A New Year, A New Way

I just read an article that encourages people,

anyone to blog.  I first started years ago blogging 

on a business blog.  It has posts directed towards being very creative.

For years I posted every week. 

In my posts were ideas of how to use the product line I had created

and sharing talents that I am gifted with.

Now 14 years later my daughter continues to support the blog with 

a team of creative people sharing now, her product line.

It is fun to know I was a part of that blog and that it continues to

have many readers.

Today I am on my own blogging again with my own personal blog.

This requires myself to be true to me.

Meaning, there are no deadline dates that I have to keep, 

or certain days I need to post.

But the need to share what I do at home with the world has become a 

part of my happy time.  Why not share?

Why not keep myself busy with little tasks to do.  The need to keep

my mind busy and going is important to me.

This post is just a reminder to myself that anyone can share anything.

My sharing is different from others, but as the article said,

keep on sharing what is in your mind, what is going on in your life,

and possibly what gifts you are given to share with others.

I had an assignment today in church which required a bit of

preparation and a lot of discussion with my husband so I could feel

adequate to full fill my assignment.  Currently he is driving a 

truck "hot shotting" as they call it, to bring extra income into our home

to offset expenses in our older age.  He wasn't supposed to be 

back for my presentation, but surprised me this morning as he sat

down next to me on the pew, I had left the house 2 hours before to go

to meetings and prepare the room for my presentation.

I'm not sure how many husbands are that dedicated to their wives 

to sleep in the truck and be back home to listen to a presentation of sorts.

What I do know is that I love this man.

He drove through a blizzard only to arrive at a hotel to find that the 

room he had scheduled had been given away because the person

at the desk had not recorded or set up the room for him.

He has been going to that hotel for over a year, and never had this

problem before.  Ahhh, yes, he is sleeping right now.

The presentation of the day is over for me, he is sleeping after

driving for 2 full days and cat naps on the way, safe and sound.

I know he doesn't tell me these things on the phone when we talk so that

I will not fret over his safety.  Silly hotel people.  We all forget something

during our day, and he is safe.  God blessed him.

Blogging.

I will try to blog more about things going on in life,

and more importantly about the good I see,

the changes in my life, and of course, the talents I can share 

and creations that I come up with now and then.

Come along with me as I take this journey in my life.

This will be a learning journey for sure.

Robin  

December Daily - Light the World Journaling book

I'm so excited that I can share the pages of my
Light the World book with you.
In the scrapbook world, they would call this a
December Daily book.
Journaling the events that take place in the month of
December.  I have chosen to record my events
through the Light the World campaign and
do my recording just a little different way.

How did I serve?

Each time I pass my book on the table

in the family room, I am reminded to do something

for someone else.

This was a great project for me, not only to make a journaling book

but to also put in front of me a reminder that 

I need to serve someone else today.

I bound the book myself with a binding machine that

I bought years ago when the scrapbooking

business was going great guns.  Who didn't need 

one of these in their creating room? 

Well, not everyone I guess, but this is a machine

that I use regularly, and has become a great

friend.  Instead of spending more money on someone

else binding my books, I was able to bind my own,

and put my own twist to the book.

So....

many, many years later,

I am still using my binding machine!

Score!!!

Here are the rest of the pages of my

Light the World journaling book.

Really, it is a fabulous December Daily,

and it has a true purpose to help me become a better person

as I add my service in it each day.

And there you have it.

The rest of the book.

I actually have a few more pages with pictures of Dana and I

on them.  We really don't take many pictures at Christmas,

and maybe I should be better at that,

but the few we have, are on the other pages.

And a poster from the Church that was on our Church bulletin

board.  They throw them away at the end of the 

season, so I asked for it. 

It is the picture that is used for the Light the World

campaign. 

My mother had an original painting of this picture, given

to her by her mother.  It hung on the walls of her 

home from the time she received it until 

she and dad died.  It is such a special picture of Mary

and her precious son Jesus.

I was so excited to see that as the poster for Light the World.

It makes the event even more precious to me.

Merry Christmas!

Robin

Light the World Journaling Book / December Daily

I'm way past 8 days!

I started showing my December Daily book

that is focused on Light the World 

campaign, and I only posted 8 days.

8 days go by fast!

So here are the rest of my pages

in my December Daily book for Lighting the World.

This year it has been suggested to do a 

service a week, instead of 

25 days of service,  but I still continue to

record my service for each day of the week.

I added numbers to the pages, and am so in love with them!

They are cut out on my cricut using the font from the Sophisticated 

cartridge.  One of my favorite fonts.

It brings such character to the pages!

When I created the book, I just went through my files of

Christmas papers and such, to design the pages.

Then just cut and glued as I went.

I love the ornaments that have a scripture to go along with the

day.  I found these on the Red headed hostess blog

I think.  I love her stuff.

I'm still plugging along each day, thinking of something to do

that day for service.

It is always interesting to me how easy it is to serve 

someone else.  I read a book years ago that 

challenged you in one of the chapters to do more

service and to record what you do.

I took on that challenge, and it changed my life. 

Who would have thought that after that,

I would spend many hours a week serving others.

It may be a few hours in the temple,

or it may be my neighbor, my grown children,

my close friends, or just someone at the 

grocery store.  But what I have learned from this new

challenge that day, was I became a better person.

I started thinking less of myself and more about the needs

of other people, and seriously, how can that

not make you a better person!

Enjoy Lighting the World.

Robin

Book of Mormon Journaling

This year I decided to read and journal the Book of Mormon

a little bit differently.

I printed out a copy of the Book of Mormon in 8.5x11 size and journaled

on the edges of the pages.

Here is page one.

I added my journaling of the words on the page that I wanted

to emphasize and some washi tape at the top.

This was my first try on the pages and I learned a few things.

1.  I used a black microfelt pen and it bled through to the back side of the page.

2.  I also used rubber stamps and they worked great, but still have that "same" look.

3.  Colored pencils work better and don't bleed through.

4.  The washi tape is a good way to mark things and emphasize items on that page.

5.  I learned over time to become a little more creative.

6.  I started using my old stash of stickers to make the pages more colorful.

Here are a few more pages 

Here you can see the heart stamps are cute, but the same design isn't that great.

Especially for a really cute page.

I love how using the washi tape that it brings a nice edge to the page.

 As I was reading about Lehi's dream, I wondered how it would be easy

for me to find the different meanings of the dream.

So I boxed them in with blue color to the edge of the box.

I love sharing these pages.  

I'm not the very best at making these fabulous,

but I have learned so much by doing this project.

I will continue to share pages out of my book.

I so love the Book of Mormon!

It brings so much peace to my life, and helps me in each and every

day of my living.

Enjoy.

Share you ideas with me too!.

Light the World

The Light the World campaign is sponsored by

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 

It is an awesome way to give during the Christmas Season.

The challenge is to do a kind thing for someone else 

everyday in December before Christmas.

I took the challenge last year for the first time.

I'm not sure how many years the Church has been doing

this, but for me to participate last year was my first year.

It is magical, it brings the spirit of giving to a far different 

level,  It doesn't have to be anything big. 

sometimes it may be a call, or a visit,

or a text, or a plate of cookies.  Nothing big, just

the fact that you have remembered someone,

and shown love!

I made a book last year to represent each day before  Christmas.

It rejuvenated me to write down my act of kindness

to others, and it will be a journal for me in years to come.

I am sharing with you my pages today that I made

to Light the World.

Start this year to Light the World!

Here is my book.
This is the cover that I created.

I love that service in some way, even small ways
will bring good into the world!

25 ways in 25 days!

Day 1

Each day has a section where I can record what I did that day.

Day 2

Day3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

I will share other days as time goes on.

It is such a treasure to have this book in my home.

Each page has my recording of 2017 service for those 25 days 

last year.  

I hope you will have the desire to 

Light the World this year.

25 ways in 25 ways!

Enjoy,

Robin

Thanksgiving Box

Preparing for Thanksgiving 

and visitors is always fun for me.

I love to be with family during this time.

This year I decided to make a box.

My Thanksgiving box is for our thoughts on

our blessings.  Each family member will

add to this either with a picture colored by little hands

or their personal take on blessings in their life.

As I was working with this box,

by the way, it is a hamburger box, When I purchase

hamburgers they come in a box, and I have been

saving boxes for a while with the plan to do something fun.
So, as I was working on this box, I decided
to bring to it a lot of collectibles that I have been saving
for many years and never use.
So as I was working on the box, I felt that the Saffron Sunrise line
would be great for Thanksgiving colors and style.

I started with Saffron Sunrise cardstock.

The yellows and deep grays are the colors I was wanting

for background colors.

So I covered the box in these papers.
I just used elmers glue to attach the papers to the box.

  

Then after the papers are glued to the box,

I used dimensional paint, and painted these letters

with a plastic template.

This was so fun and easy to do, and a new
technique for me in my scrappy room.

I then started adding papers, and items.
On this box I used quite a few cut chipboard from
Gina's Designs.
Love her work!

My additions to the front of the box came from many different eras in
my life.  A piece of fabric, a pumpkin cut from an old
kitchen towel, flowers I sprayed from purple to rust,
a leather N, a feather given to me from my mother in law
at least 30 years ago, acorns from the trees in my backyard.

But most important what is on here from The Robin's Nest?

  

   

   

Saffron Sunrise cardstock, And dew drops and tear drops!!

I just discovered a few minutes ago that 8.5x11 paper fits inside the box!!!!

YeahHHH !!!!!

I can't wait for Thanksgiving week, when we are gathered together

with our son and his family, we will spend an evening writing our blessings

and things we are thankful for.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

And as they say in Georgia,

May your life be Blessed!

Ciao,

Robin