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btw... Only 97 Days Until Christmas ... or so the kids say.

Alleluia!   Even so, come Lord Jesus.

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I’m so excited for this year’s Christmas card find!  Shutterfly will reward bloggers with 50 free holiday cards ~

‘Tis the season for celebrating Christmas!

• Oh yes, oh yes!  Praise the Lord! ~ I think I found our Christ-centered card on page five!
  
• But this one makes me laugh ~ It would be so appropriate for this amazing and crazy year we’ve had with building a house.
  
• If we can come up with the right photos, I like this “vintage” design.
  
• Here’s another pretty card that I like ~ and the little girl in the sample is so cute!

I should start with choosing photos, but the fact is – We need a family photo session!

• So, depending on how many and what pictures… I might choose this fun retro card for us.
  
• … or this… “His name shall be called…” since I’m in a mood for some brown and I especially like when they include scripture  :-)

Note to self:   I will give more serious thought to putting together a photo calendar with the help of Shutterfly ~ especially since I just thought of someone away from home who might enjoy one...

Shutterfly has hundreds of photo cards to chose from. They'll even stamp and mail them for you! Plus, they have great money-saving options like free shipping (on orders over $30).  And they will give you 50 free 4x6 prints just for signing up as a member.

I’m in!

 
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from the artiste

 

The card that Miss Artist was creating earlier this week ~ Cute, eh?!

a prisoner's song

Last night's late night project... was to make a card to go with this sweet little ceramic dish.

 

Miss MusicBox and Miss Artist  have a 19yo friend (Kate S.) who is really struggling with chronic lyme disease.  They stay with Kate's family when they visit for Bible conferences at a church near Milwaukee, Wisc.  Next week is the Holiness Conference, and Aunt Colleen planned to take the girls to visit Kate... now they are actually planning to stay with them because the S. family insisted, in spite of the difficulties they are going through with Kate's health.  Sooo, anyway we found the cute little dish, and then my girls remembered this poem/hymn from a literature book and thought it might encourage Kate, who also likes to sing.

1. A little bird I am,
     Shut from the fields of air,
   And in my cage I sit and sing
     To Him who placed me there;
   Well pleased a prisoner to be,
   Because, my God, it pleaseth Thee.
2. Nought have I else to do,
     I sing the whole day long;
   And He whom most I love to please
     Doth listen to my song;
   He caught and bound my wandering wing;
   But still He bends to hear me sing.
3. Thou hast an ear to hear
     A heart to love and bless;
   And though my notes were e'er so rude,
     Thou wouldst not hear the less;
   Because Thou knowest as they fall,
   That love, sweet love, inspires them all.
4. My cage confines me round;
     Abroad I cannot fly;
   But though my wing is closely bound,
     My heart's at liberty;
   For prison walls cannot control
   The flight, the freedom of the soul.
5. O it is good to soar
     These bolts and bars above!
   To Him whose purpose I adore,
     Whose providence I love;
   And in Thy mighty will to find
   The joy, the freedom of the mind.

~Madame Guyon (1648-1717)

  

The card needed to be big enough to include the entire poem, and Miss MB wanted it nice (elaborate) enough  to hang in Kate's room if she likes it as well. (Since we didn't find a matching photo frame to just put the poem in...)