Teeny Tiny Flowers & Aspirations

I love the little flower clips from Briar Claire. I just bought Kaylynn 3 (don't worry Brian, it was from my paypal surplus, nothing was charged to the credit card and nothing left our bank account) crochet flower clips (in the colors that I want to do her "big girl room" in one day (mustard, deep aqua & charcoal gray...or at least accent with. Anywho, I got to looking at them and thought to myself, "Self, you could totally make those."

With that inner dialogue, I set out to find an internet tutorial, because if there is ONE thing I'm good at, it's finding a free tutorial online. So I found this one:

http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/teeny-tiny-flowers.html

Yeah, I'm going to try it. But what got me today is the lady's "profile info" on the left-hand side of the blog. It says:

Hello! Thank you so much for visiting me in the Attic,

it's lovely to see you. My name is Lucy and I'm a happily married,

stay at home Mum with two young children and a new baby.

We live in a 100year old Victorian house in the North of England

which we are slowly renovating, and here I spend my days

:: mothering, decorating, crocheting, baking, sewing, crafting

and gardening. I hope you enjoy your peek

into my colourful little world. xxxx

Lucy is leading my "fantasy" life...you know, if you were allowed to script your own life. This would be me. And Brian can really choke when I mention that the England part of that wouldn't be so bad either (NO, we're not moving back there....I mean if one could script a life like that, why wouldn't one want to live in England...or Scandiavia...or France...or someplace exotic!)

And aren't the clippies so cute!

Inspirational Reads

I created a new list on the left-hand side of inspirational blogs that I love to read, so if anyone wants to check them out, you can click.

The newest one I've stumbled across is "We are THAT family". I don't know much about it, but what I do know is that they live in the Houston-ish area and have neighbors who fled Uzbekistan because they were going to be killed for being Christians.


Killed.

For more information on it, click on her icon that's called "The Persecuted Church Next Door" link. You can read Part 1, 2, 3, 4 on it and then the latest of what's going on.

Praying for Stellan

Many of you blog stalkers (ahem, readers) may have read about McMama and her "charming kids". Well her youngest McMuffin (Stellan) is battleing SVT (there's more to it, but in a nutshell, his heart beats crazy fast). Without going into all the details (which you can read here), there is an awesome thing going around where people take a picture of Stellan's name and email it to her to let her know that they are praying for her sweet boy. They have photos from all over the world.

Amazing. Simply amazing. Have a look. And while you're at it, say a prayer for this little 4 month old.

Kaylynn is 4 months tomorrow. I could not fathom being in this woman's shoes right now. She is strong in her faith, which is getting her and her family through the days. Strong, amazing people.