1000 Gifts Joy Dare Today’s Gifts - 3 Gifts About Your Parents

Okay, today’s 1000 Gifts Joy Dare is 3 Gifts About Your Parents!

#28 It’s such a special gift that my parents home educate us.

#29 One of the greatest gifts my mother could teach me is to be a homemaker.

#30 My father, is also such a big gift in my live, he will always find a way for everything, fixing and building so many thing for me!

Have you been looking out for things to be thankful for today?

Here is Yesterday’s gifts.

Thankful Greetings

1000 Gift Joy Dare Yesterday's Gifts - A Gift Outside, Inside, Upside Down

Hi everyone, I didn’t have time to post my 3 gift yesterday so here they are today!

Yesterday’s 1000 Gift Joy Dare was A Gift Outside, Inside, Upside Down!

Here is mine:

#25 A beautiful sunrise and a warmer day so we could play tennis.

#26 Delicious apple - cinnamon muffins my mother baked.

#27 Ramekins upside down in water, soaking soft after baking apple pod pies in them.

Hope you like them 

Have a great day 

Thankful Greetings

1000 Gift Joy Dare Today’s Gifts - 3 Gift In The Dark

Yes I know, this is my second post for today! Read the first one here. Now I would like to show you my three gifts for today, 9th of May’s gifts are 3 Gifts in the Dark.

I had to think really hard, but I managed to get 3:

#22 A gift from above, the stars and moon in the beautiful, dark nigh sky (this is not my photo though, found it on the internet).

#23 A light! I think all lights are a gift, I especially love my head-light to read with in the dark at night

#24 Chicken roasting in the dark oven.

Well I hope you like them. Have a blessed night.

Thankful Greetings

Wednesday Poems - Mothers

A Mother loves right from the start.

She holds her baby close to her heart.

The bond that grows will never falter.

Her love is so strong it will never alter.

A Mother gives never ending Love.

She never feels that she has given enough.

For you she will always do her best.

Constantly working, there's no time to rest.

A Mother is there when things go wrong.

A hug and a kiss to help us along.

Always there when we need her near.

Gently wipes our eyes when we shed a tear.

So on this day shower your Mother with Love.

Gifts and presents are nice but that is not enough.

Give your Mother a day to have some peace of mind.

Be gentle, be good, be helpful, be kind.

By Carol Matthews 

A Precious Mother 

Mom You've given me so much,

Love from your heart

and the warmth of your touch. 

The gift of life and you're a friend to me.

We have a very Special Bond

which only comes from God...

I'm sure you agree. 

As a child I would say Mommy I Love You,

Now you're my Mother so dear 

I love you even more

with each and every new year. 

If I could had chosen,

I would have picked no other.

Than for you...to be my lifelong friend

and Precious Mother. 

Author Unknown

1000 Gifts Joy Dare Today’s Gifts - # Gifts Inside A Closet

Today’s 1000 Gift Joy Dare is 3 Gifts Inside A Closet 

Here is my 3 gifts for today:

#19 My winter shoes packed in my closet (Well the tennis shoes are actually winter and summer!).

#20 A big snugly blanket.

#21 Only some of the boxes full of crafting stuff.

Have you been looking out for things to be thankful for today?

Here is Yesterday’s gifts.

Thankful Greetings

1000 Gift Joy Dare Today’s gifts - 3 Gift About Your Home

Well today’s 1000 Gifts Joy Dare is 3 Gifts About Your Home!

Okay so mine is:

#16 A fire place, to warm up the cold house.

#17 A new desk to do my school on (brought cheap from friends).

#18 A decent oven where I can cook the most delicious things. 

Hope you like them! I enjoy it so much to look for things to be thankful for.

Have a great day 

Thankful Greetings

1000 Gifts Joy Dare - Today’s Gifts!

Today’s 1000 Gifts Joy Dare is A Gift Sign, A Smile, A Snack!

Here is my 3 (+) gifts for today:

#12 Fall leaves a sign of Fall/Winter!

#13 A sign of an amazing mother and daughter friendship.

#14 I had a ballet lesson this morning on pointe shoes and I always smile when dancing on them (Yes the are very dirty)!

#15 My mother and I had a ladies night last night and we had waffles and ice cream - a snack!

Have you been looking out for gift lately?

Here is Yesterday’s gifts.

Thankful Greetings

1000 Gifts Joy Dare - Today’s Gifts - Gifts Before 9:00 AM

Today’s 1000 Gift Joy Dare is Gifts Before 9:00 AM. 

Here is my 3 (+) gifts for today:

#6 A warm bed to wake up in.

#7 A hot shower to heat up a cold morning.

#8 A little sister’s hair that I can wash and brush.

#9 A moisturizing gel to apply to my dry skin.

#10 Little brothers to dress.

#11 A delicious warm omelet for breakfast by my mother!

Hope you like it!

Here is the list for all May’s Gifts:

Thankful Greetings!

Mother’s Day Card And Stampin For The Weekend Blog Hop.

Hi everyone, it’s Friday and it’s time for a new challenge over at Stampin for the Weekend. But, it isn’t just any challenge this time. Stampin For The Weekend is also 3 years old!! We would like to celebrate it with a blog hop.

The theme for the challenge is 

Layers!!

We would like to see you use lots of layers on your card!

The main Stampin for the Weekend blog has a prize sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. 

We will also have prizes on all the SFTW DTs’ blogs! 

I can’t tell you what the prize on my blog is, it’s a surprise!!

If you are taking part in the blog hop and followed the list in the correct order you should have come from Rebekah’s blog. 

Here is my layers card:

This card is for my mother, since it’s mother’s day next Sunday. My mother loves red and purple so I think this card really fits her.

I used a digi stamp from The Paper Shelters called Spring Swing and I coloured her with the following Copics:

E35, E33 and E53 - For the girl’s hair.

E35, E33 and E53 - For her skin.

E35, E33 and E53 - For her red dress and shoes.

G14 and G12 - For the green on her dress and for the leaves.

V06, V04 and V01 - For the bow in her hair, the flowers and the little bird.

W3 - For a shadow around the stamp.

I also used glitter glue on some parts of the image for extra dimension.

I used a pretty white and gold ribbon a tied it across the card.

This is what the inside of the card looks like. I hope you like my card!

Now to stand a chance to win the mystery prize on my blog, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post and I will randomly pick a winner at the end of the fortnight. 

Here is a list of all the blogs you can hop to in order:

Rebekah

Heidi-Mari (You are here now)

Karen

Gunn

Chris

Helene

Suzie

Sabina

Jayne

SFTW Challenge blog

Your next hop is to Karen!

Have a blessed weekend everyone and happy hopping!

Crafty Greetings

1000 Gifts Joy Dare!!

Hi everyone, I hope you’re all doing well. Today I would like to start sharing with you my 1000 Gifts Joy Dare. A while ago my mother read a book by Ann Voskamp called 1000 Gifts. In this book Ann share and encourage how to be thankful. When life is busy and tough, it’s natural to think of all the negative things. In 1000 Gifts, Ann shares about her life, with no happy start, and how she changed her empty life by filling it with thoughts of thankfulness. 

She also has a 1000 Gifts Joy Dare over on her blog A Holy Experience. To count 1000 gifts in 2012! Snap 3 photos or record 3 gifts every day for a year and you have over 1000 gifts to be thankful for. Each month Ann posts a list for everyday with a suggestion of what you could look out for. Here is this month’s Joy dare:

You can read some more about it on Ann’s blog, here.

My mother downloaded a free iPhone app to record the 1000 gifts which allows you to record your gifts not only through words, but pictures and videos too! Since I don’t have an iPhone, I decided to take pictures with our camera and post my three or more gifts for that day on my blog!

I’ve already experience the miracle of change in my emotions by being thankful in a challenging, sad situation! Read more about it here, where I blogged about being thankful.

Now Yesterday's (2nd May) 3 gifts were 3 gifts flat.

Here are the three (or more) gifts I found:

#1 A story book to read.

#2 Flat cards made.

#3 Warm winter clothes, hanging flat in a row.

#4 A flat screen computer.

#5 A school book, to learn from.

I hope I can encourage you to be find 3 gifts everyday to be thankful for!




Here is June’s Gifts:

Thankful Greetings

Wednesday Poems - How Beautiful Is The Rain!

How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!
How it clatters along the roofs
Like the tramp of hoofs!
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout!
Across the window-pane
It pours and pours;
And swift and wide,
With a muddy tide,
Like a river down the gutter roars
The rain, the welcome rain!

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow