Rubies in the Rough: 2012

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Getting Ready for Christmas

Making spanakopita for Christmas Eve dinner. Yummm!

Our Christmas tree this year....

Making some presents....

...a hobbit hole :).

I love these glass balls with hooks on the top and bottom!

A sea shell plant holder...

Merry Christmas!

posted by: Caroline

Monday, December 3, 2012

Melody On Monday

Looking forward to December 14!

posted by: Caroline

Thursday, November 22, 2012

"I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not
merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed

consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling
one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it
is expressed...

The worthier the object the more intense this delight
would be. If it were possible for a created soul fully (I mean up to
the full measure conceivable in a finite being) to "appreciate", that
is to love and delight in, the worthiest object of all, and
simultaneously at every moment to give this delight perfect
expression, then that soul would be in supreme beatitude...

The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is "to glorify God and enjoy Him
forever". But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully
to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is
inviting us to enjoy Him."
~C.S. Lewis~

posted by Lydia

Monday, November 12, 2012

Melody on Monday

Monday, October 29, 2012

Pumpkin Picking

Oh my what decisions! We need the perfect pumpkins for carving.

Looks like we have some picked out.

Hmmm..... maybe.

posted by: Caroline

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Crafty Tuesday

We are helping a good friend of ours decorate for her wedding!

You all have probably seen these roses...

...they're the one's you melt the edges to make them crinkled.

So little roses will go on these garlands for the sides of the pews....

....and the bigger roses will be for the table arrangements.

Stay tuned to see how this all comes together in December!

posted by: Caroline

Monday, October 15, 2012

Some Music On Monday

We were listening to this song before church yesterday and it reminded me of that beautiful picture John paints in Revelation of ten thousand upon ten thousand and thousands of thousands all sing with one voice. Singing with one voice because they have one allegiance to one King. He is our true King. He ordains kings on this earth now, but one day all that will fade away and He will be the One and only.

posted by: Caroline

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The Arrows - In the Words of Satan

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Things God Gives Us to Enjoy!

Friends teaching us to make soup from the Dominican Republic.

A beautiful day at a cider mill.

Movie night outside on the back of our barn.

God gives us so many good things!

posted by: Caroline

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Blueberriess for Sal

I was so blessed to go berry picking with friends this past week.

We told the girls they were like Sal in Blueberries for Sal.

Making jam..

....eating jam...

such beautiful things God gives us!

More beautiful things...

posted by: Caroline

Friday, August 24, 2012

....And You shall Love Your Neighbor as Yourself.

"If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying under a burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it."

Exodus-23:5

Here we see God teaching His people for the first time that grace which isn't so common. He says, "and you would refrain from helping," meaning in your flesh and left to yourself you wouldn't have gone to help him. But praise be to God that with His spirit and His grace in us, "you shall surely help him with it." You, as My people, will show that uncommon grace. You will reflect Me, glorify Me, you will find true joy in those thing you wouldn't normally do.

posted by: Caroline