love

I was sitting looking through my pictures from the last year... 

I forgot about these. We were at some museum. 

last April. 

I can't even remember where... 

anyway, these made me laugh. 

I love this man.. 

He makes me smile.

and he gives really good bear hugs! 

This verse kept coming into my thoughts while I was 

looking at these pictures. 

I want to love like it tells us too in these verses. 

I need to work on this... 

a lot...

just keepin' it real here people. 

1 Corinthians 13 

The Excellence of Love       1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.      4Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.       8Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Lovely Birthday Buttons

Birthday Buttons

I don't really know how I missed this...

I have been through these boxes at least a million times. 

I have collected buttons as long as I can remember. I think I may have been eight when 

my love of them began. 

I was with my mom at an estate sale ( I still know just the house)

and there was a brown tin full of buttons there. I don't know what it cost but

I asked my Mom if I could have them and 

she bought them for me. 

My Grandmother always supported me in this collection. 

She was always clipping a magazine article with ideas for buttons and

tucking it away in her drawer. When we would stop and visit she

would pull them out. 

So.... on my birthday I was looking for something. 

I can't even remember what it was but I was searching for it. 

I came across boxes I had piled up previously of some of my Granma's things. 

I am not sure how I missed these treasures. 

2 cigar boxes and 1 wooden bowl FULL of buttons.

The Talk of the Town

Seriously, look at these... I am so happy that Granma was a sewer. 

how'd she know that her 2nd Grandaughter would adore all things from the 30's and 40's and 

LOVE buttons? 

I believe that God had put them there for me only to find on my birthday and think of my Grandma. 

She passed away and went to be with the Lord 2 years ago the day before my Birthday. So I think I get a little bit down on my bday's now.. (and I am getting old...) 

These yellows ones maybe my favorite! 

with all their swirly yellow goodness. 

I adore that a lot of them she had written on. 

this one says, " Extra Buttons for Marian's sweater made in Florida Spring 1986" 

I have that sweater tucked away in my closet on the shelf. Gram always wore a sweater! 

I just made this last night I thought it needed a little button... PERFECT! 

this is one of my favorite pictures. My Aunt Bee gave it to me when I was caring for my Granma. After I told her how humble I felt washing her feat. She went home and dug this out. It is

me when I was about 2 right at my Gram's feet. 

I miss her a lot. it doesn't get any easier. Only knowing that one day

 I will be able to rejoice with her in Heaven. 

I am happy I was looking for that "thing" I was in a foul mood too because

I couldn't find it. 

Thanks for my birthday buttons, Gram. 

note: this is the keychain clutch by Keyka Lou Patterns

linking up to 

Rustic chic

I have found the wonders of  Burlap. 

Yes, it is a stinky natural cloth made from jute. 

I tried to wash the stink out of it in my washer... It sheds. 

(note to self don't wash burlap in your washing machine)

anyway, I created a lampshade... with some rolled flowers (which I made from a drop cloth) 

I like it. It is  " rustic chic" 

Cheap Cheap. 

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I am linky up to Life Made Lovely Monday on Blessed Little Nest