Hi Everyone!

What a beautiful day here in Virginia! We have been having such wonderful warm weather. It has been in the 70's. Even with the thunderstorms it has been glorious! I just love this time of year. All the trees are starting to come alive and there are sooo many with blossoms and color! I hope you are enjoying this time of year, wherever you live. The Lord has made such a beautiful place for us.

My good friend, Carole, and she is also my "Sis" from Arizona, a retired school teacher and wonderful Christian ask me to do a chart "Live by Faith, not Fear".....sooo, here it is for you. It is taken from the scripture in Mark 4:40. This is especially for you Carole...I hope you will all enjoy it.

I have a book call: The complete book of Zingers by Croft M. Pentz that has really neat sermon quotes including some for you to ponder on FAITH and FEAR....

Faith can never overdraw its account.
Part-time faith, like a part-time job, will not fully support you.
Faith is a spiritual life in action.
Faith never grows in a disobedient heart.
When you cease to use faith, you lose it.
Feed your faith and your doubt will starve to death.
You don't trust God until you trust Him for the impossible.
The way to take the fear out of living is to put faith in the Lord.
There are "365 Fear nots" in the Bible---one for each day!!!!
Faith and fear cannot live together......

Have a wonderful day and as always be blessed!

Nancy

Happy March!!!!!

It is starting to warm up and spring is just around the corner. The birds are singing and singing in the morning! What a wonderful sound. I just love spring time when everything starts all new again. It's such a breath of fresh air. The grass turns all luscious and green and the flowers start to spring up from the ground. The sky even looks brighter. Wherever you are living, I hope you are enjoying your "beginning" of spring. Easter is just around the corner. What a time to celebrate...our Risen Saviour, Jesus! What a glorious time of year to think of all HE has done for us.

Here is a free chart for you....a Quaker Cross. Enjoy. As you stitch this Cross I hope you will reflect on what HE did for us that day when He laid down His life for you and I. What a future we have to look forward too just because of His sacrifices and LOVE for us even before we knew Him.

I pray you have a wonderful week, full of joy!

Nancy

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Hi again....

2012 has begun and NEW BEGINNINGS for all of us! I want this year to be great and by that I mean in terms of looking at what is REALLY and I mean REALLY important in our life! So many people are talking about the Mayan Calendar and this year being a count down and all that...well, if it is, it is. What I know is (probably very little...lol) but the Word of God says that only God knows when He is coming back for His people and what I plan is to be mindful of living each day to the best of my ability. Do my utmost very, very best to treat every one truly like I WANT to be treated and with mercy...Everyone is on edge these days with the economy so I want to do my best to be aware of others feelings and what they might be going through themselves....it isn't all about "ME". I am going to do my best to give people the benefit of the doubt, so to speak if they are "harsh". Turn the other cheek as the Bible says. Watch what the Lord will do for you when we start doing just small things for others. I really believe when we give, it is given back to us. Not that you do it for that reason...EVER. I know how excited I get when I see someone open up a present give them. The same applies when we share our smile with someone or a kind word. I want to to be more considerate of others this year and see if it doesn't spread. After all just one kind word to a person just could change their life! You never know.

I hope this will be the very best year for you and your family and that the Lord will enrich your life with all that is good! I pray that you have good health, joy and peace throughout this year and we can all be in touch often.

Here is a another little sampler for you....it is called "LOVE NEVER FAILS". Do it up into a small pillow or pinskeep! Whatever you want. Hope you enjoy!

Til next time-Have a wonderful day! God Bless You always.....

Nancy

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Just wanted to say I hope this is the very best Christmas you, your family and friends have ever had! We all have so much to be thankful for and celebrate this wonderful time of year. The birth of our Lord and all He has done for us is the MOST important gift of all. With 2012 just around the corner I hope you will take time to reflect on all that you have and how blessed you truly are. We all stay so busy and sometimes forget the even smallest of miracles that pass us by each day but they are there when we take the time to look.
I am thankful for you that you come to my blog! Thank you sooo much!! I feel blessed that you are here.....so have a wonderful Christmas and I look forward to hearing from you next year and hopefully talking with you a lot more!!
God Bless You always....
Nancy

Merry, Merry Christmas everyone!!

I think I fell off the earth for a while. Have been having a time getting my charts the way I want to sell them and still don't have them fixed so will just work on them after Christmas. They are designed, it is just in the set up! What a time, what a time!

I do hope you are all ready for Christmas. I am soo excited. This is my favorite time of year. I just love all the music and decorations and of course.....the food!! Our grandchildren are all excited about "Santa" coming next week. We went to a Christmas program for our Granddaughter last night. She is in kindergarten. She is 5. I was so proud! She is going to the school our son went to when he was in elementary school and it took me right back. It just seemed like yesterday that I was bringing him there. Time just goes sooo fast. Of course, the school had hardly changed, except the teachers! lol And probably if I looked real close some of them would still be there. Don't you just wish you could go back in time sometimes. It would be nice.

I remember so much about Christmas when I was a child. I loved going with my Dad to pick out our cedar Christmas trees. It was always so cold outside and we would bundle up with our winter coats on and he would take me to the tree lot and let me pick out that special tree. They always smelled sooo good. The people selling the trees would always have a fire burning that you could warm yourself up by as you were looking for that special tree. Then when we would get home he would cut off the bottom and put it in the stand. I still have a lot of those decorations that we would put around the bottom of the tree that I set out each year as a reminder of times past. My Mother loved to bake pies and cakes and my grandmother always spent Christmas eve with us. I was the kind of child that could never sleep on Christmas eve because I was waiting for SANTA to come. So I would toss and turn ALL night long while my grandmother slept with me in my room ---how she slept I don't know! I couldn't wait for Christmas morning and I knew that Santa had come because the stocking would be hung on my bedroom door with a bell and filled with goodies. Mother would come in singing "Here comes Santa Clause, Here comes Santa Clause!" I carried that tradition on down to my three children and they are doing the same with their children too. It is something how traditions in families are. I know each of you have special traditions in your families. Things that you remember that are really so unforgettable and that you have carried on too. Christmas really is about families and children. Even if you don't have children and your family has passed....friends can be family. In fact, sometimes, friends can be closer than some families. Whatever the situation in your life....just rejoice this year that you are celebrating HIS birth, our Lord and Saviour, which is really what it is all about and that we have a chance to share HIS good news with someone, whether it be someone you know or a stranger. Let's all take this coming year and strive to become more like Him. I hope you have the best Christmas ever. I hope to do better in communicating with you all. Please forgive me.

Here is a free chart for you this Christmas season. I hope you like it.

God Bless You!

Nancy

Hey girls,

Yeah!!!! My new blog is up and running! It looks great....Thank you Amy! You did a great job!!!! Now I need to get to work.... Soon there will be lots for SALE on here, samplers and such, including my own designs so please check back often. I will also have more FREE charts too!! Just wanted to keep you updated with the progress.....I hope you like the new look! I will be accepting Paypal for payment on the charts that are for sale soon!

Blessings to all,
Nancy

Hi girls....

I am getting ready to change my blog to a selling blog so this will probably look different shortly. Hope it won't be to difficult a change for me and everyone! I am such a creature of habit! lol I have been wanting to do this for a while and wanting to start selling from my blog too, as well as Ebay, so just wanted to give you a heads up.....

Here is a another freebie...a Quaker sampler! The words say it all, don't they! Hope you will enjoy it and I believe we can all use it as a reminder to "do right"! It always pays off....

Have a great day!

Blessings Always,

Nancy