What an Amazing Christmas!!!

HI all,

I hope all of you are having a wonderful Christmas season.  We are so blessed. 

But it has been difficult at times....  Well my husband was deployed this past year - so we are very grateful that he is home this year!!!  But with coming home and going back to work, we discovered that the money we thought he was going to be making was not quite what we thought....  we could pay all the bills, but not have enough to cover food and gas for the cars.  So we have turned this over to God - KNOWING that HE WOULD take care of us.... so we have been waiting for our miracle....  Our options, we thought, were a better paying job or sell our house and move out in the country.....  but God has a different plan at the moment....

A few weeks ago, we were given some money for food and that and all of the meat I have been stocking up with from Sam's Club - we have been doing good....  But as time is going on (hubby just found out that he was accepted for the 1st stage of a different job), we were still waiting.....  It looked like Christmas dinner was going to be simple....  then out of the blue - gift cards, food and money have been coming our way.  We are so AMAZED at how GOD is taking care of us!!!  GOD IS SO GOOD!!! 

And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  Philippians 4:19

I would like to give back to you, so I have set my store to $1 through the end of the year.... hurry up and catch some great bargains....

Here is my newest paper pack...



Here is a LO and QP I have made for you, using this paper pack...





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I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

DSD Digital Scrapbook Day

This weekend at KJOIs we are having a big sale and lots of fun activities....





Come checkout our special challenges, chats, games and more!!!

Take a look at our marvelous Collab kit for this month...



Please come join us for all of the fun at KJOIs...
find out how you can receive a fabulous free Brag Book.  Here is
the 1st page - to give you a taste...



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Is This Your Life?

There is so much wisdom in the verse for today. (There is so much wisdom in all Scripture verses....)

James 3:17-18

¹⁷But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. ¹⁸And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

God has given His wisdom through HIS Word - we can discover key things that can help us to live good lives....

• Purity - "having no faults; sinless"; we need to live lives that are good, we are "holy" - set apart for God.
• Peaceable - "freedom from disputes"; we need to live lives where we are making peace with others - no discord.
• Gentle - "kindly or tender nature"; we need to live lives that are kind to others - caring, loving - considerate.
• Open to Reason - "willing to yield"; we need to live lives where we don't have to get our own way all the time.
• Full of Mercy - "not getting the punishment that we deserve"; we need to live lives that are compassionate to others - we were forgiven of much - we need to forgive others so much more....
• Full of Good Fruits - we need to live lives that reproduce - are we sharing the love of God with others???
• Impartial - "Free from undue bias"; we need to live lives that is fair, loving towards ALL people - no matter what - this is "unconditional" love in action...
• Sincere - " In accordance with truth"; we need to live lives that are genuine, are we Sunday Christians only - or does our love for God permeate our whole lives?

If we are living a life that reflects these principles - we will have a happy good life. We will be living in peace with others - we will see this righteous living reflected in peace.

I am so thankful that God loves us so much that He gives us principles to live by. Our lives are so much more pleasant when we are considerate of those around us. We CAN live happy productive lives - with God's help.

Do you have God's help??? Do you know that God loved us so much - even in our sinful, rebellious state - that He sent His only Son, Jesus - to die on the cross for ALL of our sins??? God is waiting, with open arms to welcome you back - He greatly desires to have a relationship with you! Do you also know, that Jesus rose from the grave - He no longer is dead - He is a living Savior - He is God over all the universe? He knows and cares what is happening to you.

Run home - to the God who LOVES you so much....

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Come to Faith Scraps to see how to get this Word Art for free...





 

It's My Birthday Sale!!!

Hi all,

I am having a sale at my store at KJOI Studios!!!  Guess how old I am LOL....  and you can get 45% off.... Come any time on Friday February 20th!!!

I am also going to start adding "specials" you can only get on my blog....

For the next 2 weeks (ends March 6th) get my newest kit,

The Greatest Is Love



For only $1 - just use this coupon code....  1c88fa793b

Also - check out my Scripture Challenge at KJOIs....  you still have time to do a LO for it... 

Busy-ness, LO shares and fun

Hi all,

Well life is busy.  We started school this week - it is going well. 

Our oldest daughter stayed in MI with grandparents - she is almost 21.  So we are giving her bedroom to the two youngest girls 16 months and almost 7 years.  At least the older one is sleeping in there.  The other day, Jessica pulled the small plastic play kitchen on top of her - it is not very sturdy - so I want to get them a new one.  Well yesterday, I found this cool play kitchen made out of an entertainment center.  SO today I went and bought one for $20 - it is sooooo heavy ( ooops).....  I will be showing before, during and after pics - and I am sure I will be making a LO of it....  I know this will be a lot of fun to make it.  I also decided to make some felt food - there are some great patterns on etsy.... plus I found some free ones I am going to try first.... who knows, I may even just make up my own patterns....

I finally was able to do some scrapping - I got 4 LOs done the other day.  Well I am on the Digitals Team CT - it is a lot of fun - working with all the different designers.  So these are all using Maddy Fernandez' Summer Bloom and Summer Leisure kits.  I also used 2 of Hummie's templates - they really inspired me to make these LOs....











It is so nice to get some scrapping done!!!  Next, I am going to work on the challenges at KJOI Studios.  One is to scrap one photo a week to account for what happened.  So I am going to try and do this for January to catch up - there might be a lot of journaling rather than as many photos.  I think it might be good to journal our year - especially with hubby being gone....

So now onto doing some LOs ....

Firm Resolutions

Hi all - do you find yourself making resolutions at this time of the year?  Are you making keepable resolutions?  How about joining us in the challenge at Faith Sisters and make Firm Resolutions in Christ!

We have made mini-kits to help you to scrap your resolutions - this is mine...



Here is my LO...



I have made this LO into a QP.

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I hope you will join us in making Firm Resolutions In Christ!

Busy, Busy, Busy & a Challenge

Hi all - I am still here... this week has just been real busy....

I don't know if I have shared this with you here, but my husband is
getting ready to deploy. So life can be kind of crazy at times. He
has only been home on the weekends the past month - so are weekends are
real busy as we spend a lot of quality time together as a family!!!
Then since we are so busy, I am kind of tired the 1st of the week....
LOL But I am keeping up with homeschooling and other things....

As you know, I am a new designer at KJOI Studios - so one of my tasks
this week has been loading up my store with my kits.... Have you seen
my brand-new kit....

In The Garden...



I really enjoyed creating this unique kit!!!

Here is a LO I made with it...



So my challenge to you...

Make a LO of a prayer for your children, spouse, friends, family, self, etc. Choose your subject. It can be a simple prayer. This can be a prayer of thanks, prayer of protection, prayer of joy,.... Please leave me a link to your LO in the comments section and I will send you a coupon for a free kit from me. Please email me at digiscraps @ imelville.com (remove the spaces) if you have not heard back from me within a few days. Especially if you are doing this challenge at a later time....

As you do this LO, pray for this loved one. Do you pray daily for your loved one??? Take time today and everyday to lift your loved ones up to the Saviour!!!

Monday's Motivation - Oct 13, 2008

Hi all - well I thought I might get back into my weekly theme's....

SO Monday is Motivation....

How about a motivation to scrap a LO???

Show me a LO you have done in Oct that gives praise to God - and I will send you a coupon for a kit of your choice in my store!!! This can be any subject that acknowledges God!!!

Here is a LO that I have done recently...



Leave me a link to your LO (in the comments) and I will email you your coupon code!!

SO what is my motivation this week....

* start doing more challenges to get people to "Put a Little God in Every LO"
* start blogging more - inspirational messages
* start working out more on the Wii Fit
* start Learning Adventures this week with the kids....

Thank you for reading,
Lori