Sewing life ever to start??

agg I so what to start sewing & need to if I want to make myself some shorts that are my style!! Problem is I have so many projects to do other than sewing but hopefully when I get back I will be able to have a few sewing days.
I have several cute girl dress patterns & still have yet to make a dress i promised steph for her bday 2 months ago. I want to start making it before she has another growth spurt. The only thing left is getting more fabric that will work for outfits!! I only have quilt squares, flannel for taggies & some other lovely fabric that I have no clue with what to make of it. I need to find someone that can help me make a simple square quilt as i need to use the squares up. I love making stuff for people but also want to start selling more on etsy which i think sewing would be another thing i could do.

Soul searching/sacrifices of love

Ever have one of those moments where you know its time to do some more soul searching?? I have been feeling lately thats what I should do but everytime I start I don't know where to start.
God gave me the best sacrifice of all by Jesus dying for my sin so I think I should sacrifice my time for him. I know its hard to start but I must learn to give of myself to him just like I am giving my time volunteering to his glory & honor at the resource center. I hope to gain more understanding this summer when I work at camp barnabas, but for now I am sacrificing little things such as giving up things I might want to do.

Blessings stored in heaven

I have not yet even sent all my support letters/emails & all the people I have sent emails to all have been very supportive. I feel very blessed & am excited to look forward to this new adventure I am embarking upon. God has let me grown up with great parents & great sunday school teachers/childrens ministry leaders to help lead me in a Godly life. Camp Barnabas has also helped me through faith & I will always treasure the fact that I chose to get baptisted there & they were ever so excited for me to do it! To all my friends, words can not describe how much each one of you have meant to me each in your own personal way! You have cared, loved me, listened when I needed an ear to talk with, prayed for me at the moments I needed it most, a shoulder to lean on or cry on, & most important shared a special bond that I will always remember no matter where life takes me! I am trying not to cry just typing this! You all mean that much to me!
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. Matthew 6:20
I hope that you will take this verse with you & learn more from it! I will be updating this blog more in the future with things in my life as well as sharing more about my adventures & such so please follow my blog if you have a google account!

One of the hardest

It seems so hard, with the way my sister is from most people with down syndrome. I don't know what it is that makes it so hard. Some days I just wish she was not the way she is, mind you I still love her, I just have struggles & we don't get along the way we use to when we were younger. Having a sibling with special needs can be one of the most hardest & sometimes joyful things in life. Thats one of the reasons I like camp barnabas so much as I have something in common with the other siblings & I can share those struggles. The nicest part is no one stares at you for having a sibling with special needs.

Mission trip to camp barnabas & how I plan to fundraise

Well, since my mom said volunteering to serve as a councilor at camp barnabas this summer counts as a mission trip she told me of 1 way I can use to help me fundraise other than saving up my own money & from the jbf sale. So I am going to write a letter explaining why I want to serve at camp barnabas & how I will hopefully benefit a camper with special needs or a cabin of sibling campers, sending it out to my family & friends who are there to support me. Camp Barnabas has been like a family to me when I went for 5 years as a sibling camper supporting me & caring for me as also the place I was honored to be baptisted at so I feel humbled to do everything I can to give back to them. I will write more about it in my letter but let me know if you want a letter or I can send an email. Thanks for all your continued encouraging support & love to me!

My sewing life adventure

So for christmas I got a new sewing machine as I had asked for one of my own as the one we do have is not portable to take places if I am going to learn from someone how to sew. Well I tested it out a few days after christmas but have not gotten a chance to learn more yet but I want to make my bag set that I got with it so what to start with?? I am now going crazy in fabric land!!! I have a box of fabrics from various times & have lots of this pretty burgendy colored with roses fabric I have had forever since I did a school project when I was about 10 on india so we made a sari (sp?) & have not touched the leftover (or it was the sari unraveled?)fabric since and I have no clue what to make with such lovely fabric. Plus alot of them are quilt squares so I am ready to shop sales for fabrics whats a girl to do but shop for crafts? ahhh if only I had thought of that before spending my craft gift cards for other things!! Their are 2 friends I know that have made some cute outfits and/or costumes & I really want to make as cute of stuff as they do!! I hope I can get a job soon to support my hobbies or hopefully a friend to pass some cute fun fabrics to me!!

Beauty & the Beast

Beauty & the Beast is my favorite movie of all time now! Belle is my favorite disney princess! I decided as soon as I heard that the group my siblings does plays with that I wanted to be in Beauty & the Beast JR. I completly enjoyed it even with the stress & craziness of things! I would do it all over again if I could! Just all songs were so much fun & the costumes & even painting a set was fun! I could write a whole lot but going to save my story of the play for fb.