Senitmental Sunday #36, Ceramic Clock

Welcome to Sentimental Sunday, my favorite day of the week. The day we all gather together and share what we are sentimental about. It can be anything from an item in your home passed down by a special someone or just a few sweet words about something that has touched your heart this week, the goal is to take a moment and reflect.

This Sunday I am sentimental about this ceramic clock my grandmother made for me.  It sat on my dresser in my bedroom when I was a girl and I remember looking at it with pride.   I continued to use it in my apartment as a  single woman. The colors and pattern have always been so beautiful and timeless to me.  Once I had my girls it went to their bedroom (they shared a room until recently).  It now lives in Faith's room and I think it is a beautiful reminder of my grandmother and my childhood.

Another part to this story is that my grandmother and my mother both took ceramic classes and made beautiful pieces of art.  Thanks to some dear friends I now have a kiln and ceramic molds.  I can't wait to learn ceramics with my mom and girls.  The idea that something started so long ago in our family is now being passed down to the future generations in the pieces already made and now in the art of making them makes me so happy.  Life happens in such cool ways sometimes and I am in awe of how God works. 

PS. We haven't made anything yet. We are waiting on the weather to get cooler before we crank up the million degree kiln.  I will be back to show you what we make as soon as we do.  Until then I am watching You Tube videos learning all I can.  What did we do before You Tube?


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HOW TO BUILD A TEENAGE GIRLS WARDROBE WITHOUT SPENDING A FORTUNE, PART 5

Can you believe we are on week 5?

If you have missed any of the other weeks you can catch up

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

And if you are totally new here and have no idea what I am doing .....(neither do I, ha)

my oldest daughter and I decided it would be fun to challenge ourselves to buy her entire fall/winter wardrobe second hand and for under $150.  Then we were gifted some hand me downs so we took our budget down to $100.  Well I am excited to start showing you some of the outcome of our work.

We are revealing the first 4 outfits we have put together.

Outfit number 1 is for a normal Homeschool day.
Brown yoga pants purchased week 3, $3.99
Shirts week 4,  free
New tennis shoes purchased this week at Kohl's $21.01

Outfit number 2 is for going out with friends or church at night.

Green sweater and white shirt free, week 4

Jeans week 2, $6.99

Necklace belongs to me and only cost her daily love.

Black shoes purchased this week GW $4

Outfit number 3 is perfect for a normal day at home

Shirts week 4, free

Jeans week 3, $3.50

Shoes week 4, free

Outfit number 4 is perfect for church on Sunday mornings.

Sweater week 1, she had

White t-shirt purchased this week at Walmart, $4

Necklaces and belt belong to me and again they are a perk of being mine.

Brown skirt week 3, 2.00

Boots she had.

If you missed it we spent $29.01 this week bringing our total spent up to $90.51

Come back next week for the next installment of our challenge,

we will be doing another fashion show.

I am inking with WIWW

The Heartfelt Home, Week 1

I am starting something new this week.  Each week I am going to be highlighting an item in my shop and running a sale on that item for my readers, my way of saying

Thank You

for all the suport you give me.

I have been very busy today moving in lots of products to my new shop, you should go and see how hard I have been working, ha.

This weeks item is

a

Bible Memory Verse Pillow Cover

This pillow cover is made from vintage floral fabric

 and it is on sale for

$10.00 this week.

Sentimental Sunday # 35, Thimble Collection

Welcome to Sentimental Sunday, my favorite day of the week. The day we all gather together and share what we are sentimental about. It can be anything from an item in your home passed down by a special someone or just a few sweet words about something that has touched your heart this week, the goal is to take a moment and reflect.

Today I am sentimental about my thimble collection, it was my mom's and she passed it to me when she moved.

It is a collection gathered over many years and many people have contributed.

Some were ones used by greatgrandmothers and grandmothers,

others were purchased to bring to mind a place we have been.  The Chesapeake Bay is from the only other place I have lived....we lived there for a few months one year while my dad was working there.

Still others were given as a gift.  I am honored to be the keeper of these small reminders of our family's history.

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HOW TO BUILD A TEENAGE GIRLS WARDROBE WITHOUT SPENDING A FORTUNE, PART 4

Well here we are at Part 4 of this fun series, if you missed the other parts you can read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.  This past week we stopped in Goodwill for a few minutes and found some great finds. 

 I am not sure if you can tell from the picture but this skirt is made from the softest suede.

We only found these 3 items but we were also pickier because we have already found so much.  Then we got the most amazing blessing, two different friends passed us down some clothes that they were no longer wearing.  Below is what we were gifted.  Grace and I had so much fun going through the clothes and are very thankful for them.  I do have to say that the girls these clothes came from are big (read older) girls and I have still been stuck with the idea that I have little girls, well let me tell you my eyes were opened.  My girl is no longer little and I am so enjoying the young lady she is becoming but it is going by to fast.

At this point we only have a few very specific items left that we need. We will be looking for them this week and hope to have all of our outfit ready for a Fashion Show next week.

This week we spent $18.00

for a total of $61.50 out of our $150 budget.  Since we were gifted so many nice things we are lowering our budget to $100.

Have you found anything great for a thrifty price lately?

Sentimental Sunday #34

Welcome to Sentimental Sunday, my favorite day of the week. The day we all gather together and share what we are sentimental about. It can be anything from an item in your home passed down by a special someone or just a few sweet words about something that has touched your heart this week, the goal is to take a moment and reflect.

Today

I have a post that I want to write.....

but it will not come, or to better say it,

too many words come all at once and I can not make them make sense.

This passed week my Best Friend came into town and stayed with us, many words were spoken, stomach's were shaken with laughter and shoulders were soaked with tears.

It was a good week and I am thankful for it.

I am going to choose to tuck the memories deep in my heart and on a day when every word is not tied deep to an emotion I will write....I will write them.  Today I am just going to let my mind race in what was the joy of my past week.

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How To Build A Teenage Girls Wardrobe From Scratch With Out Spending A Fortune, Part 3

I am back this week to report how we did at the thrift store on Monday.  Remember last week I told you  the store that we would be going to marks everything half off on Monday's  if you missed that post or the first you can see Part 1 here and Part 2 here.  We did very well!

This shirt is brand new tags still on

This denim shirt is too cute it has red buttons up the back

Another brand new shirt

I am not sure why I did not edit the price in on this picture but anyway the are Ann Taylor Loft on sal for $2.00

That is a grand total of

$25.50

spent this week, add that to the

$18.00

spent the week before and we have spent a grand total of

$43.50

That is less than 1/3 of of our $150 budget I think we are well on our way.