Oh! And by the way, this morning I made my first sale on Etsy!! Yay! I sold a very cute gift bag and gift tags set!
Have a good day!
Thursday, December 16, 2010
A few cards....
I thought I would share a few cards I made for my Aunt.
Oh! And by the way, this morning I made my first sale on Etsy!! Yay! I sold a very cute gift bag and gift tags set!
Have a good day!
Oh! And by the way, this morning I made my first sale on Etsy!! Yay! I sold a very cute gift bag and gift tags set!
Have a good day!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Christmas decorations!
Can you believe there is only 10 more days until Christmas?! I put a few more decorations out in our house. I have a Christmas village I started collecting from Department 56. Here are some photos. Enjoy!
I also found my angel. She couldn't fit on the top of the tree so I kind of just stuck her in the middle...
Hope you have a good day!
I also found my angel. She couldn't fit on the top of the tree so I kind of just stuck her in the middle...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Videos!
I was finally able to get the videos uploaded!! So here is our Christmas Tree Shopping Adventure!!
Enjoy! : )
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Our Christmas Tree!
We finally got our Christmas tree decorated! Here are a few of the photos:
Enjoy!
December Desktop Calendar
I know it's a little late.... but not too late! : ) Here is the Demeber 2010 desktop calendar!
You can dowload this photo for your desktop by clicking here. Remember to click on the photo first before downloading. Otherwise you will be downloading the entire album as a zip file. Let me know if you have any trouble!
If you would like to download the photo later, you can always go to the Free Stuff! section to download the photo or photos from past months.
Enjoy!
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Oh Christmas tree! Oh Christmas tree!!
Yay! We have our very first Christmas tree! I have been trying to upload videos of our Christmas tree shopping adventure, but it doesn't seem to be working. I'll keep trying though. I did take a few pictures though, so here they are!
This tree looked a lot fuller at the top when we first saw it... But I guess since he had to cut off some of the bottom to fit it in the house, that full part moved down to the bottom part now... Oh well... : )
The kids of course had to be in one picture....
Juan (left) and Rio (right)
Don't worry, we are going to decorate our first Christmas tree! As soon as we do, I'll post those pictures!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Happy birthday!!
The 16th was Ragan's birthday. We had a little get together with his family at our house for his birthday. At his request we had hot dogs for supper with ice cream for dessert!
Here is the gift I gave Ragan for his birthday.
I know some of you may not be following my Creations blog, but be sure to stop over there just to see what this project is all about! I hope you all have a good rest of the week!
Here is the gift I gave Ragan for his birthday.
New project!
I hope everyone is doing well today! I wanted to share with you a new project I am beginning to work on. Yes, I know.... I have a lot of projects I'm working on right now... But it's all so much fun! : ) Anyways, my new project focuses on the many names of God. I've been reading a Bible study by Mary Kassian called Knowing God by Name.
You should definitely put this Bible study on your list of studies to do. I've learned quite a bit from this study, and I've decided to create art combining my photography, my love of sunsets, and the names of God I've been learning about. I'll be getting the names cut out of wood, taking pictures of sunsets, and then combining the two together. I will then write on the back of the wood verses that relate to that certain name of God. A few days ago I got done with my first project in this series. YAHWEH. God's name. Yahweh is translated into 'I AM' or 'LORD'. I gave this one to my husband for his birthday. Please let me know what you think of the new project. Any comments, questions, or advice are welcome! And don't worry, I'll keep you up to date on my progress of this new project! Enjoy!
You should definitely put this Bible study on your list of studies to do. I've learned quite a bit from this study, and I've decided to create art combining my photography, my love of sunsets, and the names of God I've been learning about. I'll be getting the names cut out of wood, taking pictures of sunsets, and then combining the two together. I will then write on the back of the wood verses that relate to that certain name of God. A few days ago I got done with my first project in this series. YAHWEH. God's name. Yahweh is translated into 'I AM' or 'LORD'. I gave this one to my husband for his birthday. Please let me know what you think of the new project. Any comments, questions, or advice are welcome! And don't worry, I'll keep you up to date on my progress of this new project! Enjoy!
Monday, November 15, 2010
Freebies!!
Everybody loves free stuff! Well, now I have some for you! I'm going to try really hard to post a free desktop calendar for you each month! All you have to do is simply visit my Free Stuff page, follow the link to download the desktop wallpaper, and it's all yours! Enjoy!
You can also find more details about the Holiday Boutique Arts and Crafts Show, which is taking place in Oak Grove, Louisiana, on my Events page. I hope to see you there!
You can also find more details about the Holiday Boutique Arts and Crafts Show, which is taking place in Oak Grove, Louisiana, on my Events page. I hope to see you there!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Ragan's latest project....
Ragan wanted me to share with everyone his latest project. I believe he is planning on mounting this someway.... somehow..... somewhere.... outside of the house! : ) I think he is wanting to put this one in his shop. In case you couldn't tell, this was once a coyote. Enjoy!
Monday, November 8, 2010
One down, one to go!
Monday, November 1, 2010
Malawi Update!
If you are new to my blog, then you might not have known that I have been to Africa for the past two years on mission trips. Let me give you a little bit of background. For the past two years, I have been going on mission trips to Malawi, Africa with my church Simsboro First Baptist Church. The church's first mission trip to Malawi was in June 2009. We stayed for about 12 days conducting medical clinics in five different villages. On our first trip, we expected to see about 1,000 people the entire trip and planned our medicine accordingly. God had other plans. We saw about 1,000 people our first DAY!! The other four days in the villages we saw just as many, and our medicine never ran out! Talk about experiencing the Feeding of the 5,000 (Matthew14:13-20)!
Our second trip took place the last week of May through the first week of June in 2010. Again we stayed about twelve days visiting five different villages giving medical clinics. The people of Malawi were so happy to see us come back to help them! Even though we tried to limit the number of people we saw each day, it was hard to turn people away. Just like the year before, we had people lined up early each day ready to take part in the medical clinics. Of course, we never ran out of medicine. Each year we had plenty of medicine to leave behind with John and Lee Anne Campbell, the couple we were staying with in Malawi.
John and Lee Anne Campbell are a part of International Edifiying Christ Ministry with Scotty McDowell. They are administrators of a center called Rainbow Children Development Center in Malawi, Africa. This center is focused on raising orphan children from the surrounding villages in a Christian environment. We had the pleasure of staying with John and Lee Anne each year we went to Africa.
You can read more about Rainbow here. You can also see pictures from each trip at my website.
Now the rest of the story....
Each year John and Lee Anne come home to Louisiana for a few weeks. This past Sunday we were able to spend a little time with them away from Africa. They came to our church to speak to the congregation about what is happening in Africa. God is moving in a mighty way in Malawi! Witchcraft has been the norm for Malawians. That is what they grow up knowing. But God has been at work in Africa. It is amazing to see the Word of Christ Jesus sweep through the country! A revival is going on right now in Malawi, Africa! And although John couldn't be more happy about this, he believes he is being called by God to go into the desert like Philip in Acts 8:26-40. Maybe not literally the desert, but John is being called away to a foreign land in the midst of a revival in Malawi. John and Lee Anne have plans to leave for Peru at the beginning of 2011. They don't know what they will be doing, or where they will be going once they get to Peru; all they know is that they are going to Chincha, Peru.
However, before they left Africa to come to the States, a few wonderful things happened. Three village chiefs decided to turn their villages over to Christianity. But before they could do this, they would have to get permission from the main chief of that area. To do this, they each had to come up with 7,000 kwacha. Altogether it would be 21,000 kwacha which isn't quite $150, but in Africa that is quite a bit of money.
At first, only two chiefs came forward with the desire to turn their villages over to Christianity. They had been going to John's church at Rainbow. The Sunday before they were to give the money to the head chief in order to have the ceremony, John's church took up an offering that would go towards helping the two chiefs. John explained to the congregation that these two chiefs wanted to turn their villages over to Christianity, and that they needed 14,000 kwacha. John said that God had told him there would be 14,000 kwacha in the offering basket that morning. As they were getting ready to take up the offering, the third chief stood up and said that we wanted to turn over his village to Christianity as well. So now they needed 21,000 kwacha. They took up the offering. As the people discussed the ceremony, who was bringing what, what time to be there, they decided to count the money. The total came to just over 19,000 kwacha. John asked the congregation if they would agree to let the difference come out of the church's funds, and they agreed. They had the money they needed to give the head chief!
But the miracles don't end there. As they were preparing for the ceremony, a man who works with John (kind of like an associate pastor) and lives at Rainbow came to John with a problem. There was not enough sima to feed all the people. Sima is one of Malawi's main foods. It is made from cornmeal and water cooked to a porridge-like consistency. Malawians eat this with everything. This man wanted John to fix this. At Rainbow, they plant and grow their own vegetables including corn. This man wanted to go get their own corn to feed the people at the ceremony, but John said no. God had told John before to stay out of His way, so John knew to stay out of His way. Three chiefs were turning their villages, which were originally witchcraft, over to Christianity. That itself is a miracle! God would provide for His people. So the ceremony went on, and John thought no more about the sima. Later, Lucas House, who is also from Louisiana and staying in Africa to minister to the people, came to John. He told John that the people were feeding sima to the dogs because they had so much left over! Amazing!
One more thing! The head chief they had to give the money to in order to have the ceremony is an alcoholic. By 7 or 8am, the man is usually already drunk. However, on the day of the ceremony, John went to pick him up to take him to the ceremony. He was sober. John was surprised. He was even more surprised to see the chief carrying a Bible! At the ceremony, the chief spoke. He told the people that he knows they see the men participating in 'the big dance,' which is something they do at a witchcraft ceremony. He said those men are wrong. The men who are with John, teaching and preaching the Word of God. These men are right.
I'm speechless!
To have the opportunity to go to Africa two years in a row, to see what the people are like, to see their needs, hear their cry for help, see the hunger in their eyes for something true and real, to actually see the witchcraft that keeps them prisoners (yes, we actually ran into some witch doctors on our first trip to Malawi), to see all this and then hear of the impact that these godly men like John, Lucas, and Scotty McDowell are all having on these people is absolutely amazing!! And that doesn't even begin to describe the feelings I have! All I can do is praise God! He is the one to thank. He is the one to glorify.
Yes, some places in Africa may not be seeing a revival like this. Some places may still be overcome with witchcraft. But not forever.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend (overcome) it."
John 1:1-5 NKJV - emphasis mine.
Our second trip took place the last week of May through the first week of June in 2010. Again we stayed about twelve days visiting five different villages giving medical clinics. The people of Malawi were so happy to see us come back to help them! Even though we tried to limit the number of people we saw each day, it was hard to turn people away. Just like the year before, we had people lined up early each day ready to take part in the medical clinics. Of course, we never ran out of medicine. Each year we had plenty of medicine to leave behind with John and Lee Anne Campbell, the couple we were staying with in Malawi.
John and Lee Anne Campbell are a part of International Edifiying Christ Ministry with Scotty McDowell. They are administrators of a center called Rainbow Children Development Center in Malawi, Africa. This center is focused on raising orphan children from the surrounding villages in a Christian environment. We had the pleasure of staying with John and Lee Anne each year we went to Africa.
You can read more about Rainbow here. You can also see pictures from each trip at my website.
Now the rest of the story....
Each year John and Lee Anne come home to Louisiana for a few weeks. This past Sunday we were able to spend a little time with them away from Africa. They came to our church to speak to the congregation about what is happening in Africa. God is moving in a mighty way in Malawi! Witchcraft has been the norm for Malawians. That is what they grow up knowing. But God has been at work in Africa. It is amazing to see the Word of Christ Jesus sweep through the country! A revival is going on right now in Malawi, Africa! And although John couldn't be more happy about this, he believes he is being called by God to go into the desert like Philip in Acts 8:26-40. Maybe not literally the desert, but John is being called away to a foreign land in the midst of a revival in Malawi. John and Lee Anne have plans to leave for Peru at the beginning of 2011. They don't know what they will be doing, or where they will be going once they get to Peru; all they know is that they are going to Chincha, Peru.
However, before they left Africa to come to the States, a few wonderful things happened. Three village chiefs decided to turn their villages over to Christianity. But before they could do this, they would have to get permission from the main chief of that area. To do this, they each had to come up with 7,000 kwacha. Altogether it would be 21,000 kwacha which isn't quite $150, but in Africa that is quite a bit of money.
At first, only two chiefs came forward with the desire to turn their villages over to Christianity. They had been going to John's church at Rainbow. The Sunday before they were to give the money to the head chief in order to have the ceremony, John's church took up an offering that would go towards helping the two chiefs. John explained to the congregation that these two chiefs wanted to turn their villages over to Christianity, and that they needed 14,000 kwacha. John said that God had told him there would be 14,000 kwacha in the offering basket that morning. As they were getting ready to take up the offering, the third chief stood up and said that we wanted to turn over his village to Christianity as well. So now they needed 21,000 kwacha. They took up the offering. As the people discussed the ceremony, who was bringing what, what time to be there, they decided to count the money. The total came to just over 19,000 kwacha. John asked the congregation if they would agree to let the difference come out of the church's funds, and they agreed. They had the money they needed to give the head chief!
But the miracles don't end there. As they were preparing for the ceremony, a man who works with John (kind of like an associate pastor) and lives at Rainbow came to John with a problem. There was not enough sima to feed all the people. Sima is one of Malawi's main foods. It is made from cornmeal and water cooked to a porridge-like consistency. Malawians eat this with everything. This man wanted John to fix this. At Rainbow, they plant and grow their own vegetables including corn. This man wanted to go get their own corn to feed the people at the ceremony, but John said no. God had told John before to stay out of His way, so John knew to stay out of His way. Three chiefs were turning their villages, which were originally witchcraft, over to Christianity. That itself is a miracle! God would provide for His people. So the ceremony went on, and John thought no more about the sima. Later, Lucas House, who is also from Louisiana and staying in Africa to minister to the people, came to John. He told John that the people were feeding sima to the dogs because they had so much left over! Amazing!
One more thing! The head chief they had to give the money to in order to have the ceremony is an alcoholic. By 7 or 8am, the man is usually already drunk. However, on the day of the ceremony, John went to pick him up to take him to the ceremony. He was sober. John was surprised. He was even more surprised to see the chief carrying a Bible! At the ceremony, the chief spoke. He told the people that he knows they see the men participating in 'the big dance,' which is something they do at a witchcraft ceremony. He said those men are wrong. The men who are with John, teaching and preaching the Word of God. These men are right.
I'm speechless!
To have the opportunity to go to Africa two years in a row, to see what the people are like, to see their needs, hear their cry for help, see the hunger in their eyes for something true and real, to actually see the witchcraft that keeps them prisoners (yes, we actually ran into some witch doctors on our first trip to Malawi), to see all this and then hear of the impact that these godly men like John, Lucas, and Scotty McDowell are all having on these people is absolutely amazing!! And that doesn't even begin to describe the feelings I have! All I can do is praise God! He is the one to thank. He is the one to glorify.
Yes, some places in Africa may not be seeing a revival like this. Some places may still be overcome with witchcraft. But not forever.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend (overcome) it."
John 1:1-5 NKJV - emphasis mine.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Time to open up shop!
I have an Etsy Shop! Be sure to check it out at:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/mccanncreations
I only have a few items in there now since I'm preparing for this Arts & Crafts Show in Bastrop, LA. More will come soon so keep checking back!!
Enjoy!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/mccanncreations
I only have a few items in there now since I'm preparing for this Arts & Crafts Show in Bastrop, LA. More will come soon so keep checking back!!
Enjoy!
Sunday, October 24, 2010
A few new things...
I thought I would share with everyone a few new things we have gotten recently.
First, we got brand new blinds for our bathroom window. We never could find the right size, so I finally ordered some. They're still a little wider than the actual window, but I think they look nice. : )
Second, my wonderful mom made us a fall table cloth! It's so cute!!
And lastly, my mom also made me a very cute purse!! It's just what I was wanting!
I hope you all have a good week!! I'll be posting photos of the crafts I've been working on soon. Look for it on my McCann Creations Blog!
First, we got brand new blinds for our bathroom window. We never could find the right size, so I finally ordered some. They're still a little wider than the actual window, but I think they look nice. : )
I hope you all have a good week!! I'll be posting photos of the crafts I've been working on soon. Look for it on my McCann Creations Blog!
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