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February 23, 2015 By 11 Comments

March Bible Journaling Class

*So because I would expect nothing less of my frazzled snow-bound brain last week, on Friday I completely forgot to publish this post.  Can I blame a week of being snowed in with all these wildly wonderful little crazies?!?!?  Anyways, here you go.*

Sometimes I wonder what in the world God is doing.  I think about the thoughts and ideas He fills my mind and heart with.  I’ve never heard God “speak” in an audible way and 9 times out of 10 I don’t think I understand what God wants me to.  This year though, I am committed to attempting what I think He wants me to do.  I want to attempt…move to action…and not be paralyzed by the fear of failure or how it may appear to others.  I’m a prideful person.  Everyday I ask God to take away my pride…decrease me and increase Him.  I don’t like failure.  It’s not something I would choose and often it keeps me from even making an attempt, but not this year.  This year will be one of lots of attempts and probably a lot of failure and maybe mix in a few successes, which God will deserve all the glory for because I’m 98.7% hot mess.  So here goes another attempt 🙂

You’re officially invited to my Bible Journaling Class.  I do hope to offer the class more than once, but I’m going to take it month-by-month.  I think a lot of good could come from this and I am already sitting in anticipation of what God will do.  I’m opening up our home and setting out tables and chairs and I think it will be a really amazing time.  Here are the details:

When:  Saturday, March 14th

Time: 1pm-4pm

Where:  Our house.

(Josh Kelley is taking all the wee ones out so imagine all the kid freeness.)

Cost: $50

All the money will be used to throw a fun day for the kids at the Ngungwane carepoint in Swaziland Africa.  There will be a bounce house and games and face painting and a big special meal all for the precious kiddos.  I am so excited about this opportunity.  Cost of this fun day is $800.

This class will be 3 hours in length and we will talk about the process of Bible journaling and I will share how I go about this each day.  We will talk about the process, supplies and all the tips, tricks and techniques I use.  There will be time for questions throughout the class as well as time for you to do some of your own Bible journaling.

Each person will bring their own supplies.  You can read about the supplies I use on THIS POST, but please feel free to bring the items which work for you.  YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PURCHASE THE ITEMS I USE.

Lastly, this class will be limited to 20 people due to space in our small house.  If you would like a spot email me at pitterpatterart at gmail dot com.  You can reserve more than one spot, so chat with your family and friends and make it a girls time.  This will also be a kid free time…sorry, no kiddos.

I hope you will join me.  The thought of a whole bunch of ladies talking creativity and the Bible plus raising funds for some crazy great kids makes me all kinds of happy emotional.  Can’t wait to see what God does.

Happy Monday.

**4 spots are still available**

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July 28, 2015 By 2 Comments

Fun Day + August’s Bible Journaling Class

You may remember way back when for my first Bible journaling class all the money went towards helping fund a Fun Day for all the kiddos and community at the Ngungwane carepoint.  I always want people to see how their giving shows love…I’m a visual person myself, so I wanted to share some photos from our crazy Fun Day.

As soon as the bounce house started to inflate and music started blaring tears began welling up in my eye balls.  My eye balls had a mind of their own on this trip…they could not be contained.

The photos below are not mine.  Alisha took all these and passed them my way.  The only part of Fun Day I actually saw was the blowing up of the bounce house and then the delicious chicken lunch every one partook in afterwards.  Marcie and I were in the building with a constant, never ending line of sweet kiddos who could not wait to have their faces painted.  Alisha was wise enough to walk around and grab a few shots of all the fun.

We kicked our fun day off with a fun snack of cheetos and apples for everyone and then ended with a giant meal of the biggest pieces of chicken I’ve ever seen, pop (reminds me of a grits/rice mixture), salad and cookies for everyone.  I loved that lots of community members came out to spend time together and get a yummy meal as well.

So thank you to all the ladies who attended my very first class…for your generosity and thoughtfulness and willingness to love big.

Also August’s class is set and here is your official invite.

When:  Saturday August 15th

Time: 1pm-4pm

Where:  Our house…near Nashville, TN

Cost: $50

This month’s funds will go towards helping fund a playground being put in at the Ngungwane carepoint for all the 140 kiddos who come daily.  They currently have nothing to play on and we’re going to try and change that 🙂

This class will be 3 hours in length and we will talk about the process of Bible journaling and I will share how I go about this each day.  We will also talk about supplies and tips, tricks and techniques I use.  There will be time for questions throughout the class as well as time for you to do some of your own Bible journaling and practicing.

Each person will bring their own supplies.  You can read about the supplies I use on THIS POST, but please feel free to bring the items which work for you.  YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PURCHASE THE ITEMS I USE.

I currently have 11 spots available for this class.  If you would like a spot email me at pitterpatterart at gmail dot com or Message Me Here.  You can reserve more than one spot, so chat with your family and friends and make it a girls time.  This will also be a kid free time…sorry, no kiddos.

I cannot even begin to say how much I enjoy doing this each month.  July’s class was crazy good and just filled me right up.  God continues to show how mighty He is…despite my sinful self.  Cannot wait to go hard after this playground and watch as God works.

Also, I’ve had some inquiries about if I would come and teach this class elsewhere and the answer is yes…as long as it fits with our family’s schedule.  Just email me and we’ll chat about the details.  And I know several of you are interested in an online version…I would love to do this, but right now just don’t have the time or know how, but I really do hope to offer this eventually.  You guys are all way too kind!

Happy Wednesday.

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June 25, 2015 By 1 Comment

July Bible Journaling Class

You’re officially invited to July’s Bible Journaling Class.  I am moving class towards the end of July since I will be in Africa the first part.  Here are the details:

When:  Saturday, July 25th

Time: 1pm-4pm

Where:  Our house. 

Cost: $50

All the money will be used to do some good in this world.  March’s class we raised enough money to fund a Fun Day for over 150 kids in Swaziland Africa which will take place on our trip in July.  April’s class funds were used to help purchase items and assemble welcome baskets for ladies entering the Magdalene Houses.  May’s funds blessed an office of 60 social workers and their supervisors with a catered lunch and over 600 blue ink pens.  June’s funds went towards supplies to take to the kids at the Ngungwane carepoint in Swaziland…crafts, bubble wands, solar lanterns, markers, treats and gifts for the sweet grandmother’s who cook everyday for the kids, etc.  July is still up in the air where the money is headed, but we are praying for God to show us exactly where the funds need to go.

This class will be 3 hours in length and we will talk about the process of Bible journaling and I will share how I go about this each day.  We will also talk about supplies and tips, tricks and techniques I use.  There will be time for questions throughout the class as well as time for you to do some of your own Bible journaling and practicing.

Each person will bring their own supplies.  You can read about the supplies I use on THIS POST, but please feel free to bring the items which work for you.  YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PURCHASE THE ITEMS I USE.

There are 16 spots available for this class.  If you would like a spot email me at pitterpatterart at gmail dot com or Message Me Here.  You can reserve more than one spot, so chat with your family and friends and make it a girls time.  This will also be a kid free time…sorry, no kiddos.

I hope you will join me.  This is a favorite time in each month.  I love meeting all you awesome ladies and talking about the Bible and creativity…such a treat for me.  Let me know if you have any questions and do hope to see you there!

Happy Wednesday.

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May 20, 2015 By 4 Comments

June Bible Journaling Class

You’re officially invited to June’s Bible Journaling Class.  This is a really quick turnaround time for this class so we’re going to see where we land with numbers.  Here are the details:

When:  Saturday, June 6th

Time: 1pm-4pm

Where:  Our house. 

Cost: $50

All the money will be used to do some good in this world.  March’s class we raised enough money to fund a Fun Day for over 150 kids in Swaziland Africa which will take place on our trip in July.  April’s class funds were used to help purchase items and assemble welcome baskets for ladies entering the Magdalene Houses.  May’s funds are headed to bless an office of 60 social workers and their supervisors.  June’s funds, well, we’re not quite sure where they will be headed yet.  We’re praying and brainstorming and keeping our ears and hearts open.  I’ll clue you guys in as soon as we know.

This class will be 3 hours in length and we will talk about the process of Bible journaling and I will share how I go about this each day.  We will also talk about supplies and tips, tricks and techniques I use.  There will be time for questions throughout the class as well as time for you to do some of your own Bible journaling and practicing.

Each person will bring their own supplies.  You can read about the supplies I use on THIS POST, but please feel free to bring the items which work for you.  YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PURCHASE THE ITEMS I USE.

There are 7 spaces still available for this class.  If you would like a spot email me at pitterpatterart at gmail dot com or Message Me Here.  You can reserve more than one spot, so chat with your family and friends and make it a girls time.  This will also be a kid free time…sorry, no kiddos.

I hope you will join me.  It has been so great meeting all the different women in so many different walks…so much love.   I’m excited as always and can’t wait to see what God has in store for June’s class.  Let me know if you have any questions!

Happy Wednesday.

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April 21, 2015 By 7 Comments

May Bible Journaling Class

You’re officially invited to May’s Bible Journaling Class.  I do hope to offer the class more and more, but I’m going to take it month-by-month.  I’d love to have enough interest to increase to two classes a month.  Eeeeek.  I think a lot of good could come from this and I am already sitting in anticipation of what God will do.  I’m love opening up our home and setting out tables and chairs and making cookies and I think it will be a really amazing time.  Here are the details:

When:  Saturday, May 16th

Time: 1pm-4pm

Where:  Our house. 

Cost: $50

All the money will be used to do some good in this world.  March’s class we raised enough money to fund a Fun Day for over 150 kids in Swaziland Africa which will take place on our trip in July.  A jump house, a big special meal, face painting, games and treats.  April’s class raised over $700 to help purchase items and assemble welcome baskets for ladies entering the Magdalene Houses.  May’s funds are still being prayed over and decided about.  I will let you know what kind of good is going down as soon as we decide. 

This class will be 3 hours in length and we will talk about the process of Bible journaling and I will share how I go about this each day.  We will also talk about supplies and tips, tricks and techniques I use.  There will be time for questions throughout the class as well as time for you to do some of your own Bible journaling and practicing.

Each person will bring their own supplies.  You can read about the supplies I use on THIS POST, but please feel free to bring the items which work for you.  YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PURCHASE THE ITEMS I USE.

Lastly, this class will be limited to 16 people due to space in our small house.  If you would like a spot email me at pitterpatterart at gmail dot com or Message Me Here.  You can reserve more than one spot, so chat with your family and friends and make it a girls time.  This will also be a kid free time…sorry, no kiddos.

I hope you will join me.  Each month I have walked away from each class just feeling so thrilled and honored I was able to hang with such precious ladies and talk about the Bible and being creative for an afternoon.  Let me know if you have any questions!  So excited and can’t wait to see what God has in store for May’s class.

Happy Tuesday.

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March 5, 2015 By 4 Comments

Important Things

Today is our one millionth snow day.  Tomorrow will make one million and one.  Sigh.  I feel like I’ve been pretty inconsistent around these parts lately, but honestly I just don’t really know what to type.  I feel like I don’t have much to offer you sweet people.  All my feelings are wild and crazy and swirly and sometimes I feel like I just can’t put my thoughts into words.  So on those days I’ve chosen just to sit tight and let the day slip by without typing.  I wish I had the words.  I like blogging.  I like you kind people.

I will tell you my tooth saga still has not ended.  I braved the snowmageddon weather here in Tennessee just to put a final end to my crazy tooth journey only to get there and find out yet again, this dang crown does not fit.  To make myself feel better I ventured into the super Target I never get to go to and knocked out all kinds of snowpacalypse grocery shopping which needed to be done.

Too Many Snow Days Fact #3:  When our kids have all these dang snow days our grocery budget is blown for the month.  They eat breakfast and several lunches during the week at school…for free.  Soooooo, no school means give them all the food of the world.  Budget shot.

The other day I made something super glorious.  Double THIS recipe, but instead of all chocolate chips put in a mixture of chocolate chips, white chocolate chips and peanut butter chips.  Press the whole concoction into a greased 9×13 pan and bake at 350 for 30 minutes or so.  I was pretty crazy smitten.  Especially when we warmed one up with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.  Hold the phone.

The March Bible Journaling class is just right around the corner.  I am probably embarrassingly excited about it.  The class was full, but then people backed out.  I now have 5 spots available.  If you’d like to join us shoot me an email at pitterpatterart at gmail dot com

Pretty pumped too because I’ve got some Timbali zip pouches ordered for the class as well.  These will be available to purchase.  I use mine to hold all my Bible journaling supplies.  It’s the perfect size and the ladies who make them are incredible.  Empowering woman with every purchase.

I’m a big lover of mail.  Every week I mail something to someone…it’s one of my quirky commitments for 2015.  Long live snail mail.  My mom did this.  She was always mailing encouragement.  She lived about 10 minutes from us and still mailed us and the kiddos cards for every single occasion.  Reading through Acts showed me yet again how important it is to be an encouragement to others.  Paul was constantly encouraging because of Jesus in him.

“Brothers, if you have any word of encouragement for the people, say it.”

“…strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in their faith…”

“…encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.”

“…they rejoiced because of its (a letter) encouragement.”

“..after encouraging them…”

“…and had given them much encouragement.”

God is constantly reminding me how important it is to encourage one another.

And I’m officially in the groove of grocery shopping with 5 kiddos.  It’s not always pretty, but it gets done.  At first I just lamented in the car and dreaded it, but then I got courageous and was all like “Let’s do this.  There are people in the world with 10 kids who grocery shop with all them.  I can swing 5.”  Now it’s old hat.  Plus, at Target there’s the glorious concession stand and on good days we celebrate our grocery trip survival with popcorn and icees.

There you have it.  All the important things I just had to relay to you on this snowy Tennessee Thursday.  It’s bath night, so I’m off to tag team all the baths with Josh Kelley.  Then a movie and some fun snacks.  We shall survive.

Happy Thursday.

  

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March 2, 2015 By 1 Comment

Come On Spring

The snow is gone.  Tomorrow is going to be in the 60s and then Wednesday they are predicting more snow.  The big kids went back to school and Amon had his regularly scheduled therapy this morning.  March is officially here and this month spring will come, we’ll celebrate two birthdays and Amon’s speech therapy will come to an end.  And now I’m crying.  It’s officially marked on our calendar and in just 2 weeks our Monday and Wednesday mornings will be free and we will greatly miss our sweet therapists who have worked so hard with him.  He has come leaps and bounds from completely non-verbal to this weekend tattling on our current little because she dumped out all the diapers.  Geez.  God never ceases to amaze me.

We live in a small house and with that comes learning all kinds of tips and tricks to make our house work better for us and our tribe and less is more.  Over the weekend we cleaned, organized and purged more things.  We finally had the drywall fixed in a few rooms which was a 2015 goal…yes, a goal.  We need motivation around here.  So we got to painting this weekend too.  Josh Kelley and I got started late Friday night…it’s what we do.  We brought in some of my Mom’s furniture and moved things about trying to create more space and it totally worked.  When you only have 2 closets storage and organization is pretty key.

Please marvel at how dusty our blue light shade is.  We’re pretty cleanly around these parts.

And see that beautiful spindly high chair?!?!?  My MIL let me borrow it since our new little one joined us and now I currently have the IKEA website pulled up and 2 of their plastic highchairs in my cart because no matter how hard I try I cannot deal with all the food and grime that gets all over those spindles.  Babies are messy.  Bring on the plastic clean lines.  We had the red one for Amon, but thought I’d get crazy and go with white.

If you have not seen Noonday Collection’s new spring line then you are missing out.  The Tereza Clutch is my new favorite.  If you don’t already have an ambassador go with the amazing Ashley Mills…she’s the best.

I am getting so excited about 2 things: 1. Our Swaziland trip.  It’s on and we are for realz going…hip hip hooray.  We still have 2 spots available if you want to join us.  Email me at pitterpatterart at gmail dot com.

And 2. The March Bible journaling class.  I honestly cannot wait.  Excitement is going nuts in my heart and head.  So excited to fill our house up with woman and talk about the Bible and journaling.  I did have a dream last night I was completely unprepared…tables weren’t even set out and I woke up sweating.  Sigh.

I just found these guys and it made me laugh out loud.  I like to think they are riding a mechanical merry-go-round and trying to just hang on.  Hudson = Lego creator for life.

And sadly, this is the current state of my office.  Gasp.  I know.  I tried getting around to it over the weekend, but we were painting and moving large pieces of furniture and cleaning out.  I’ve got orders in that mess which need to be completed ASAP.  Now if I could just find them 🙂

Good news is I did find this cute little 12 month baseball tee in that mess.  It needs a home.  If you are interested shoot me an email and I’ll ship it out this week. $20 (including shipping)

 Now I’m off to maybe clean that office.

Happy Monday people!

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February 24, 2015 By 5 Comments

7th Snow Day

Yep.  The Kelley kids are out of school again today.  They haven’t been since February 13th, but I mean, who’s really keeping up.  I’m surprisingly okay with another day and feel it’s because yesterday we had a lot of fun.  And things are looking up.  I mean, it’s quite possible they will go back to school tomorrow.  Possibly.

Yesterday we ate lunch out and then went to Monkey Joes for like 4 hours.  We never go to those places because it’s so expensive for all these kiddos, but yesterday was a big day so we went and it was AMAZING.  I sat.  In a chair.  At a real table. Alone.  While my kids ran wildly around burning off so much pent up energy.  And I brought my Bible and supplies and I read and got creative right there is the midst of Monkey Joes crazy town chaos.  And Monkey Joes is definitely straight up chaos.  Is a Monkey Joes frequent visitors card a real thing?!?!?!  If so, I might need one.

I’ve been thinking about all the randomness I could bestow on you this week.  Get ready.

Kindergarten Teacher Tip #2: Cheap shaving cream can be your best boredom buster or just a quick fun activity.  And it cleans your table and makes your house not smell like a dirty diaper or feet.  Try it.  You can even get all educational and have them write numbers, letters, words, etc. Or just let them go to town.  I’m for the going to town.

Please notice how some of them are choosing only to coat their hands and arms in the shaving cream…like this guy.

OCD Confession:  I love love love when I get to grocery shop alone and am able to load my groceries in the check out in the “correct” order.  Please some OCDish people speak up and affirm me.  1st: can goods, milk, any other uncrushable items.  2nd: boxed items all grouped together…eeeekk!  3rd: refrigerated items.  4th:  Fruit, eggs and easily crushed items like chips.  And lastly…those precious irreplaceable items like Mega M&Ms and sour gummy worms who stand alone.  It literally makes me so happy.  And I’m aware I have problems 🙂

This girl.  She’s a special one you guys.  And not seen are 4 other small children possibly losing their minds while we wait for the doctor at the doctors office because duh, we needed a case of the croup.

I was so disappointed to miss this sledding in action.  Imagine Sol in the sled…wearing his protective head gear while using his baseball bat to propel himself down the hill…similar to a guy rowing a boat, but he just needed a few good paddles.

No words needed.

And you guys are crazy awesome.  And I mean that.  Absolutely.  Thank you for taking a chance with me and for being willing to help make this Fun Day possible for these sweet kids.  Only 3 spots left in the March Bible Journaling class.  You can read all the details HERE.  Shoot me an email at pitterpatterart at gmail dot com if you would like a spot(s).

Happy Tuesday.

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