You are an inspiration to someone {if you know it or not}. There are people that I have known for years and others for a short time, but they all have touched my life and inspired me in many ways… Thank You for being a part of my life!
These storage boxes from Present & Correct are sturdy and pretty. A good motivator to clean up and clear out things.
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This is a whimsical and simple illustration of art supplies {source}. To me, if you can draw a heart, you’re an artist. Fill a blank piece of paper full of hearts and post it on your inspiration board, the refrigerator or frame it up. For me, I enjoy taking 10 to 15 minutes to just “doodle” a simple picture. With each new picture drawn, the confidence and creativity level will grow just a tiny bit more. Go for it!
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Classic quote and a great reminder, there is not another person like you.
Do you iron bedsheets and pillow cases? I didn’t until I met Grace Anderson-Skari (I will usually iron the pillow cases and maybe the sheets). I will remember Grace for the simple things such as ironing, fresh linens and cookies, as well as the love of family, strength of faith and beauty of spirit.
Do you have a long list, a short list or no list of goals at all?
2013! I always feel good with the start of the new year even though there are many things still piled high in the corner waiting to get checked off the list. A new year is like a little grace from God telling me that it’s ok, I made it this far so keep going and I will get there!
This is a wonderful quote and very true, “it always seems impossible until it’s done”. I will have it posted up as a reminder for encouragement throughout the year. Remembering back, there were times in my life that I felt the “impossible”. Now I can see the bigger picture, the many “impossible” goals and dreams became possible because of the small steps taken, guidance from others, lots of patience, and the strength from God.
I hope this new year will be blessed and the steps you take will become giant leaps to your goals and dreams.
This time of the year we are surrounded by many distractions of the Christmas season. Here are some beautiful and simple quotes, bible verses and printables celebrating Christmas, as a reminder of the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ.
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{free printable, “For unto us a Child is born” print HERE}
On October 3, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a National holiday to be held annually on the last Thursday of November.
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Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of almighty God.
In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.
