steve and my wonderful hard working daughters!