Happy Mother's Day!

This is a great Mother's Day song I thought I'd share with you! Tell your mom you love her.

Turn Old Into New

Do you have any shirts that are too small or too big for you? Maybe you have a shirt that you think you will never wear. Well, here's a solution...turn the old into new. All you need to do is use your imagination then cut it up, tie knots, and try it on. It's that simple!

In the end you may say "I am never wearing this", and throw it out or pass it on to a friend, but it's always fun to mess around and laugh at a new creation! (Make sure it is OK with a parent before you customize a shirt.)

The place God calls us...

"The place God calls us to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."  - Frederick Beuchner

Kisses from Katie

The book Kisses from Katie is an auto biography about a girl named Katie Davis. Katie was an eighteen-year-old Jesus lover who had been planning to go to college. Like most other popular Tennessee girls she also wanted to get married to her high school sweet heart and have a dream life. Why in the world did she choose to move to Uganda--a place with starving and diseased people who live in 4x4, cardboard boxes?

Not all Ugandan people’s life styles were like this, but most of them were, and that is why Katie wanted to go. She loved these people; she wanted to bandage their wounded feet, give them a clean place to stay, and feed them, even if it was the same food every day. Katie most importantly wanted to show them what love was. How could Ugandans know the love Jesus had, and still has for them, if the only love these people knew was the love that left them the day they were born though? Katie would show them.

Katie was so courageous to leave her home in the states so she could serve God even though she was only eighteen. She did so much in such a short amount of time. It is amazing to read how God worked in her life and other’s. I definitely suggest this book for teenage and adult girls to read.

Cute, Easy, Cheap Picture Frame

I had a specific picture frame in mind for a couple of my pictures, but I didn't want to spend a lot of money on it, so my mom and I came up with something very cute. You will need 3 $.95 frames, about 2 yards of ribbon, fake flower petals, sequins, craft glue, a hot glue gun with glue, and you might need a friend to help you.

Put hot glue on one side of the frame at a time and have a friend quickly put the ribbon on because hot glue dries fast. Do this on each side, then tie a big bow at the top of the frames. Use the craft glue to attach the fake flower petals to each other and the frame. Also attach the sequins. Let the project dry.

There you have it- a cute, cheap, and easy (if you have a friend's help) craft.

Valentine's Day

Most people celebrate Valentine's Day as a day of love. Have you ever noticed though, that some calendars say "St. Valentine's Day"? Do you wonder why the "St." part is in there? Well, a long time ago people had a celebration for the Roman god of love. (As we Christians know, the other gods were and are not real.) The Christians could not take part in this holiday though, and they didn't want to miss out on the fun. So, Christians decided to celebrate something different, but on the same day. The Christians would celebrate the death of two martyrs both named Valentine, one being a Saint. Martyrs are people that are killed because they love Christ and would rather have their life taken then deny Christ.
This Valentine's Day, and the rest, let's remember the martyrs, and pray for the families who have lost loved ones because they were killed for their faith. I don't mean you shouldn't celebrate Valentine's day like everyone else. It is fun getting chocolate, teddy bears, and cards, isn't it?
I sure hope you are willing to die for your faith if you ever have to.

God Provides!

For the past couple of weeks I have been looking for some some dressy boots, but everything I found was out of our price range.  (My mom said that I couldn't spend more on my boots than she spent on hers!)  Last weekend we were on our way home from visiting family, and we stopped at a big strip mall, but we still couldn't find anything in our price range.

While I was pitying myself we were walking to Claire's, and my mom kept saying, "God will provide!" I knew she was right, but still found myself feeling a little hopeless. As we were walking into Claire's my eye caught a rack of boots. I walked over to the rack and hanging there were some perfect black scrunchy what I like to call pirate boots. I was a little afraid to look at the price tag, but when I flipped the tag open there were the numbers $28.00. I was happy and excited. I raced to my mom and said, "I found the boots! I found the boots! I could have gotten them for $48.00, but now I can get them for $28.00." After I got the boots I kept thinking God will provide, and God bless Claire's!