food, crochet, merriment
If you will be anywhere near Orem, Utah on July 14th and 15th–or know someone who will–and would like to see “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2” now is your chance to win 2 tickets to the Gracious Rain Premier Party and Midnight Show!
To enter, simply tell us one of your favorite quotes from any of the Harry Potter books or movies. As long as the quotes are different–you may enter as often as you like.
Winner will be announced on Tuesday, July 5th at 10:00 am.
Good luck!!
Look at this sweet baby…
sitting soooo still…getting her hair combed.
Oh, but she wouldn’t let mommy do it.
She wouldn’t let Grammy do it.
It positively, absolutely HAD to be…Uncle Dane.
And those big, old, football throwing hands worked hard—I’ll tell you–to get every hair to stay where they belonged.
And those same big, old hands had a heck of a time making the teeny tiny rubber bands behave properly.
He wasn’t very happy with the end result. Said Chompy looked “more like George Washington than our baby girl,” and that I “shouldn’t post pictures of such a silly thing.”
But you know I will, because, I say, whenever you find evidence of love like this–you should capture it—
and hold it close to your heart…as proof…
that no matter what happens in this life–deep down…
everything really will be all right.
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I say mini because…
with all the gardening and crafting and cooking and cleaning and earth life-ing that’s been going on around here–no matter how badly we wanted to do the full blown, road trip, Quilt Shop Hop…there just weren’t enough hours in the day.
We did, however make it to one particularly lovely place called “Pine Needles” in Gardner Village…
filled with all kinds of beautiful things…
and not just quilts either.
Being new to the quilting world, I admit that I get distracted very easily by yarn, felt work and stitchery…
because it feels like something I already know how to do without help.
My mom used to call that the path-of-least-resistance. I never really got it.
Then just as we were leaving, we spotted this incredible store with every kind of candy–new and retro known to humankind. We had no choice but to go inside and check it out.
It positively did live up to our expectations and I waltzed out of there with a bag of every flavor malt balls…
and a nut roll made by the gods. Y. U. M.
Some days it’s just easier to give in than to fight it.
“Choosing the path of least resistance makes both men and rivers…crooked.”
Wow. I think I get it now.
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“Clearly anyone who thinks Jesus taught no-fault theology didn’t read the fine print in the contract! No, in matters of discipleship the Church is not a fast-food outlet; we can’t always have it ‘our way.’ Some day every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ and that salvation can only come His way.”
Jeffrey R. Holland
in our world this very minute…
Knowing that he’s serving others…
while he’s far, far away from home.
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