Monday, March 30, 2009

Before & After

Hi There Lovely Ladies!!!

Remember the little Chest of Draws?! Well they're finally finished...I know I took my sweet time, nothing like a few fears and procrastination to hold you back. I'm amazed that they're done woooooohooooo I finished the little chest of draws..and I actually like the job that was done and I would love to know what you all think since this is my first time Shabby Chicing anything.

Are you ready?????

Oh golly I hope you like it :) now I'm a little nervous...be gentle with me..hehe


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Soooooooo what do you think? Does it look ok?? Should I never pick up a paint brush again???

Pleeeeeeeasssssssssssse put me out of my misery...I can handle it...ummm no I can't...oh yes I can...constructive criticism is good for growth so let me have it :)

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Spiritual Sunday!!

Hi Lovely Ladies & Gentlemen,

What a beautiful cool and breezy day it is today filled with sunshine and birds singing their sweet songs. I do hope that you are all having a beautifully blessed weekend. What I would like to share with you all on this Spiritual Sunday, is an email I received from a friend a few years ago I thought it was just so beautiful I kept it, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did....Lets dance!

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Dancing


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I'm so thankful to be apart of Spiritual Sundays with our wonderfully sweet hostesses Charlotte and Ginger. I'd like to thank each and every one of you at Spiritual Sundays for taking the time to visit with me and I just love receiving your comments they are like kisses from heaven to my heart.

Please visit all the other wonderful people at Spiritual Sundays, but first grab a cuppa, get comfy and open your heart to be blessed.

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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Pink Saturday!!

Hi Lovely Ladies!

It's my first Pink Saturday!! hosted by Beverly at How Sweet The Sound, pop in and visit with all the other ladies that participate in Pink Saturday you'll be tickled PINK hehe :)

I'm soooooo excited because PINK is my favorite colour:)

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Showered in pinkness with my pink Bible, Teddy, Diamond, Candle and a pink Rose :)



I don't know about you but I like how the pink rose stands out against the bark :)



awwww isn't he just a sweet powder puff pink teddy...soooooooo squeazable :)



A pink diamond....a fake but still sooooo pretty..gotta love a bit of bling!!



I have to appologise because I don't know the name of this flower I'll have to ask my mum. The cluster of lots of small pink flowers is just so lovely. If you know the name please feel free to let me know I'm not good when it comes to the name of plants, if it's pretty and pink I like it!!

I hope you all enjoyed my little bit of PINKNESS.

A big PINK Thank you to Beverly, at How Sweet The Sound for letting me join in the fun of Pink Saturday. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Beverley!




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Friday, March 27, 2009

Welcome to My Friend

Hi Lovely Ladies!

I would like to introduce you to my very sweet and dear friend Evana at Varny Voo. Evana has also been bitten by the Blog Bug and I would love for you to all make her feel welcome and encourage her to blog. Evana and I have been friends for roughly around 7 or so years she has a beautiful heart and spirit and an amaizing gift of making people feel important. She is a ray of sunshine that brightens the lives of all she comes in contact with, I am so blessed to have her as my friend.

WELCOME Evana!!!! Blog baby blog!! I love ya!!

This video is dedicated to you cause I know how much you love this sweet song.

I also hope you ladies enjoy it too you can't help but smile it is just soooo adorable. Some of you may have already seen it and I'm sure you won't mind seeing it again.

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You're my Honeybunch, Sugarplum
Pumpy-umpy-umpkin, You're my Sweetie Pie
You're my Cuppycake, Gumdrop
Snoogums-Boogums, You're the Apple of my Eye
And I love you so and I want you to know
That I'll always be right here
And I love to sing sweet songs to you
Because you are so dear.

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Inspirational Quotes

Hi Lovely Ladies!

I wanted to share some Inspirational Quotes with you all. I do hope you enjoy them but most of all I hope they inspire and encourage you.
Do you have any quotes that you would like to share? I would love to read them:)

Hope you are all having a wonderful week so far and may the rest of the week be filled with His love:)



Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation
or cheer has kept people on their feet
Charles Swindoll

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it,
but because they didn't stop to enjoy it
William Feather

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend
Albert Camus

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today. Let us begin
Mother Teresa

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear
Maya Angelou

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the
young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the
striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because some day in life you will have been all these
George Washington Carver

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart
David Augsburger




The only way to have a friend is to be one
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow
Melody Beattie

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals.
Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want
Marsha Sinetar

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart
and to sing it to them when they have forgotten
Author Unknown

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows
St. Francis of Assisi

Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat
Robert Holden




Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been
Mark Twain

What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly
Lao Tsu

You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people.
Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?
Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy
Lydia M. Child

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a
smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest
compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which
have the potential to turn a life around
Leo Buscaglia

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago
Warren Buffett

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools
we use to paint the canvas of our lives
Louise Hay

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use
things, instead of using people and loving things
Author Unknown

Inspire yourself and others will be inspired.
Motivate yourself and others will be motivated.
Develop yourself and others will start to develop themselves.
Be an example first and then the world changes around you
Author Unknown




Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so?
Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live.
Before they know it, time runs out
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless
Mother Teresa

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it
William Arthur Ward

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules,
then you must forget the rules and play from your heart
Author Unknown

Shoot for the moon; even if you miss you'll land among the stars
Les Brown

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life and your relationships.
Be grateful for all the people who show up in your life
Author Unknown




All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action
James Russell Lowell

Most of today's worries are like puddles: tomorrow they will have evaporated
Author Unknown

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls,
the longer it dwells and the deeper it sinks into the mind
Samuel Coleridge

A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart
Author Unknown



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Monday, March 23, 2009

The Real Me

Hi Lovely Ladies,

I'm sorry I haven't blogged for a while and I haven't visited with you.
I've been struggling with some things and I know I'm not the only one who struggles with the way I see myself. Just in the past week I've visited with friends I hold very dear to my heart and I know that each one of these beautiful ladies don't like what they see, to me and to many others they are beautiful inside and out. I know that we aren't the only ones who don't like what we see, there are millions of women who dislike them selves and that's putting it nicely.

Below is a video clip and the song brings me to tears because it's like it was written just for me yet I believe that's how others feel who have heard it also.
I desire for my friends, for you and for myself to see ourselves as God sees us to believe Gods truth and NOT the lies of the enemy. Heal our hearts Father teach us how to love ourselves so we can love You with all that is in us. Take our broken pieces and make them whole in You. Set us free from self loathing and mutilating for allowing ourselves to die a little bit more each day instead of living and loving as You do. Help us to see through Your eyes and love ourselves as You love us. Father as we watch and listen to this song and video clip allow it to minister to our hearts let it bring healing to everywhere we hurt, set the captives free. In Jesus precious name, Amen.



Lyrics to The Real Me :
Foolish heart looks like we're here again
same old game of plastic smile
don't let anybody in
hiding my heartache, will this glass house break
how much will they take before i'm empty
do i let it show, does anybody know?
chorus:
but you see the real me
hiding in my skin, broken from within
unveil me completely
i'm loosening my grasp
there's no need to mask my frailty
cause you see the real me
painted on, life is behind a mask
self-inflicted circus clown
i'm tired of the song and dance
living a charade, always on parade
what a mess i've made of my existence
but you love me even now
and still i see somehow
but you see the real me
hiding in my skin, broken from within
unveil me completely
i'm loosening my grasp
there's no need to mask my frailty
cause you see the real me
wonderful, beautiful is what you see
when you look at me
you're turning the tattered fabric of my life into
a perfect tapestry
i just wanna be me
but you see the real me
hiding in my skin, broken from within
unveil me completely
i'm loosening my grasp
there's no need to mask my frailty
cause you see the real me
and you love me just as i am
wonderful, beautiful is what you see
when you look at me

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Monday, March 16, 2009

For Today..Mon 16th, Mar. 09




FOR TODAY (Monday the 16th of March 2009)...

Outside my window...is a beautiful warm sunny day with blue skies and birds singing their sweet songs to our Lord

I am thinking...that I need to get ready for the gym, I've been naughty and haven't been for a few weeks :)

I am thankful for...all the lovely people God has brought into my life both on the net and in real life, He has blessed me indeed :)

From the kitchen...I'm cooking porridge for breakfast, in the microwave...I know I'm bad, cooking it in a pot tastes so much better :)

I am wearing...*blushes* I'm still in my nightie, it's blue with white stars and moons :)

I am creating...at the moment I'm shabbying up a small chest of draws for a friend to give to her sister for her birthday...I'm hoping and praying it will turn out the way I want it to :)

I am going...to the gym once I've finished here and had breakfast:)

I am reading...A Hunger For Healing...this book is helping me so much :)

I am hoping...that in some way I will be a blessing to someone:)

I am hearing...the birds outside and my birdy inside chirping away plus the traffic outside :)

Around the house...at this point in time is quite messy have to clean when I get home :)

One of my favorite things...the camera my brother has lent me, I love taking photos of all the beauty that we are surrounded with each and every day :)

A few plans for the rest of the week: to attend the gym 3 days this week, to finish the little chest of draws, organize my spare room and to visit with my blog friends :)

Here is picture thought I am sharing...

These are the flowers on the tree outside my window :)

Please stop by and visit with The Simple Womans Daybook you can participate also or you can read the ponderings of others, either way I'm sure you'll be blessed :)

Thank you so much for visiting with me, I hope you have a beautiful day :)

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Spiritual Sundays!!

Hello Lovely Ladies and any Gentlemen!!

I do hope you're all having a wonderful weekend :)
I'd like to share a YouTube video with you all this Spritual Sunday, I came across this video quite a while ago and it bought me to tears. I have and still do struggle with receiving Gods love for me, I know this is changing the more I let Him in.

I pray that it blesses each and everyone of you who watch and listen to it.

I would like to thank Charlotte & Ginger for hosting Spiritual Sundays and for all you Beautiful Ladies for making me feel so welcome with your encouraging comments, I am truely blessed to be apart of Spiritual Sundays and to meet you all, I appreciate you taking the time to visit and encourage me with your comments.

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Please visit Spiritual Sundays, but first grab a cuppa, get comfy and open your heart to be blessed.

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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Dump Shopping

Hi Lovely Ladies!!

Good golly gosh I'm just about jumping out of my skin with excitement to show you my treasures.
It's Saturday here in Aussie Land and this morning Mum and I went to the dump shop to see what we might find. Well, they say one mans trash is another mans treasure, this is soooooooooooooo true because I feel like I have found the sweetest treasure and yet people seen these lovelies as rubbish. I have always been shocked by what people throw away but never mind that, back to what is important and that is showing you my TREASURE!!!

Now I do know that some of you may not see it in the same light as I do and that's ok we all have different tastes :) I just want to share what has tickled me happy today :)



My Treasure!!!!!! yippppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeee



Mum fell in love with the cross-stitch which is done so beautifully I'm sure many hours went into this beautiful piece. The glass in the frame is a non reflective glass and Mum said that it's quite a bit dearer than normal glass...so that's a bonus :)



This little plate caught my eye, it's quite worn but still pretty. Stamped on the back of it is a crown, SAJI, made in Japan, fine china and ICP-10936.



I thought this mirror was cute so I decided it would be coming home to live at my place :)



But this is what made me do back flips (please know that I didn't actually do back flips)...hehe now that would be funny..hmmm more like impossible...anyway...moving right along....I know it's not pink...golly I think I may have fainted if it was pink and even though it's not pink I still think the green is beautiful..it's a really pretty green. In the set is one large plate, one bread & butter plate, four saucers and one beautiful tea cup. It's not in the best condition there's chips and cracks but I love it all the same. Stamped on the back is MYOTT {under myott is like a coat of arms}, Staffordshire England, Florentine and then numbers stamped in gold 4597. I'll have to google all this to see what it all means, my sweet Mum says that it's a good brand. Either way I'm not bothered because I think it's gorgeous. I have been blessed with these treasures.

I hope you all liked my little show & tell, I've enjoyed sharing my finds with you all and I'm having such a blast taking the pics of everything as well. Don't you just LOVE photography!?

Oh! I almost forgot to tell you that all of this cost $10 which I thought was just super :)
I'd love to hear(read) your thoughts on my treasures or just stop and say hi :)

Have a fabulous weekend ladies!!

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

It's Raining

Hi there Lovely Ladies!!

It's an overcast and rainy day here in my part of Aussie Land and I LOVE these kind of days, like I told my sweet friend Julie at Shabbywears rainy days are romantic to me, I don't know why they just are.

I love to just stand in the rain and feel its cool kisses as each rain drop hits my face. *sighs dreamily*

Anyway enough of my rambling :D I wanted to show you some pics I took of plants and things around and near my place. The windmill and leaky guttering belongs to my neighbour who is an absolute sweetheart. I am very blessed to live where I do because I have fantastic neighbours who are also my friends as well as apart of my church family. I live in a duplex(apartment) and my neighbours relatives own the duplex and the rent is very affordable the lowest I believe in town. So God has indeed blessed me because I'm surrounded by these beautiful women of God.

I hope you enjoy the picks and have a super duper fabulicious day :)









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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Award!!!


Look at what this sweet & lovely lady at Femininity Revisited blessed me with. I am so thankful to you for your beautiful giving heart. Big hugs to you my precious blog sista. Please visit her fabulous blog I know you will be blessed.

I'm not exactly sure as to what I'm suppose to do so I hope what I do do is ok :)

The rule is that I am supposed to pass this award on to seven Kreativ Bloggers who you believe have creative and lovely blogs.

If I had my way I would be giving every blogger out there this award because you all are deserving, your blogs inspire and encourage they get your creative juices flowing and I thank you all for sharing your hearts & homes :)



Julie at Shabbywears
Melissa at Healed By His Love
Cindy at Cottage Remnant
Debbie at Glory, Feathers, Starlight and Roses
Susie at Bienvenue
M ^..^ at Tales From An O.C. Cottage
Sandra at Romantique Inspirations



Thank you all for blessing me each and everyday with the beauty of YOU!!

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