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Showing posts with label Christian. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Biblical Christmas Wrapping Paper

During art time this morning I let the twins paint using dot dot paint as well as finger paint on kraft paper. We are creating our own Christmas wrapping paper. I had been drawing stars for them to fill in and Christmas trees, then Nathaniel asked me to paint a rainbow, like Noah's Ark. That got me thinking, why not draw a picture representing each book of the Bible.



Emma drew a whale:



Natty chose Exodus (15-40):



After we finish our Christmas wrapping paper, I'll tie the gifts up with simple bows using yarn ribbon or tulle in coordinating colors and give our gifts within a gift to special people in our lives.  This is going to be a fun way to learn the Bible, spread the Good News and express our creativity!
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Friday, October 12, 2012

Project: Chrismons

As an adult and a mother of precious boy/girl twins, I want to bring Christ back to Christmas. I want my children to understand their Christian history and God's saving Grace.  Chrismons are symbols used by early Christians as a symbol of faith as well as representing biblical and theological concepts.
Last Christmas, the twins were 22 months, we decided to decorate a small, artificial evergreen tree on top of our bar. This way we could keep the children from pulling the decorations off the tree and we could have some decorations in the house.  We added non-breakable decorations to the tree including a silver star Emma and Nathaniel made in the church nursery.  This silver star was the start of our Chrismon project.
This year we are going to have felt Chrismons on a bigger tree hopefully in our dining room. We might have to hide the wrapped gifts in another part of the house- I suspect twins would rip through the paper as soon as the boxes go under the tree -

Last night, I started cutting out my pieces from a pattern I found at Sunday School Kids.  I'm going to make mine three dimensional, by adding stuffing to the patterns and gold glitter glue where appropriate. The Jerusalem star will be designed using gold glittery felt.



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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Victory in Jesus - Becky Keeney

Becky Keeney wrote a wonderful article on the Christian Artist Street Team Blog  which features my  I Love Treble Glass Tile Pendant in February 2012.
I've included part of the article here:

Victory in Jesus!

Carol Maschler Jewelry
We had such a lovely church service yesterday.
It ended with the Hymn, 
Victory in Jesus!

This hymn was written in 
1939 by Eugene Bartlett,
(Copyright: BMI Work #1803360)
and it goes like this.
 I heard an old, old story,
How a Savior came from glory,
How He gave His life on Calvary
To save a wretch like me;
I heard about His groaning,
Of His precious blood's atoning,
Then I repented of my sins
And won the victory.
I love the reminder that the battle
was won at the moment of salvation!

The chorus tells us that He loved 
us first.  Before we even knew Him.....
Pretty incredible!

By the time the congregation got to the third verse
the volume had swelled and the praises were
winging Heavenward with gusto...
Someone had begun clapping
along with the music played on 
piano, violin, mandolin and drum....
the air was electric with praise.

In this song, as in so many
of the lasting hymns the final verse
points directly to our eternal hope.
It paints a word picture of our arrival
in Heaven.  A place prepared for us.

If you have ever had a house built for you
the idea of new construction is likely daunting.
But with Jesus as our mansion builder
we can be sure that it will be completed
on deadline and that everything will be
just as it should be.
So it is no wonder that songwriters over
the years have ended their songs
with this inspiration.

As the church pianist I am in a unique
position to really hear and feel the reaction of the 
congregation to the music. 
Sometimes they are simply processing 
words and notes.
But not today.
to read the rest of the article (and view my pendant):  http://castteametsy.blogspot.com/2012/02/victory-in-jesus.html
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

In His Name - Etsy CASTTEAM Treasury

Thanks to Whatshername for including me in her treasury:

In HIS Name

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4db2f1734eb76d91e4506d1b/in-his-name


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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Dallas Sample Sale

I spent this weekend, doing one of my favorite things: shopping!  The Dallas Sample Sale was this past weekend, and I found great bargains, one of a kind items, and some new designers.  I discovered several shops I wanted to share with others.

A Peace of Paper designed by desperate mom,  Jan Hurn. Her designer stationary has  straight to the point faith messages. Her Christmas cards  truly share the Christian gospel.  I was quite happy to find Christian Christmas cards at reasonable prices, her products can be found at www.peaceofpaper.com  

A yummy treasure at the Dallas Sample Sale this year was Texas Toffee, handmade in Garland daily. I bought a quarter pound small bag of almond toffee and one of pecan toffee yesterday and  scarfed it down. I did share it with my husband, so I didn't make a complete pig of myself. I will order more for his Christmas stocking, since I've already eaten the other two bags. I can really appreciate home made toffee after my almost disastrous caramel popcorn balls at Halloween.  check out www.texastoffee.com

If you're looking for precious baby gift items, look no further than the Three Marthas. They have everything from fabric photo frames, to burp cloths, monogrammed onesies, embellished baby blankets and more. I purchased a green monogrammed onesie for Emma and a burp cloth/drool bib decorated in cowboy fabric for a baby boy gift.  www.3marthas.com

Lastly, but certainly not the least, I discovered Whitney Elizabeth. She designs and her sister helps her make, Blossom Accessories.  Her creations are a must for every young at heart girl.  She makes blossom hair clips, brooches, headbands, baby crochet headbands, necklaces, etc. I stopped by her booth several times, unfortunately Emma was having an "I need a nap!" meltdown each time, and I was unable to have Emma model items without her screaming.  So much for the cuteness, but I would have loved to have purchased one of the baby crochet headbands or crocheted blossom hats, if I could have discerned which color for Emma.  Choices of pink, turquoise, red, ivory, purple with different colored fabric blossoms, I think it was too much for Miss Em.  Check out www.WhitneyElizabethDesigns.com for your favorite little girl.

I'm a bit exhausted from shopping; however, this week I'm going to start wrapping the gifts I purchased this weekend, so I will have them ready for my family's big Thanksgiving Dinner Reunion.  I like to have the majority of my Christmas shopping done before Thanksgiving, so I can pass the gifts out to my out of town relatives, it cuts down on shipping expenses and saves my sanity for later in the season.

Please note, I did not receive compensation for my review of these wholesalers/shops.
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