Nostalgia: Christmas Five Whole Years Ago

I have been working on deleting old stuff from my computer/backing up stuff. I found these photos from 2006, when we (my parents, my brother and I) went to visit my other brother and his family in Georgia. The first grandbaby had come into the world that year and we got to meet her :) We stayed up all night playing video games and had a cookie decorating party. The three of us siblings have not had another Christmas together since (but don't cry, we have gotten to be together since!) So here's my brief trip down memory lane.... 

I know, it's been forever...

i feel like i owe you an explanation, you poor blog, you. mainly it comes down to a combination of being sick and planning a trip (very last minute) and then actually being on that trip. i have been traveling for close to two weeks now seeing family and zero crafting has been involved. Actually...i take that back. Mom and I planned a quilt together! My mom is an amazing quilter and she wanted to make a quilt for me and the hubby. I had material left over from the wedding (as planned) so we just had to find a style. I hate busy designs and prefer to have symbolism involved somehow. I'm not a quilter though so it took a while to come up with something I wasn't all picky about and that would challenge Mom. Mom didn't admit this, but i could tell by her own suggestions she desperately wanted to do something complicated so she could feel some kind of challenge. She's just too stinking good at things, the poor dear. We both seem to be very happy with the choice. Mom's been working on squares all week, it's going to be awesome! Maybe i can sneak some pictures later... hmmmm. Well have a fun week, apart from quilt pictures you probably won't hear from me for a little while longer.  I'm not even home yet. Plus, I have a logo to design, a website to finish, and a murder mystery to write by April! i think i can i think i can...

Because I can't wait any longer!!! I am so exicted....

So here it is! My attempt at a blog, this ought to be fun :) And who am I ? Well, I am a blessed and incredibly proud wife, my husband makes me laugh and teaches me the beauty and wonders of love everyday. I am a inquisitive traveler and insatiable dreamer. I am thoroughly fascinated by a lot of things, anything that saturates the curiosity at the moment really, and life is almost worthless to me without books and the internet since I have become so accustomed to the advantage of looking up the answer to whatever question strikes me at the moment. Creating is another trait I am constantly needing to express and I love the challenge of renewing objects, upcycling or whatever they call it now. Just being cheap and making it work prettily, lets just be honest there. I love God and have a unquenchable desire to find out all I can about the nature of Him. He is pretty amazing and I hope to do His nature justice in my writings. I cannot live without Him, even more so than books and the internet. He is the one thing that has truly made life worth living; I owe everything to Him and He is always there for me.

So in this blog you will find all of these aspects. From crafting to personal discovery to scriptural pondering. The PollyAnna Project is my self-made quest to study scripture. If you have ever seen the movie PollyAnna or read the books then you know of the scene between her and the Pastor. Basically, they claim that there are over 700 verses that say we should rejoice and be glad and hence this is why her father invents the Glad Game. So I wondered if there really is that many verse and what it would be like to find them all, because a verse really should be in context in order for you to get the full value of it. (update! I decided to make this a separate blog since not everyone might be interested in biblical things, but if you are then you should check it out!)

The Tinkers Muse is the crafting section, the spot I intend to fill with whatever random project I happen to complete successfully! It might be my own original thing or it might be that I try out a project and bring your attention to it, in which case I will attribute accordingly. But still awesomeness should be noticed! So I like to discover and share the cool creative thing out there, maybe with my own twist, as you'll see.

Speaking of discoveries, as I said, I find a lot of things interesting so don't be surprised to find a random blog about something that has very little do with either crafting/creating or gladness. There's way too much out there to be silly and limit oneself! So really....Welcome to my Mind :)