being part of the Scripture Project

Last week we went out of town to spend the week working
on the Bearing Precious Seed scripture project.

It was happening at Calvary Baptist Church in King NC.
Calvary has a school and lots of kids from the school came
down to the project to work for a while during their free time.

These workers are folding printed scriptures
from John and Romans.

They fold the covers and pages and stack them in
groups of 10.



The stacks are taken to the staplers.





Don and I worked on the staplers.
they are electric and easy to do.

We stapled about 720 (360 each) copies each day.
We worked Monday-Thursday.

From the staplers they go to the cutting machine and
they are packaged to be distributed.

This is how they look when we were finished stapling.

(They still need to be cut)
 

The whole project was completed on Thurs evening.
100,000 copies of John and Romans in English,
50,000 copies in Spanish.

We had lots of fun talking to friends from years ago
when we used to be members of this church.

Lots of good fellowship and blessings serving the Lord.

Little Owl Handwarmers

I made lots of these little owl
rice hand warmers for Christmas gifts.

They were easy to make and one of my daughter in laws
tagged me in a Facebook post with the pattern.

I made lots of them.
Some had felt eyes and some had
button eyes.

Fill them with a cup of rice and
sew up the closure by hand.

When you want to use them,
place in microwave and heat for
30 seconds. 

They stay warm for 30 minutes or more.

If you want the pattern, just google it or look on
Pinterest....it is all over there.

I know you will be able to find it!

Have fun with it!

 

I've been sewing for the past week
on these little dresses.

My friend, Ruthann is going to Haiti in February
and she is taking them with her.

There are 17 in all.
I was planning on more but I didn't realize
she is leaving so soon and I will be working
on another project the last weeks of this month.

These little dresses are fun to make and don't take
a lot of time.
They are supposed to be made out of pillowcases, but
I found many sheets in the nicer colors and just
cut them in the size of the pillowcase.

The rick rack and most of the embellishments were purchased
in the thrift store also.

I'll tell you more about my other project soon.

The Hi Light of our Christmas Party
was going to the assisted living home
in Walnut Cove, NC.

Don sang some solos and the family helped on
the regular Christmas Caroles.

The residents were glad to see us and
really sang along.

We made Christmas treat bags to pass out.

We made 25 bags and they contained an apple,
an orange, Hershey kisses, candy canes, and some
tissues and a few other treats.

We talked to each person.
They were so happy that we had come.

It really was a success...We plan to do the same thing
next year.  We did not exchange gifts between ourselves
but focused on making the bags and visiting others.

Even the kids loved it.

After we ate at a restaurant and came back to
the house to have some sweets for us.

Krispy Kreme doughnuts and cheese ball and
crackers and pineapple upside down cake.

Some spent the night and we all agreed it was the
best kind of Christmas party.

We had our family Christmas at the Mtn House
on Dec 20th

We were a little bit sad that some of us
could not make it this year.

and we did miss them.

We did enjoy the time together.
The house was decorated by me and
Linleigh and Brett.

We planned for a no presents for each other
but to spend the time at the rest home in Walnut Cove.

I will post photos of the Rest Home visit on the next post.

We had lots of help in decorating the tree
this year.

We had Linleigh and Brett spend the night
after Thanksgiving dinner.
 

They worked hard and got

that tree done in no time.

 

Aunt Mandy gave Brett a
Hair cut and style.

      

Linleigh made some cookies.

Isn't Christmas Fun?

                                 



Today has been a good day.
Our church had "Harvest Day"

Old fashioned songs....
Special singing...
A history of the church...
Dinner on the grounds...

When we got home I decided
to paint my pumpkin.

I think it turned out real cute!

HAPPY HARVEST !