Do you feel stuck in life?

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Hey ya’ll! I know this blog is supposed to be about crafting and sewing but in my about me section I told ya I would throw in some info about life as well. :-)

I have a question for you… do you feel stuck in life? Like you don’t know where to turn… everything is going wrong??

Kinda like when you were a kid and got your head stuck in the stair spindles? You know you’ve done it! (In the south its more like the deck rails, but you know what I mean!)

And in some cases the firefighters had to come and save you! lol

Well, I’m sure we’ve all felt that way at some point or another in life… and if you haven’t, you probably will someday. :-) I know I have. Just through facebook I can see that people feel stuck in life. Times are tough! People are trying to just make ends meet!

We’re trying to make plans for our future… our family’s future… We have our own ideas as to what we want our future to be but we forget to include one person… God… We think  “well this is what I want, so, this must be what God wants for me…” Boy, can I tell you from personal experience… wrong idea!

Trust me, I know. When I was in high school I just knew I was going to college to play ball! I KNEW it. I was a pitcher. At the end of one season I had an .89 ERA, a great batting average, a scout calling me , and a college calling thinking I was eligible to play the next season… no sir, I still have two years of high school left lol… I just KNEW it. It was MY plan.

But, you know what? It wasn’t God’s plan for me… It was MY plan. He kept knocking at my door until I listened… Junior year and summer… I played horrible and everywhere I turned God was saying “NO… NO… NO.” I finally realized it wasn’t his plan.

The thing is sometimes we have a plan for our lives that isn’t God’s plan. I already found this out the hard way. If you are a follower of Christ, it will eat you up until you realize it.

And if you’re not a follower of Christ… you should be. Why? Because it is GREAT! He died on the cross so that we can be forgiven for our sins and oneday… will be able to spend eternity with him in Heaven. HE will change your LIFE FOREVER.

The reason I’m sharing this is because I’ve been spending some time with God recently and this is what he has laid on my heart. If you feel like you have no where to turn. I want to tell you, you can turn to God. He will listen and if you follow HIS plan for you… suddenly the big problems won’t seem so big!

I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me. Philipians 14:3

I think this is the first step to feeling UNSTUCK… we have to start following God’s plan for us. He is the firefighter there to get your head from between the stair spindles!

This past week I’ve been listening to some different podcasts. I ran across a series by Perry Noble, of Newspring Church, called “STUCK.” I listened to this series and I must tell you… it rocked my world. If you feel stuck… you HAVE to listen to this series. HAVE TO. I promise… it will change you. Just go and add it to your ipod and listen to it while you are working out, riding to work, working on homework, cooking dinner, getting pumped for a big game!

Here is a link to the podcasts. Click on the Audio section next to STUCK. Or you can watch the video here! I must say, if you have the time to watch the video… do. (Click on the drop down to STUCK and the video series goes from the bottom up. It tricked me! lol)

By the way, if you are from my area and don’t have a church family, we are in the beginning stages of starting a church called New HOPE Church. We would love to have you! We all need HOPE! If you are interested in joining us send me a message and I’ll give you directions!

Superbowl!

This year I was cheering for the commercials! This was our favorite superbowl commercial by FAR!

I have to say the Doritos commercials were pretty funny as well!

What were your favorites?

Artist of the week! Well… Kinda

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I’ve been looking for quite a while tonight for an artist to feature this week…

After an hour it dawned on me…

Nope, it was not fancy, was not a sculpture, not a painting….

Its not what you think :-)

It was drumroll please!

BEFORE!!

Carrabas’s apple thingy! (They call it Apple Crostata???)

It was so yummy… my taste buds were singing!

So beautiful… so delightful… so wonderful! lol You must try it!

AFTER! Nope... it wasn't any good :-)

After our wonderful dinner of salad and dessert we went to the fabric store… where we found this!

You can make a quilt in a day! I don’t know how anyone can make a quilt in a day! I made one and it took me atleast a week! Get your mind out of the gutter! lol

(FYI just in case you don’t sew… she is talking about sewing two pieces of cloth together wrong and having to “strip” the thread out or I guess I should say ripping out seams)

Oh yea, forgot to tell you guys! My comments section CHANGED! It is now much easier to leave a comment if you feel like it. :-)   You can now use your facebook profile to comment!

Hope ya’ll are having a great weekend! If not… go get yourself a Carrabas’s apple thingy and let me know if you want to be featured as the artist of the week!

Sloppy Joes for Supper!

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Yep, sloppy joes for supper… not one night… but two nights in a row! I must say… the second night was way better than the first :-) (We used ground turkey instead of ground beef… it was yummy !)

I was deprived as a kid… we never had sloppy joes for supper…

Denver kept asking me if I have heard the sloppy joe song and kept freaking out when I said no…

Tonight, we were introduced…

I love Adam Sandler lol

Oh yea… and to all the lunch ladies out there! Thank you for your hard work! I enjoyed school lunches :-) and it was the only place I ever got to eat sloppy joes!