My Lifetime Story RE-RUN: Challenge 36 - Life Lessons & Advice

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Our scrapbooks are a great place for us to teach the future generations the lessons we have learned and hopefully some they will not need to learn. There are good and bad lessons but these experiences you have had make you who you are today.

Be honest, write from your heart and allow your family to discover you in your words. Also this is a great opportunity to interview members of your family and ask them what they have learned in life. Create a layout that shares and showcases these values. 

What lessons and advice would you like to share? Some topics could include what you have learned about: Marriage, careers, raising children, money, family, and health.
What experiences or turning points have changed your views on: Friends, church, gratitude, , and your time? 
Other layout ideas can include advice you have been given my your loved ones “The best advice I received from my Mother” “When I was your age”
Photo list can include: person who is giving the advice, the place you learned this lesson, photo of who you are giving this advice too, images that symbolize the event that change your view.

Be sure to follow this challenge in our forum and post your page in our gallery under the appropriate category! If you are a digital scrapbooker, be sure to find some great products in our shop to help you with your project!

Here are a few inspirational examples from the team for this challenge:

by Sunny


by Amy


by Tammy


by JackieAnn


by Sharon

Providence 365, Week 35: What is Wisdom?

This is Barbara, here with Week 35 of our year of Providence.  Today, I've chosen James 3:17 for our verse:

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.

Do you ever find yourself at a loss as to what to do in a given situation?  I know that I have.  Perhaps there is no "good" option, or perhaps there are too many equally good choices.  Or maybe your mind is just blank!

How do you know what is the wise thing to do?  How do we become wise?

God has graciously given us the ability to know what is wise.  The Proverbs are full of words of wisdom, telling us what wisdom looks like and where it can be found.  The book of James in the New Testament is all about wisdom as well.  We read that wisdom has certain characteristics, that it is gentle and full of grace.  In fact, wisdom shares many of the same features as love.  Hummm... 

So, this week, I am asking you to focus on wisdom, looking for the signs that God in His Providence has placed in your life, visible if you are attentive, there to assist you as you make decisions and choices.  And, when you've made your layouts, Pam and I would love it if you'd come and post in our gallery and forum.  We want to rejoice with you as God reveals Himself!

You can get the word art HERE.

Designer Challenge - Template Challenge

Good Day Everyone!
Its that time again, its time for my monthly Designer Thursday Template Challenge. This template can be used as the template or as a sketch and comes in PSD/PNG formats so that everyone can participate whether digital or hybrid. You will have one week to pick up the template for FREE and will also have 1 week to finish and post your layout to the gallery and forum thread. So go pick up the template..... and lets play!!!

My Lifetime Story RE-RUN: Challenge 35 - My Grandparents

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Why not make a list of your life goals? Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about your ideal future, and for motivating yourself to turn your vision of the future into reality.

The process of setting goals helps you choose where you want to go in life. By knowing what you want to achieve, you know where you have to concentrate your efforts.

Why not make a list of your life goals? You can call it a bucket list of all the things you want to do before you kick the bucket or you can create a layout just showing what you dream of accomplishing within the next 5 or 10 years.

I asked some of my coworkers and family members what would be on their list, here are some examples:
Take a cooking class, go skydiving, get in the car and drive as far as I can to see something I have never seen before, go to Niagara falls, go to a Taylor Swift concert, complete a 1000 piece puzzle, take my family to see the grand canyon, swim with dolphins, visit Ireland, run a marathon, help someone in need, earn my masters degree, take a cruise, go to Hawaii, have all my children graduate from college, have a girls weekend with my best friends in a city we have never traveled to before, fall in , travel to see my old friend, take a dance class, whitewater rafting.

What do you want to accomplish? Where do you want to go? Who do you want to help?
What are your life goals?

Create a layout sharing these dreams for your Lifetime Story Album.


Photo list could include: where you would like to go. A portrait of you now. Who you want to meet. What you want to do.

You can view the original blog post here and see the layouts created by the 2007 Creative Team!
http://faith-sisters.blogspot.com/2007/10/my-testimony.html

Be sure to follow this challenge in our forum and post your page in our gallery under the appropriate category! If you are a digital scrapbooker, be sure to find some great products in our shop to help you with your project!

Here are a few inspirational examples from the team for this challenge:
by Sunny


by JackieAnn


by Tammy


by Amy


by Sharon


by Amy J

Welcome to week 34 of Providence 365. Here in Colorado, the sun is shining and we’re looking forward to another beautiful day in the Lord.

Today’s bible verse is a favorite of mine. WHATEVER!

Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

My first thought when I hear WHATEVER is when I hear it mumbled by a sassy teen. Deep down, I know that it means, “I know you’re right Mom, but I need to express a little independence”

WHATEVER!
In the “urban dictionary” – the definition is as follows: used in an argument to admit that you are wrong without admitting it so the argument is over. (my sassy teen)

WHATEVER!
In a more traditional dictionary, it mean: ‘anything or everything that’ or ‘no matter what’ (our focus today)

Look at the last line of Philippians 4:8 – THINK ABOUT SUCH THINGS. The bible instructs use where our thoughts should be – no matter what.

Do you ever have those days where things are not going quite right? Or those days where you are anxious – about everything? What about times where you are struggling with a personal decision or choice? We can get buried in our own negative thoughts. And our own negative thoughts contribute to our confusion, anxiety and sadness. However, when we focus on what is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent and praiseworthy –our thoughts become positive, uplifting and godly. WHATEVER!

This week – when your thoughts are buried – read this verse – and think about WHATEVER! It’s amazing what a shift in focus can do. We would love to see a layout using WHATEVER….whatever you care to share.


Here is wordart to get you started. Post your layout in the Providence 365 layout here at Faith Sisters and let us know here in the forum.

On another note, I have a personal request for all prayer warriors. I have a very special friend whose young baby is back in the hospital. The doctors have yet to identify what is wrong. Please lift baby G in prayer – for his personal health (and for strength and peace for his family). Thank You!

Till next week! May your week be blessed - WHATEVER!

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