It has been a great blog hop with had with Coffee Lovers Blog Hop hosted by Amy Tsuruta! I wanna thank you for all of you who visited and left me sweet comments! All of you have made my day 🙂
And I offered a little blog candy for one lucky winner… The winner is….
Congratulations, Marla H.! I have sent you an email 🙂
Have a wonderful day!
Last day of school day in 2014. She was so excited for this Christmas break but also sad to find out that she would not go to school on Monday. She thought the Christmas break was only Saturday and Sunday. She loves school A LOT, we can tell 🙂
She came home early from school. Handed me her backpack as usual. I opened it and found some papers from her teacher. An announcement, colored activity pages, and this letter she wrote.
A letter to Jesus.
She wrote a letter to Jesus.
For her this is not just a piece of paper she wrote. For her, this is what’s in her heart and want to share it with her Jesus.
Reading her letter not only bless me, but also comfort my heart knowing that she knows from whom all her blessings come. She started her letter with a thanksgiving…
This is also a reminder to all of us to see meaning of Christmas.
Do we thank God for what he has done in our lives in the past year?
I am blessed to see how God has been working in my daughter’s heart and life.
I am thankful for the directions, wisdom, and understanding He gives to my daughter to know Him and to love Him.
God is with us.
Emmanuel.
There are many ways you can decorate or dress up a plain paper gift bag. And today I am sharing my project at Stuck On U Sketches, Die Cut Challenge – Anything Christmas. Check out the project there and how I created this gift bag.
You still have time to come and play along with us this week! Link up your projects here to share with us! I am looking forward to see them! Have a Merry Christmas!
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9 days ’till Christmas! Can you believe that? I am a little behind with sending Christmas cards this year… but almost finish today! 😀 A lot of writing for sure, but my oldest is helping with writing cards this year, that is fun 🙂  Making Christmas cards are super fun for us. And today, I would love to share a card I made to play along with Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge, Candy Cane.
I am inspired by the Candy canes and wreath. I used couple retired products from CTMH for this card. Oldie but still goodie 🙂
For the base layers, I used Sparkle and Shine paper packet that one side of the pattern is candy cane and the other is polkadots. I cut 2 sizes of squares, 5.25″ (candy cane side) and 4.75″ (polkadots side) for base the layers. Then on a watercolor paper (3.25″ x 3.25″), I stamped the wreath branch with Chocolate exclusive ink pad and sprayed with some water. And then I stamped the berry dots with Ruby exclusive ink pad and sprayed with some water, for some watercolor effect. With the same technique, I stamped the sentiment in the middle of the wreath with Olive exclusive ink pad.
I added some natural baker’s twine and some pearl adhesive gems on it. Then added it on the card using 3D foam adhesive. I love how the watercolor effect using dye inks turned out 🙂
Thanks for stopping by today! Have a merry December!
The Bakumpai are a group of Dayak people who speak the Bakumpai language and call themselves the Bakumpai. The majority follow the Islamic religion and have traditions and language which are different than those of the Banjar people. However, there are many similarities between the Bakumpai and the Dayak ethnic groups around them. In spite of this, they choose to identify themselves as different from the Dayak groups mainly because of their Islamic religion (the Dayak majority are Christian). The majority of the Bakumpai live near the Barito River, which flows through the province of Central Kalimantan. In Southern Kalimantan, the Bakumpai live in Barito Kuala regency while those in Central Kalimantan live in South Barito regency. Their neighbors in the south are the Banjar people and in the north the Ngaju and Maanyan peoples. Some experts speculate that the Bakumpai are one of the sub-groups of the Ngaju people group, although the Bakumpai consider themselves a separate people group. The Bakumpai language is part of the Dayak ethnolinguistic grouping called the West of Greater Barito which also includes the Kohin, Ot Danum, Ngaju and Siang. (source Joshua Project)
Over 170,000 people of Bakumpai people who live in this area. There are no believers and they have no Bible at all. Beside spiritual needs, they need medical attention. Please more detail on Joshua Project website about the needs.
Please pray for them. Pray asking God to send His church to reach out to them. Pray asking God to send people who can translate His word into their language so they may come to understand the truth that will deliver them and set them free.
Thank you for praying!