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How are you friends? How was your weekend? Mine was spend lazily stitching away on some custom embroidery projects. It's been cooling down a bit here and we have had the strangest rainstorms with thunder and lightening that come on so quickly and then leave just as quickly. 

I'm feeling the it's the middle of summer and I'm over my plants and yard syndrome. It hits every year. Things are going brown and are not getting watered nearly as often as they should. Last year I had my big birthday bash in September to keep me going but this year...nothing. 

So months and months and months ago one of my oldest and dearest friends, Sarah, asked me to make two embroidered wall hangings for some friends of hers. She loves the Laura Ingalls Wilder quote I had used on my mason jar embroidery and asked only that I use that quote. She gave me free reign on the design and specified lots of yellows and greens. She didn't need them until June and wouldn't you know it the months just sped by! So here it is July and I am just now finished with these pieces. They turned out to be favorites for me. 

 

 

 

 Have a happy Monday friends!

 

 

{thankful on a friday}

 

Today I specifically wandered into a Joann's store just to see this magazine. 

Do you want to know why?

Well, way back in February I was contacted through my etsy shop by a lovely lady 

representing this magazine. They were interested in featuring one of my handmade

items in their July/August issue. 

So that was exciting and all. Whenever you create something and anyone likes it...

well that is kind of a make your day moment. 

So like I said. February. In February, July is a looong time away. 

Now it is July and it is sweltering. The other day I thought to myself, hey, it's 

July. I wonder if that magazine is out that is supposed to have my thing in it?

The only store I have seen this magazine at is Joann's. I took advantage of only 

having one of my three kidlets with me and took a look.

 And there it was. In print and everything. 

Pretty cool for little old me. 

The only one I had to share it with was my little three year old.

Yeah, he didn't care. 

So I instagrammed it. Of course I did. 

I didn't buy a copy. This mag is a little pricey for me. Fifteen whole dollars! Plus, they have 

promised to send me two free copies and some craft supplies. I am insanely curious 

about the craft supplies.

I made this little piece of wall art sometime last year. I think it may have been before I opened

my etsy shop. Anyway, it was around the time I was reading "One Thousand Gifts" by Ann

Voskamp. Hence the phrase I used. Inspired I was. 

So today that is my little bit of thankful. Thankful for the blessing of this little thing in 

a magazine. God is really cool that way. He really loves to bless us in ways

we don't need or deserve. He knows the secrets of our hearts and knows how

 to encourage us on in beautiful ways. 

(By the way, the text in this post is crazy! Out of my control weird and not the same at all! Just had to say that because it is driving me crazy and I can't fix it..anyone having similar problems with blogger?)