Insta-Friday {3}

Sometimes, cute things happen to me / Bacon-banana pancakes / 
Halloween origami / Halloween Trammell #1 / 
want to take that chair home and craft all over it / 
Auntie Fay's little stud muffin / new menu planning station / 
laminating our fall nature walk / settling / new little aroma lamp / 
Moto begging for cat massage / breaking out the arm warmers / 
Halloween Trammell #2 / little people playing "chess" / 
the measuring and cutting always take up the most time / 
washing the Halloween off of the hubs. 

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Traveling Excitement + Earring Book {tutorial}

In just a short 25 days, the hubs and I are going a-traveling! We'll be visiting his family in Tennessee for Thanksgivingand we are beyond excited! 
The reason for our excitement is two fold: (1) this will be only our second trip Stateside in over 3 yearsand (2) this will the first time we see John's family in 4 years! 
To sum it up: WE SO EXCITED! 
Aaaand, I've already started mentally packing my bag(s). 
But, I was presented with a daunting situation while mentally trying to pack my earrings. 
Hilarious, right? 
You see, a while back I created the cutest little earring holder. You can see it here. 
Great, right? But not exactly fit for travel. And I like the idea of being able to take all of my accessories with me when I go places. 
And so, the Simple Earring Book was born! 

View the tutorial after the jump! 

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Quoted: Prayer

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New looks + my first {guest post}!

Today I spent waaaay too much time 

tweaking my blog looks. ^^ 

I have to say, I'm pretty pleased with the end results. 

Anywhoo, on to more better things: 

Today is also my very first guest post! 

And who better to be my first guest author

than the man who I love and admire most? 

Without further ado, may I introduce to you the dear hubs, John. 

Check out his wonderful post, The King of the Wood, after the jump! 

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Dry Bones

(source)

LISTEN HERE.

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On bathtubs

A few mornings ago, as I was getting ready for work in the bedroom, the hubs came into the room, huffed, and said,"I hate it when I have to use the toilet after I've showered." Then, he proceeded to take his jeans offand head into the bathroom sporting only his boxers. 
Is that weird to you? 
To me, it made perfect sense...

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Insta-Friday {2}

Scarf week / The hubs' comeback cup of coffee! / field trip to Cheonan Independence Hall / first hockey game of the season! / public transportation / jar-o-lanterns / wearing socks again / Settlers! / coffee filter bats / standing in history / pretty / meat pies for Canadian Thanksgiving / ball pit with the Kinders / foam spiders / so. much. chicken. / fakies
Happy Insta-Friday! 

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Halloween crafties

Can you believe that Halloween is just two weeks away? 

Where did this year go?? 

Anywhoo, I've been doing some fun Halloween crafties

with my Kinders these days

and I thought I'd share a few of them with you! 

These crafts are GREAT for small hands

and they're sure to get you into the spooky spirit: 

(click the craft titles to go to the tutorials) 

Coffee Filter Bats

Jar-O-Lanterns

Foam Ball Spiders

And finally, one of the easiest and spookiest 

Halloween crafts: Tissue Ghosts.

Follow along with the tutorial after the jump! 

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Dear Shampoo...

I miss you.

It's been 3 weeks since we broke up. 

At first, it was great. 

I was so excited and enthusiastic about

joining the 'No Poo' movement and leaving you behind. 

The first two weeks were new and exciting, 

and Baking Soda and Vinegar were taking good care of me. 

Don't you get too excited. 

I'm not ready to run back to you quite yet. 


And I know, they told me the transition period would be tough. 
I've been dependent on you for my whole life, 
so, naturally, ditching you was not going to be easy. 


But I miss your bubbles. 
I miss your smells and soft silkinesses. 
But my research has shown that you're full of harmful chemicals
and my head's dependency on you is causing
an excess of oily drama. 


I don't plan on ever going back to you, 
and I'm hoping that my new relationship with 
Baking Soda and Vinegar 
will last forever. 


Hair's hoping, 

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Quoted: A fun God

"We associate all the fun and excitement and neon coolness of lifewith the world and leave God all the boring, discipline-flavored moments. He's like eating broccoli. We know it's good for us, but it's still broccoli. But that can't be right. GOD IS WILD. He's constantly saying, "Let's go find cliffs to jump off of," and,"I know exactly what you need, because, guess what, I put that need there." He created my heart and the deepest desires I have, and there's no yacht or nightclub on the planet that can access those spots of me like God can. 
And besides, he invented sex. And not just "let's make a baby" sex--He invented "whoa, the world just tilted on its axis; I can't believe we get to do that and go to heaven too" sex. Sometimes we act like we were the ones that discovered it was fun, like maybe God was in heaven and was surprised to see how enjoyable we were able to make it. "Whoa, I created that for procreation purposes; I had no idea it would be so awesome." And so we give the world credit for sexand think that God is only down with the functional version, but the fun version, the wild version, that's probably something Marvin Gaye came up with." 
- "Telling testimonies that are exciting right up until the moment you became a Christian",  Jon Acuff

Linking up all over the place.

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Called into fellowship with a Faithful God

 

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Happy birthday, Momma!

I love you and miss you so.

Linking up all over the place.

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