‘Ink Re-cap 169: Going Forward Toward Growth
‘Ink Re-Cap 169.
Random Sketches and Scribbles
going forward toward growth in work, life and heart.
Wedding Stationery
May I start this re-cap with a rant?
Just a little one? Please?
We STILL cannot get handmade, deckle edge paper!! My favorite source says it’s just too difficult and takes forever to ship from India anymore.
So I wonder, is India cranking out the same amount of paper as always? What is happening to it if they are? Or do they have a worker shortage like America apparently does? Is it cheaper for everyone to stay home from work than to go to a job? Or maybe America can’t send the cotton rags to India for them to process into that lovely paper.
I don’t know, but I sure would like to find out.
Because no one. No. One. seems to have what we want. And now a niece is getting married and…
Should paper matter so much?
Probably not in the big scheme of things. But… I do love that paper.
‘Ink Re-Cap 169:
This week’s posts are updates of older posts again. It’s time to get 4 and 5 year old posts up to date. Things change so much in just a few years. Sometimes that’s good, sometimes not.
10 Unusual, Invaluable Baby Shower Gifts She Won’t Know She Needs
4 Ways to Fail Pie Crust School And The Final Best Tip
A Watercolor Floral Birthday Card DIY That Anyone Can Make
‘Ink Re-Cap 169
A past post that came up in searches this week:
Postponed Living: A Study of Drusilla
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Secret Garden Spring Designs: Here at last!!
Here’s a little peek at what we’ve been working and working on lately…
We love it.
Could you, too, just a little bit?
Inspiring Inklings of Real Life
The World Outside Our Work Window
If you read our last re-cap, you know we had a hard week.
But, thanks to prayers – ours and yours – God gave Kim an easier time of it these last days. We were busy together doing macrame and working on VBS kits, and several times I heard her singing along to her inspirational songs on her phone playlist.
If that isn’t enough to fill a whole notebook with thanksgiving, I don’t know what would be.
We will treasure these moments until we have hard things to face again…
Smirk:
You can smirk at our enthusiasm for this
Amazing Tool we discovered:
This is exactly what we needed for baking or grilling chicken tenders. And pork chops. And steak.
I have chills thinking about how perfect it is, and when I use it I just wanna do a happy dance!
And don’t blame me for the pink lady pics. I just copied the selling images. Believe me, my husband admits he loves this idea, too. Give it to your man for his next grilling session.
Which reminds me of a friend who volunteers on the fire department in his home town. He thought he was going to be home all day Saturday, so he loaded his Green Egg with meat. Then he got called in. He was making quick calls at home in-between fire calls all day! I guess if he found his smoker on fire when he got home, he’d have the tools to take care of it!
Books of the week:
“1000 Years of Joys and Sorrow, A Memoir*”
by
This week my husband and I talked off and on about the Ukraine. One day he mentioned that China, of course, supported Russia. And that, surprisingly, India was, also. I could understand that China would be, but I didn’t like thinking about India being on the side of inflicting terror and pain. We talked about China’s history and their politics and the fact that they are so much richer than America. I didn’t like hearing this. It made me feel vulnerable. So I was interested in discovering a bit more about the Chinese people, and I came across this book. Written by a man who suffered irrationally in his home country. I haven’t read the whole book, so I can’t recommend it 100%. But what I have read is fascinating. I expect to come out the last page knowing more about China.
Amazon Reader Review:
“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and his father’s. . . . Ai does not allow his own scraps to remain buried. To unearth them is an act of unburdening, an open letter to progeny, a suturing of past and present. It is the refusal to be a pawn—and the most potent assertion of a self.”—The New York Times Book Review
Our children’s book pick…
“Tikki Tikki Tembo”*
by Arlene Mosel, 2007
Amazon:
Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-
chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo!
Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent’s classic re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to learn about the danger of having such an honorable name as Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo.
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DO ANY OF YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS FOR BOOKS WE CAN SHARE, THAT HAVE INSPIRED YOU OR YOUR LITTLES? WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.
Inspiring Quote
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