Surprise!

I made a different kind of card

today.  I've made this type of card

once or twice before, but never

quite like this.  Sorry for the paper

clip, but it wouldn't stay closed on

its own.  You will see why on the second

picture, but I don't want to give 

it away....

I love this quote.  I thought at first that

I hadn't stamped the whole thing

properly, but the butterflies are supposed

to be like that. Sometimes with the

large stamps I can't get the ink to come

off all the way.  Maybe I am impatient.

Maybe lazy.  But I digress.  Are

you impatient?  OK, here's the inside:

Isn't that cool?  The butterfly "flies" off

the page on a pop up panel.  I was surprised

at how easy it was and how great it

came out.  On the body of the butterflies

I used some of the enamel accent dots.

Those little things are hard to keep track

of and harder to get them to go where

you want them to go.  I probably should

have used my tweezers but I was too

lazy to look for them.  They're probably

right in front of me.  Actually, my desk is

pretty clean, considering, so it probably

wouldn't have been that hard to find them.

I think I'm going to send this to Robin 

for her pastor/wife.  I'm starting to

get a large collection of cards again,

so time to send them out.

Tomorrow my DIL, Pam, and I are

going to go to Battle Creek and bum around

and have lunch together.  It is her father's 

birthday and she took the day off.  I know

it will be an emotional day for her, so

hopefully this will take her mind off

it for just a little while.  It's the first

one since he died.  I'm honoured

she asked to spend part of the day

with me.   

Yesterday I finally managed to get

the garage cleaned and it looks great.

Want to hear a "God thing"?  I have

had a grill in the garage that had been

used half a dozen times or so before

John died.  I thought about putting an

ad in the paper to sell it, but then I

just felt this prompting to text Mark and

see if he could use it.  God's timing is

so perfect.  He just threw his out this

past weekend because it was getting

old and rusty!  We are going to exchange

it for his helping me put in some tile

in bathrooms/laundry room when he

has the time to do it.  It's a win/win

for both of us!  God does amaze

me on a regular basis.  Even when

I sometimes feel so far away from

Him which has certainly been happening

in the past few months, He reminds

me that He is always there and that

I shouldn't trust my feelings because

feelings aren't always accurate.  There

is an Amy Grant song to that effect 

called  "Faith walking people"  .  Faith

is what tells us God is there even when

feelings tell us otherwise.  I need to

remember that.  Sometimes it's so hard.