More than anything, I am thankful for the birth of the Christ.
I am thankful and grateful for his great sacrifice and words of truth that have led millions to salvation and grace. I am thankful to God who showed His love by the sacrifice of His Son in the great hopes that people would listen and follow the commandment to love one another, the only hope for our world. Jesus was humble and lived a simple life. He lived to teach and help others, and taught us that a life spent in accumulating wealth and possessions was not just foolish, but wrong. He taught us to spend our lives in the service of others. He taught that true love is not a warm fuzzy feeling, but an act of great sacrifice, which explains why most marriages never work. He taught us to love and pray for our enemies, which does not mean to go give them a big hug, but to stop vengeful acts that bring you down to their level or below. He told us to forgive those that don’t deserve it and this does not mean you allow someone to do wrong, but if they truly repent, you allow them back into your life or society without reproach.
I am thankful that when I feel alone or unloved Jesus told me to remember that when the world hated you that it hated him first. The knowledge that I am indeed in good company, comforts me greatly. Thank you God, in the name of Jesus, for another day.
When I think of renewal I think of the earliest seedlings breaking through the soil in spring.Each sunrise is renewal of everything!Not the Renewal by Anderson double hung windows.
Please replace all or part of the flour in any recipe with whole wheat instead of bleached or unbleached regular flour.You do not have to use all the ingredients in specific recipes. Sometimes it effects the flavor, other times it may actually improve the dish to leave something out or add additional seasoning or ingredients. Just experiment with common sense. You cannot make Chicken and Dumplings without the Chicken.
Learn to cook without the need for measuring ingredients, except for baking. Don’t ever cook without any seasoning or salt, much too blah!
Use Vinegar to rinse fresh fruits and vegetables. I have seen washes specific for cleaning produce that are expensive and I have even heard of some who use detergent to wash off the various pesticides. Watered down vinegar solutions are great for washing fruits and vegetables, much better than just water, safer than soap and much cheaper than store bought products.
Be careful using pre-washed and bagged leaf vegetables and baby carrots. You don’t really know how clean they are and they may put various additives to preserve and prevent browning. Fresh is best. Use a large clean bin or kitchen sink to clean all the leaves in water with slight amount of vinegar. Then drain and rinse with plain water. You do not have to bother with vinager if you know the products were grown organically, such as the produce you take from your yard, depending on how polluted the area you live in is.
Looks pretty good by itself, no additional paint or embellishment.
Hung the mask plain right after drying to see the effect.
Added bronze metallic paints.
Enhanced with some gold paint.
Cloth masks using a plastic face mask as the base with white gauze and glue.
Adhesive is half white glue like school or Elmer’s and half very warm water mixed.
Two pieces 10″ x 14″ of any thin, gauzy fabric to layer and shape to the mask after thoroughly coating with the glue.
Layering, one at a time, smooth each one in place to the base. Set in the eyes and shape up the nose area. layer the edges to your preference.
Used this mask for a Native American Theme with leaves, feathers and beads and a scroll that was transferred to fabric and melted around the edges.
This mask has one layer fabric for base and layed with colored tissue paper. Painted the base canvas board to compliment the mask colors and shapes, added grapes as per mask and picture of wine and glasses.
These pieces are still in progress, will up date later when completed.
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