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Thanksgiving Goodness

Thanksgiving Goodness

Today I am grateful for William Bradford and the brave souls who left their homes in England (1607 and 1620) and came to start a new life in the New World. (I’m pretty sure I’ve talked about this before but anyway…) Brent is a direct descendant of William Bradford, in fact his grandfather is named William Bradford Grotegut in honor of him, Brent’s dad is William B Grotegut and Brent is actually William B Grotegut. Crazy, but cool. Brent and…

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{Early} Thought For Thursday – A Single Lovely Action

{Early} Thought For Thursday – A Single Lovely Action

Today I am grateful for the kindness of strangers. Last fall, my sister and brother in law moved from a dinky town in Illinois to a larger town in Iowa and bought this older home… They’ve since been remodeling and trying to update it and improve it to make it comfortable to live in. Along the way they have found one problem after another and have sunk so much more cash into it than they’d planned on & now they…

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A Puppy with an Attitude

A Puppy with an Attitude

I am grateful for my sweet Sadie who has quite the attitude & thinks she’s the Queen of Sheba. We have friends coming from Washington to stay overnight tomorrow and I’m getting the house and two guest rooms ready. Sadie is not cooperating. LOL! This is how I found her after tucking in the slip cover on the clove seat and placing the pillows back on the love seat neatly…. This is the look she gave me when I ordered…

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Thoughts For Thursday: Gratitude – Day Fifteen & Artwork

Thoughts For Thursday: Gratitude – Day Fifteen & Artwork

Today is day #15 for me on this journey. I have been keeping track of my daily gratitude and compiling it on my computer. I am having way too much fun thinking about my blessings… and it’s hard to choose just one per day to write down. Here’s where we’re at today: Tonight I am going to visit some ladies for church and I am bringing them a fun little gift. Years ago when I was with CTMH, I received…

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Gratitude – Day Six

Gratitude – Day Six

How are you doing keeping track of your blessings? I started my 30 days of Gratitude on November 6th, so today are days 1-6 for me. (Keep in mind that you can start whenever you want… just go for a straight 30 days.) A few folks have emailed me and asked what supplies I used to create the digital Gratitude page and I realized that I forgot to mention that… The supplies used are from the absolutely FREE digital kit…

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Thoughts for Thursday: Power of Gratitude

Thoughts for Thursday: Power of Gratitude

“It’s not the power of the curse,it’s the power we give the curse.”~ Billy, from the movie “Penelope” This month I am trying to focus on the abundance of blessings that God has given me. We (the sisters in Relief Society -women’s organization) talked in church on Sunday about how sometimes we EXPECT certain blessings from God and sometimes don’t get those blessings, but we do get other blessings that He knows that we NEED.Take a look at this amazing…

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A Simple Card 3 Ways

A Simple Card 3 Ways

Here’s a really simple card that I did with the partial emboss side fold. I needed a card for a friend and had fun playing around. One card with the sentiment moved around = 3 cards. I used my Fiskars Threading Water punch, some generic green cardstock and Papertrey Ink printed paper & ribbon. I am in LOVE with the Cuttlebug polka dot embossing folder. The stamp set is from CTMH – September’s Stamp of the Month – Treasure Life….

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Partial Embossing with a Cuttlebug

Partial Embossing with a Cuttlebug

I have got to stop promising to post things “later” in the day in my posts. Sometimes the day just gets away from you and things come up. I know I promised this yesterday, but we got super busy after we worked on the yard and didn’t get back home until late in the evening and then an unexpected guest stopped by…. so excuses aside, here we go… Miranda asked about partial embossing with the fold on the left, instead…

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Sketch Challenge {013}

Sketch Challenge {013}

I’ve been checking out cool artwork on the web lately and it seems that “cropped corners” are highly popular, so I figured that I might try my hand at them, too! It has been quite some time since we’ve done a Sketch Challenge and I had some time to play around in PSE today while waiting for laundry to be ready to switch over and get folded… (oh the joys of laundry)…. So ladies n gents… here’s a Sketch Challenge…

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