Help, Im stuck on Pinterest and I cant get off !!!

Last year I discovered Pinterest, the awesome website with oogles of inspiration for everyone. I have been stuck, for hours, looking at and frantically pinning all types of neat ideas, crafty inspiration, food recipes and just general, "stuff". As a result of my little obsession, I have amassed a huge amount of pins with a wide range of nifty little ideas. This Thanksgiving, I decided it was time to put some of those many hours of pinning to work for me in the form of table decorations.

This all started out rather quietly, while I was scouring the Pinterest Boards, when I ran across a beaded curtain. If you know me at all, you know I like beads, beading, or anything to do with beads. I suddenly remembered a beaded curtain my mother-n-law had been given and decided now was the time to try and pilfer it away from her. After all it was just sitting on a box on a shelf when it could be gracing my window right? Having acquired the above mentioned beaded curtain, it was promptly relegated to my living room table, in the box, while I thought about where to put it. Enter the Primer Family. The last couple years we have been cone picking for the state and have spent hours in the woods searching for the elusive cones from felled trees. This year one of the Primer boys brought me two dried twisted root branches. I took them home and sat them next to my boxes of beaded curtains not making a connection till a bit later. On this particular day I was also given a glass bottle that was found in those very same woods. I did not realize I had hit the jackpot until I walked into my kids bathroom and looked at the window. As I stood looking at their window it dawned on me, that I could use the root branches as a curtain hanger and hence the beaded bathroom curtain, window decoration came into being.

 This was the beginning of my Pinterest madness. As anyone who goes on Pinterest can attest, once you start its almost impossible to stop. With all the creative things people pin, you could go from one project to another and never do all of them., but I was sure gonna try. With that being said, I proceeded to plan out for thanksgiving table decorations.  I had bought some of those old cotton grain sacks and decided, with a little help from Pinterest, to make place mats and a table runner. I was able to get 4 mats out of each sack so I made twelve. You would think it would stop there, but no, as I'm cruising through of all things, Pinterest, I noticed a tutorial for making no sew cloth napkins so of course I had to make some of those. Thankfully I had enough material from a huge stash that a friend had given me when they went though and discarded some material they were not using.  Of course no table would be complete without some sort of centerpiece so, having received inspiration from , wait for it, Pinterest yet again.  I found a huge branch and proceeded to spray paint it gold, thanks to a friend of mine who just happened to have some gold spray paint left over from one of her projects. After much thought I decided that there just wasn't enough color so I convinced my husband that he just had to buy me some more gold and copper spray paint so I could paint some cones for the table. I have to admit, I was bordering on obsession with all this crafting and decorating stuff. Any way, after hours of prep and days of sudden craft making spurts, the final product was not to shabby.

Thanksgiving was a hit, I only spent about 14$ on decoration type things and we had a good time. I'm thankful for being able to have family and friends over for dinner, I'm thankful for Gods provision in mine and my families lives and I'm thankful there are so many people out there posting awesome creative ideas on Pinterest. God has given so many people talents to be used for his glory, so as I go through the rest of the year and into the next, I will be watching and waiting for the next God given creative idea.

Happy Thanksgiving!

My meeting with God...

These past couple weeks I have went through a full range of emotions, everything from sad to angry, heartbroken to wrath, and everything in between. I had a minor meltdown with my last post, and for that I would apologize to my Savior Jesus, for my lapse in self-control. It usually takes a long time for me to get really angry, but this time, it was fast, which reminds me of several Scripture references about being slow to anger, but they did not seem to want to take root in my heart while I was writing.

The other day I sat down to gather Scripture references so that I could be justified in my anger. God had another plan for me. As I sat, in my self-righteous puddle, looking for all the condemning verses I could find, God said, ENOUGH, this is what I want you to see. Instead of the bunch of "your going to hell verses" I was searching for, all I found were forgive your enemy verses, pray for those who mistreat you,  love your neighbor, do good to those who have harmed you, ect ect. Needless to say, this is not what I was hoping for or looking for. I looked to God and told him I wasn't ready to forgive, he looked at me and said I forgave you, go do the same.

I haven't completely forgiven the person I was angry at, after all I am but a work in progress, but I know one day I will be able to look at this person and love them the way God would have me to. In the meantime, God, in his infinite wisdom, reminded me of  1Corinthians 13 which just happened to be a part of my reading this morning. My God is so amazing !

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

13 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body [a]to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 [b]bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of [c]prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I [d]became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror [e]dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the [f]greatest of these is love.

You have got to be kidding me !!!

The past couple weeks, this has become my new mantra. I mean seriously, some of the things I have heard are just ASTOUNDING, so I decided to write a little on my blog, because hey, what better way to get it out of your system. Without going into to much detail, I find myself at a complete loss to explain the absolute insanity of the things I have heard from a certain individual who shall remain anonymous. I mean, really ???? This person seems to come from an entirely different universe as the rest of humanity and as far as I'm concerned should return there as quickly as possible. POSTHASTE !!!! The commentary spewing forth from the above mentioned individual borders on sociopath rantings of an unstable mind.  No, check that, they ARE the rantings from an unstable mind. I mean gimme a break! Since I seem to be fairly disgruntled at the moment, I will now remind myself to breath a couple times. There, some semblance of calmness will now prevail.
Just for the record, above un-named person, just because you know some 10 dollar words and can vocalize them with an extreme amount of sarcasm, does not make you smart, its just makes you a jerk, out of touch with reality, and in need of some serious psychological counseling.
Since I cant say any of this to your face, maybe by some slim chance you will read this and KNOW its about you and GET A GRIP!! I even considerately made sure to use some big words so that you could understand me. I may not know as many big words as you, but Im sure you will get the point.
Believe it or not, its not all about you and your insane desire to control everything through the deflection of your own outrageous behavior. Get some help!

I may have more to say about this in the future, or I may not. Please whoever reads this be praying for my heart to change and to become more Christ like when dealing with the barrage of idiocy I have heard from the person mentioned above.
Thankyou!