Just Dreamy

Hi My Sweet Lovelies,

It's a rainy and windy day in my part of the world. Oh how I love days like these. It's like romance is in the air and you just want to stand in the rain and feel each cool drop kiss your face. As for the wind...if you close your eyes and give into its embrace it's like you could almost fly....oh so dreamy :)

I tell you what else is dreamy...this beautiful home I came across whilst looking through Country Home Ideas web site....this beauty use to be an old mattress factory. You can read about its beast to beauty transformation story here at Country Home Ideas.

Have a super duper dreamy day, Sweet Lovelies!!

All the above images are via Country Home Ideas

Thrifty Treasures

Hello Sweet Lovelies,

How was your weekend? Mine was nice and relaxing :) I tell you all one thing I can't believe it's already March! How the months are flying by ever so quickly. I wanted to be married with a baby on the way by the time I turned 40...which is next year in April...do you think it can be done...hehe...I think I need to give God my plans and see what He wants for me...oh boy, isn't that easier said than done. Gee I waffle on...sorry about that, back to the business at hand.
Well Sweet Lovelies, last Friday I had a few dollars spare so I thought I would pop into one of the thrift stores in town here. I'm so glad I did as I found two lovely china frames and a sweet little china trinket box and what was so good is that all together they were $4.oo....what a bargain! Don't you agree?

Have a super duper sweet week :)

Unfailing Love

by Max Lucado

“Love,” Paul says, “never fails” (1 Cor. 13:8 NIV).

The verb Paul uses for the word fail is used elsewhere to describe the demise of a flower as it falls to the ground, withers, and decays. It carries the meaning of death and abolishment. God’s love, says the apostle, will never fall to the ground, wither, and decay. By its nature, it is permanent. It is never abolished.

Love “will last forever” (NLT).

It “never dies” (MSG).

It “never ends” (RSV).

Love “is eternal” (TEV).

God’s love “will never come to an end” (NEB).

Love never fails.

Governments will fail, but God’s love will last. Crowns are temporary, but love is eternal. Your money will run out, but his love never will.

How could God have a love like this? No one has unfailing love. No person can love with perfection. You’re right. No person can. But God is not a person. Unlike our love, his never fails. His love is immensely different from ours.

Our love depends on the receiver of the love. Let a thousand people pass before us, and we will not feel the same about each. Our love will be regulated by their appearance, by their personalities. Even when we find a few people we like, our feelings will fluctuate. How they treat us will affect how we love them. The receiver regulates our love.

Not so with the love of God. We have no thermostatic impact on his love for us. The love of God is born from within him, not from what he finds in us. His love is uncaused and spontaneous.

Does he love us because of our goodness? Because of our kindness? Because of our great faith? No, he loves us because of his goodness, kindness, and great faith. John says it like this: “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us” (1 John 4:10 NIV).

Doesn’t this thought comfort you? God’s love does not hinge on yours. The abundance of your love does not increase his. The lack of your love does not diminish his. Your goodness does not enhance his love, nor does your weakness dilute it. What Moses said to Israel is what God says to us:

The LORD did not choose you and lavish his love on you because you were larger or greater than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations! It was simply because the LORD loves you. (Deut. 7:7–8 NLT)

God loves you simply because he has chosen to do so.

He loves you when you don’t feel lovely.

He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you. Always. No matter what.

This is his sentiment: “I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved” (Rom. 9:25 MSG).

This is his promise. “I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself” (Jer. 31:3 NLT).

From A Love Worth Giving
Max Lucado

A Place to Create In

G'day Sweet Lovelies!!

I was just looking through the Country Living web site and I came across this really gorgeous transformation.

See how this went from this...


to this....oh my golly gosh!!! wow!! wow! wow!


for more info go to Country Living. So many fantastic ideas!

Oh and look at this Craft Cabinet....wow!


to see more of this great idea go to Better Homes and Gardens.

How about this super fab Scrapbook Closet...love all the storage ideas and the pink background!!


find some more tips used for this closet at Better Homes and Gardens.

Oh to be that organized would be just heavenly. I'm still trying to get my Office/Craft Room sorted out. I wonder if I will ever get it working efficiently so I know where everything is, as well as it being a beautiful and inspiring room to work in...I believe it will happen one day :) I do know that seeing these wonderful ideas are inspiring, I also love seeing others craft rooms to get ideas. I have come across some absolutely gorgeous Craft Rooms while visiting different blogs and web sites. Take a look at a few that I got from Better Homes and Gardens, they are just so lovely. Don't you agree?

Fabric Designer's Crafts Room @ BHG

Multifunctional Crafts Space @ BHG

The Ultimate Hobby Room @ BHG

A Chic Craft Room Makeover @ BHG

I hope you all enjoyed seeing all of the inspiring Office/Craft Closets and wonderful Craft/Sewing Rooms from Country Living and Better Homes and Gardens. They all give me so many great ideas for doing my own space...hmmm maybe I should stop looking and start doing :/ hehe

Have a super sweet day, Lovelies!

Lovely Lilac

Hi there Sweet Lovelies,

So sorry that I've not been on of late, some changes have been happening and I just needed to take some time out.
How have you all been?
Have I told you all lately that I just think you are all so wonderful and so inspiring, you bless my heart you really do.



Well my Mum has been busy taking some piccies of her gorgeous Lilac room. She's so lovely, I love that she's sharing my blog with me. I do hope you enjoy seeing some of her pretties, I will take some more pics of her lilac room so you can see just how gorgeous it is...my Mum is a wonder woman at decorating and so many other things she puts her hand to.

Have a super wonderful Wednesday!!

Happy Valentines Day

Hi Sweet Lovelies,

Happy Valentines Day to you all!!

May today and every day be filled with His everlasting love.

Enough

Hi Lovelies!

Came across this song and its just gorgeous...HE is more than enough!

Thrift Shopping

G'day Lovelies!!

On Friday I went around to my local thrift stores and found some pretty little treasures. I do believe that each thing I purchased was from a different store. I got a bag of assorted lace for $2.00...bargain!! a sweet crystal salt shaker for $1...I just love this sweet little salt shaker!! a small crystal vase for 50c...you can never have too many little crystal vases..and the most expensive thing I bought was a bag with some jewelery for $5.00..it had a matching diamond heart necklace and heart earings and a pink broach...
Golly....I so enjoy thrift shopping, it makes me all happy inside :) something that would make me even happier is if I could take you all with me and make a day of it...hmmm...we may need longer than a day...sigh..it's nice to dream :)














Have a super duper fab weekend, Sweet Peoples!!!

God Thinks You're Wonderful!

God Thinks You're Wonderful!

...It may be difficult for you to believe that God knows your name...but He does.Written on His hand. Spoken by His mouth. Whispered by His lips. Your name.

You have captured the heart of God. He cannot bear to live without you.

God's dream is to make you right with Him. And the path to the cross tells us exactly how far God will go to call us back.

It is not our love for God: it is God's love for us in sending His Son to be the way. If you want to touch God's heart, use the name He loves to hear. Call Him "Father".

He thinks you're wonderful!

I have written your name on My hand. Isaiah 49:16

Excerpted from the Book, God Thinks You're Wonderful! by Max Lucado »