‘Ink Re-Cap 165. Good Things Round the Net, Blog Week in Review
‘Ink Re-Cap 165.
Good things round the net and our blog week in review.
All-year bead garlands, expressing sympathy and more…
Reunion???
Remember when I talked about my siblings coming to our Valley?
We plan to have 2 whole days where 9 out of 10 of our family will be together. We’re praying this can happen. We would like Sister Number 5 to come, too, but she’s not communicating that she is. Boo-hoo.
Anyway, Friday morning my brother-in-law (husband of Sister #3) fell off a ladder. I don’t know how he had the nerve to do that so close to our reunion! I say it that way because actually, as I write those words, my neck is tingling from nerve sympathy. Our whole family (150+), and his (almost as many people), are praying for his speedy recovery. He was moving his limbs in the helicopter on the way to the hospital, so we have high hopes. His head hit concrete quite badly.
Could all of you pray for Norman, please?
He is a man of quiet strength and deep spirituality. But we want him to keep his physical strength and be able to express his love for God. As the Lord wills. (So hard to say.)
‘Ink Re-Cap 165: Our Blog Week in Review
This week we gathered all the good things round the net
and our blog week in review reflects our research:
Love Is Brewing: A DIY Bridal Shower Banner
13 Beautiful and Unusual Baby Gift Presentation Ideas
DIY Your Buffalo-Check Bead Garland Beyond Christmas Décor
17 Ways to Express Thoughts and Prayers of Sympathy
“Friday Already?” Mastering Time Purposefully In 5 Steps
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A past post popular this week:
Scripture Brownies, Where Bible Study Meets Baking
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New Exciting Designs
Still coming… oh, we are excited to show you!! I wish we could drop everything else and work on our secret garden exclusively!
‘Ink Re-Cap 165: Good Things Round the Net
The World Outside Our Work Window
This week I made contact with a lady from Ohio who wants a pattern designed for her size.
Am I crazy to agree to draft a pattern long distance and expect it to fit her? If she gives me the correct measurements, it should work. But a crazy twist is that she wants 3 sizes, because she changes so much. Gains and loses from one dress sewing to another.
That, my friends, will be a challenge.
Later this year, we’ll let you know how this story ends…
Books of the week:
“In My Hands, Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer“*
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I thought I had read all the Holocaust books I ever wanted to. There was a period of years, maybe 10 years ago, when this topic was the foremost of all books I read. I even went to listen to a Holocaust survivor speak, and later got to spend a whole day at the museum in Washington, DC, which she helped put together. Today’s news has this article. While I’ve read rescuer stories before, this one has a few strange twists. I won’t spill the beans, but if you’re a Holocaust stalker like I have been, you will want to order this book.
Amazon:
“IRENE GUT WAS just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.
“No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful.”—School Library Journal, Starred.”
Our children’s book pick…
“Hidden, A Child’s Story of the Holocaust”*
by Loïc Dauvillier, 2014
This book is rated 6 to 14 years. Are you ready to introduce this subject to your children? This might be the book to start with. They do need to know the truth from you before they believe what others say more than you (hopefully that never happens). But there are people out there who do not believe the Holocaust ever happened. Our children need to know truth, even when it hurts.
Amazon:
“In this gentle, poetic young graphic novel, Dounia, a grandmother, tells her granddaughter the story even her son has never heard: how, as a young Jewish girl in Paris, she was hidden away from the Nazis by a series of neighbors and friends who risked their lives to keep her alive when her parents had been taken to concentration camps.
Hidden ends on a tender note, with Dounia and her mother rediscovering each other as World War II ends . . . and a young girl in present-day France becoming closer to her grandmother, who can finally, after all those years, tell her story. With words by Loïc Dauvillier and art by Marc Lizano and Greg Salsedo, this picture book-style comic for young readers is a touching read.“
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