What Are You Thankful For?

 What Are You Thankful For?

In late 2011 a friend was talking about the fun mail art envelopes she had been creating for a swap partner and it was then I learned about Swap-bot. What a great find! One of my favorite pastimes today is participating in the many and varied swaps available at this site. Currently I am in a swap called Fall ATC-What Are You Thankful For? 

Wow what a topic. In a previous post I shared some thoughts about a friend, Karen Huss who has just recently died. The topic of Thanksgiving, Fall and Gratitude would normally bring to mind the color of Autumn, the crisp air and cooler temperatures, harvesting my apples, making apple butter and so many delights! While posting those thoughts I realized that although those are wonderful experiences, they do not really embody what I am truly grateful for. In fact, it is an exploration for me so I decided to begin a group of posts listing what I AM thankful for. I will include many of the normal and expected things I'm sure, but maybe you like me have a NEED to think more deeply and pen some of your own thoughts. I hope you'll share by adding some of your personal reasons to be thankful in the comments. 

Today I am thankful for God's love, His love helps us endure in times of sorrow and His love is there to rejoice with us in times of great joy!

SPRING...Green popping up everywhere?!

Green is popping up everywhere! My fruit trees are budded, the chives have erupted, strawberry plants are spreading thier little runners everywhere so WHY oh WHY do we have snow FLURRIES? Here it is May and we have snow flurries! LOL well one thing these little surprises do give me is a bit more desire to sneak down to my craft room to play. Do you wonder where I've been? I've been busy catching up on some recent swap commitments. Just recently we had an unexpected trip out of town that followed our return from our annual Xango Elevation retreat...this year's trip was a cruise to the beautiful Western Carribean. When we headed out of town there was just a faint hint of green in the lawn but coming back the lawn has greened up (aside from the white from the unexpected flurry.) The iris are beginning to bloom, I see sunflower leaflets emerging at my friends house and it just excites me to use some of my flower embellishments I've been stashing since fall :) I wanted to take a
minute to show off some of the things I've been working on.


After all that creating my craftroom has become a huge mess of leftover scraps so most recently I finished some swaps using up some of the leftovers and discards LOL. I've decided I need to do that swap more frequently :)