Sunday Blessing

More love to Thee, O Christ, more love to Thee!
Hear Thou the prayer I make on bended knee.
This is my earnest plea: More love, O Christ, to Thee;
More love to Thee, more love to Thee!

Once earthly joy I craved, sought peace and rest;
Now Thee alone I seek, give what is best.
This all my prayer shall be: More love, O Christ to Thee;
More love to Thee, more love to Thee!

Then shall my latest breath whisper Thy praise;
This be the parting cry my heart shall raise;
This still its prayer shall be: More love, O Christ to Thee;
More love to Thee, more love to Thee!

"More Love to Thee"
by Elizabeth Prentiss

What wonderful lyrics. I hope you have enjoyed this song as much as I enjoyed singing it this morning in church. Dad (our songleader) told us that Elizabeth Prentiss also wrote "Stepping Heavenward." I haven't read it, but maybe I should. Anyone else read it?

Blessings!

Finished Object Friday

My sister, Angie, is almost never without her camera. (She takes some pretty cool pictures too!) She also carries around some cool sunglasses. :) Unfortunately for them, these two items were wandering around unprotected in her purse... until I came to their aid! :)

I found some cool fabric while shopping earlier this week, and tried my hand at making covers for her sunglasses and her camera.


Ok, so they aren't my best attempt at sewing, but hopefully they will remain functional for a while. :)


As with most of my sewing, I worked it out as I went along. That's not really the recommended method, but I guess it works for me - sometimes better than others. There are still a few things that bug me and the snaps were a great source of frustration, but all in all they are pretty cute. And Angie was pleasantly surprised, which is what is most important! Oh, and the items fit perfectly! (and I was trying to make them roomy, good thing or they wouldn't have fit!) :)

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So what bit of "craftiness" have you been up to recently? ... or even not so recently! :) Share the links below!

To see the other FOF posts click here.

Beautiful Books

It is rather obvious from the number of posts featuring books that I like books! No surprise there, right? Of course I love to look at bookstores! (Although I am rather spoiled by the prices at one of the local sales.) While shopping with my good friend Amanda today, I was thrilled to find these two books:

Now I have the complete collection! What a blessing that they had the two I was missing! :) I love Mary Englebreit, and why not, with all her cherry things!

I also found this beautiful book at another store:

Would you believe I paid $2.50 for it? :) As I have said before, I love old songs. This book has many of America's best loved folk songs along with beautiful art work to illustrate them. It's about 75 pages long. Let's have a peak inside:

Well, that's it for my recent beautiful book buys! :) I hope everyone else's week is off to a good start!

Blessings!

Sunday Blessing

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word!
What more can He say than to you He hath said,
You, who unto Jesus for refuge have fled?


Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed,
For I am thy God and will still give thee aid;
I’ll strengthen and help thee, and cause thee to stand
Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand.

The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose,
I will not, I will not desert to its foes;
That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I’ll never, no never, no never forsake.

How Firm a Foundation
by John Rippon

Have a blessed week!


~ The picture is of my lantana in the front flower bed. :)

Finished Object Friday

I haven't done a whole lot of crafting this week, so I decided to share an older project with you today. This mirror:

A close-up:

This mirror was given to us a while back. I wasn't a big fan of the gold look, so I antiqued it. I've been very happy with the result - much more cheery. It is hanging in my spare bedroom, which is a sort of shabby chic. I have more things I want to accomplish in that room, along with painting the walls! :) I did a blog post on it a year ago. Since it was hidden way down in the archives, I decided to share it again. To see the original post with "before" pictures, click here.

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So what have you been working on this week? (or any other time) Share with us here! :) Remember, it doesn't have to be something finished, it can be a phase of a project that you have completed. We would love to see! To see last week's FOF, click here.