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And the more I look around me, and the more that I do look

The more I realize that I am viewing God's coloring book

Then I turn my face toward the sky; and say a silent prayer.

Though God doesn't speak to me,  

I see him everywhere

He is all around me. 

He's everywhere I look.

And each new day is but a new page in God's coloring book

Dolly Parton

I have always loved this song. I think of it every time God paints a beautiful picture with the sky as His canvas. Check out my sky from yesterday morning. Only God could make a picture this pretty.

Weekend Wrap Up

Well, I was so proud of myself for actually having time to do my regular Week End Wrap Up Monday morning post. So happy to have things to blog about. It went so well that I did Tuesday's and Wednesday's as well and scheduled them to post on the appropriate day. So I go in to do Thursdays and notice that in all my excitement Monday, I forgot to hit publish!! Ugh! So here is my weekend wrap up on a Thursday instead of Monday.........

It was an amazing three day weekend for me. It started off Friday morning with a visit down the road to my friend Georgeanna's yard sale. I picked up some holiday table linens.

And a beautiful red scarf for winter.

I got this vintage glass saucer.

And a set of 6 dinner plates in sandwich glass. I am in love.

I have been wanting a unique cake plate and cover and she had the perfect one for my kitchen.

I also picked up a pumpkin, a herringbone scarf and scarecrow salt and pepper set but I forgot to take pics of those. Everything I got came to $12.00. So then I went to my friend Sherrie's yard sale where I picked up a quilted travel bag. 

A soft blue blanket for my new beach room.

And a small storage trunk for the same room.

My total cost at Sherrie's was $10.00. When I got home from there, the three youngest Grands arrived to spend the day and night. We had free tickets to Sevier Air Jump & Ninja Warrior course. We got to spend 1 hour and 20 minutes in there while they jumped, Ninja'd, and played dodge ball games. They had a blast.

After there, we went to Walmart where the kids went through the toy department to give me ideas for Christmas gifts. Colby wants this ball really bad he says. So I'll see if he asks me or Santa for it.

Then we came home and vegged out and watched TV. The next morning, Colby had a baseball game that morning and football that evening. Me and the girls made a quick stop at Hobby Lobby where Alexis picked out this thread and these beads for us to make some little yarn and needle ornaments for the Christmas tree they want in their room.

Then we headed with my daughter up to Gatlinburg for Colby's football game. I love when he plays there. It is an awesome field and the view is breathtaking.

He's #3 and is the quarterback. He took a few heavy hits but he just gets up and keeps on going. It was a good game from both teams but his team pulled it out at the end and finished strong. They have one more season game which I will be going to and then they head to the playoffs for their age group super bowl. I have never been to a ball game of kids that are 7 and 8 years old that played like they were in high school or college. It was an amazing, nail-biting sitting-on-the-edge-of-your-seat game.

After the game, I went home and just vegged out. Sunday morning in children's church, we made get well cards for a little girl in Nashville, Caroline, who has Cancer. She is the friend of my friend Georgeanna's granddaughter. My little class has prayed for her many times and follows her fight with this horrible disease. Little Caroline is only about 4 or 5 years old. One of my 8 year olds has a heart of gold and she doesn't just make a card, she writes a personal letter inside every card. I love her words of encouragement on the front. 

I, who never slows down, actually came home from morning church and took a two hour nap. GASP! I know that is hard to believe, but I did. Then I went back to church last night for choir practice and evening service. My granddaughter, Shelby, went with me for the children's night service. When we came out it was so cold and dreary and pouring the rain. 

Shelby called to let her mom know she was on her way home afterwards and my daughter said to tell me they had made homemade chili if I wanted some to take home. Well, duh, yes. I was freezing. It was so delicious. I have enough left over for my lunch today.

After I ate supper, I went onto Facebook to see what my friends and family had been up to. My little football player from Saturday had another baseball game on Sunday where they played another great game, giving them the win for the fall State Tournament. Congratulations to the RBI Redstitch 108 team on another amazing season. Colby is the one dead center of the front row with the black sleeves on. This boy loves his sports.

Well, as you can tell in my usual fashion I crammed a lot into one weekend and enjoyed every single moment of it. I just love my life.

Random Wednesday

Just some random things to share with you today. I may have posted some before but I am sharing them again. It's that time of year when I do a little Halloween party for our servers at work. They have all become such good friends of mine and I like to show my appreciate for all their help in helping me with my job in the arena. I needed some new ideas so I like this one for little deviled eggs. 

Pinterest called this zombie eyes and toes. Works for me.

I am researching couch covers. My fabric is starting to get a lot of wear but the furniture is still so comfortable. I love this but they also had it in a gray and gray or darker tan is what I want.

Don't you just love these little wooden trees. 

I received a Lakeside Collection catalog and they had a lot of great items in it.

I bought a striped comforter for the kids day bed really cheap just to do till I can get what I want and this is what I want. I love it.

Going to stop Friday or Saturday at the Corningware store and pick up some Christmas storage bowls. What a great gift....fill it with fudge and they have goodies AND a keepsake for their gift.

Y'all know I love my Happy Planner and can't wait to get a new one this year. I got a vinyl whimsical cover last year, but you can buy quilted leather covers as well. One of my Happy Planner group people showed where she found a purse to co-ordinate with her faux leather journal. Now this is a VERY expensive purse but maybe I could find a knock-off at a reasonable price and get the faux leather journal. I am so in love with this.

I still haven't ordered me one of these little trees. But I think my niece said Hobby Lobby has some now. I need to go check to see if that is where she saw them.

Check out this purse set in Buffalo plaid. I am loving it. Since we wear red and black at Christmas and winter at work, I need this as my work bag.

I am going to do this. I will either stencil cans or have my friend use her cricut to make me the letters. I have a nursery that usually lets me have some of the little pieces of branches they cut off trees and I can trim them to do this. 

Well, that's it for today. Hope you enjoyed the ideas.

Halloween Humor

I love Halloween Humor. Some are new, some I posted in years past. But all are still funny.

And my all time personal favorite!

Sunday Songs

Some ideas....

A few years back I made some witches wands for this little display. They've suffered wear and tear. If I want to put them out this year, I need to get some scrapbook paper to make some more. 

Here is a Christmas ornament I made one time for the little tree in what was my craft room. I want to make some more of these as gifts for my friends who love yarn as much as I do.

This little bird was so easy and so much fun. I want to make some more of them as well. I might even do them with blue wings the color of the ocean to have them on the Christmas tree in the beach bedroom.

I saw one of these on Pinterest at 9:30 one night last year. I loved it so I jumped up and grabbed my button jar and my hot glue gun and made this. I have a gazillion buttons so I may make some more.

I think I will even do some in solid colors like the ones below. Especially the all shades of red one and the all shades of green. 

I made these one time with a regular stick, but love the idea of doing them with cinnamon sticks on a little tree in the kitchen. It would smell so good.

I really like this display of little trees.

Another simple craft for some cute little ornaments.

Kids would love making these little snow globe scenes. 

Oh how precious...and super easy. 

I love these little Christmas gnomes. 

And before you can say "It's not even Christmas yet", let me remind you that I actually decorate right after Thanksgiving so if I want to get all this done, I have to start now. As a matter of fact, I'm heading to Hobby Lobby this afternoon to pick up some of the stuff to start on some of these. What are you making for Christmas this year?