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I am both ecstatic and feeling quite lame all at once.

Apparently, someone nominated my piece "Anchor of Hope" for a Daily Deviation.

OH. MY. GOSH.

You're kidding me, right!?

No.  It's TRUE!  That's the awesome part.

The lame part?  It was in FEBRUARY.  We're are in April people!  APRIL!  What is wrong with me!?

Well, se la vie...  I simply cannot wipe this smile from my face... cannot.  I tried.  It keeps coming back.  Seriously!

I just can't believe how honored I feel that someone thought something I made was worth telling the entire dA community about.  I mean, Holy Cow!

Okay, I will only be babbling from here on out, so I will leave you with this thought:


Create something. 
Anything... Just do it. 
And don't just do it - POST IT! 
Not only will it make you feel happy inside, but it might just be the piece that someone is needing to see right at that very moment.

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Not that anyone noticed, but I've been away from dA for a while.  Have been very busy homeschooling my children, primarily.  Most recently, however, my husband suffered a fairly severe accident.  He works at a local ski resort as a snowmobile driver with ski patrol.  To avoid hitting a child skier, he swerved and hit a tree instead.  He broke his collarbone in two places, broke seven ribs, pneumothorax (sp?), collapsed lung, small brain bleed and partial degloving of his forearm.  He spent 9 days in the hospital.  It's been 6 weeks since the accident and he is still on pain meds and doing the best he can to heal.  It's been a hard road for our family and I am still tired!  Worker's Comp/Disability doesn't pay much and I've acquired a temporary job to help support the family.  I've wanted to burn, but I am overwhelmed with how much is currently being asked of me that I haven't found time for myself.   

I am hoping this season comes to an end very soon........

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I am AMAZED at the number of people who have 'favorited' my "Dead Diver" deviation!  I am thankful that so many people have enjoyed it as much as I did in making it!  Although I wish folks would comment - sometimes you just really need the kind of affirmation that includes words

Someday, my dreams will come true... someday.

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It has been an amazing, roller coaster kind of week!

I recently fulfilled a project that was weighing on my heart - a Prayer Board.  Sound kind of weird, but let me explain... My teen girls expressed a desire to have a tangible way of taking their concerns to the Cross and leaving them there.  The idea for the Prayer Board was born.

I found several cross images on the internet, but the one the family chose was by far my favorite and moved me the most.  I contacted the artist (hassified) and asked if I would be able to use it, and told him what for.  He granted me permission for personal use only - cool, because it was for my home. 

When I completed it, I took some photos and arranged them nicely and posted it to my facebook page.  O.M.Gosh.  My facebook page literally EXPLODED!  I am speechless at the response I have received from this project.  The interest is overwhelming.

Scott and I have come to an agreement and I will be submitting my copyright waiver to him this week.  He is so excited about this project that he would like to market the project to churches in his area!  Wow!

I think I have yet to process all of this, I am still stunned at the response.

I will have lots of time to think about this tomorrow under the water... <3

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In talking with the ladies in my small group at Women of Grace (Lifepoint Church), they gave me an idea that I have not been able to stop thinking about.  My children are 12 and 14 years old, and while they have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior, they have so much to learn and understand.  Recently, the girls expressed a desire to have something they could touch or hold that represented Jesus, so that when they prayed, they felt they were actually seeing who they were praying to.  They had suggested a plushie Jesus, but everything I found online looked super corny.  I've come up with an idea that may work though.  I would like to woodburn a picture of the cross, and add a thick border of cork around the edge so that prayer requests can be thumbtacked to it.  Hang it on the wall, and when any of us have something we're praying about, we can literally take it to the cross and leave it there.  This idea keeps bugging me and bugging me - it won't let me go.  There isn't a shadow of a doubt that the choices we make bring us through things for a reason.  Whatever choices I have made, I am here now - a pyrographer.  God has given me a gift.  I think it's time I use it for His glory.