Night with my Sister-in-Law

Both our hubbies were away so Mick and I had a scrap night last night and I stayed the night so I didn't have to drive home:)
I was able to do 4 layouts which I am wrapped with.
These first 2 were from a TLC kit I was given at the Scrap of Faith retreat.





The journaling in this Princess layout is from the 'His Princess' book we all received at the retreat. I am just loving it and will probably make some more layouts using the letters in it which are love letters form God to us written around Bible verses.


A layout about Angus at 7 weeks old, the day after we picked him up from Perth.

and this is a Cirlce Journal entry for Nat's CJ...her theme is 'Defining Moments'.

Circle Journal Round 7

Here is my entry into Neek's Circle Journal. Her theme is 'Faith & Me'.

Entry into Carolina's Circle Journal

I decided to do this round digitally. (thanks Sal for the idea!)
Carolina's CJ topic is answered prayer and here is my entry.


And here is the journaling if you are interested.
This isn’t a testimony of answered prayer as such, but a testimony of God’s love and how he cares about the little things and honours us when we listen to and obey him. My husband and girls were to be away on a camping trip and I was all fired up to get stuck into my scrapbooking. Monday morning came and I felt the Lord say to me “Do the weeding first, then clean the house ready for the rent inspection and then you are free to
scrapbook” My gardens were so bad that I thought it would take me all week and I only really had Monday and Tuesday because I was working the rest of the week. Anyways.. I was sitting in the garden for half an hour feeling very overwhelmed when I had this thought pop into my head to get help with the garden. So I enlisted help from four of our youth group. They were absolutely amazing. Their attitudes and perseverence blew me away....we weeded for 5 hours straight and got it all done in one day. Then came to Tuesday. I had to clean my house to my landlords standard....you know like clean the shower and all those horrid jobs. It took me til 4pm to do everything so by this stage I was getting all down thinking that I had to work for the rest of the week and my scrapping time had gone. Then, my friend Errin came over at 4pm for a quick cuppa. I asked her if she wanted to scrap with me and she got all excited. Errin is usually really tired after work but wasn't this time. Praise God! I got 6 layouts done in one night!! I NEVER do more than 2 in a night or day! I believe because I obeyed the Lord and sacrificed my time to weed and clean BEFORE I scrapped he gave me my time back and enabled me to do six in one night, instead of six in 3 days! I am totally blown away at how God cares about us and how he blows our socks off with blessing if we just follow him and choose to obey him.


Gayle
oh yeh...and the digital kit I used is The Promise Collection by Shabby Princess

First Layout for the Year

I did this layout while at a scrap arvo/night with Lissa and Karen....we were scrapping for about 5 hours and this layout is all I got done...don't you hate those nights!

Here is round 5 for the Scrap of Faith circle journal I am participating in. It is for Gennie's album.

Round 4 Scrap of Faith Circle Journal

This is my entry into Sarah's circle journal. The topic was "words of wisdom from the Proverbs" I chose to focus on discipline.

Round 3 Scrap of Faith Circle Journal

This is my entry into Ali's Cirlce Journal. The topic is "What gets you through the rough stuff".
I have been tagged by Karen to share 7 random facts about myself...
1. I HATE gardening!
2. I try to avoid exercising...just ask Murray
3. I love any form of chocolate
4. I can't wait to get my puppy
5. I think I have the best family in the world.
6. I am trying to get over my internet addiction.
7. We are going to Brissie in Nov 08..YAY!

I am going to tag these 7 ladies...
Billie, Amy, Katie F, Sharon, Errin, Tara, Toni

~September 2007 Layouts~

These are my pages for Allison's CJ on Worship. The first page is my worship ministry testimony and the second page are my two fav songs at the moment.
Boy, it's September already!

Here are my first layouts for the month.

~SoF Circle Journal - Round One~

I have signed up with the Scrap of Faith's first cirlce journal. For those who don't know what a cirlce journal is I will explain. There are 12 ladies in our group. Each lady has her own theme to her journal...mine is "Words to Live By". Each month my journal gets sent on to a different lady who creates a double layout for it, so at the end of the 12 months I will receive my journal back with 12 double layouts in it each a different interpretation of my theme. There are some great themes the other ladies have chosen and I am looking forward to exploring them as they are all christian related themes.

So here are my pages.

This is my cover.

The intro page that explains to the ladies participating what my theme is.

The sign in page..the ladies select a tag and decorate it and add some infp about themselves.

My double layout on my theme. I have chosen 5 Bible verses that challenge me to live my life as a christian.

I have kept it pretty simple cause I wasn't very inspired today.

Gayle