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Elise & I made lots of things, including  little scenes in glasses.

Moments of Love & Joy

Admission:  The holidays have come and gone except for New Year’s,  and with them all my good intentions of keeping focus on the Advent of Christ. I am easily distracted by the smallest details. I am also often overwhelmed by larger difficulties. Just like the new Christmas camera I’m still learning how to use, I […]

Advent Week Two: Peace?

Someone I love is struggling with addictions.  Addictions that consume them more than any substance they consume. I planned to write about Advent of Peace this week, but preoccupation has interrupted peace. This blogpost is my flailing attempt to write about a peace I don’t always feel. But maybe God is unsettling me to help […]

Chile Colorado Recipe

Chile Colorado Recipe

Elise & I had a snow day! I was supposed to go to an ugly sweater women’s luncheon and take something, but I didn’t go because of the weather. I was planning to take a Mexican dish called  chile colorado. Some people also call it mole. Elise has been asking me to teach her to […]

Waiting Together

Waiting Together

I’m looking forward to Christmas now, though I’m not yet finished being grateful! I’m a day behind with this Advent post, but it was worth the wait to make a beautiful space at our table.  I hope you’ll join me in the joy. It’s Christmas season– a beautiful time of light and hope. I felt […]

Bellas Conversaciones

A veces pienso que lo que le digo a  Dios es demasiado trivial, demasiado impaciente, demasiado tonto, demasiado … demasiado_________ .   Pero estoy muy equivocada.   Él nos quiere escuchar.   Adicionales pensamientos: En caso de que no lo hayan notado , no sólo trato de conocer a Dios intelectualmente , trato de experimentar […]

Beautiful Conversations

Beautiful Conversations

  Sometimes I think what I have to say to God is too trivial, too impatient, too silly, too…too_________. But I’m so wrong. He desires to hear us. Bunny trail:  In case you haven’t noticed, I don’t just attempt to know God intellectually, I try to experience God in the every day (though often I […]

Overflowing

Overflowing

Life can be so full, so joyous. It’s somewhat overwhelming. Do I gulp down the overflowing cup swiftly or let it spill about, sloshing joy wastefully over everything? Joy is a wasteful wanton thing, leaving little poignant thoughts behind to tease the moment from our limited memory. Yet fullness can be easily confused with comfort […]

The items marked with a blue X are the items I received. I love all the pictures with style suggestions, too!

October Photo Re-Cap: 3 Beautiful Insights continued

As promised, this is a review of Stitch Fix, an online personal style consult. Over-all I give Stitch Fix I signed up for my first “fix” on stitchfix.com in October. I was very excited to receive these four pieces in the mail with handy style suggestions on the little cards pictured above, plus… : this collar […]

October Photo Re-cap: 3 Beautiful Insights

October Photo Re-cap: 3 Beautiful Insights

  This is a photo from a couple of October’s ago..but I love it because I’m leaning on my husband Curtis. We aren’t supposed to hold people on a pedestal, to regard them as a god, but I believe we are God’s hands and feet to each other. Once, as my husband Curtis and I […]

Color Me Bold

Color Me Bold

  Phewf..I’m exhausted from all the self-disclosure.  I wanted to keep it light this week with some fun fashion and beauty tips. First, I wanted to show you my do-it-yourself hair color. I was getting bored with my dark hair and tried a modified ombre look, with a semi-permanent dark burgundy color on top. This […]