It's So Bloomin' Pretty!

It's been 2 months since I posted here ... wow! Sorry about that. I have been working a lot and so busy. But I'm grateful to be able to enjoy watching Spring slowly but surely coming into full bloom here in my little corner of the world :) Thought I'd share some pictures with you from the last 2 months!

ENJOY!!

Happy Spring!

The rain ended with God's "promise" in the eastern sky! Spring is here and soon the fields will be green again.

The "promise" of a new season of life! Happy Spring!!! Happy garden planning and planting :) ENJOY the new season... and as always ... with love♥ from Cathy! :)

March Snowstorm

We are enjoying a beautiful Winter Wonderland ... at last! It's been a very mild, "snowless" winter in my corner of the world, until ... March came in like a lion with 2 major snowstorms so far! lol!! With the sun shining today, I had to get more pictures ~ soooo beautiful!!♥

Hope all of you are doing well, whatever your pre-spring weather may be. As for me, I am enjoying the late Winter Wonderland beauty for as long as it lasts :)

Happy Heart Day♥

                                  

Here's some pictures of the swap package I created for APP's Valentine's Day Swap. The theme was a fabric post card/mugrug. The embellishing part was fun! I used a little of this n' that ~ lil' treasures I had in my sewing box♥

 

Along with a yummy bar of Lindt Dark Chocolate, I enclosed a package of Door County Chocolate Cherry Coffee in a matching quilted bag ... because after all ~ "A joyful ♥ is good medicine" !!!

Wishing you a Sweet Valentine's Day!!! and ... as always ~ from Cathy with love♥♥

Oh, the sweet, mindless, bliss..

of a Pinterest addiction!!!

Endless boards to categorize, organize and rearrange at free will!

Anything from ~

Winter Wonderland

dreamstime.com

Cozy Quilts 

nanaCompany

 Sweet Treats

 Glorious Treats

to Valentine baking and craft ideas, and a million other categories!!! (at least a million ~lol!!)

annie's eats

flicker.comhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/japanlovelycrafts/5217481643/in/pool-600549@N25/

I only have 38 boards and 640 pins! lol!! Really it's nothing yet ... so many boards to create, so many pins to grab! And then if that wasn't enough, you get followers and you follow other people so you can steal, humm .. I mean "repin" their pins!  Oh, my! so many wonderful ideas, recipes, and fun photos. 

Are you on Pinterest yet? Come on ~ join the fun!! lol! :)

Update ~ I forgot to add my Pinterest link to this post. It's 

http://pinterest.com/cathyjrice/

Stop on by for a visit!!

New Beginnings

This photo was posted by a dear friend on my Facebook page today with this caption:

  ~ Before you quit because the road seems too long, 

turn around and look how far you've come ~

Much needed advise ... the past few years of my life have been a long hard struggle and as I look back, I am amazed how far down the road I have come!

I'm so grateful for the love and encouragement of friends & family and the unfailing strength and wisdom that comes from God everyday and He leads me one day at a time on this uncharted journey. Even though I never wanted to walk this road, it is one I have been forced to travel down. Divorced, without a "home of my own" and stripped of most of my earthly possessions is not the description I would have ever dreamed to be my position, especially at this age. 

But ... God has been so faithful to me!!! Going through the fire of trials is painful beyond words, but seeing and living the amazing miracles of God's love♥ for me has been truly AWESOME! Finding "me" again, little by little ... new adventures, new friends. So I welcome this new year ~ 2012. I'm excited to see how much farther down the road I get this year with God's help!!

And ... as always ~

from Cathy with love♥

♥ Christmas Love ♥

♥CHRISTMAS LOVE♥

1 Corinthians 13 Applied to Life ~ 

If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls, but do not show LOVE to my family, I'm just another decorator. 

If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of Christmas cookies, preparing gourmet meals and arranging a beautifully adorned table at mealtime, but do not show LOVE to my family, I'm just another cook. 

If I work at the soup kitchen, carol in the nursing home and give all that I have to charity, but do not show LOVE to my family, it profits me nothing. 

If I trim the spruce with shimmering angels and crocheted snowflakes, attend a myriad of holiday parties and sing in the choir's cantata but do not focus on Christ, I have missed the point. 

LOVE stops the cooking to hug the child. LOVE sets aside the decorating to kiss the spouse. LOVE is kind, though harried and tired. LOVE doesn't envy another person's home that has coordinated Christmas china and table linens. LOVE doesn't yell at the kids to get out of the way. LOVE doesn't give only to those who are able to give in return but rejoices in giving to those who can't. LOVE bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. LOVE never fails. 

Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will rust, but giving the gift of ♥LOVE♥ will endure.
~Author Unknown

From Cathy with ♥LOVE♥ ~ Merry Christmas!