Sunday's Songs

During the daily struggles of the nationwide self-quarantine, we need to look more deeply for the blessings God is giving us. 

Families are struggling, yet at the same time they are bonding together as God meant us to be. They stay home with the kids, they find "family time" to play games, watch TV together, sit around bonfires and have sit down at the table dinners. 

The world has turned a corner and is learning to love each other. People are worrying about there co-workers, their friends, their church family. They are reaching out to say "Hey, are y'all doing okay? Do you need anything?" 

I see a lot of posts with the gloom and the doom and the worry and the what if's. But I see a whole lot more of Mom and Dad and the kids enjoying being home together. Kids having fun keeping up with their school work. Mom filling in as a teacher and learning to appreciate what her child's teacher goes through daily.

In conclusion, people are learning to love each other again like we were taught to. And God is giving us so many blessings among the struggles of the world. 

Had a great day.

I didn't blog yesterday. It would have been my 39th wedding anniversary. I caught up on some computer work in the morning. Then I went to a friends house and hung out. We watched Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

This is not my normal type of movie. But after watching the first Guardians movie, I was hooked. The second was even better than the first. There were moments when I literally was wringing my hands and leaning forward on the edge of my seat. Then there were moments where I was laughing so hard my side hurt. There were even moments I teared up. Especially the funeral in space scene. One of the best scripted funeral moments I have ever seen.



Time spent with friends was a good break during all this quarantine.

Quotes I love

I love quotes. They motivate and make me feel good. Here are some that are favorites I found this past week. 

And this is the best quote I have ever seen in my entire life. Think about this as we approach Easter.

Keychains

I had so much fun making the keychain the other day that I decided I might make some to put in a craft bazaar I may participate in. So I went to Pinterst (of course). I saw a lot of pretty keychains and some were even on the zippers of purses and I had a thought. What about making some and calling them Purse Jewelry? We women love to accessorize. So here are some ideas I found that I liked really well.

 

 

Time for some crafting....

The other night I bought a new flash drive because I am forever misplacing them or loaning them to someone and forgetting who I loaned it to. So I figured if I put it on a keychain and hung it in the office, I would know where it was. Since my office is my steampunk room, it made sense to make a steampunk keychain to put it on. I am loving it. 

I hung it on the hook of the paint stand so I will always know where it is.

I recently went to Hobby Lobby. I am on day 10 of being off work so I organized my craft supplies too see what all I can work on before we go back to work on May 9th. I am going to do some  no sew runners for spring and Easter.

I want to make a new Easter egg wreath since I sold the one I made a few years ago to somebody who kept begging to buy it. This is probably going to be my craft today.

Over the next week or so, I want to paint my new wooden bowl. I think I will use it to hold my new wooden buttons that are on the way from Amazon. And you guessed it, I will be steampunk-ing this as well.

I am working on knitting some more coasters. 

I have a couple of trinket boxes I need to make with plastic canvas and my new yarn.

I need to sew these into a valance for my bathroom. It's a little window and has a lace valance right now, but I want this in there since it matches real good with my shower curtain.

Stay home and stay safe.

A new little bird house

This is by far the most fun I have had crafting something in a long time. I wanted a little birdhouse to sit in my Steampunk room. So I bought one at Hobby Lobby.

I went ahead and picked up some brown metallic paint so it would match my table legs my friend painted.

I had received a gift from a friend of mine. It was a package of assorted gears for Steampunk crafts. I wanted to use them on the birdhouse so after I painted it, I spread the gears out to make my choices.

First I glued a little open gear around each of the entry posts.

Then I arranged assorted ones on the roof.

When it was all done, I fell in love with it. Love the little bitter of metallic look to the paint. 

Chalk this one up to a complete success. 

Good fun, good friends

I am so blessed to have friends from all ages and all walks of life. I work very closely with the servers at Dolly Parton's Stampede. I have bonded with new friends over the years of all ages. I have a young soul and young heart so I can bond well with any age, as long as we have common interests. This is the case with two of my youngest friends, Emerald and Brittany. We decided to get together during our shutdown so I could teach them how to make brownie cookies. I supervised. Emerald was the first to step up. She broke the eggs like a pro with no shells at all. Even though I had a slight panic attack since she broke them right over the bowl. But she aced it.

Next was Brittany.  On her turn to stir the liquid in the dry mix, I forgot to warn her how brownie dry mix can "fly". Slight flyaways puff got on her clothes but she didn't let that slow her down.

Amid lots of good music playing, funny stories shared and tons of laughter and getting sidetracked, we ended up with 60 perfect brownies. (This platter has less than 60 on it because two young girls had to sample every pan that came out of the oven.)

After we got the baking done, I wanted to make the girls my famous flat-bread pizza. 

They loved it. It was a huge success. I kicked them out of the kitchen so they watched videos and danced like maniacs and kept me entertained. I think they really enjoyed the evening. I know I did. It was great getting out of the house for awhile.

We did have an amazing time. It was a great break from all the self-imposed quarantines. Nothing says love like spending time together and eating chocolate. Life don't get much better than that.