Psalm 144 Bible Verse Image

Praise Be to the Lord my Rock... 

a salute to our modern day warriors

In light of Veteran's Day this past week, I felt this verse was rather appropriate for a "Scripture Saturday" post this week. The photo was taken by my husband many years back on a hill overlooking Duluth, Minnesota, one foggy evening.

If you are a veteran, or modern day warrior, my heartfelt thanks. If you love a veteran and have endured their service as well, I thank you too, for it is a hard journey to love and care for a warrior. 
God bless you and your weekend!

Psalm 144:1-2(NIV)

Of David.

1 Praise be to the Lord my Rock,
    who trains my hands for war,
    my fingers for battle.
2 He is my loving God and my fortress,
    my stronghold and my deliverer,
my shield, in whom I take refuge,
    who subdues peoples under me.

Psalm 118:5-7 Inspirational Bible Verse Image

He Brought Me Into A Spacious Place 

Psalm 118:5-7 (NIV)

5 When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord;

    he brought me into a spacious place.

6 The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid.

    What can mere mortals do to me?

7 The Lord is with me; he is my helper.

    I look in triumph on my enemies.

My husband took the photo above several years ago during a vacation to Minnesota. It is Lake Superior's rocky coastline on a foggy evening at dusk - such a peaceful and mysterious place...vast as you look over the water and breath in the humid air. Have a blessed weekend wherever you are!

Ecclesiastes 3:1 Bible Verse Fall Photo

Hope you are enjoying Autumn!

Ecclesiastes 3:1

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.

Here's another photo from a vacation my husband and I took several years ago to Minnesota. I believe this photo was taken on the rocky shores of Lake Superior near Duluth. We had such a wonderful time on that road trip. I hope to go back again someday in the Fall season. It is beautiful there. Happy Fall!

Isaiah 40:8 Fall Themed Bible Verse

Happy Fall 

Have a blessed weekend!

This is a little throwback photo from a vacation my husband and I took to Minnesota during the Autumn season several years ago. I love this time of year. It is a testament to God's beautiful creation and how it is ever changing over time - kind of like myself. I am grateful that His love endures through all those transformations. Have a wonderfully blessed weekend!

Come see me and my handmade felted goodies at the No Coast Craft-o-rama this weekend in Minneapolis! Shop, browse, and buy!

If you live in the Minneapolis area or just happen to be there this weekend, don't miss out on the No Coast Craft-o-rama. It is an extravaganza of top notch handmade arts and crafts. I will be a vendor this year, and I'm thrilled about it! I'll be selling a wide range of my felted goodies from hats to scarves to wrist cuffs to needle felted jewelry to brooches to wallets to . . . and the list goes on and on. I'll literally have hundreds of items displayed for sale. Some of them you can see in the photo above, and there are some brand new items that are not listed in my Etsy shop too. Besides my felted goodies, there will also be dozens of other vendors with handmade items from soaps to screen prints to jewelry to . . . well, the list goes on and on.

I will be in booth number C-4 (right by an entrance area). If you plan to go, please look me up on the vendor map and stop by. I'd love to meet you! Be sure to introduce yourself and let me know that you read my blog. And, as far as my blog goes, this will probably be the last post that I make until early next week because I am knee deep in handmade felted goodies in preparation for the big event. I will also be putting my Etsy shop in vacation mode later today or tomorrow until sometime early next week. If you've had your eye on anything there, I'd suggest that you snatch it up now. With over 10,000 visitors expected at the two day show, I don't know what I'll have left when I return (hopefully not much!). You can find more info about the No Coast Craft-o-rama below or visit the website for complete details. I sincerely hope to see you there!


When: Friday, December 5, from 3 PM to 8PM and Saturday, December 6 from 9 AM to 5 PM
Where: Midtown Global Market on Lake Street in Minneapolis
Who: Anyone and Everyone who loves crafty and artsy things! (It is a great place for Christmas and Holiday gift shopping!)
How much: It is free to get in, but I know that you'll be tempted by all the handmade goodies there so bring some cash!
What else: There are many great places to eat at the Midtown Global Market.

As promised . . . some photos from my recent vacation to Lake Superior's North Shore in Minnesota!

Well, my husband finally downloaded our photos from a recent mini vacation that we took to Lake Superior's North Shore area in Minnesota. We also stopped for one day in Minneapolis to check out the Midtown Global Market where I'll be participating in the No Coast Craft-o-rama in December. We had a wonderful time on vacation and plan to go back for another one in the Spring if our budget and time permits. I'll try to put some simple captions on the photos for you. Enjoy!

This is the Midtown Global Market building where the No Coast Craft-o-rama will be held in December. It is a really cool building and a very neat ethnically diverse market. We bought a candle and some soap there that were handmade.

It rained most of the time on our trip and was quite cool too. Here you can see us overlooking Lake Superior in the rain. We're standing on the walkway of a lighthouse in the port at Duluth.

This is just a leaf on the wet rocks at the Glensheen Mansion in Duluth, but I thought that it was very pretty!

This is a photo that overlooks Lake Superior at night. I had to set the camera on our car hood and set the timer to get the photo to turn out. Then I also lightened it a bit in Photoshop, but I think it came out really cool!

These two photos are at Gooseberry Falls State Park. Although it was wet, muddy, and rainy, it was still a lot of fun hiking around the Falls.

This is a photo off the shore of an artsy little town called Grand Marais. We spent a day there walking around and checking out their lovely galleries and gift shops. We also ate at the Angry Trout Cafe which I highly recommend.


And, this is overlooking Duluth on a foggy night. I just thought it was a really nice photo to add. It is actually a very nice city with a lot of fun attractions and sites to see.

That's our trip in a nutshell. We did a LOT more than I have shown you here, but I liked all of these photos and thought that they were interesting enough to share. We took over 200 photos on the trip so I had to be a little picky to say the least. I hope that you like the one's that I've chosen for you.

A Great Store for Yarn, Wool Roving, and other Fiber Supplies in Minneapolis, Minnesota - The Fiber Studio

Well, I'm finally back from a short vacation to the North Shore area in Minnesota. It is beautiful there this time of year with their spectacular Fall foliage. I hope to have some photos to post of my mini vacation next week, but for today, I wanted to share a wonderful new store that I discovered in Minneapolis - The Fiber Studio!

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I actually came across their website while searching online for fiber supply places to visit while on my vacation. I always try to stop into to two or three local shops whenever I'm traveling. This time, I feel like I really hit the jackpot with The Fiber Studio. It has a wide variety of roving in a rainbow of colors. You will find merino roving, corriedale roving, harrisville fleece, and more. They also carry a lot of other fiber related supplies such as dyes, silks, yarns, and many, many other things big and small. It is a quaint shop in a very neat area of town. If you are traveling to Minneapolis or live anywhere near there, I highly recommend that you stop into The Fiber Studio and browse. Also, the owner is a super sweet and knowledgeable lady to talk with, and her prices are very reasonable. I ended up with two large bags of roving that weighed just under four pounds! I plan to go back there when I'm up that way again in December as a vendor at the No Coast Craft-o-rama. I can't wait to browse and buy some more!

Also, The Fiber Studio has an Etsy shop so stop in there and browse. It will be worth your time!

Yay! I got accepted! The folks at the No Coast Craft-o-Rama like me! They really like me!

I got an email yesterday afternoon from the folks at No Coast Craft-o-Rama. They were letting me know that I got accepted to this year's show out of over 300 applicants. Can you say "Yippity Skippity!"?? Well, that's what I was saying yesterday when I found out the news! The No Coast Craft-o-Rama is a large arts and crafts fair in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is what I would consider a more trendy, modern festival for up and coming artists and crafters. I had applied last year, but I was rejected. This year, I debated on whether or not to put myself through another rejection by applying, but I decided to go ahead and send in my info to see what happened. And, I'm so glad that I did because this year, they liked me. Yay! They really liked me (er, or my felted stuff anyway)!

The No Coast Craft-o-Rama is a very large two day event with over 10,000 shoppers in attendance last year. It features a wide variety of handmade arts and crafts. This year, the grand event is being held on Friday, December 5, from 3 PM to 8PM and Saturday, December 6, from 9 AM to 5 PM, at the Midtown Global Market on Lake Street in Minneapolis. I know that Minneapolis is a long, long way from Kansas City, but I've never been to the city, and my husband and I are super excited about going. I'm also super excited about being a vendor at such a large event. It makes me feel like a crafting rock star. Well, at least that's the way it makes me feel (however ridiculous that might seem to others - please let me have my moment).

So, if you are close to Minneapolis, mark the date and time on your calendar! Come by, say "hello" and browse for yourself and some holiday gifts.

And, a big Whoohoo! Yippity! Skippity! and Yay!
(There now. I think it is out of my system . . . at least for today.)