Project In progress

Hi Ladies, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

I thought I would post some pics of the project my friend gave me to shabby chic.




I'm in the progress of scraping and sanding as there are several layers of thick yucky paint. I don't know if I'm doing this right but so far so good.

I would love any advice so please feel free :) I must admit I'm having so much fun and I can't wait to see the end product.

Thanks for inspiring me!!!

Thank You for Inspiring Me

I was chatting to a friend on Tuesday about my love for shabby chic and how I can't wait to shabby chic my place and my furniture. I told her about all you wonderfully creative ladies and how your blogs inspire me to get back into doing the things that I love to do and to try new things also.
As a result by the end of our chat I was given a job to do, a job I have never done before and I'm scared and excited but more excited than scared :)
My sweet friend has a little chest of drawers that she would like me to shabby chic, it will be a birthday gift for her sister...sometimes I cry, cause it just blesses me so much the confidence that my darling hearted friend has in me...I wish I had her confidence...one thing I do know is that with a lot of prayer and my Fathers hand guiding me this job will be done with buckets of love.

So ladies stay tuned I will post pics of before, during and after, please say a little prayer for me I reckon I'm gonna need it! Oh and any advice or tips on how to paint shabby chic would be a blessing also :)

I also want to thank you all so much, you have no idea how much you have all helped me. I know God has bought me to the blogging world for a reason and that was to stir up the gifts I had put back on the shelf. You ladies are so gifted and I appreciate you sharing your gifts to inspire, encourage and uplift others. I pray that God blesses you all, may you be drenched in His love each and everyday. You are His precious princesses chosen by Him and loved with an everlasting love.

Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!

Unwrapping The Rose

When I'm out watering the garden or see a rose bush I'm drawn to it, I just want to breath in that enticing perfume. I can get lost in its intoxicating fragrance, I take in its scent until it has no scent left. lol....I know, but what can I say, I love beautiful perfumes and know I'm not the only one. In the past I followed a man around the store, because of his cologne, it was just so beautiful. I often spend time at the perfume counters breathing in all the absolutely yummy fragrances and if someone smells nice I tell them. Fragrance can either draw you in and make you want more or it can repel you where you can't get away from it quick enough and then there's no perfume at all so you just walk on by and never notice it. Have you ever gone to smell a beautiful bunch of roses and there's no perfume? I don't know about you, but I feel so disappointed and ripped off when I smell a rose without any perfume.

I was talking to my mum about it and said, oh wow! that would make a great sermon. lol...I know that it has been preached from many a pulpit, but I'm starting to get to know God, even though I have know of Him pretty much all my life and then gave Him my heart 6 or so years ago, I was not quite ready to open the gift of Him. God has been doing so many beautiful things and healing so much in my life, I'm getting to really know the Father Heart of God, He is not who I thought He was. My perception of God was very distorted, so when He gives me things like the scent of a rose, I start to see how it can be used in my relationship with Him, I see it as unwrapping another gift instead of leaving on the shelf in case it wasn't really meant for me.

I have begun to unwrapped the rose and I desire to have a fragrance that lingers and draws people to come to Christ a fragrance that you can smell even before you see who or what emits that perfume. I want to live a life where His loves flows through me so that I will leave a sweet smelling fragrance on the world.









For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which exhales] unto God, [discernible alike] among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing:
2 Corinthians 2:15
(AMP)



Father how absolutely beautiful you are, I am amazed at how you love me and teach me, nothing is wasted with You Lord. My Sweet Saviour I pray that I may have a spirit that is thirsty for what You want me to drink in. Lord help me to soak in Your fragrance as I spend time in Your presence, I want to emit Your exquisite fragrance so that others will be drawn to knowing You and Your everlasting love, Lord to not only be a sweet smelling aroma for You but to You. Father there's so much beauty on this earth and it's all by Your words that it exists, how awesome You are, I don't ever want to take all You have done for granted. Oh Lord God, I thank You for the beauty of the rose and its gorgeous perfume. Father remind me that each time I stop and smell the roses that there is no other fragrance that compares to the fragrance of Your love.
In Your Precious Name
Amen

My Precious Lily

I want to introduce you all to one of my precious gifts from God.

Her name is Lily, and she has been an important part of my life for nearly 2 and a half years. She makes me smile and laugh on days when I have been so low that I had nearly forgotten how to laugh. I know God blessed me with her because He uses her so much to help me, encourage me and to teach me about unconditional love.


Here she is cuddlin' with Pooh Bear, he's been with her right from the start and his still going strong, she loves her Pooh bear.



Lily gives the best hugs, and we all need them :)

I really appreciate you taking the time to stop by and meet my little darlin'

May you all be showered in His kisses from heaven :)

Love Melly:)

Medicine Cabinet Love ;)

Hi Beautiful Ladies!!

I wanted to share with you something that I just loved even before I saw it. When my wonderful Mum came to visit a couple of days ago she said how Dad had been shopping at the dump again and bought home a small medicine cabinet and she promptly said to Dad that Lissa (that's me) would love that!! And my dear Dad said, well it's hers then! How blessed am I to have such thoughtful parents, Mum said that it didn't have any cupboard knobs but that was ok I would get some for it so she would bought it over the next time she visited. Well you can just imaging my heart was doing backflips at the thought of it..hehe :)

So here it is...



I don't have the knobs for it but I can just imagine the small glass cupboard knobs on it I think they would look just delicious!!



It needs stuff done to it but I was just so excited I had to find a place for it like it had always been apart of my home.
(I'm just getting started with the Shabby Chic look and I'm finding the kitchen hard, I don't know why, I just am).
I placed my sweet medi cabi on my kitchen bench and went about decorating and to be quite honest I had never thought about putting a lamp in my kitchen before until I have seen it done here...you ladies are such an inspiration...thank you!! Hmmm not sure about what I have with it but never mind I can change that until I have just the right look, what do you all think?? I definately need to find something to hide the power switch :D



I hope you all have a lovely weekend :)

Gods love and blessings to you all :)

Love Melly :)

Happy Valentines Day

I was just sitting here thinking how much Valentines Day use to upset me...lol...silly I know but it amaizes me at what God has done in my life and sometimes I don't even notice until I stop.

I'm 37 soon to be 38 and never been married, engaged a few times but I just new in my heart that they weren't "The One" plus I had a little help from God..ok a lot of help from God. It has been my hearts desire ever since I was little to be married and have children. I can remember that it was my main focus for so long that I got lost and I was just so down and I didn't want to give it to God I didn't want to surrender my hearts desire out of fear that it wasn't Gods will for me. I didn't realize at the time that my desire was an idol, don't get me wrong I wanted God to be my all and still do I just didn't want to let go of something I ached for. I had to make a choice and I chose God and I'm still on a bit of a rocky journey with Him but I do know deep in my heart that I want Him above all else it just takes a bit for me to hand it over and trust that He only wants the best for me and the best I think is good enough does not even come close to His best. I still have the desire to be married and have children and I believe that desire is from God it just couldn't be my god.

It's Valentines Day tomorrow and even though it would be nice to spend it with the man God has chosen for me, I will be spending it with my First Love, my Sweet Jesus! And for that I am so thankful because NO one has ever and never will love me as He does. I know He has beautiful plan for my life and I will be patient even though sometimes I get a little bit impatient.

I checked the mail box, no secret admirers...sigh....hehe :)

Be blessed ladies and have a Happy Valentines Day!!!!

YAY!!!!! I can now receive comments!!!!

Talk about having a lesson in patients..hehe..after lots of fiddling and playing around I can now recieve comments, I had to revert back to the Classic Template which means I can't add the things I want to on the side panel buit I'm sure with God on my side He will help me figure out away :)I'm just so tickled that I can receive comments wooooooohooooooo so if any of you lovely ladies would like to leave a comment that would just be the icing on the cake...so to speak hmmm good on ya me...now I have a craving for cake :D



What I do want to say is a MEGA BIG THANK YOU to JULIE!!!! You are wonderdful!!
Julie went out of her way to help me to try and figure out why I couldn't receive comments and the only way to let me know was by writing on her own blog, I am blessed to have the sweet and lovely Julie as my first blogger buddy!! I appreciate all your help but more importantly the beauty of your friendship!



Have a super day everyone!!

Love Melly :)

pssst...don't forget to leave a comment *smiles*

Trunks, trunks & more trunks!

On Monday my garage got a little smaller.

My Mum had been storing a few trunks at a friends because Dad is a bit of a hoarder ( bless his heart) so there is NO room for her trunks at their home. The place of storage had to change and I offered to have the trunks at my place. LOL...I didn't realise just how many there was until we packed then unpacked and stacked them up out of the way in the garage.



I think they're lovely, what do you think?
Mums not sure what she's going to do with them as she has so many other projects to do at home. Number 1 project is to get rid of any unwanted junk so there is room to move...poor Dad. :)



Anyway I better head to bed I didn't realise what the time was I have been having so much fun looking at other blogs, I'm just gob smacked by all the talent that you beautiful women have.
So inspiring!!!

Take Care of you!

A BIG Thank You

To Julie at Shabbywears & Melissa at Healed By His Love, I would like to say Thank you!!! Your thoughtfulness and caring really brightened my day.

Have a super duper wonderful week filled with our Fathers beauty :)

God bless you!!

Melly :)

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

Blogging

I'm really unsure as to how all this works but I guess I'll figure it out :)

I just love the blogs I've come across they are so beautiful and inspiring, so many very gifted ladies. It's wonderful to be able to share in their experiences.

Have a super wonderful weekend :)

God love & blessing to you!

Melly:)

A New Begining

Firstly I would like to say, hello!!!!

I don't know how I'm going to go at blogging but I'm going to at least give it a try :) so please be gentle with me. Golly this is harder than I thought!!

Ok..calm yourself Melissa...I guess I can start with how I came to be here in the first place...I've discovered that I love Shabby Chic and I would google images and they would lead me to people whom also love Shabby Chic and their blogs and it just went from there. Some of these creative ladies are also christians and reading there blogs was just so wonderful and inspiring. So a BIG thank you to all those ladies once I work out how to add you or what you do to add as the favorite blog places to visit are I will :) Oh I do hope I'm not confusing anyone, cause I tend to confuse myself..hehe. I'm on a journey to discover all God has created me to be. I'm learning about the beautiful Father heart of God and His love for me. This is taking time because of me and my hang ups...thank goodness God is patient :) I'm a bit of a dreamer and a hopeful romantic....notice I said..hopeful NOT hopeless..hehe trying to be positive with what I speak :) anyway getting back to what I was saying..hmmm what was I saying?!? sorry!! I use to try and see the beauty in everything....but of the past months I have been no good mentally, physically, emotionally & spiritually and I was losing me I was just so confused but...don't ya just love buts?! In that pit God was with me even if I didn't think He was or even didn't want Him to be, He was there!!!

I know that with His help...and yes the penny has dropped...I can not do life without Him. I want to see the world and everyone and everything in it including myself through His eyes. I don't want to go through life I want to live it!!! I want to take in the beauty of all He has created, each an everyday. I want to unwrap the gifts God has given me and start using them to bring Him glory.
One of those gifts is decorating. I have always wanted my home to be a place where people can come and feel peace and love...there was NO peace or love in my place it was a place of clutter and chaos and no love....but!!!!
That is changing, thank You Father!!

Anyway before you all fall asleep I better wrap this up, and thank you soooooo much for taking the time to stop by. I do hope & pray that God will use me in any way possible to bless you :)

Take Care & thank you for inspiring and blessing me.
May Gods love transform your life.
Love Melissa :)