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Thanks to U Create, our mantel is already decorated for Valentine’s Day.  There are two great blogs that gave tutorials for these decorations.  Brown Paper Packages showed us how to make the conversation blocks and Plum Peppermint shared how to make the heart-snowflake garland.  Here are the results: I’m in love!  Hope you enjoyed this little picture of our Valentine decorated mantel

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So Thomas and I have about a bajillon t-shirts. Many of them come from church functions over the past few years. About 8 months ago, I began using Google reader to get some craft blogs on a regular basis. U Create is one of the main ones from which I glean ideas because she points you to tons of other blogs. One of the first ideas I marked that I wanted to try was this t-shirt hat. Well,

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Thanks to Nanny Goat, I found a solution to the reoccurring question for Thomas and me of “What’s for dinner?”  Now that I’m working full-time (I know 25 and the first time I’ve every worked full-time, kind of crazy) I don’t want to have to come home and decide what’s for dinner.  Check out Nanny Goat’s blog if you have that same issue.  Here’s how mine turned out: Although there’s a

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For Christmas I decided I would make some gifts.  Mainly for nieces or nephews in our family, but one adult snuck in too.  I love to read craft blogs.  I randomly end out at some destination on the web from clicking through about twenty blogs and then forget to bookmark the page so I can go back and make the craft when I have the time.  U-Create helps me find most of these precious projects.

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Okay scrapbook and teaching friends, listen up.  Don't have a Cricut? On Black Friday, before noon, you can get verison one (6"x12" mat) for $70 at Michael's (a $130 savings).  Then the whole weekend, you can get the Gypsy which is the awesome, design on the go handheld device that attaches to your Cricut.  You can buy it the whole Thanksgiving Weekend for $100 (a $100) savings.  Here's the

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As you can see, it has been months since my last update.  I’m trying out a new program called Winds Live Writer.  We’ll see if this encourages me to blog more than normal.  I am loving my position as Minister of Students at St. Andrews Baptist here in Columbia.  In addition to my role with students, I have been visiting hospitals, attending meetings for personnel and interim pastor search, and

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Yesterday morning, Thomas and I shared with the congregation at Eastside Baptist that I was offered the Minister of Students position at St. Andrews Baptist in Columbia. Next Sunday, we will attend SABC as their congregation votes to affirm the personnel committee's choice of me as their new MoS. As we shared with the congregation our news, I was overwhelmed with emotion. I am completely and

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Tomorrow is my niece's fifth birthday. I have to say, she is by far one of the most precious blessings in my life.From the moment we met...I have been amazed at how wonderfully God created her. She lights up a room when she's in it. I love that even from an early age I could see my influence on her...(Note: She is already making the Wolfpack hand sign at four months old)You see, it's because of

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My sewing project has finally come to fruition! For over six months I've been saying I was going to make my niece a pillow case dress. I've had this tutorial marked for months, and bought my thrift store cases about the time I began saying I was going to make them. Well my niece's 5 year-old birthday party is today, so yesterday and today, I buckled down and here are the results:This little

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Over the next few weeks I'm going to try to glean from my friend Amy Haywood what this whole blogging thing is about and how I can appropriately use this venue. She's pretty smart, so I think it will make it simple. What do you think of my header? The words at the bottom are a little hard to read, but other than that I'm pretty fond of it.

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So, I am the first to admit I do not read. I do not know a lot of what goes on around the world because I often do not read the news. However, I have recently seen the persons I am friends with and follow through social media make uneducated or simply inappropriate comments on health care. I say these comments I have seen are inappropriate because they make claims that are untrue or are

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I'm hoping to be more active with my blog as graduation approaches. We'll see how well I update it before I really start putting it out there again (i.e. sharing posts via twitter and facebook). I enjoyed using The Cutest Blog on the Block to customize my blog. It was simple and quick! As well, I don't know much about it, but I have a free software I use from time to time called Photoscape

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This final semester of divinity school, I am enrolled in Hebrew one. On today, I love it. Last night I got home from class and spent 2 hours at the kitchen table learning the Hebrew alphabet (aleph-beth) to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy. After Thomas got home from his classes around 10, we ate dinner and then spent until 12:45 learning my first week of vocabulary. What a blessing to have

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Here's the actual photos of my sister's reception! It was a wonderful time in April & I loved getting to give her the gift of this unique family gathering.

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So... my sister's getting married April 18th! I'm so excited for her. Because of this, I spend time in classes diverting my attention to pretty things that may go with her wedding. Below are photos found mainly on the knot that I liked doing with the color scheme of Pink and Orange. What do you think?

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One of the courses I am currently taking is the Changing Face of Baptist. This class is fascinating to me. We began by looking at the rise of the Religious Right and will begin today to dialogue about the conflict that went on the SBC during the 70's and 80's. As I was reading in chapter one of our text by Morgan (The New Crusades, the New Holy Land), I ran across this statement made at the

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Dr. West always spoke of the preaching moment with such awe and reverence. He told us that this moment should always be approached with silence and when we dared to finally open our mouths, the words we spoke must come from God. I have been thinking a lot lately about this idea. In March, I will be preaching at Eastside and more and more that thought is intimidating. Not because I have a fear

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This morning in Volunteers, Dr. Steibel made this quote:How many people would like to be in this classroom, yet they arefighting missles, struggling to survive..Today I'm going to strive to appriciate the opportunity I have been given. Instead of grumbling, I'm going to celebrate the freedom I have to learn. We'll see how that goes.

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Thomas and I had the privilege of going with our friends, Michael and Lauren Krumbine to the Biltmore House during the last weekend of the candlelight season. How gorgeous the house was! The dim lighting and Christmas lights gave the house a whole other dimension. Here's a few pics of our trip.As the New Year has begun, thus begins the journey of a new me (instead of trying to get back to the old

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I hope that one day my mother-in-law will open the boutique she has talked about! If she does, I'm going to have a booth in it and sell my crafts. For those of you who don't know I love to make things. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not an original thinker. I just adapt what I see often times. For instance, I saw in the December issue of Hallmark Magazine some luggage tags that were suggested as

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So I'm going to try to post at least once a week from now on. That's my new goal. Hopefully I'll be doing some more theological reflection, and if anyone actually reads this, you can respond to such. Today I am meeting with my Bible Study Buddy/Accountability Partner, Keelie.We meet weekly (most of the time) to do a Bible Study that we started over a year ago. It's a Beth Moore study of the

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I think my anger is like a sleeping parasite! About a week and a half ago a situation occurred that really hurt my feelings and I still haven't gotten over it apparently. I thought I did. I expressed my hurt to the responsible party and they somewhat apologized, but mostly out of obligation. I thought I had let it go, but then there it goes again, eating away at me inside. My anger becomes

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So this weekend I met the AMAZING Natalie Grant! Can I just say, when I grow up, I would love to be half as inspirational as she is! Here's our photo:I appreciate so much how her energy and spirit points me towards God. Her music is so uplifting, and her heart for teen girls is incredible! She was not the only musical guest at Women of Faith, we also enjoyed the praise and dance mix of Nicole C.

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Tonight on Eli Stone his spiritual guide (I call him that because I don't really remember the character's name) said something really profound. It was along the lines of "You had to know when you took back the mantle of prophet, that there were going to be some dark times." I'm writing my exposition paper (that's overdue) for Old Testament 2 on Jeremiah 1:4-12. Verses 4-10 are the account of

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Do you ever have something happen to you that causes you to be completely distracted from all you need to be focused on?Well... I've had that going on for the past few days now, weeks really. I feel like I have no direction, I'm getting my MDiv but I don't know what I'm called to, it was just clear to me that God wanted me to get my MDiv so I could be prepared for whatever ministry he led me to.

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I've picked up a side job, I'm going to be an AVID tutor for Shelby Middle and High School. I'm so excited about it! AVID stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination and is designed for the middle portion of students who could be college bound but are often overlooked. The neat part for me is that it is not your normal form of tutoring. I will be tutoring a group of seven kids who

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So here's the sand castle Thomas and I built on Tuesday. It's pretty fabulous, only the moat kept drinking up the water, so it's empty. Today we went to La Belle Amie, a vineyard in Little River, SC which puts out some good stuff. We had a fun time and got some great supplies for a good mulling spice cider.This thing was as you entered: The awesome sign as you drive in: Us at the wine tasting!

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Usually, we go to Calabash and eat at the same restaurant. This year we decided to mix it up, and try a new restaurant... it was awesome! The Boundary House at Callahan's is where we went to eat. Thomas and I shared the potato soup and then I had chicken, bacon, and cheese quesadillas with fries. Thomas had a burger. It was a neat atmosphere! Loved it!The Miller's (Berry and Monica) went

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So two posts ago I refrenced a "sandy diaper butt". I realized I never responded to that comment, so here it is. For those of you that have ever been to the beach with me you know that I can't sit still to lay out, especailly in the heat. So, I decided to go sit in the soft part of the sand. I sat there probably for 30 minutes. Ocassionally, the waves would come in a push me around. What I didn't

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Today was another relaxing day. I spent the day by the pool. Did a little bit of reading for classes, and got some tan. Tonight, we had a great time watching the first Borne movie. I'm looking forward to doing the whole trilogy. Here are some photos from yesterday as well, and one of me and my wonderful hubby from tonight!Have I mentioned that I love this waffle maker! Waffles for breakfast for

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While all my Div school friends are in class... I'm sitting by the pool! Granted, I'm reading for class, but at least I'm still on vacation. I'm having a ball, spending time with family and relaxing. We played Cranium last night and the girls won! Who would expect any less? I'm going to try to get them to play Mexican train dominos at some point, but I think we're starting the Borne trilogy

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Today was our first day on the sand! Needless to say, Kenzie was having fun (If you can't tell from the pictures). The only bummer was that because of Hanna the ocean floor was majorly shell ridden, meaning that it hurt to go out at all and then you'd get pushed over in the waves because you didn't have a good balance due to the pain of your feet. Ocean Isle is fun; it brings back good memories

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