Just Once ~ in Parts

Note: This will just be a post of pictures that will be updated from time to time as each part of my project is finished. :)

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Sorry, I am not good in taking pictures. It will be good to learn this too, though. :)

A Book Given Away & Something About 28

(A sequel to Teardrops on the Floor & Something About 13)

As surely as Mia decides to follow the Lord's leading, she will make it through.

That is my faith and blessed assurance.

So, yes, Mia has always been in my thoughts and prayers even we have all packed and gone to live our separate lives after the camp. 

Being completely human, with a set of limitations and stuff, I know I can't be there for her (at least physically) to speak with her and journey with her. As much as I want to but, work, time, and space make it impossible for me to be an omnipresent friend.

But, I am not giving up. I remember this book that I keep on buying, not for me (anymore) but for others. I know that the book is not mine to keep, but mine to give away. It had helped me ~ BIG TIME, and I pray it will help others, too.

So, I packed it full of hope and prayers that this will help her cope and understand this common life we are living.

Weeks passed and the book reached her hands. With excitement in her text message, she said that that the timing is just right for her birthday. Then I asked, 

"When's your birthday by the way?"

"This coming Monday, Ate...

January 28th!"  :)

Come on now.



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image credit : pinkseele.wordpress.com

From Here to Eternity

Flipping my desk calendar to today's date, I found and read this:

I am stunned. 
How did this get so timely ~ the message and the Bible verse today?

Today is Mama's birthday. She should be 56 years old now if she had not gone ahead of us and went Home 18 years ago.

Please don't get me wrong. I am not melancholic right now upon reading what is in my desk calendar. I am in fact very thankful to the Lord for giving us the gift of her, whose life will always be a constant reminder of God's love, comfort and faithfulness... beyond words can ever say.

Today, I will celebrate LIFE not death, JOY not sorrow. I am thankful and so looking forward to Eternity because I know I will get to meet her again. :)

Just Once

I know this is a very feminine thing to do but, these things came to mind:

~ I will do this just once *fingers crossed*.
~ I will do this while my eyesight is still serving me well.
~ I will do this while my hands are still steady.

So, I conditioned myself into this once in my lifetime project. I think it is good as I welcome the year. Something to start and something to finish. Want to guess what am I up to?

Just getting started

I'm into cross-stitchin'!

Yes, that's right. I will be cross-stitching my leisure time away alongside blogging. And since this will be done just once, I want to do a relatively big one.

The first few weeks of the new year, on separate occasions were devoted to selecting a pattern, buying cloth, needles, and little drawers to put the threads and some little stuff. I know how cross-stitch can get your work into a mess with the tangling and all so, a drawer/organizer is on the TOP list. Must be. 

One of the reasons I'm 100% into this was this pattern I saw on the store. It was love at first sight! How I fell for it! I knew it's the one!

"I want to do this!" was all I said. It was the image in my mind for sooo long that I've been wanting someone to sketch for me. But to my surprise, I now have the chance to do it myself not by sketching but, by stitching. 

True enough, the store owner said that the pattern was originally a painting converted to a cross-stitch pattern. It came into form through a painter's brush strokes and has now reached my hands to bring it to life through stitches!

I know I will be needing a lot of diligence and patience *so, help me God*. I will have it framed and will hang it on my wall. Then it will forever be mine. :)

A yard of cloth + 31 colored threads... What can these things show? I will let you know once this is all done. :)

Well then...

~ when my eyesight is already poor, 
~ when my hands are already shaky, 
~ when I am old and weary, 

at least I can look up to my wall and say, 

"Look at this project I did just once." :)

A Year of 5

Present!

Just in case some of you have thought I stopped blogging and, somehow in little ways have felt my absence. I am just here wandering around the blogosphere and my social network site for the past weeks. Not to mention my year-end wrap up at work, week per week deadlines and, personal life's up-and-about diversions but, now ~

I'm back.

I intentionally didn't write any post for December. It was planned just before my November comes to a close. One may have a lot of reasons for putting blogging to a halt but, mine was simply this: I knew and felt I wouldn't be able to keep up with my '5 posts discipline' for that month so, I just decided not to write at all.

My archive list turned out to be my goal reminder. Seeing only 1, 2, or 3 posts in between has been a constant eye sore! I am praying and hoping that I will do better this year. If not for my readers, at least for myself. I just want to consistently see '5' all throughout my list ~ from this point forward. I am hoping to have a blogging year of 5. :)

I have so much to share but, I have yet to save it for my upcoming posts. I just dropped by to wave my new blogging year 

" Hi ! "  :)