I never realized how easy technology was becoming for us "slow" to learn folks - my Dad was actually my computer teacher in high school but I still have to ask him computer questions when mine freezes and duhhh I don't remember how to unfreeze it! =) Thank you Dad!
Well, I have created a website for my crazy canvasas and I even gave this new endeavor a name - "Canvas Creations" (though I keep forgetting it). Here it is for those of you I haven't already marketed to - I'm sorry! www.canvascreations.homestead.com
Ok - no more talk about this little business of mine - unless I make it big and then I'll have to brag! Hee Hee....
Feb 19, 2008
Feb 12, 2008
Let me set the record straight & sponsoring a child
Ok...I've been asked my one too many blog readers how my training for the half marathon is going! So, with great humility I admit that when I wrote that it was a "dream" goal as I sat in my warm bedroom in my p.j.'s and typed away. I look at my friends who run with such jealousy because they love it so and do it so freely! (and with such ease) Although I do admit that the more one runs the better they get at it. I learned that when running for the 5K back in the Fall. But since I haven't run but 1 mile since the Fall my body is yelling at me, "You want to do this for how many miles?" HA HA HA Don't tell Nate I wrote this though - I know what he'll say! "It's all mental" as did my sweet friend Dena in church last week when she was encouraging me to get out and run!
On another note - I wanted to encourage anyone who doesn't know about Compassion International to check it out this month. www.compassion.com Nate and I sponsor a little boy named Owani Iddo from Uganda. This week we received two letters from him along with pictures of his family. It was awsume to show Eli and Ian this boy's picture with his thatched hut in the background. The poverty was so obvious in the photos but what struck me was the pride his parents showed of their beautiful family standing there. Eli was excited to write back in a letter about his own life here in the states. We only pay $32 a month to support this little boy - that's just one time going out to eat at a resturant with my family - any of us could give that up once a month for a child to be able to go school, have clothes, books, food, etc. The money really does go to the child and the support they get once they are sponsored continues until they are 18 (regardless of if you have to drop your support). Check out the website soon b/c they have a group of sponsors from the states over there in Uganda who are blogging about their experience. I only read one blog and was brought to tears! I'm just glad I'm doing my part to help out! God bless!
On another note - I wanted to encourage anyone who doesn't know about Compassion International to check it out this month. www.compassion.com Nate and I sponsor a little boy named Owani Iddo from Uganda. This week we received two letters from him along with pictures of his family. It was awsume to show Eli and Ian this boy's picture with his thatched hut in the background. The poverty was so obvious in the photos but what struck me was the pride his parents showed of their beautiful family standing there. Eli was excited to write back in a letter about his own life here in the states. We only pay $32 a month to support this little boy - that's just one time going out to eat at a resturant with my family - any of us could give that up once a month for a child to be able to go school, have clothes, books, food, etc. The money really does go to the child and the support they get once they are sponsored continues until they are 18 (regardless of if you have to drop your support). Check out the website soon b/c they have a group of sponsors from the states over there in Uganda who are blogging about their experience. I only read one blog and was brought to tears! I'm just glad I'm doing my part to help out! God bless!
Feb 7, 2008
Special thank you and credit to my new friend Byrena for taking the photo's of my artwork. Check out her photography studio at www.byrena.com - Byrena Floyd-Kirkham Photography
Feb 5, 2008
A weekend to grow from
This past weekend I attended our church's women' s retreat. It had a Spa theme - and we were pampered rather nice on Friday night with some real spa treatment, along with games, snacks and staying up late laughing with girlfriends! Restful? I don't think so but definitely fun!
I was really moved by the speaker on Saturday morning though. Her whole talk was an analogy of Extreme Makeover: Home addition. She walked us through the steps of looking at an old house that is deteriorating, then it is knocked down, built back up and of course the famous "Move that bus...welcome Callender family to your new home" is yelled out! How much our own lives are the same as this reality show. If we want them to be. We can easily live in our own bodies as they crumble around us with the stumbling blocks we have placed in our paths; our own weaknesses that we have allowed to control our happiness (or steal it away). I"m sure in a room filled with almost 100 women the "deteriorating walls within our own houses" (or lives) was very different for each of us. For me they were such small things that I have allowed over time to control me & my outlook on life. It's easy to justify or think to yourself that those things are not big enough to cause a house to crumble but if left untouched they are. Jealousy, gossip, envy, pride, anger...they can so rob me of my everyday contentment and joyfulness.
I told my mom that my word for the new year is "PROACTIVE"...I've never thought much about that word but it is so powerful and I think it will help me as I "redecorate" my house (or myself) for the new year. I want to daily be PROACTIVE and live not for myself but for the maker who created me. The One who wants me to have the fullest life I can have; one in which I am content in everything, free of judgment of others and full of patience with those I love!
Does your house need redecorating before it is too late and needs a full makeover? =)
Much love to all!
I was really moved by the speaker on Saturday morning though. Her whole talk was an analogy of Extreme Makeover: Home addition. She walked us through the steps of looking at an old house that is deteriorating, then it is knocked down, built back up and of course the famous "Move that bus...welcome Callender family to your new home" is yelled out! How much our own lives are the same as this reality show. If we want them to be. We can easily live in our own bodies as they crumble around us with the stumbling blocks we have placed in our paths; our own weaknesses that we have allowed to control our happiness (or steal it away). I"m sure in a room filled with almost 100 women the "deteriorating walls within our own houses" (or lives) was very different for each of us. For me they were such small things that I have allowed over time to control me & my outlook on life. It's easy to justify or think to yourself that those things are not big enough to cause a house to crumble but if left untouched they are. Jealousy, gossip, envy, pride, anger...they can so rob me of my everyday contentment and joyfulness.
I told my mom that my word for the new year is "PROACTIVE"...I've never thought much about that word but it is so powerful and I think it will help me as I "redecorate" my house (or myself) for the new year. I want to daily be PROACTIVE and live not for myself but for the maker who created me. The One who wants me to have the fullest life I can have; one in which I am content in everything, free of judgment of others and full of patience with those I love!
Does your house need redecorating before it is too late and needs a full makeover? =)
Much love to all!
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