Just a little something....

I saw someone post "what a difference a year makes" the other day. How very true! In my case it's been a year of some of the biggest blessings of my life and some of the biggest challenges I've ever faced. But in the end, God is just so very faithful and always, ALWAYS, good.

We are in our new home that you saw pictures of earlier.....clearing trees and making the foundation. I will take some new and updated photos when I get my good digital camera back (hopefully this coming week). Nothing is really decorated or anything yet, but that will come with time.

It seems like we moved in, unpacked boxes (still a few to go), got settled, tilled the soil and planted lawns, planted two flower gardens and a little veggie garden, began building a pole barn (for all the stuff we had in the barn at the farm), had our youngest graduate high school and celebrated with an open house and so on. It's literally been one thing after another. All good though!

So there will be time to decorate later. And after we are in the house a bit and knowing exactly where we want things, right?

But we've had lots of fun in there too! Lots of evenings on the deck having dinner or dessert......or both........with friends. Lots of crafting days with friends (and through the evening and night). :) I've done more crafting in the last two months than all of last year. So what have I done?

Okay, well I admit first of all that I am no Carin or Renee, but I did make a little something that I think turned out pretty cute! Lyn gave me a link to this website ( http://lifeaslou.blogsome.com/2008/01/30/magic-boxes-a-life-as-lou-online-class/ ) and I printed these instructions.......and there they sat. Until the last 24 hours. Then I just HAD to do something (you know when you get like that)...and this was that something:

I'm using this as a birthday card/gift box for my niece. I will fill it with little candies, stickers, do-dads and a gift card. All I need to do is add a birthday tag to the top, that she can remove so she can use her box for whatever she wants.

Well thanks for sticking with me. I guess there wasn't much to stick with over the past 10 months. I can't say that I am a faithful blogger, but hopefully a faithful friend makes up for it. That's more important anyway. :)