Stop on over to Kim's today and check out all the other blogs linking up!
The theme today was the verb "do", so many possibilities with that one....so I decided my interpretation for "do" this week is to "just do" one of the decor designs I seen on-line. So many times I see something in a magazine or blog or wherever and never get around to actually "doing" it, trying what I've seen and admired, so my fall foyer is looking like this, more photos below in Monday mosaic.
Are you in the mood for some hot cider and some pumkin bread? Have a terrific tuesday, Michelle
I saw this idea on pinterest and just had to try it, I thought it was such a pretty fall display, and hey I had wine glasses and pinecones...just had to run out for the tealights and gourds.
It really is pretty with the lights all off, such a nice mood and the aroma, wonderful warm and spicy. Have a marvelous monday, hugs, Michelle
"God is the highest good of the reasonable creature, and the enjoyment of him is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accomodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows. But the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams, but God is the fountain. These are but drops, but God is the ocean."
As it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"--these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thougths except the spirit of that person which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 1 Corinthians 2:9-12
Today, I have some photos to show that I've been collecting from pinterest. If you want to follow me I have a button on the side to click or you can click here, and check it out, I have to warn you it is addicting, but soooooo inspiring, http://pinterest.com/rosebudquilter/
Thank you to Pat from Artful Diva, http://patkumicich.blogspot.com/, to be the first person to have put up a pin from my blog , I was so honored. I have to figure out how to do that next, I'm still new to this site and all the ins and outs.
Stop on over to Kim's today and check out all the other blogs linking up!
Here's the texture using Cracker Jack, zinnia's from my garden.
The next photo I tried the autumn burst with a shot from a visit to the sunflower field.
Thank you to Kim for two more amazing textures to have fun with, I know I will be using these both over and over again. Have a Teriffic Tuesday! Hugs, Michelle
Today's mosaic is from a visit to a sunflower patch at a local market.
Sunny yellow beauty...I could have kept going making these are so much fun...but I don't want to bore anyone with a zillion of them. Have a marvelous Monday! Hugs, Michelle
Ladies-Have you been on http://pinterest.com/--I love it and thought I would post a few "Pinks" I found over there today. I'm very new to using it, and now sure about all the ins and outs, but it is addicting. I have an loving all visual beauty.
I adore this skirt, look at that bow, how sweet is that.
Are these adorable or what.
I have a table like this that wood stained top and white legs, in my basement, I think I might paint it pink, how cool is this.
I guess these can all be varying shades of orange, I couldn't decide which one to post today, so I posted all three. Do you have a favorite? I took all the original photos to start with. Have a terriffic Tuesday! Michelle
"In my Father's house are many rooms...I go to prepare a place for you" -John 14:2
Reading the book from last Sunday's post "We Shall See God" (Charles Spurgeon's/Randy Acorn) and devotion #35 is on A Prepared Place For a Prepared People.
I'm going to mix some of my thoughts in with what I've read. So here goes, hopefully I can get across visually and with a little written word what I am feeling and take away. As a woman, nesting is our "thing" to do, we love it, I'm thinking it's an inherited trait from our "Father". We want our homes to look and feel and be comforting, loving and happy. The photos are not ones I've take but found on the web.
The King will say to those on his right, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world". Matthew 25:34
"Heaven is a pepared place for a prepared people" -Charles Spurgeon
Theologian Donald Bloesch suggests, "Our greatest affliction is not anxiety, or guilt, but rather homesickness-a nostalgia or continual yearning to be at home with God".
Bible scholar W. Graham Scroggie puts it this way: "Future existence is not a purely spiritual existence; it demands a life in a body, and in a material universe".
As Spurgeon says, "Brothers and sisters, he will do it well, for he knows all about us. He knows what will give us the most happiness...I know he will prepare us nothing second rate, nothing that could possibly be excelled. We shall have the best of the best, and much of it; we shall have all that even his great heart can give us."
PAISE GOD, praise God, Can you even imagine....Thank you Jesus!
Visiting Pinterest and saw a photo with this idea of raspberries and chocolate, so I just happened to be at the grocery store again...feel like I live there. I do beleive the fruit cancels out the chocolate so they it is a healthy desert! I have to tell you they are delicious...the berries are in season now where I live and they just burst with sweet juice when you bite into them!!! Enjoy the photos, I had lots of fun, simple, simple, simple.
A Little "Eye Candy" to start your weekend off! I think you could add a glass of champagne and it would be make a spectacular night! Hugs, Michelle
This is a client's quilt that I quilted this summer, it was beautifully pieced, and I really looked for a design that went well with her use of color with the cream and it flowed very nicely. The last pic is of the backing border. She had this top laying around for a few years and just hadn't done anything with it. I love to quilt these and bring them to "life" to be loved.
Hugs, Michelle
I shall rise from the dead...I shall see the Son of God, the Sun of Glory, and shine myself as that sun shines. I shall be united to the Ancient of Days, to God himself, who had no morning, never began...No man ever saw God and lived. And yet, I shall not live til I see God; and when I have seen him, I shall never die --John Donne
I have one of her CD's and I can tell you it is beautiful to listen to.
Saturday night at one of my faviorte places, Barnes & Noble, tonight I came home with this book: A 50 sermon compilation of Devotions.
Author Randy Alcorn has compiled the most profound spiritual insights on the topic of eternity from Charles Spurgeon's sermons and arranged them into an easily-accessible, highly inspirational format.
Prepare to experience paradise!
No author in history has more material in print than Charles Spurgeon. Today, more than a century after his death, countless people continue to have a passion for this London preacher, and more and more continue to discover him every day.
Some of Spurgeon's most powerful sermons were those that he preached on the topic of Heaven. Up until now, however, very few of these sermons have been accessible to a mass audience.
In what is sure to become an instant classic, best-selling author Randy Alcorn has compiled the most profound spiritual insights on the topic of eternity from these sermons and arranged them into an easily-accessible, highly inspirational format complete with his own comments and devotional thoughts.
Whether you are familiar with the works of Charles Spurgeon or not, you are in for a treat as Alcorn invites you to sit at the feet of the Prince of Preachers and discover timeless pearls of wisdom about Heaven from one of the greatest theologians of all time.
Charles Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. He served for thirty years at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, and it is estimated that during his lifetime, he preached to more than 10 million people. His collected sermons fill sixty-three volumes and remain one of the best-selling writing series in history.
Interesting isn't it, to think about Charles Spurgeon and the 1800's and his preaching. I'm intrigued.
