My sister in law was creating a box of encouragements for a friend the other day and asked if I have ever designed "promise cards". I had never heard of such cards, so I quickly did some research and figured out what she was talking about. A few posts ago I mentioned the memory verse cards that I was creating for myself, to help me memorize scripture, well these are a lot like that. They...

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I am super excited for my sister in law, Cheryl & her mom, Ruth over at Peck Cloths. They will be having an open house on December 6th (which Kelsi and I will be attending of course!). Check out this fun little announcement I was able to make up for them to advertise the date :) If you'd like to see more of their selection of cloths and others goods, make sure to check out...

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My friend Nicole came over the other day and was sharing with me an idea of felt books made for children (find examples here), they are SO NEAT! Nicole inspired me to make a board book for Emma, one which I was going to buy here. But WHY NOT create it myself. Its no gorgeous felt book, but its really great for her age right now. I'll work on the felt when she might appreciate...

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I've been thinking about what to do with my Christmas greeting this year. Since we are on a new budget (as I recently resigned from Compassion to stay home full time with Emma - yay!) I decided that getting cards printed, even though I design them, is a bit more then I would like to spend this year, so I am trying to get resourceful. I decided to do a fun little "year in review"...

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Emma has ben busy getting her eye teeth in all week... so if you're a mom I am sure you can imagine what my week has been like. Here are some wonderful links I'd love to share this week. I really enjoyed reading Kristi's post Reading the Bible vs. Studying the Bible: What’s the Difference? over on And Babies Don't Keep (off topic: her blog title comes from a poem that pulls at my heart strings) Anyways,...

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