I meet with You and my soul sings out

As your word throws doubt far away

I sing to You and my heart cries

Holy!

Hallelujah

Father, You’re near!

My hope is in You Lord

All the day long

I won’t be shaken by drought or storm

A peace that passes understanding is my song

And I sing

My hope is in You, Lord

I wait for You and my soul finds rest

In my selfishness, You show me grace

I worship You and my heart cries Glory

Hallelujah

Father You’re here!

My hope is in You, Lord

All the day long

I won’t be shaken by drought or storm

A peace that passes understanding is my song

And I sing

My hope is in You, Lord

I will wait on You

You are my refuge

I will wait on You

You are my refuge

My hope is in You, Lord

All the day long

I won’t be shaken by drought or storm

My hope is in You, Lord

All the day long

I won’t be shaken by drought or storm

A peace that passes understanding is my song

And I sing

My hope is in You, Lord

My hope is in You, Lord

Yeah

My hope is in You, Lord

I wanted to announce the winner of the June Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp!

The winner is:

Congratulations, Susan C.! If you could please contact me (click on the envelope icon) and send me your mailing information – we’ll get that June Card Kit sent out to you so you can enjoy it!

Thanks so much to everyone who entered! I’ll be back soon with more goodies! Hugs!

Don’t you just love blog post titles like that? Ha! I’m totally serious though, sweet blog friends, I need your help!

A few weeks ago my family and I had our first professional photographs taken by the sweet and talented, Sara Rose of Sara E. Rose Photography. She was one of the fabulous speakers at the Inspired Workshop that I attended back in March. I had scheduled a mini photo session with her before hearing her speak or meeting her, but after hearing her speak and meeting her I was even more excited to have her capture my family in pictures. She is so wonderful with children and such a beautiful, caring person with a big, loving heart. She loves happiness and so do I. :) My kind of person. ;)

Anyway, she took some photos of my family and I a few weeks ago and I just LOVE them! Ok, love is an understatement! Ha! ;) Today she has the April Clients Favorite up on her blog HERE and the photo with the most votes gets a free 11×14 of that print. I chose this photo of my sweet Caylin and Jack:

This photo makes my heart SO happy. It makes it want to burst with joy, I tell ya. I would love to win that 11×14 print. All you have to do is click on over to the blog HERE and leave a comment on that blog post voting for my photo – it’s #27.

ALL of the photos are so beautiful. I’ve got some stiff competition, ha, so please help! You can only vote once and the comments are moderated so if you don’t see your post go up right away – that’s why. Just know that every single vote that you cast for my photo is SO appreciated!

I’ll just take you a minute. Can you spare that for me today? Thank you so much! Have a beautiful day!

I just love these felt flowers I got in the mail last week:

Cathy even included a little goodie bag for my daughter in my package. How sweet! Caylin just LOVED it! She actually carried that felt heart around in her pocket the rest of the day. ;)

 Here are some other goodies in her shop that I have my eye on!

Check out the Catshy Crafts blog HERE and her Facebook page HERE. Oh, and if you sign up for her newsletter you get a 10% off coupon! ;) Catshy Crafts is full of goodness! Love how Etsy has made it SO easy to purchase sweet and unique gifts! LOVE supporting handmade! If you have a favorite Etsy shop, leave me a comment below! I love to find cute new shops!

Have a beautiful day! :-D

Have you guys seen the beautiful card kits that Simon Says Stamp offers each month? They are SO well put together and just full of so much goodness. I have gotten three of them so far and just LOVE them! They are seriously like happiness in a box! Ha!

Simon Says Stamp just released the June Card Kit and it’s no exception. I got mine last week and couldn’t wait to pull it out all and create with it. I had a bit of time on National Scrapbooking Day and I created two really pretty cards (one for my Mom for Mother’s Day – don’t look Mom! LOL) and I still had LOTS of goodies left to make more and I plan to.

The kit is full of beautiful, delicate and vintage inspired pieces. From sweet doilies, vintage dictionary sheets, gorgeous stamps (TWO SETS!) and sweet pins to cardstock in beautiful shades of blue, gray and pink and glittery embellishments. It’s full of beauty and it was the perfect kit to create my Mom a beautiful card with for Mother’s Day on Sunday. LOVE the kit! Check out the kit in more detail HERE!

You won’t be disappointed in this kit – that is for sure! Gorgeous!

And guess what? The SUPER sweet folks at Simon Says Stamp have offered to give one June Stamp Kit away to one of my sweet readers! Yay! So all you have to do is leave a comment below and you’ll be entered! I’ll leave the giveaway open until this Friday, May 11th at 11:59 p.m. central time. Maybe you’ll be the winner and it’ll be a sweet Mother’s Day gift for you OR you can give it to your Mom! ;)

Thanks so much to the sweet Heidi at Simon Says Stamp! I just love her. She is THE sweetest. :) Her generosity and kindness during the Caylin’s Cure fundraiser last year, touched my heart so much. I don’t forget people like that. You can’t because they leave an impact on your heart forever. I also can’t say enough wonderful things about her store – Simon Says Stamp. They have AWESOME products and they have AWESOME customer service. Truly one of those companies you are happy to support! Check them out if you haven’t yet and be sure to leave a comment and enter the giveaway so you can enjoy this beautiful June Card Kit yourself!

Have a beautiful Monday and week ahead! :) 

Have a beautiful Thursday!

Color wheels, color charts, color swatches … all of those just make me giddy. Love taking inspiration from some colors and running wild with them.

Here are a few great websites to look at for color inspiration: http://colorschemedesigner.com/, http://colorbuzz.valsparblog.com/color-inspiration/, http://www.colourlovers.com/ and don’t forget my favorite – http://pinterest.com/.

Off to find some more pretty colors! ;)

I recently put some new prints up in the shop – Baby Bird & Bub Bub. :)

I am having so much fun creating sweet prints for my shop. There are some other versions of the above prints as well (color combinations and boy/girl versions) so definitely check it out. Oh, and maybe JUST maybe there might be a coupon code in an ad on my sweet friend Amy Tan’s blog HERE. Just sayin’. ;)

Have a beautiful Tuesday!

SOURCE: HERE

I love these types of questionnaire and think it’s neat to jot down what our kids’ answers are so I asked my daughter the above questions and loved it!

Here are Caylin’s answers:

I’m going to print it out and add it to my Project Life – just in an 8.5×11 page protector. I think it’ll be sweet to look back on one day. With Mother’s Day around the corner – I think it’s a great idea for us Mamas to document that. :) I think you’ll be glad you did! I’m going to let her draw a picture of me in that circle, too. Such a cute little keepsake it’ll be. ;) Have a beautiful day!

SOURCE: HERE

I hope you are having a wonderful Thursday, friends! :)