scrapping and stamping

With some free time here and there I have been able to create a bit... just for fun - I love it!

a little baby love with my niece's new baby... so sweet, love that baby smell.

My one true love, even made it on our anniversary... just to celebrate :)

There hasn't been any rhyme or reason to what I scrap. I have all my photos organized by year and event in each box and have randomly picked out what to scrap by whatever grabs my fancy.

I made this card for some neighbor's of ours who recently had an explosion at their house...

that is all for now. Hopefully more to come!

God's blessings!

K

(stamps: Our Daily Bread)

(Basic Grey paper - favorite!)

(Enjoying the beautiful MN weather, which I love, below zero or

above! it is what MN is all about)

Enjoying the New Year...

I am not one to make goals or resolutions because I am afraid of failure but this year I have a decided to list my goals out here and hopefully complete them. After all, there aren't "goal police" that come around at the end of the year and fine all of those who failed. right??

My 2010 goals:

1. weight - lose a few, keep it off, but mostly quit agonizing about it

2. read the Bible through - entirely - in one year. So far so good (wahoo 10 days! no goal police for me ;))
3. patience... this is a big one for me, along with it comes more encouragement to those I live with. I am actually tough to live with. I have high expectations but could have them with more patience and encouragement. I need to quit letting my personality split like Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde.

4. Follow through... when I say something I mean. Especially with the kids and discipline. So I also need to watch what I say.

5. Pay more attention to Nick and myself time. We need to go on dates again...

6. Embrace each day, and each moment in each day, the good and the bad because they are all there for a reason.

Here's a start... I don't want it too large, that would be just setting myself up for failure.

I CAN DO THIS...

God's Blessings - K

10 things I am thankful for...

10. US - really I think I take for granted the blessings of living in the US gives us
9. the lake
8. food
7. home
6. our jobs
5. friends
4. our families
3. my kids
2. my husband
1. God - I wish I could pass this on and let people know what a blessing God is (that is an understatement) but I will just continue planting the seed and letting God do the rest, as a good friend of mine says...

now for a top ten list not so serious...
10. going for walks
9. Erberts and Gerberts the Narmer
8. sales
7. 4 seasons
6. chocolate
5. Survivor - love this show
4. chai tea
3. baseball hats
2. my stretched out, worn out comfy pajama pants
1. my craft supplies

not neccessarily in that order but you get the gist of it..

have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend...
God bless -K

life goes on...

no matter what is going on or not going on in your life, life continues to move whether you're ready or not. I am ready for it to be a bit slower but I told myself to not skip through it. I catch myself saying, just make it through this week and then get to the next but I am missing out on the moment that way. I need to think to myself and say, "self, This is the day the Lord has made, REJOICE and be glad in it." Hopefully, my self listens...

because before you know it....

that next week you were wishing for is here and everything in between passed you right by.

a warm summer picture to remind us of the sun
(Unity Stamps, Tattered Angels ink etc)

JUST REMEMBER - God's blessings - K

faith

we talked/learned more about faith today at Sunday school today... faith is defined as believing in God even though we can't see Him or talk to Him face to face... however, every where I look throughout a day, I see evidence of God... I have talked to Him, I have felt His touch. Every time I look at my children ( well, not Every time but most), I see God. Every night as I look out the window and see the sunset, I see God. Times when life makes me want to curl up into a ball, I feel God give me comfort and peace and wrap His loving arms around me. How can you doubt? Still people do.

Deep thought Sunday by Kristine Bents ...

evidence: can't you imagine God just letting a small portion of His light shining out... we couldn't take it all.

speaking of evidence... you know Halloween is around the corner when you see Wolverine doing his homework...

have a wonderful week, take time and look for evidence of our awesome God! -K

just because...

it's been a while and I am short on words... here are some pics - work, friends and family...
have a blessed weekend -k

stamp storage

I thought I would share where I get my stamp storage. First off though, I need to give credit to Patter for giving me this idea, you can see how it works here. She has some good pictures while I don't have any to share :) - too lazy I guess ;) I found this site where you can buy both the case and the pages to store the stamps on or just one or the other. I usually buy just the laminated pages to store the stamps on and then buy the case at univenture where Patter suggested. Just make sure you look at the sizes closely. I like the big size, they fit a Unity KOM on one page. The smaller sizes work nice too and GinaK has pages to fit inside of those.

Anyway, I just wanted to share these sites, as I know how frustrating it can be digging through piles of stamps and not sure what you have. I also created a binder with all my stamp images in it (I will have to post a picture later) seperated by wood mounted (which I have stored in drawers), Stampin Up!, Unity and clear stamps. this way when I am ready to create and want a stamp, I look through my binder of images and find one that "speaks" to me, pull it from wherever it is placed and start creating. I would like to be even more organized by grouping them in sentiments, occassions etc. although they are somewhat grouped already like that but only the wood mounted with the wood mounted and clear with clear etc.

Now off to get my son's birthday party boys and get the party started!
God's blessings! K