July - Worship Focus

Welcome to July and our opportunity to Focus on a fresh perspective of Worship.

Here is our inspiration verse for the month of July

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I was trying recently to help someone who was mentally in a bad place understand how much God loves them.  It can be difficult.  Not because He has not shown us over and over again.  Not because His mercies, grace, kindness, provision, generosity, protection, forgiveness and so much more are not enough.  No, it really came down to feeling unworthy. And this person just kept saying but I don't deserve any of those things....I don't deserve this love.  I had to agree with them, none of us deserves that kind of love.  But the mere fact that we know, we realize, we accept that we don't deserve it is the perfect opportunity, time and place to open our hearts and accept it.

I hope no matter where you are and what you are going through that you feel loved by God today.

I hope that you will speak words to glorify Him today.

I hope that this month will be filled with opportunity after opportunity to lift your hands in praise.

Here's to July......a month of hand raising, praise speaking, love accepting!!!

If you have 4 minutes and 56 seconds enjoy Love on the Line by Hillsong Music

Also, I have a Worship bracelet for one of you subscribers......this month the winner is 

vwam.....@gmail.com

I will message you and get your bracelet to you.

Have a wonderful month of worship!

Because Bread wasn't Enough

I have shared with you all how much bread we have baked and consumed.  Well we have discovered a new guilty pleasure

Yep, now we are making donuts.

Send intervention.....no don't......we are actually enjoying this!

I found this new online shop and I may have placed a rather large initial order.

But today I want to tell you about this pan

It makes 6 homemade cake donuts.  It even came with the recipe card.  I didn't have cocoa in the pantry so I made mine with a vanilla glaze and added a few sprinkles.

It was super easy and quick.  The recipe made 18 donuts so I had to bake 3 times.  I may grab another pan or two just to make it go quicker, but it really wasn't bad because they are a quick 8 minute bake.  So I had all 18 done in 30 minutes.

I also ordered these 

Disposable Pastry Bags

Once the batter was made I scooped it into these bags and piped the batter into the pans.

Loving this new find and the results we got in these

Delicious donuts.......ok, I better go do a workout.

Have a great week!

Puzzling Time

Literally, we have been putting together puzzles like crazy.  It is very therapeutic.

We have put together

A winter skating scene

A Doughnut Lovers Delight

An Old Fashion Candy Display

And this black and white city scape

This is the first and last black and white puzzle we have ever done.  Literally we were down to 7 pieces and still struggled about what piece went where.

The main thing is it has been fun drawing people in......everyone says I am only going to put in one piece and then it is two hours later.

I think we only have two more puzzles in our stash so I am definitely going to have to place another order soon.

If you haven't done a puzzle in a while, give it a go.  

Here's a couple of places I like to buy puzzles

Dowdle Puzzles

They have quite a variety of puzzles and you can pick which scene you want to do and then pick how many pieces you want.  If you want one that is not too challenging but will keep you busy, I would go with a 500 piece.  The winter scene above is only 500 pieces.

Magpies Gifts

They have some fun ones: a 1980's puzzle, one with toys we all had as kids, one with Kool Aid and Tang packs that also looks really fun.

Give your brain a little break while simultaneously exercising it like crazy.

Have a great weekend!  See you back on Monday!

Blank Space No More!

I may have quarantined harder than your average gal.  I have spent so many hours in this house now.....but you know what?  It's been good for me.  Before now, I was literally waking up, spending most of the day at work, doing a variety of things every evening and then going to sleep.  Now I have spent a lot of waking hours here.  I have learned to appreciate things about my home that I just didn't pay much attention to before.  I have discovered things I need to do better - yes, baseboards I am talking about you.  I have also found a few little areas and ways to spruce up a spot or two.  I've got several posts coming up....stay tuned.

Today, I wanted to show you our powder room. It is funny.  This room probably gets the most compliments of any room in the house.  Everyone who visits here and takes a spin through the powder room loves it.  I can say this without bragging because I didn't pick out anything in there.  The nice folks who built this house get all the credit.  We just get to enjoy it.

Here is the room

It has this pretty tile floor and the vanity created from an antique dresser.  Anyway, people like it in here and I thought I would capitalize on the one blank wall in the room.

For my birthday in May I asked for these

10 Piece Gallery Wall Frame Set

I got the white, charcoal gray, rustic gray set.  I wanted to do a gallery wall but not of photos.

I selected 10 of my favorite scriptures, worship lyrics and inspirational sayings. My resident artist created 8 of them for me, one I already had and the other I ordered.  The neat thing is the frames come with this layout.  I just used painters tape to attach it to the wall and nailed the nails in through the guide.  I then removed the guide and hung all the frames.  It ensures the frames are perfectly spaced without all the measuring and calculating.

Here are all the frames hung in place

And now when you walk into this fun little powder room, there's a little inspiration waiting for you there.....

Here's a few of them close up so you can see them a little better

I am blessed to have a built in artist here who can make these ideas I have come to life.  You could also find small photos of things you love or feel free to reach out to her if you want something of your own created.  Just let me know and I will put you in touch with her.

I am so pleased with the way this turned out.  I can't wait to have people over again and I hope they all need to powder their nose.

See you back on Friday!