It’s that time again. We have been waiting for our next little guy for 4 months now. Honestly, I did not think we would even be waiting this long, even though 4 months isn’t that long…not complaining at all.
I wasn’t really sure what quote/verse/lyric I wanted to use for 4 months and then I ran across this song lyric by the Counting Crows:
It has been four days and nights
All I want is something fine
It gets harder every time
She is sleeping far away
Take a breath
Take your time
Spread your wings and rise
It just struck me and I loved it for what I was wanting to create this time on a 8×10 canvas. My kids have been totally into daffodils lately and I knew I wanted to use some type of daffodil design and honestly, with spring finally showing up little by little, it reminds me that hope matters. Even when I do not see God working I have hope and trust in the fact that He is working and moving in ways I may not physically see, but one day, I will see and how amazing and beautiful it will be. I look forward to that day.
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Giveaway will end this Friday, March 18th at midnight and the winner will be announced on Saturday.
I was able to get some more orders completed today. This Africa tee was ordered by Holly in New York. Holly wanted to celebrate a milestone in their adoption process with a PPA Africa tee. She mailed in a tee and all her specifics and I set to work. Thanks so much Holly and hope your adoption journey is quick and smooth.
These key fobs are headed to Morgan in Texas. Thanks so much Morgan and hope everyone loves them.
These key fobs were ordered by Nina in Illinois and Jessica in Texas.
Jessica also wanted a 3/4″ pendant with her kiddos names on it. Thanks so much ladies…totally appreciate your business.
Hope everyone has a fantastic Wednesday and here’s to the Kelley family being another month closer to our sweet boy!
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I am reminded of hope each day when I step outside and see the beautiful changes that are in the process of happening as spring is just around the corner!! 🙂
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I am reminded of hope each time I look at our son. We are adopting domestically. After several years of wanting a family, we got a call and had our son in 38 hours. We are in love and the Lord has restored my hope!
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It’s beautiful… keep the faith…
Love this! Hope is my word of the year. We are in the middle of an adoption and I have to cling to that when times get tough. I am reminded of hope when I see our friends adopted kids. Even though the road is tough it is so worth it!
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I am reminded of hope everytime I look at my children. 🙂
waiting. waiting for our babies in uganda to come home….
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I’m reminded of hope everytime I look at my baby girl from Ethiopia. Love this painting!
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In the face of the Japan disaster, I have been continually coming back to this verse for hope: “God has made everything beautiful in its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end” (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
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Everytime I look at my daughter I’m reminded that there is hope. She’s my little miracle; the greatest gift I’ve ever received.
I’m a fan on fb and subscribed to your blog. Your art work is amazing.
I love the art at the top! You are very talented! Thanks for posting the giveaway and for letting me “stalk” you on Facebook. 🙂
I love the daffodils. We live in Gloucester, VA which is the daffodil capital of the USA. Every year, they explode EVERYWHERE! It’s a great sign of hope that spring is coming and life goes on.
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I love this! Laughter is a sign of hope for e these days.
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This is beautiful! I have a friend who recently lost a full term precious baby girl. Im learning that Hope is all we have sometimes. As spring is unfolding my tulips are blooming. It reminds of God’s promise of new life. Spring is a physical reminder of hope thru the winter seasons of life.
Shared on Facebook. The painting is beautiful!
Love this so much!
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a beautiful piece ~ brings hope to everyone!
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This is great!
Our HOPE is in the Lord!
My Hope is renewed every morning! Blessings to you and your family.
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So glad God put you in my life!
Hope is in those moments like…..the sun peeking through, the first crocus popping out, the silence on my walk with my Sophie (black lab).
I am given more hope by spending time with family and more time with my hubby. I love your piece and hope your little one gets to come home very soon!
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Very beautiful! All of your pieces are though! 🙂
I am in love with this one!
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subscriber via email! Boy do I want this one 🙂 I keep telling myself I am just going to buy one soon!!! I am going to want a 24 X 36…You up for that??? I love love love love love the flowers!
I have subscribed to e-mail, and am a fan on fb. Love your work!!!
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It may sound strange but at this time of the year we start to get a ton of requests for donations from all our friends for this marathon or that bike race or this cause. We give a little to everyone because the hope that springs from each person doing the running, walking, biking, etc. is multiplied exponentially when people donate!
Hope is when I look into my 2 Guatemalan sons’ eyes and realize how blessed I am to have them! 🙂
I subscribed to your email. I LOVE this! Hoping I win! Great job, Laura!
I am reminded of hope every time I see our baby girl. We adopted domestically 9 months ago and our story was beautifully written by God, better than I could have ever imagined.
I’m not usually a person that puts a lot of stock in “signs” from God, but at the end of our 1st adoption trip, we were having to leave our son in that country and had just forked over mega bucks for lodging, translation (a few hundred dollars more than we’d be told to expect), God gave us a glimpse that He had it all handled.
As we were being driven to the airport and praying and questioning God where all the rest of the money was going to come from, we looked out the car window and there was a double rainbow. I felt like it was the Lord saying, “your hope is in Me. Not your circumstances, or what you can see.”
Been waiting 6! I love this one!
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Hope…the name we are considering for our sweet little girl. Right now, we are cling to hope that she will come home soon!
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I am reminded of hope each day I wake and find another way to serve. I have hope in my future, that Christ will one day return!
Just thinking that I am actually a child of GOD’s gives me great hope! And to think how much He loves & cares for me…wow! Praying for your child to come home to you soon. Keep up the faith. 🙂 (love ‘The Tennessean’ background-we are from TN & moved away this summer)
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I have hope just looking at my daughters. 🙂 brynnelizabethpaige@gmail.com
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Gorgeous flowers on this one!
My children are always a sign of hope to me – both are adopted from South Korea. 🙂
Spring always brings me hope! The sunshine after the dreary cold always reminds me that even through the pain there is joy at the end! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this painting!
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So funny you choose daffodils. THEY are a symbol of hope for me. Each year, by spring, I’m desperately fighting winter depression but then the daffodils begin to poke through the ground. They are a symbol to me that spring is near and all is well!
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My children are always a source of hope for me, because even on our worst days they make me smile and remind me that not EVERYTHING is as bad as it seems.
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Commented on the wrong post! haha I was saying – the warm weather definitely brings me hope. 🙂
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Something that give me hope is knowing God is in control of everything…even on when we will bring our children home from Ethiopia!
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One of the ways I see hope is by how God gives me just what I need for each day–and never less than that! He is faithful! Oh, and the idea of Spring Break for this tired teacher in just over a month doesn’t hurt either! 🙂
Our loving and graceful God gives me hope when everything else in this world seems hopeless.
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I’m a fan on facebook.
i’m reminded of hope everytime i see the cross.
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This week the youth at my church are putting on a VBS for a neighborhood apartment complex during their spring break. Their desire to serve God and love on His children is a reminder of hope to me! Thanks!
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Hope- when I met Ryan he was a lost soul! We were both going through a really hard time, I knew he could be anything he wanted to be, but the situation he was in and the people he was around, were bringing him down. I knew if I could just be someone he could talk to, cry to, be a best friend to him, I had HOPE he would over come everything, and he the man he is today! It worked- with alot of prayers also!!
I’m reminded of hope when God surprises me with answers to prayer or speaks to my heart about things I never expected.
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The unfolding of Spring gives me hope!
I really like this, Laura. Springtime…with it’s newness, freshness, and beauty…
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I really love your stuff Laura and love my camera strap!
hope is seeing my little sister beat the odds and do what the doctors said she couldn’t ever do. to Him be the glory!
All I could think of when I was working to adopt domestically was HOPE. Now with Rwanda, I am hoping once again. 🙂
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My children’s lives gives me much hope. Ultimately, my hope is in the Lord.
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I am reminded of hope when I see the bulbs poke through the soil.
Love the painting and how you combine your faith with your artwork! Inspirational 🙂
I LOVE THIS! HOPE I WIN! WILL SHARE ON FACEBOOK (:
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Something that brings hope to me is everytime I look at my daughter! Love the thing you made and will be posting it to my facebook status today. I’m already a facebook fan as well. Keep creating!
Love this! I also love your work and your heart for adoption. (being adopted myself) May God bless you as you continue to share His love.
Our daugther’s name is Hope. We had been through 3 miscarriages and I attended a Women of Faith Conference. While there I felt God telling me that we’d have a baby girl and name her Hope. We got pregnant again and gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Now we are in process to bring home our sweet Ethiopian boy and I have hope that in the midst of all that is going on, God will see us through, for He has called us to be on this journey. What a beautiful canvas showing us all hope!
I admire your artistic ability, your heart for orphans, and all you do. We are grandparents in waiting…so exciting!
LOVE IT!!
Spring time is a great reminder of hope to me. All the brown and gray stuff is made fresh and new again. And because it is also getting closer to Resurrection Day, I meditate on the finished work of Christ on the cross. That is our ultimate hope!!
My daddy’s recent death reminds me of hope…
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Love the new artwork. 4 months goes by quickly, it is exciting to be closer to the final countdown!
God bless your open heart.
Love everything about what you do! i’m now following you on twitter
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A new day and good music is always full of hope.
I relate to the long wait – waiting 5 years for our pending China adoption and still years left to go. I love this piece of art.
happy 4 months!
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I love this and love that you all are so close to meeting your new son!
Hope to me is every time I see the Lord growing our family, not only in size, but the love, bonds, and friendships formed.
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What brings me hope….watching God move in my life in the tiniest ways (and the big ways too).
Your pieces are always beautiful but this one makes me smile. It says “Happy SPring” to me and reminds me that God makes all things new!!
Hey Kelley fam! Congrats on another month gone by!
Hope hum hum hum good Lordy Laura this is a hard one! I guess something that shows me hope is the last 9 weeks of school === SUMMER!!!
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the recent rapid movement of adoptions in rwanda has given me hope and made me think a lot about it lately.
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Just think I’ll enter your giveaway this time. Something that reminds me of hope…your and Josh’s passion for the children in Ngungwane. I keep meaning to write and tell you what an awesome job you guys did presenting…but life never slows down long enough to write what I’m thinking…so…you guys were (are) awesome! ~ Kelley
“So the poor have HOPE and injustice shuts it’s mouth.” Job 5:16
Holding onto hope for the glorious day when every knee will bow before Him!!
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would love to win this, it’s one of my favs so far. LOVE The words!!
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My sweet friends welcomed twin baby girls into their life. They had hoped to grow their family for a long time, so seeing those lovely babies makes me think of the hope and faith they had that those desires would one day be true.
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