Winter Woods

Beth October 19, 2018 11 Comments

Festive Friday Challenge

It’s time for another Festive Friday Challenge!  I love being a designer for Festive Friday and this week’s challenge #FF0019 is Halloween  (Oct 31) and/or Black.  You can earn points to choose free items from our Festive Friday Store! #festivefridaychallenge  To enter, you only need to post a picture of your card to Pinterest.  I can help you with the link.  Please email me at Beth@StampingMom.com  and I would love to help you.  Entering challenges is truly a lot of fun.  Please join us!

If you want instructions, please enter our challenge at Festive Friday and you can choose the free tutorial for this card with the points you earn.

I just got back from a couple days of helping with Steve’s parents, while Steve spent a week there helping.  Steve’s Dad had hip surgery and he is the caregiver for Steve’s Mom, who suffers with Dementia.  Steve’s parents did a great job raising their four boys, all of which would do anything to help their parents. 🙂

One of my jobs this week was to start going through the bins of pictures, newspaper articles, etc. in their basement.  It was like a walk down memory lane.  One entire bin was about the Floods of 93.  The flooding in Buffalo, IA where they live and Des Moines, IA where we live, was the worst we’ve ever experienced.  They had a house surrounded with sandbags and pumps in the basement trying to keep the water out.  Here’s a picture I found of Sean-age 3 and I riding in a row boat down the streets of Buffalo.

Reading about the floods was sad, but I was thrilled to find the picture below.

This was the Iowa Student Loan Annual Report from 1997, the company where Steve works.  They asked employee’s kids to draw a picture of what they wanted to be when they grew up.  I didn’t remember Sean was such a good artist or that he had drawn this picture. Even more fun is that today, Sean is indeed an engineer! It looks like he planned to be an engineer at NASA when he was seven, but today he is an engineer at Microsoft in Seattle, WA.  It’s even more interesting to go through dusty old bins when you find a nugget like this that made my heart so happy!  I sent the picture to Sean and he thought it was pretty cool as well.

I have to show you one last picture…we just finished studying the book of Joshua at Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) this week.  Well, if you’ve been around Stampin’ Up! for a long time you might recognize this.

I bought this decal from Stampin’ Up and it has been on the wall above my kitchen sink for around 10 years.  I love this verse, but I had never really studied Joshua.  When we got to it last week in our study, I was so happy to learn the context behind the verse and I love it even more today!  Do any of you still have Stampin’ Up decals on your walls?  Please leave me a comment at the top of this post.  I love hearing from you.

Blessings,

Beth 🙂

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Winter Woods Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$23.00

In The Woods Framelits Dies

$33.00

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$50.25

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