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Look at the Christmas Ornament I made!

December 17, 2021 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy 2 Comments

I recently went to a women’s brunch and ornament making get together at my church. One of the women taught us how to make these ornaments. They are so pretty!

They do take some time to make. At least an hour, maybe more depending on if you take breaks or not. You only need a styrofoam ball, several different kinds of fabric in 1 1/2 squares, and 200 straight pins.

Yes, you read that right. Each ornament takes 200 straight pins! Don’t let that discourage you, though! They are really fairly easy to make. And so pretty!

Christmas Ornament I Made

Here’s a little video I made of my ornament as I was making it.

I want to make more now! I think a tree with just these ornaments would be gorgeous!

Here’s a video that shows how these ornaments are made. If you make one, share a picture with me! Either here or on social media!

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Christmas Shoeboxes

November 15, 2014 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy 1 Comment

The kids and I spent today going shopping for, and packing 7 Christmas Shoeboxes. We’ve done these in the past, too, and it is so much fun. Fun for us, and fun for the kid who receives it as well, I’m sure.

Christmas shoebox

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Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas Review & Giveaway

November 13, 2014 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy 13 Comments

I was able to watch the new movie Saving Christmas online, in advance of it releasing in theaters on November 14, so I could tell you about it. In Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, your family will join Kirk’s family in their Christmas celebration. There is singing, dancing, feasting, imagination, and fun while exploring Christmas traditions.

Saving Christmas

I watched Saving Christmas with my husband, and two of our teens, 14 & 16. We thoroughly enjoyed watching it. There were even a couple of spots that had my husband and I laughing out loud.

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If He Had Not Come – A Christmas Book Review

November 5, 2014 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy Leave a Comment

I recently received the book If He Had Not Come, $18.95, by David Nicholson to review. If He Had Not Come is a Christmas book about the birth of Christ and its importance.

Christmas Book Review

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Filed Under: Books, Christmas, Homeschool Reviews

A Teenage Pregnancy

December 25, 2013 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy Leave a Comment

 

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Welcome to the 12 Pearls of Christmas blog series!

Merry Christmas from Pearl Girls™! We hope you enjoy these Christmas “Pearls of Wisdom” from the authors who were so kind to donate their time and talents! If you miss a few posts, you’ll be able go back through and read them on this blog throughout the next few days.

We’re giving away a pearl necklace in celebration of the holidays, as well as some items from the contributors! Enter now below. The winner will be announced on January 2, 2014, at the Pearl Girls blog.

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Do You Hear What I Hear?

December 24, 2013 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy Leave a Comment

 

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Welcome to the 12 Pearls of Christmas blog series!

Merry Christmas from Pearl Girls™! We hope you enjoy these Christmas “Pearls of Wisdom” from the authors who were so kind to donate their time and talents! If you miss a few posts, you’ll be able go back through and read them on this blog throughout the next few days.

We’re giving away a pearl necklace in celebration of the holidays, as well as some items from the contributors! Enter now below! The winner will be announced on January 2, 2014, at the Pearl Girls blog.

If you are unfamiliar with Pearl Girls™, please visit www.pearlgirls.info and see what we’re all about. In short, we exist to support the work of charities that help women and children in the US and around the globe. Consider purchasing a copy of Mother of Pearl, Pearl Girls: Encountering Grit, Experiencing Grace, or one of the Pearl Girls products (all GREAT gifts!) to help support Pearl Girls.

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Do You Hear What I Hear?
by Cynthia Ruchti

To shepherds? Really, God? You crafted a birth announcement that was delivered first to shepherds? The story’s become so familiar to us, so easy for us to visualize because of all the Christmas pageants we’ve witnessed over the years—all the fourth-grade boys in plaid robes with a homemade shepherd staff, carrying a cloth lamb from the toy department that plays “Jesus Loves Me” if you pull the ring where an umbilical cord should be.

Theologians speculate the reason for shepherds as the audience for the holy pronouncement could be as intricate as a genetic retracing of the Baby’s heritage back through history to King David, who started his career as a shepherd.

Or it could have been simpler than that. Maybe shepherds were the only ones listening that night.

“Nearby shepherds were living in the fields, guarding their sheep at night,” Luke 2:8, CEB. The biblical story tells us that the shepherds weren’t sleeping but were on guard, watching, when the news about Jesus came to them.

Distractions were few. Hills, sheep, other shepherds, a low fire, and a wide expanse of sky overhead—a dark sky that held the same stars night after night, until this one.

I wonder if any of the shepherds brought their families to the fields. I wonder if in the tent was a hardworking woman nearing the end of an exhausting day. She’d barely gotten the evening meal cleaned up when she had to start thinking about what her family and the other shepherds would need for breakfast. Soak the grains. Check the progress on the sheep’s milk cheese. And try to get those kids to settle down.

“Stop annoying your brother. Caleb! Last warning. Josh, get your fingers out of your sister’s ears. Turn down that video game. You can’t listen to the radio and watch TV at the same time. Turn one of them off. Better yet, both of them! Who’s singing? What’s that sound? Do you hear what I hear?”

What noise do I need to turn off in my life in order to hear the first notes of the angel’s song?

Another noisy Christmas party. Another trip to the department store for stocking stuffers. Another round of Christmas CDs. Another Christmas special on TV. Another Facebook post to share—the true meaning of Christmas. A text about the practice time for the Christmas program at church. Another phone call about travel plans. Brain waves clanking into each other, making a cacophony of noise.

Shutting down one layer at a time. Unplugging. Keeping even “Silent Night” low so I can silence my night and hear the downbeat of “Glory to God in the highest.”

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Cynthia Ruchti is an author and speaker who tells stories of Hope-that-glows-in-the-dark through her novels and novellas, devotions, nonfiction, and through speaking events for women and writers. Of seven books on the shelves currently, her latest releases are the novel When the Morning Glory Blooms (Abingdon Press Fiction), the nonfiction Ragged Hope: Surviving the Fallout of Other People’s Choices (Abingdon Press Christian Living), and several dozen of the devotions in Mornings With Jesus 2014 (Guideposts). Spring of 2014 will see the release of another novel—All My Belongings, also from Abingdon Press Fiction. You can connect with her at www.cynthiaruchti.com or on Facebook.
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Wrapping Paper and Fancy Bows Not Required

December 23, 2013 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy Leave a Comment

 

12pearlsofxmas

Welcome to the 12 Pearls of Christmas blog series!

Merry Christmas from Pearl Girls™! We hope you enjoy these Christmas “Pearls of Wisdom” from the authors who were so kind to donate their time and talents! If you miss a few posts, you’ll be able go back through and read them on this blog throughout the next few days.

We’re giving away a pearl necklace in celebration of the holidays, as well as some items from the contributors! Enter now below! The winner will be announced on January 2, 2014, at the Pearl Girls blog.

 

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For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

John 3:16-17 NKJV


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