A day of!

My friend left yesterday late afternoon - I miss her. She is so great to be around.
We thought we were going to do a lot of crafting, we didn't, we talked and talked - and did a little bit of crafting. 
My husbond got a few days for himself, and he appriciated that, he said so himself.
I'm already looking forward to the next time she's coming.

Beccys Challenge is great. It is fun learning so many ways a card can be made.

This is my card for to day. 

A digi-stamp made by Mo Manning. It is called Grace and the owl.

The card reads: Whishing you a peaceful Christmas.

Black and white

I've not much to tell to day, only that I enjoy some days with a very close friend, Eva. We're crafting, laughing, cooking and much more. It's so good to be able to spend some days together.

Here's my entry for the challenge on Beccys blog. To day it is "white on white"!

The card reads: Merry Christmas!

A dear friend

I have very few I can call close friends. But, I know we will always be there for each other. Like in the poem, we may sometime feel alone, and jey our friends might be close by, helping. I'm so grateful for my close friends, one of them is coming to day and staying a few days. We're going to do a lot of stamping and quilling. It's going to be so fun.
My wish is, that we'll always be there for each other, helping others when they fall. Also, and I know this is difficult, let others help us when we need it. It will strenghten the friendship between us and others. Give it a try! What do you have to loose?

One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to my Lord.

After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.

This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.
"Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You'd walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me."

He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you."

Two large buckets!

A dear friend has this quote on her kitchen wall:

Entegrity is keeping promisses to one self - and to others.

For me, entegrity is also to be true to one self - and to others.

I like this quote, we need to set a standard for ourself, so we can stand firm and true for what we believe. When we know who we are, we can help others.  We don't need to be perfect, none of us are, but we need to be true to who we are. 

Sometimes we may think we don't do much of anything, but where we are, we matter.

I would like to share a story about that

...an elderly Chinese woman had two large buckets. Each bucket hung on the ends of a long pole, which she carried across her neck. One of those buckets had a crack in it and the other bucket was perfect. The perfect bucket always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the house. But the cracked bucket arrived only half full
For full two years the Chinese woman went daily to the stream with the two buckets and she would carry home one and one half buckets of water. Of course, the perfect bucket was proud of its accomplishments. The cracked bucket however, was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been created to do.After two years of what the cracked bucket perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. “I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house and you work so hard.”The old woman smiled and said, “Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other bucket’s side? I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water the flowers. For two years, I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty  grace my house and give me so much joy.”As I think about the story, I am reminded that each of us has our own flaws....

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This is my entry for Beccys blog to day

Just a little bit!

I was in hospital again, it was volvulus. I'm happy to be home again. There's nothing like home!

I've not much to tell, I've spent most of the day making cards.

My card for Beccysplace.blogspot.dk to day. It says: Merry Christmas

These other cards

These cards are made for Operation Skriv Hjem (Operation Write Home)

These last 2 cards are for Cancerkort

How do we grow?

I must admit, I do not like changes. Most of the time, I'm happy with things the way they are.

I do on the other side accept, at in order to grow - things have to change.

I have some favotie qoutes abt. change:

• If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
• Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale
• Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama

I guess for me, it is I have to come away from my comfort zone.

Like when I began to read! I've always had difficulty reading. As an adult (+30) I took a class with other adults who also had a hard time reading.
After that class, I've been reading. There's a hole world out there, just waiting be to explored.

Give up your comford zone, change a bit - and by that, change the world.

To day I've tried to to two new things.

Baking "Birkes" again, first time was not a succes. This time it was much better.

And, at Beccys blog , the challenge to day, is to make an easel card.
I've never made a one before...But I decided to give it a try, since Beccy has made a great tut. It is easy to follow, so if you haven't tried making an easel card, then go look at it - and give it a try.

In Denmark we celebrate Christmas Dec 24th, in the evening.

That is why the paper says 24:12 God Jul (Merry Christmas)

2nd try on breakfast bread "Birkes".

A mini update!

This is just a very short input today.
Yesterday when my husbond and I had to sort through some boxes, I made a wrong move - and bang, I was in the most painful painattack. We could not drive home, so we had to take a taxi. Just not fun at all.

Here's my pictures for Beccys blog
I've tried to make 2 christmas cards for men.
Excuse the quality of the pictures. I do not know why the cards looks so wrinkled - for they're not.