Blink Links :: Easter Edition

Jessica — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:47:11 +0000

1. Get out! Look at these yummy ultra-adorable cupcakes. Amy, from the Idea Room, shares how to make ‘em! I think, I’d just plain feel bad eating such a lovable face!

2. Becca from Blue Cricket Design shows us how to make tissue paper eggs. I’d love to have some eggs that were savable from year to year, wouldn’t you?

3. Darling alert! The Creative Maven entered this darling egg topiary into Living with Lindsay’s $5 Challenge. Isn’t it darling? The lettering could easily be switched to spell RISEN!

4. You all know, I’m a huge sucker for felted crafts. Look at these felted egg place holders! Ack, I’m in love! Pamela from the blog, Pamela Susan, gives us a tutorial and lovely photographs!

5. Resurrection rolls from Smashed Peas and Carrots. She includes step by step instructions on how to make them. Yum! What a fun way to teaches the little ones about Jesus at Easter.

Be sure to stop over to all the Blink Links above and give them some comment love!

Have a very good Good Friday and Blessed Easter Sunday!

Love,

Jess

Works With Eager Hands

Jessica — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:47:13 +0000

Just a Blink Readers: I will pick and choose the order in which the verses from Proverbs 31:10-31 are “learned about”. I think I’ll clump together the husband verses down the road a bit. Hey, it’s my blog I can wreck it up if I wanna.

Proverbs 31:12
13 She selects wool and flax  and works with eager hands.

Hang on a second, I need to go sheer a sheep and pick some seeds, then eagerly mix them together. Oh wait, I live in 2010, in suburbia, with not a clue what to do with wool and flax.

Research needed.

Wool

Did you know that felt was made from wool? I love felt. I guess some ancient people put clumps of wool in their sandals so they wouldn’t get blisters. By the time they walked a long way, the wool turned into felt under their feet. Flash forward a few thousand years.

Now look, it’s pretty…and less smelly I’m sure.

photo credit from Wikipedia

Flax

Flax can be used to make linseed oil, vitamin supplements and even a type of hair-do product. One of the oldest clothing remnants ever found was made from flax fibers.
And look, it’s pretty too…

Eager Hands

I don’t have seeds of flax or clumps of wool to put into my eager hands. I do have the opportunity to gather supplies for useful purposes.

To me, Proverbs 31:12 is basically like going shopping at craft, fabric or thrift stores. Hmmm…yes I just made thrift stores biblical.

Well, my hands to love to create with materials that I have on hand or that have been eagerly albeit thriftily gathered from my surroundings (garage sales).

I’ve done my research. Now, it’s time for homework.

Create with wool and flax. I’ll show you what I come up with next week. I see felt in my future…