Video: YouTube
CARD: Queen
COMPLETED IN 2021:
Completed therapy. Had 2 cataract surgeries and 2 endoscopies. Also had 2 Covid vaccines in July. And my 3rd one a month ago. Also, a CT scan, a flu shot, a mammogram, a shingles vaccine, two diets, and an ultrasound.
Completed Teesha Moore's free art journaling classes on YouTube.
INSPIRATION:
Creating Joy with Art - podcast interview on YouTube with Kelli May Krenz.
"People buy your joy! If you are happy, if you put your true self into something and it makes you feel good, it's going to make others feel good too." (Kelli May Krentz).
SCRIPTURE:
Psalm 119:48 = I reach out for your commands, which I love, that I may meditate on your decrees.
Psalm 119:78 = May the arrogant be put to shame from wronging me without cause; but I will meditate your precepts.
Psalm 119:97 = Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long!
Psalm 119:99 = I have more insight than all my teachers for I meditate on your statutes.
Jeremiah 29:4-7 = Seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you...Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers you too will prosper.
QUOTES:
"Out of these two only one can win, either you or your fear." (Muniba Mazari)
"You only have one trip: you might as well enjoy it." (Iris Apfel)
"Hang on to your good memories, for remembering brings healing." (Rev. Steve Weldon, Pastor of Hope Community Church, Andover, KS)
Bloom Where You Are Planted!
ART JOURNALED PAGES:
I joined a #swapandglue with a YouTube friend named Linda Dee, so I've completed two art journaled collaged pages from the papers she has sent me. She's done her pages via video with the papers I've sent her, so I have been working on completing my part, however, I've had to put my thinking cap on, for One Drive is holding my computer hostage because it says I must buy more storage space. Since this isn't something I can control, I've tried the change the things I can, which is to make a shorter video and show what I have completed. The art journaled pages have these sayings. I also finished a Dolly page as well.
Celebrate!
I make every day count. No room for boring.
This quote also came from Linda's junk mail: "Christmas joy flows both ways when you share a gift with a child in need."
Dolly - Be a pineapple: Stand tall, wear a crown and be sweet on the inside! She is also wearing a medallion that says: How sweet it is! with the image of a pineapple. I found the sticker at the Dollar Tree. Her dress is a Pineapple can label and arms and legs from a woman's clothing catalog.
GOOD MEMORIES:
My Oklahoma grandmother taught me to crochet, then my Kansas grandmother showed me Christmas cards framed in crochet, so I learned how to make them. I have the pattern on my craft blog (click here).
My Kansas grandmother's middle name was Esther and my Oklahoma grandmother's middle name was Hester. Neither one liked their middle names. When I was pregnant with our son, I would tease them and tell them I was going to name my girl after them -- Esther Hester or Hester Esther. They were horrified that I would do that to their great-granddaughter. And then with a twinkle in my eye, I would tell them that I would be honoring them by naming my daughter after them.
My husband's grandmother showed me how to par-boil bitter vegetables to get the bitter out. Take turnips for instance. She cut the stem and root ends off, peeled and sliced them, and placed them in a saucepan with water covering them. She said to par-boil them in water for about 10 minutes and then drain them, and all the bitter would go down the sink with the water. Then she covered them with water again, boiled them until fork soft, added a chunk of butter to the water and removed them from the fire. They were good at special dinners such as Christmas.
POETRY:
What Can I Give Him?By Christina G. Rosetti.
