and one for me...

and the second

My first Birde Sling

The Kingdom

"Life even at its most monotonous and backbreaking and heart-numbing has the Kingdom buried in it the way a field has treasure buried in it, he said. The Kingdom of God is as close to us as some precious keepsake we've been looking for for years which is lying just in the next room under the rug all but crying out to us to come find it. If we only had eyes to see and ears to hear and wits to understand, we would know that the Kingdom of God in the sense of holiness, goodness, beauty is as close as breathing and is crying out to be born within ourselves and within the world; we would know that the Kingdom of God is what we all of us hunger for above all other things even when we don't know its name or realize that it's what we're starving to death for. The Kingdom of God is where our best dreams come from and our truest prayers. We glimpse it at those moments when we find ourselves being better than we are and wiser than we know. We catch sight of it when at some moment of crisis a strength seems to come to us that is greater than our own strength. The Kingdom of God is where we belong. It is home, and whether we realize it or not, I think we are all of us homesick for it."
-Frederick Buechner, The Clown in the Belfry

Creation

"Creation is not about what happened 'in the beginning' but about what is always happening. To speak of God as creator is to speak of the ongoing dependence of the universe on Spirit."
-Marcus Borg, The God We Never Knew

moulding

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. -- Virginia Woolf

Making clothes is becoming one of my favorite things to do. It calms me. It offers a sense of accomplishment. After a few hours I always have something to show for it. Instead of spending hours at the mall desperately trying to find something that suites my taste and body, I can fall in love with a fabric and make something for myself. I'm getting quite excited thinking about all the things I will learn to make; quilts, pillows for my some-day-home, a lovely duvet cover, place mats, cute little dresses for some-day-little-girl.

I've begun to make my first dress from the Charmed Dress pattern from Betsy Ross. The pattern is fantastically easy and instructions are clear. My only questions have come from this being my first. My hopes are that once I finish this first one, I can make the necessary adjustments and changes to make the dress I have in my head (this pattern is very close) to wear to a wedding in a few weeks. I'm using some fabric I thought was really cute that I found on clearance from j. caroline creative.

Here is my progress so far:

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Words

"He(Christ) never used a phrase that made his philosophy depend even upon the very existence of the social order in which he lived. He spoke as one conscious that everything was ephemeral, including the things that Aristotle thought eternal. By the time the Roman Empire had come to be merely the orbis terrarum, another name for the world. But he never made his morality dependent on the existence of the Roman Empire or even on the existence of the world. 'Heaven and earth shall pass away; but my words shall not pass away.'"
-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

projects : old & new

this place...

I've always maintained a strong connection to creative. Of recent, I've taken up knitting, crocheting, and sewing. This blog will follow these endeavors as I make mistakes, learn, and most importantly, create. Hooray!