Blankets

Last fall I went along on one of Bob's planning conferences.  The Army post there had an excellent craft store that a friend, also with her husband at the same conference, convinced me to go see.  I got enthused!  I used to crochet blankets all the time and it had been years since I'd made one, and right then and there decided to make another one.

I bought a pattern book and materials and this was the end result.  Not bad for a "first" try.  It will always be ours, however, because it's shape is a little off.  Someday I'll try the pattern again and get it right, but for a "first" try I was just too impatient to count 180 stitches each row.

And then I got validation.  Early this year in a sacrament meeting talk someone said that we should always be creating something and that if it gave us pleasure we should invest in it and nurture it.  So I bought some more yarn and made another blanket.

Feeling somewhat the expert, I next picked an adorable pattern that I thought I would do for my sister's first baby, due about the time as my new grandson.  Well you know what they say about new construction of houses?  How you should allow 25% more money and time?  Well it applied to this project, and by the time I was done with it, I hated it.  I was never so glad to clear up that one square meter of space in my sitting room, and get it mailed.

Noah's Ark

Elephant and Camel

              

 The rat-opotamus 

Sheep and Giraffe

Somewhere, over a rainbow......

Star

.....two by two......

My next project is all one color, less complicated and works quickly.  I'll keep you posted.

              

Another Year Older

Today, June 12, is my birthday.  I'm not going to confess the years.  You are all clever enough to do the math and come up with that number on your own.

My daughter-in-law Lindsay is a great shopper and gift giver.  I love the card she sent yesterday and thought I'd share it with you.

Do you know people that have the same birthday as you?  I have always thought it interesting that I can name four people that I share June12 with (and I have this nagging feeling that there is someone I'm forgetting - sorry, whoever you are).

Happy birthday, birthday buddies Melissa Zollinger, ME!!, Stacey Score, Kacie Holdaway, and Mo Ray.

The Scriptures

At the end of each seminary year I ask students to write a little something about their favorite scriptures.

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Katelyn Abbott

Helaman 5:12  And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over  you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.

“I need to build my foundation strong.  I don’t want to let Satan be able to beat me down.”

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Meagan Decker

  Mosiah 13:3 Touch me not, for God shall smite you if ye lay your hands upon me, for I have not delivered the message which the Lord sent me to deliver; neither have I told you that which ye requested that I should tell; therefore, God will not suffer that I shall be destroyed at this time.

“Because this scripture is like amazing in helping to give guidance to keeping the standards.”

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Forest Andersen

  Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

“It shows that the word of God can be as powerful as any weapon.”

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Mo Ray

  Jacob 6:12  O be wise; what can I say more?

“What more could you say than to be wise?”

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Stephanie English

  Mosiah 13:3  Touch me not, for God shall smite you if ye lay your hands upon me, for I have not delivered the message which the Lord sent me to deliver; neither have I told you that which ye requested that I should tell; therefore, God will not suffer that I shall be destroyed at this time.

“(1) You can say it any time.  (2) Abinadi told his whole reason for being there.”

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Desiree Andersen

  2 Nephi 1:15 But behold, the Lord hath redeemed my soul from hell; I have beheld his glory, and I am encircled about eternally in the arms of his love.

  

“This is my favorite scripture because it explains to me how much the Savior truly loves us.”

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