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Do you like striped fabric? If you do, here’s an easy pattern variation tutorial for you to try: cut the stripes in different directions for style interest. Every once in awhile, our paper of the day has nothing to do with stationery. Like when we sew, and the paper of patterns is in focus….
Just to show we’re thankful for y’all,we’ve got some Fall Kitchen Shelf-Sitter Prints:it’s free Thanksgiving DIY décorand upcycled, too! Do you keep a Thankful List? I don’t either, but if I did, these are some things I’d put on it for this season: Did you see what I did? I managed to make a list…
Your child is never too young to get the positive message that “you will climb mountains little one.” Download this encouraging Adventure Forest Nursery Printable for your baby’s room. “Can you lift this for me with your strong muscles?” She flexes her arms. “No. I don’t have strong muscles.” Well, that backfired. She was…
Download our free basicWedding Menu Planner Printableand portion per guest calculator.Be your own catererto save money and reduce stress. It might have been the phone call from a young bride’s mom. Maybe it was the dilemma they were facing that I really wished I could help with. It could be that I get a little…
‘Ink Re-Cap 151. Random Sketches and Scribbles about Fall on the little-farm-by-the-river, Anabaptist re-enactments, and Christmas in the Air. . We had one crazy windy day this week, but apparently it was nothing compared to the wind our little-farm-by-the-river family had yesterday. They said it blew all the pretty colored leaves off the trees, so…
Can you sing through the storms and hard times of life? Like the little thrush, a foul weather friend, God can give us a song in the trials. “ For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing….
Four Autumn-themed Do-A-Dot free downloads your pre-school children will have fun coloring with markers. Also available as coloring pages. It’s been awhile since we had a post about Do-A-Dot Art for pre-schoolers. Or other pre-school activities like this color by numbers. Most of our Thursday Children’s Craft posts are geared to classroom art like this…
Today we’ve got a good Old-Fashioned Recipe for you: Chunky Apple Cake with Butter Sauce. With tips to prevent crystallized syrup! So yesterday the Church Ladies had a Sewing Circle, and I volunteered to make dessert. This is the time of year to pull out the good old-fashioned Apple Cake recipe, chock full of…
Have you ever faced a situation where you wonder how to encourage or teach empathy, kindness and compassion in your young children? My husband’s mom babysat our children one day, when the boys were about 3 and 1. She also kept my sister-in-law’s boys, ages 4 and 1. When we came to pick them…
A Screwtape Letter for the Bride-To-Be, inspired by C. S. Lewis. Wormwood gets instructions to destroy the happiness of the bride-to-be.
‘Ink Re-Cap 150. Random Sketches and Scribbles about 10th birthdays, travel prices and pumpkin bread. As Southwest Airlines says it so well, I “just wanna get away.” We talk about taking a trip, going to see our little-farm-by-the-river family, or even just a quick in-state trek. Somehow it doesn’t happen. The flight to Grand…
Happy Birthday In Heaven, Mom: It will be so much more than any you had on earth. Honoring parents is a Biblical commandment and a privilege. Honor thy father and mother; … that it may be well with you, and thou mayest live long upon the earth. Ephesians 6:2, 3 This Sunday…