Non-manic Monday

A good quiet Monday today~hurrah! All I have is a favorite quote to share:


"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith." Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hope you and I take hold of it with the right handle! Bless you all!

Sunday Senior High Mission Trip

Amazing church service today! Some of our senior high kids went on a mission trip to Southern California to help at a few food banks and a church thrift store. They sorted through rotten turnips and moldy-earwig-laden onions to find good produce for the hungry. They told their stories at the sermon portion of our worship. And we saw a video showing the hungry who eat the "fruits" of their and others labor. How inspiring to hear from positive teens!
I thought the "Assurance of Pardon" from the service was especially moving, and I'm including it for you here:

In every doubt God says,
"Here are my wounds. Touch."
For God is with you
in the greatest hurt--calling you.
In every confession that you make
God says, "I am listening."
For God is full of grace;
enough for you to let go
of all deadly things,
and still be held by the hands of heaven."




Here's the final pictures of the amazonite and turquoise necklace. It's quite long--30 inches. But you can shorten it to 18 inches by removing the extension piece along the neck, like I did for the last picture. This was amazing to make and I praise God for His gift to me. The gift to love to make jewelry! Just as others of you have the gift to quilt, or sew, or write, or cook. A gift indeed~~

May your Monday be blessed.

Saturday Accomplishment

New Pendant! The stone is amazonite~~I LOVE amazonite! (note: previously I posted that this stone was ametrine...wow, my brain must have been fried. Ametrine and amazonite look totally different! Well, I fixed it, but is my face red!) The inscription is "Breathe, Look for the good, Wonder, Healing, Balance, Peace, Compassion, Blessings, Joy." I cut the pendant out of 20 gauge copper sheet and the little "breathe" part is 26 gauge silver sheet, which I riveted onto the pendant. The patina is Liver of Sulfur a couple of days old...turned out a neato color. Way fun! I should have done the laundry, but this was funner. Clean clothes, Pah!

I'll post the finished necklace tomorrow. It's not done yet :-)

May your Sunday be blessed. May you learn more of God's Word and feel His work in your life. Amen!

Fabulous Friday~

Happy Friday ALL~ we made it! Now onto the weekend chores :-)

Here's an ametrine necklace that I just finished for the shop "Gifted" in Sonoma. I'd made the etched pendant a while back, just "glamorized" it up by stringing the beads-amethyst, amber, citrine, ametrine, copper...Turned out so fun!

God bless you all, my blog friends. May this weekend be Spirit-filled. Amen.

Beautiful Thursday

Happy Thursday All!
Here's a pic of the chrysocola necklace I just finished to take to "Gifted" in Sonoma. I love it!

Had a productive day and ran to Sonoma too. It's so pretty here...perfect allergy weather, LOL~

I'm thankful for all of my blog friends...may your week finish out in joy. God bless you!

Resin Collage and Solder Explosion

My first resin collage pendant! I love it. Still a little sticky~resin apparently takes a long time to cure. Or I didn't stir it well enough. But this was sooo fun! And I even tried soldering for the first time. See up at the top? That messy blob of solder? Wait until you see the back:

I call this "solder explosion"! I love that I tried. And I'll try some more. Just need time~

Cool quote from the Luanne Rice book, "Dream Country", I'm reading right now (actually re-reading. I read it a while ago and now it's time to enjoy it again):

"When he was young, his mother had told him, "If you're going to pray, don't worry. But if you're going to worry, don't pray."

Amen!

"Love" & "Joy" to You!

What a great day! A broken relationship with a coworker was restored today~~~I feel quite blessed.

Tonight is doggie training night. I played hooky! Actually, Rich is the dog training student with Sierra, our border-collie/Lab mix. I'm at home working on a necklace. It's chrysocola, and I'll post it when I finish it in a few days. These prehnite earrings are from last November. I loved stamping the copper!

Inspiring quote from Karen Kingsbury's novel "Rejoice":

"I believe with all my heart the secret is in our attitude. Life's circumstances don't improve by being anxious or angry or upset. But God calls us to rise above our circumstances, and that starts first in our attitudes."

"From Philippians 4:4- Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!"

I'm rejoicing, my friends. God bless you all.