Let's Do Lunch - The Perfect Table Setting

Hello Everyone! 

Hope you had a wonderful weekend with your loved ones!

Come fly away with me to a magical wonderland full of creativity and craft inspiration!

During one of my recent visits to Pinterest for a quick kick start to set the mood for the day, (one’s spirit can only be lifted when you see so many beautiful things!) he did it again! That is Michael Wurm, from Inspired by Charm. He showed his table setting pics from his Mothers Day brunch. They are just awesome!! The colors attracted me at first and then I actually zoomed in on the detail. He is so talented and definitely inspiring! I just had to share this with all who is not following me on Pinterest.

Here is a sneak preview of what to expect at www.inspiredbycharm.com. Go see for yourself!!

His beautiful table setting got me hooked and I have decided to share more on this topic.

Visit my Creative Magic page for more stylish, yet simple tips and ideas for that perfect table setting.

If anyone has inspiring and creative bits you are willing to share, kindly e-mail them to me to showcase on my blog. Remember, my blog is all about the joy of giving and sharing!

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REMEMBER FATHERS DAY IS COMING UP! BE SURE TO COME BACK FOR TIPS, IDEAS AND FREEBIES!!

God Bless!

Mothers Day Goodies and May Desktop Calendar

Hallo Everyone!!

Well, as promised, a few goodies for Mothers Day from my side. I know, a lot of pink and cup cakes!! I LOVE CUP CAKES. I am not sure why I am so obsessed with them. I think they are just so cute.

May Desktop Calendar - Insert your own Photo!

My Cup Cake Gift Card

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I will still surprise you with more goodies this week, so make sure to visit me again.

God Bless!!

Life's Unexpected Curve Balls

Hi Everyone,  

Wow, what a week so far! Yes, it was one of those weeks where life throws a few unexpected curve balls at you. I had quite a few of them in one week and thus my posting for today, HAPPINESS. I know, very hard to put on the smiley face if everything within you just wants to show the upside-down smile! But then, as always I received tit-bits of encouragement and love from various sources, whether it is an e-mail form my sister with encouraging words from Joyce Meyer or a web page that out of nowhere pops onto your screen while searching for something completely different. I believe it all happens with a reason and was specifically meant for me to look up and realize that I am not on my own, God is watching over me and is guiding me every step of the way.

I am firm believer of positive thinking and that it can actually attract positive things into your life.

Positive thinking brings inner peace, success, improved relationships, better health, happiness and satisfaction. It also helps the daily affairs of life move more smoothly, and makes life look bright and promising.

Ways to clear negative thinking:

• Listen to your favorite music.
• Spend some time with God in prayer.
• Before starting with any plan or action, visualize clearly in your mind its successful outcome. 
• If you visualize with concentration and faith, you will be amazed at the results.
• Read at least one page of an inspiring book every day. (Greatday.com and Joel Osteen Ministries is my favorite sites to visit for my daily inspiration)
• Watch movies that make you feel happy.
• Always sit and walk with your back straight. This will strengthen your confidence and   inner strength.
• Walk, swim or engage in some other physical activity. This helps to develop a more positive attitude.
• Do something you really enjoy, painting, crafting, and gardening, anything to take your mind off the negative situation. You will soon find yourself in a different mind set!

Have a wonderful, blessed and HAPPY life!

PRAYER FOR A FRIEND

I have not posted anything for a couple of days as it was Easter Weekend, and I have decided not to do any work or hobby related activities. I simply spent my time with my daughter, husband and mom! I hope you all had a wonderful Easter Weekend.

This morning when I started to prepare for my next post, I quickly went over to one of the blogs that I follow about Digital Scrap Booking, Summertime Designs. She posted about her friend Brittany, that had a terrible Mountain Biking accident, which left her paralyzed. To cover all the medical expenses and prep work at home to make it wheelchair friendly, they need all the financial assistance they can get, and I think it is not just money that they need, but prayers, love and any other support that people can offer.

This made me think again that each morning when we get up, there are so many things to be thankful for and we need to give praise to our Lord for all our blessings. And in return be a blessing to others. We can not always give financially, but we can share our prayers, love, time and talents to bless others.

My Prayer to Brittany and everyone that reads this!

I have created the above page with digital elements from Ellie Lash and digital Papers from Summertime Designs combined with my own elements and digital paper. 

PLEASE FORWARD THE PRAYER TO YOUR FRIENDS!

God Bless!

True Love

My daily inspiration for today.

As promised, two Desktop Back Grounds for you to download:

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What inspires you to get up in the morning?

Yesterday morning I watched one of our Breakfast TV Shows, Expresso, and they asked, ‘What inspires you to get up in the morning and cease the day’ Well, I did not have to think about it at all. The first thing that came to mind was my family and friends – PRECIOUS MEMORIES!!  It was not a big house, fancy car or anything like that. To be truly thankful for all my blessings, I have a good, loving, hardworking husband, a beautiful, talented daughter who excels in drama and modeling and have only recently discovered that she is quite artistic as well! My mom is an active, healthy 73 year old great grandma, my loving sister with her sparkling personality and my brother, the intelligent, soft spoken IT guy who recovered just a few months ago from a triple bypass heart operation. And then there are all their wonderful talented children, each unique with their own beautiful characteristics.  This made me realize that’s why I love digital scrap booking so much, because all of these precious memories are kept safely on a disc, preserved with my creative passion to share with everyone. And, the other plus point is that I do not only have to have them digitally, but can print them in full colour and use them with other mixed media and creative projects.

This inspires me, when things aren’t going too well, I just sit quietly and think about all the beautiful things in my life, and realize  that this too will pass and that the sun will shine again with happy, fond memories that can be captured in my heart but also on disc!! I then tell myself I have to do this or I am going through this for my husband and daughter whom I dearly love. This makes any bad day tolerable, I quickly browse through my scrap book pages and quick, quick the mood has been lifted and I can deal with the obstacles in front of me. Everything right here on my laptop. No need to go and search for all the old, dusted photographs. And with technology, we can now even have our photos or pictures on our computer screens. We can change them how often we want to and to what ever we want. Personalize our working space!

We spend most of our time at work unfortunately, and what better way to have our precious memories with us all day long on our computer screens.

So yes, I get up in the morning because I have wonderful people in my life and I am truly grateful for all my blessings.

MY CURRENT DESKTOP BACKGROUND

PENCIL DRAWING BY MY DAUGHTER, 12 YEARS