Bulletin Boards!!

I know that these very words can cause cold shivers to go down the backs of many... or not. I enjoy doing bulletin boards, when I was a preteen/teenager me and a girl that went to church with us stayed at the church building during the afternoon and worked on a bulletin board.

But- unless you have ideas to go on- this is a very scary thing! LOL! When I was a preteen we borrowed a book on bulletin boards from my dad and used an idea from there. Since then I have bought a couple of books on bulletin boards.... but they were pretty useless. A while back I was googling bulletin board ideas and came across this awesome sight- it has over 500 photos of boards!! Now- I'm not saying that I agree with all of these- you have to weed through a lot of unscriptural ideas or change them into scriptural ideas. This is the website-http://www.boardsgalore.com/ and here is an easy link to the slideshow- http://boardsgalore.com/Slideshow.htm

I did a bulletin board for a friend from church thursday- took my little sis to help me out. These flowers are AWESOME and soooo easy - check out the website for them- http://www.craftstylish.com/item/7515/how-to-make-simple-white-paper-flowers

And here's the bulletin board that we did!


up close of the flowers:

Point of View

If you want a lesson in seeing other peoples point of view... go fabric shopping!!

Due to finances, this year I have been making aprons for wedding presents for the bride. We have two from our church getting married the SAME day... different locations and times but the same day. I went to Joann's today to look for fabric for the girl getting married. Her name is Amanda. I do not know Amanda I have only met her 2 or 3 times, her 'husband to be' attends church with us. I asked her Mom and Aunt what style she likes- what type of fabric she would want, both said that she is old fashioned and likes pastels, and flowers.

This is the exact style I HATE! LOL!! I like bright modern stuff. I like old fashioned if it has a modern twist to it. So, I didn't think to bring another person with me to have another opinion and had the worst time at the store. Every piece of fabric I came to made my toes curl because I couldn't stand it! Then every piece I *sorta* liked I second guessed myself over and over! LOL!! I could NOT decide what to do and was really stressing out!

Finally I realized that I would have to STOP looking at it from my point of view because I simply couldn't stand that style and would have to look at it from anothers point of view! And once I did this- I found options that would work!! And some I even liked from my point of view.

It was a lesson that I really needed to learn- I get to the point where my opinion is right/more important and dismiss everyone else. What is it that they say? Walk a mile in another person's shoes? And by trying to understand others you can come to a compromise that you BOTH like! :)

(Note- I am speaking of matters of OPINION only- I do not believe in compromising on God's word when God does not compromise on his laws.)

This is what I am more drawn towards: and


This is what I ended up buying for Amanda: Only it is on a light yellow background with pink and orange roses and I will be doing a light pink ruffle and pocket.

I'm back!!

Life has changed a lot... we have moved back home to Florida and my husband is only preaching part time and is working at a grocery store right now. He is *hopefully* going into the army in the summertime. I am working now- substitute teaching. I miss staying at home- but my schedule is really flexible doing this and I am home by 3:00 in the afternoon. I'm only working 2-4 days a week.

Money is realllly tight for us right now so the posts may focus more on thriftiness now :) :)

My goals to get back into: bring dinner to elderly people and to start having people over again!!

Our lectureship starts this week so I will not be doing anything this week other than learning more from God's word and Christian fellowship!!

Coming Attractions: What I have been up to- making aprons!! (this is me and my dog roxie)