New Store with AWESOME designers!

A few months ago, I answered a CT call for a new designer named Jenny K. I loved her designs immediately. She picked me, and I was so excited, she was my 2nd CT! I have come to know Jenny and she is so fun and wants to do the best job! She is a grateful lady and always there to praise and encourage! I want to encourage her today...for her tomorrow!

She is opening a store! Sunflower Scrap. Her very own! Jenny has been so busy, zen carting, and creating the site it has been crazy for her. But still she keeps up with her CT, and keeps creating new things! I am honored to be on her CT. One of the great perks being a CT for a store owner, is being able to work with a collab, which is a collaboration of all the designers in the store... So you get one huge kit with different takes on a theme and colors. I know you will love this collab, and it is FREE with a purchase in Jenny's store tomorrow: I did the layout in the previous post, give me Your eyes. It is a HUGE kit, and you will be creating with this tons of layouts...I plan on doing another one this afternoon!

Jenny! You are going to do AWESOME! Thank you for taking a chance on me in your CT!

Thanks for reading!
Anne

Never lose your joy!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah

I had let the day get away from me...forgetting why I do things. Then I went and got the kids from school, swung by the church to see my ever laboring hubby and came home to the sounds I love, kids boppin' around, doorbell ringing, and now drills being drilled by boys with extra wood to create with!


I had a relaxed day planned, of scrapping. I did a layout that I loved...I mean I smiled and remembered taking the picture. The people in the photo are our first convert to Jesus Christ here in Yuba City...it hasn' t been easy peasy, but she is making it...and I love her!


I got it all done, and remembered that it had to have stars and the word dream..that was all wrong. Growl...challenges are to inspire not be regulators....I wanted to quit the race, admit the whole thing is dumb. But I hate to quit anything...I have 4 challenges left....so I will complete the race with my dear partner.


I am supposed to guest CT next month, but am sending an email today that I have to decline the invitation. That is the right thing to do.

Here is the layout from my heart....I call it "give me Your eyes"...as I love that song, and it is my cry to have a heavenly vision for the lost and the potential that God has for each one I speak too. Ahhhhhhhhh....what a nice feeling, refocus...and be still!

credits are fun, because I can't tell you yet, but I wll soon, you so want this kit, it is a collab from a brand new store...with some designers that are going to blow the doors of the scrapping world right open! They are so good, and this kit is so HUGE!

Thanks for reading!
Anne

Never lose your joy!

Monday-26th PK is a good thing!

Doing your homework at the church? Yep, Gman is a PK! It is a good thing in our home...and when we first told the kids that Dad was going to preach...Anna yelled, "oh yeah, I'm gonna be a PK!" We have good examples before us, that the kids have seen first hand. Malah and David, now married with their own little one, that could be a PK too! My Pastor's wife Stephanie; whose parents were long time missionaries in the Philipines. Her example and stories of being a PK are set in stone in my kids memories. I am so thankful for the gratitude of these that have gone before us. Although Monday was work all day at church, pick up the kids at school, each pop a bag of popcorn, and back to the church. Life is still life...homework has to get done, but how many other kids are helping make a beauty salon into a church building after school?

The south wall had drawers attached to it with these huge bolts that Tony had tried to unscrew out. No deal, they are in this heavy duty cement rock wall. The boys worked on loosening them for long time. I went over and hit one a few times back and forth and it broke off! Perfectly in the wall...a patch job of mud and we would be fine...but there were 5 more...I had only done one that Gman had loosened. So while G finished his math and English, Eric went to work...he got the rest out! He used channel locks to bend them back and forth after he got them warm from the hammering of back and forth...I am telling you, this boy is smart, smart, smart!
You can see the grimace on his face. That is Dad behind him, doing the taping so we can paint over that very magenta wall!

The girls had no homework and were antsy to get painting...Tony gave me that look and said, "The twins are gonna paint?" I know he was remembering a year ago in New Mexico, I had let them paint a wall and it was a disaster..they couldn't follow directions, flipped the brush everywhere and I almost killed them. (okay I didn't almost kill them, exageratting here, but my patience level was lower than...ha ha). I reassured them, that they had grown and could do this...I made a face of oh I so hope they have and continued to show the girls what to do. They washed the wall first and you could tell that they remembered the last time they were given the chance to paint too...because they were following my directions to the T! I showed them how to tape the edges, and put up the drop cloth. Then poured a plastic cup or paint for each of them... shoes must come off, as Absolutely had walked thru the paint on our last adventure of "mom shows twins how to paint". So I forbade them to walk off drop cloth til I had inspected. They ripped off their shoes and socks...oh the eagerness! The did a marvelous job, Anna was so maticulous, and Abby, well she got bored thru it..and just wanted to go look in the dumpster with the boys...(that is another story)

So they have all had a go at doing

something in the church, I go into mom mode, and check Gman's homework...trying not to growl...although G doesn't quake in fear anymore at my growly...he is fearless as I draw circles around all the ones he got wrong...we work thru the math...I do fine and actually know what I am saying...Then English...for crying out loud...I have to double check with Eric to make sure I remember the rules for quotations, parenthesis and capitals in titles...English and Spelling are not my stongest...ha ha...I don't even do spell check well...

Don't you just love that apron? It is the one my kidlets got me for Christmas!
Monday' s 365 pics is actually 5 pics, because it was that kind of day....and I like the rule book to this challenge...there isn't one!

Sunday-Our people see it, the 25 Jan 2009

I used this picture because I love how little Christopher is watching his Pastor. He loves him! Tony is fixing a ceiling tile. You can also see the platform is built and is so sturdy! Everyone was so excited to see their church...Next Sunday our first service in our building...it just does something for the congregation!

Saturday 24th-big day

This is Saturday at the church to be building. Dan came from Oroville at 9am and the boys worked all day, til almost 6 that evening! The wall went up, the door opening went in, the platform was built! I wanted to put it all in today, to share with my friends who sent us here! The awesome church of Alamogordo!!
The Platform goes up...there is Gman...holding the wood. Eric is going to help! Dan has a lot of patience! Tony is directing...no, he is helping! Anna made a statement, "This is so cool to see how the church is made, we get to see it all" Doesn't that just sum up pioneering? You get to see it all!

See the hole in the pink wall? Yeah Dan! See the new wall? Yeah Dan! That is Dan, the body going thru the new opening! The fan on the ceiling is also moved back...Yeah my honey! The black sinks are gone now, and the lovely plumbing is left! It will all be hidden behind a curtain....yeah Target! It is actually starting to look like a church! Yeah God! The kids love seeing it happen...

Eric got into helping...he has really stepped into a new realm since we got here. He is our head usher, and has one under him. Gman...who sometimes forgets that the offering bowl is not a hat or a baton that should be twirled. Needless to say, the sound of the bowl being dropped happens rather frequently. So Eric gives G the look (I think he learned it from me...maybe, my honey does a good one too).

Eric loves to help and he really does help. He fixed the bathroom door, it wouldn't lock, he took it apart and jimmied the thing, and now it wooks just fine!

My honey, officially the Pastor of a church with a building now! On the phone! He does more leg work on that phone...You can see how much weight he has lost...he has a this new work out program. It's called working minimum wage as a stocker for Target! tee hee...he is toting around bags of dogfood and movin' stuff up and down. Bending and lifting, it is like having a gym membership for free! I tell your our life has really changed! See the sky? We have had rain alot....it is wet and cold and damp...I am not complaining here, just stating fact.

This is the official picture of the day, because my daughter Absolutely got into the camera! ha ha...I usually give one of them the camera now, to get a different perspective and me in the pics! Abs is taking a picture of herself in one of the many mirrors still left from the beauty shop at our new church building...behind her is the reflection of our front door. It is backwards and plays a bit with my head...you can see our Mazda minivans front end parked.

Friday 23 January 2009

I am doin' a twice a week upload...but journalling the pics is very important to me...

Our kids hadn't seen the inside of the church yet. We went the first time and although they were with us...the landlady and the prior tenant were there and having 4 additional bodies looking around didn't seem good. ha ha... so they sat in the van and waited! Precious kids!

This is them (3 of 'em, I don't know where Gman is ) beginning their investigation, lead by my honey!

Right where Tony is will soon be a wall, those black squares are sinks (hair washing kind) come out and the platform will be there. See the magenta wall to the left? There will be a cut out door way there to get back to bathrooms all the way forward or turn left and thru another door to the other side of building. That is where the Sunday School room, Nursery and Ladies bathroom will be! The tile (lino) is in great shape! The trim on bottom is just like the trim in Alamogordo Church..woo woo! And the carpet for the platform is the industry blue...like in Alamo too...no red zone at the altar thought...tee hee!

The back wall (the brown one with white square) will have a curtain across it...the plumbing is inside the wall! Unable to cap off at this point, will turn it so that we can put the deep sink (in the 3rd bathroom) on the back side of that wall. (Phase III or remodel)! ha ha

Until further notice!

Just to let you know DST is having some major problems...well to me in the gallery! The blank pics you see were linked to the pics I have there...so please be patient, and they will figure it out..I hope, and the pics will be back...

Thanks for reading!
Anne

Never lose your joy!