It's a Giveaway (or 5)
And all you have to do is click on the right post and leave a comment to be entered to win:
A $250 Give Jewelry Bracelet Shopping Spree
A Premium Basket of Scented Candles
3 Charm Packs from the Fat Quarter Shop
It started six weeks ago, the morning of Rachael's father's funeral. The words began to haunt anew: lymph node, trial of antibiotics, blood work, sed rate, xray. I knew the progression. I'd lived it before. First this, then this, then cancer, then chemo, then...
This time, though, the words were spoken by my pediatrician. This time, I was not the patient. This time, I was the mom.
She's been through so much this fall that it breaks my heart. Not this, too. Surely not this.
Please Lord, this cup? Let it pass?
And then, after what seemed like eternal waiting and watching, new words.
Within normal limits.
And I am grateful.
I'm back with one more giveaway.
Now that I've begun to quilt, I'm ever more appreciative of the Fat Quarter Shop. And I'm totally loving what can be done with pre-cut charm squares. Oh those skirts! They love to twirl:-). So this giveaway is a guaranteed fun one.
The Fat Quarter Shop is offering a giveaway of a 3 Flora charm packs--that's 126 beautiful 5" squares begging to be made into something awesome. And there are lots and lots of things to be done with charm packs.
I've thoroughly enjoyed The Jolly Jabber, blog of Fat Quarter Shop owner Kimberly Jolly. It's especially fun to read Designer Tidbits which offers interesting peeks into the lives and tastes of fabric designers or to click through the sidebar list of fabric designers' blogs.
Do you have a favorite fabric line? Something that sings to you and makes you wish you had one of every print? Leave me a link or even just a name and let me know what you love and what you would do with it. In return, you'll be entered to win those darling charm packs.
The generous and very talented folks at St. Luke's Brush have offered you a beautiful doll, just as we prepare to celebrate Our lady of Guadalupe. This stunning doll can be yours--leave a comment for a chance to win. Our Lady of Guadalupe, "Our Lady of the Americas" is a one of a kind, 3.5 inch wooden peg doll hand painted with non-toxic acrylic paints and sealed to preserve this keepsake toy.
I can't begin to tell you how much my children love our wooden saints dolls. They are easily the most beloved toys ever. One way we've increased our collection is by giving each child their name saint as a stocking gift one year. We open our stockings on December 6th, the feast of St. Nicholas.
For this week only, St. Luke's brush is offering a free St. Nicholas doll for any orders of $100 or more. It's an In the Heart of my Home special only for this giveaway week
giveaway runs. Readers simply need to put In the Heart of my Home Special in
the notes section with their qualifying order.
Leave a comment below to qualify for the Our Lady of Guadalupe doll. I've told you our favorite stocking stuffer. Please tell me yours.
P is for Pilgrim
Another winner from Sleeping Bear Press of our Monday Night Football Geography fame.
This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story
This is a lively counting rhyme with bright, cheerful pictures. Easily memorized in time to impress the grandparents at Thanksgiving Dinner.
N. C. Wyeth's Pilgrims
This is my absolute favorite Thanksgiving book. The clear, crisp, astonishingly beautiful N. C. Wyeth paintings are so very memorable.
Cranberry Thanksgiving
A Five-in-a Row favorite. It's out of print. The recipe for cranberry bread is quite good.
This is a photography book worthy of the coffee table. I can't for the life of me figure out why it's out of print. (Shhh...there are 15 used ones available at Amazon).
Cynthia Rylant makes poetry of November. This is a sensory feast, filled with warmth and snuggling and the gathering of creatures.
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st) The Eucharist is another name for Holy communion. The term comes from the Greek by way of Latin, and it means "thanksgiving." It is used in three ways: first, to refer to the Real Presence of Christ; second, to refer to Christ's continuing action as High Priest (He "gave thanks" at the Last Supper, which began the consecration of the bread and wine); and third, to refer to the Sacrament of Holy Communion itself. [Middle English eukarist, from Old French eucariste, from Late Latin eucharistia, from Greek eukharisti
, from eukharistos, grateful, thankful : eu-, eu- + kharizesthai, to show favor (from kharis, grace; see gher-2 in Indo-European roots).]
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Revisiting a big kids' lapbook to make plans to do it all over again with the little ones:
Here is a narration of Cranberry Thanksgiving on the left and a Thanksgiving poem for memory and copywork in the middle.
Mary Beth has written things for which she's thankful on the turkey's feathers. The purple matchbooks open to tell about the events on the Mayflower.
The map shows the journey from England to Plymouth.In the centerpiece are the steps for planting corn (I think this, the map, and the Mayflower pictures are from Enchanted Learning.). There is a folded Venn diagram just below the map (it's hard to see because it's yellow). Mary Beth compared our Thanksgiving dinner with the Pilgrim dinner.
On the right in this picture (really the bottom flap) is a four part shutter book with picture of spring, summer, winter and fall reduced from N. C. Wyeth's Pilgrims. This is a really beautiful book!Beneath the flaps are narrations of each season that I keyboarded so we could fiddle with the font and make it fit.
I'm Elizabeth. I'm a happy wife and the mother of nine children. I grab grace with both hands and write to encourage myself and others to seize and nurture the joy of every day. I blog here with my daughter, Mary Beth, a wholehearted young lady on the brink of adulthood.
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