Lead me in Your truth!

 "Make me know Your way, O Lord;

Teach me Your paths.

Lead me in Your truth and teach me,

For You are the God of my salvation;

For You I wait all the day."

Psalm 25:4 & 5

We have a God who can teach us- because He knows everything! He can lead us in the right way- show us the right path. Our God is one of Truth- Absolute Truth. There are no questions with God, no fuzzy grey areas. He knows all things and He wants to teach us through His word. I want to read it more, to be ready to follow, ready to learn. I want to always wait on Him- I hope you do too!



Floral Fun

 Last month I was totally enjoying the flowers that were blooming (I still am enjoying the flowers!) and had some fun making floral projects as well. Here are some of the projects I made and had fun giving away.

 Above it a beaded flower barrette that I made. It is pretty fun and simple to make stuff from beads when you use wire. Just thread the beads on and twist them into whatever shape you want. Then I sewed it onto a barrette that I had covered with red ribbon.

 I made more note cards. All of these were made using various paper scraps and me heart punch and glue.

Tote bags are easy and fun to make and pretty useful to have so I enjoy making them for gifts. I love using a flower to dress it up a bit.

  What have you been making lately?

"How blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,

who walk in His ways.

When you shall eat of the fruit of your hands,

You will be happy and it will be well with you."

Psalm 128:1 & 2

I am not going to say a lot today. I just wanted to share this neat promise the God gives us in His word. What a  great one it is!



Some easy clothing remakes

One original t-shirt and one that I have already cut.

 This week I was needing to make some girls undershirts. I had decided to go to my box of old (stained or for some other reason gotten rid of) t-shirts where I figured I would find some material that I could use that would make a comfortable undershirt.

   I found some small white boys undershirts that made my sewing job even easier! They were several sizes to small which worked well as we wanted the undershirt on the fitted side. I simply took them and cut off the sleeves, cut the neckline down and on one of them I cut some of the length off of the bottom. On the other two I simply folded the hem up one more time and stitched it. The pictures will give you an idea of how I cut them. Though with hindsight- I cut two of them with a rounded neck and one of them I cut with a v-neck and we like the v-neck one best.

The lines I used to cut this one out. I also cut off some length.

 After cutting them out I simply hemmed all the edges (I used various decorative stitches and thread colors to make them more girly) and then we put a little rosebud or bow on the middle of the front of each one. It was a quick and easy project and it was free! Faster than shopping for them too!

The finished undershirts.

 We decided to make Megan a slip as well. For that I found a woman's t-shirt in the box which I cut at the top basically the same way as the undershirts and then I did cut the side seams down as well, tapering them a little and then sewing them back together. I added lace to the bottom of the slip to make it a bit longer. We hemmed the neckline and the sleeves like the undershirts and again added a little rosebud to make it pretty!

A slip for Megan

Those are some of my recent remakes- have you done any sewing lately?

Dragonfly Soaps {Review and Giveaway}

   I think I have a new indulgence. It is homemade natural soaps. A while back I won some homemade goats milk soap on a blog giveaway and I just loved it. Not to long ago I became aware of Dragonfly Soaps and they agreed to let me do a review and giveaway here on my blog. I got to choose 2 of their soaps that they sent to me so that I could try them out and I am totally loving these soaps too! They are so much more fun to use than the ones you can buy at a big box store!

   When I went to Dragonfly Soaps website it was so much fun to browse through all their different varieties! They have some that they call "Almost Edibles" and I would love to try everyone in that category (except perhaps the Fisherman's Lure as it is geared for men and I don't do much fishing).  I did request the Chai Soap and I love the smell of it. When I was using it in the shower last night it made me crave a cup of Chai tea so bad that I was almost tempted to dissolve some and try drinking it. :-) Using it in the shower smelled just like sipping a steaming cup of Chai Tea. 

I would love to try this one too!

Another category of soaps that they have is called "Mysterious and Earthy Scents". We decided to try Forest Floor from this category. It is called the naturalists soap of choice which is fitting as I got it for Mara and she is definitely turning into a little naturalist. When we went to the state park the other day she had a wonderful time visiting with the naturalist there (and he was impressed with her knowledge of plants) and decided that maybe she could be a part time naturalist in addition to being an author. Back to the soap.... I actually got it for Mara as it said the antiseptic oils in it are said to be helpful to troubled skin. Mara has trouble with eczema and we are always looking for things that will help. She said that she liked using it and I know I thought it smelled pretty good!

Dragonfly Soaps also has categories "Lavenders and Flowers", "Workhorse Soaps" and "Unscented". I think I would enjoy trying any of their soaps.

Some other info about Dragonfly Soaps that I thought was neat were:

• All soap is handcrafted in small batches.
• The colourings and scents are from herbs, clays, chlorophyll, spices, flowers, seeds, mineral pigments or essential oils.
• They use oils that nourish the skin.
• They try to reuse and recycle with their packaging as well as their soap trimmings, etc.

Would you like to try some Dragonfly Soaps?

  They are letting me give away 3 bars of soap to 2 different people (6 bars in all)!

  So.... If you would love to win and try some dragonfly soap go ahead and comment here.
In your comment please:

• Tell me what 3 bars you would want should you win. Go to their website to make a selection.
• Make sure to leave an e-mail address so that I can contact you should you win.

This giveaway is open to everyone worldwide!
The giveaway will end on July 8th so be sure to enter before then.

The winners are: Becky R and Twinkle Toes. Congratulations! I hope you enjoy them as much as we are.


I received soap at no cost to me for purposes of reviewing. I was not required to write a positive review and I was not in any other way compensated for writing this review.

Happy Summer to you!

The Showy Lady Slipper- Our state flower

 We celebrated the first day of summer by....

 Enjoying radishes out of our garden. The kids had been craving radish sandwiches and we had plenty to supply that desire!

Going on a fun (and RAINY!) walk at the state park with a naturalist and some other homeschooling friends. We walked out into the bog (they have a nice boardwalk through it) and saw all sorts of wonderful plants including the showy lady slippers that are pictured above.

Going shopping and getting supplies for a couple of fun trips that we have planned. The shopping was a little exhausting (I don't think shopping has ever been very recreational for me) but it is nice to have it done and have found some things we needed.

 It was a fun start of summer! I hope your summer started well too and that you have a blessed one!