Spring Portraits of Our Blessings!

It's a Wonderful Life...

What a wonderful week... our dear friends from TX came for a visit.  They just left a few minutes ago.  We've been friends for eleven years now.  Talking, sewing, talking, playing, eating, talking, worshiping the Lord together, talking, shopping .... JOY!

We are so blessed!  Lots of pics coming soon.

Note:  Rachel isn't on Facebook so I told her I would try to post all my little 'odds and ends and bits' on here as well as FB.  ;)

While they were here they hosted a very worshipful and encouraging concert for us.  Here is a sneak peek of what we enjoyed!

 

30 Day Bible Reading Plan

I was recently introduced to a blog post where the author read the entire Bible through in 30 days.  It was intriguing to me so I started looking for a plan online.  I could not find one soo I developed this one.  It's not perfect but it's based on reading some from each of the ten divisions of the Bible daily:  Law, History, Poetry, Major Prophets, Minor Prophets, Gospels, Church History, Paul's Epistles, General Epistles, and Prophecy.  I figured up the pages per division, divided by 30 and rounded to the nearest chapter.  I'm excited to jump in with this and wanted to share the idea with you.  I'm expecting it to take around two hours a day.  I don't know about you but I know that if I am honest with myself I know I "waste" that much time each day on worthless pursuits.  I want to redeem the time!

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If you can not get this to enlarge and print, just send me an email and I'll shoot the Word Document over to you. 

MaryVance... a chip off the old block... eerrrr... fat quarter?

 Hard at work...

 This is her entry for the Marianna Arts Festival contest.

 Didn't she do a great job!!!

And a close up of the fabrics and machine quilting.  The pattern is a Disappearing Nine Patch.  I am so proud of her!

Girls Room Makeover

I couldn't find pics here of the girls new room... so I took some today!

Molly is having a Photo Fundraiser!

Molly's dear friend, Rachel, has had a love for Israel and her people since her early teen years. She even takes Hebrew lessons, she is very passionate about Israel. God has opened the door for her to go on a trip this summer with Teen Missions to Israel Molly wants to help Rachel with the costs so she is having a fundraiser for Rachel.

The following photos will be printed in 8x10 and mailed to you. The cost is $10. All proceeds (beyond the cost of printing and shipping) will go to Rachel's Israel Trip Fund. Thanks for looking.  If you'd like one, just post here or email me

Introducing.... Ivy Lynn

Our newest precious "grandbaby"

Ivy Lynn

March 2, 2012

7 lb 12 oz

20.5 in

Jennifer was blessed with a wonderful, natural birth.  We are so thankful to the Lord for His many blessings!

Free GiveAways!

The fabulous, sweet and talented Heidi at Daddy's Little Princess is having a whole week of giveaways!
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She also includes this fabulous "P.S."
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2012.... Already?

Remember those UFOs from October?  Well, all were finished except one.  The children's bathroom is still a work-in-progress ;)
Tony painted the exterior doors, here's the back door, they are all the same color.

He also repainted the hallway.  This color looks like a Wendy's Frosty... yum!  This color will eventually cover all the living room walls also.  It's hard to take hallway pictures!  We have some neat plans for hanging photos, etc.. in the hallway.  Stay tuned.

Here you can see the original color (which is still in the living room).  A medium gold on the walls and a deeper gold trim.  I am so sick of this color... lol.  All of the trim and doors are white/will be white also.  The white trim just makes the Frosty color just POP!

The dining room also had the same golden paint with this green accent wall.  We kept the green but the other three walls are Frosty.

 These are the window treatments from our bedroom.  They just matched so nicely in here that we moved them.  We also removed our bed cover (duvet) and put a cream-based quilt on our bed.  Along with cream curtains our room now looks bright and airy.  What?  You want a picture of that?  lol

I want to do a photo collage on this wall along with a scripture verse.

This photo, unhung as of today, has an open Bible out in the field with the verse "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet..."  I'll hang it today and post a new pic.

BACK WITH NEW PICS... what do you think?  Is the frame too high?

The children's bathroom, previously a 'Rubber Ducky' yellow and blue themed room, is now orange with a fun elephant print shower curtain.  The walls need a second coat, I need fabric for a curtain for the window and we need to overhaul the vanity... that may be a while.  Just use your imagination.  LOL

BACK WITH PICS:   Here's the shower curtain that we are designing around.  Nehemiah LOVES Elephants, as did Joseph when he was a wee lad.

 This blue is the shower/tub.  Pretty... lol  Can you say "70s house" with me?

 Friends gave us this CUTE corner cabinet!  Don't you just Love it?! 

 This... this is the vanity that needs help.  LOL  We'd love to replace it but it's not a standard size.  We'd love to have two sinks there... So the long-range plan is to refinish the base and build a new top with two sinks.  The short-range plan is just to paint it brown and wait for the time and money to redo the top of it.  The missing drawer was destroyed by visitors years ago.  We've tried and tried to repair the drawer to no avail.  We are going to just remove all the drawers and leave a large opening.  Into that will slice a wicker laundry basket for towel laundry. 

Above the vanity/below the mirror you can see the previous wall color of yellow.  (What was I thinking with all the yellow?  I've never even LIKED yellow!  LOL)  Goodbye Yellow!  woohoo!!!

October is officially "Finish Unfinished Projects" Month

here at the Lewis home.  Tony painted and repainted our exterior doors -- at least the back porch and front porch doors.  The downstairs doors were today's project but the rain put a stop to that.  So instead he is painting trim and doors in the hallway :) 

I have a "Honey Do" list for him!  :)

I'm so glad to get these things finished up and will post pictures as we go!