The Gift Of A New Day!

A New Day....do we even consider a new day...... a Gift?
Our days sometimes are full of hustle bustle, stress, sadness, schedules, laundry, meals, bills, sickness......and the list goes on and on AND some days we just want to be done with the day and move on.
But......the GOOD news is that within all of the doom and gloom our good and gracious Lord fills our lives with good things and the GIFT of a new day to see it all, experience it all, know it all...The Good, the Bad and The Ugly!
Each new day offers us new beginnings, do overs, second chances..HIS love, grace, mercy and forgiveness. Just as a young child learns to get back up after a fall, we too pick ourselves up and work hard not to stumble ..to keep our balance.
We are His sheep, He is our shepherd! Each day we learn to know His voice and follow Him. He is always there to pick us up when we take those falls and He gives us the courage and strength to get back up and keep walking.
"My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me" John 10:27

So, yes my dear friends...Everyday Day Is A Gift. He Fills My Life With Good Things!

A bible journal entry on Mother's Day.

He Fills My Life With Good Things!....A Granddaughter!

A Good Day Print....in the Etsy Shop.

Paper Envelope DIY

I love , love DIY projects. Here is a paper envelope DIY that you can use for many things. Kiddos will love this. You can use the large heart shaped doily but I only had large doily placemats...worked great!

Check out the the Etsy Store for some beautiful water color cards . Great last minute Mother's Day gifts.

A Mother's Day Card

Are you still trying to come up with the perfect gift for Mother's Day?  For me, I always enjoy those hand made school projects  ~ you know the ones with handprints and all.

I have designed two beautiful cards that can be printed as a 5x7 card or as small as a 3x5. They make great book marks for bibles and devotion books. Get the kiddos involved in make them their own with beads and ribbons. turn the card over and they can trace their hand or make a flower with a stamp pad and thumb prints.
Use it as a gift tag or a insert in another card....all kinds of possibilities.
These prints make great "anytime" gifts.

Visit the Etsy store of The Buzzing BeeBee to purchase and download the prints.

Water color background.

Use decorative scissors to cut around the message. I added a cross charm and a letter bead as well as some  colored beads  strung on a ribbon.

This 3x5 size is perfect for this devotional book. 

Heaven Is For Real ~ A Legacy of Faith Journal

I continue to post in the Legacy of Faith Journal that I am creating for my Granddaughter. So many  little and big happenings inspired this page. A birthday, ladybugs , a found treasure in the garden and heaven. It is my joy to take these memories of the day and document them in a way that she can always go back and remember. She is 5 years old now but I am confident that she will remember this day very clearly when she reads this in years to come.

A Treasure

The ribbon that is tied on the tag, she found in the garden while she was helping her granddaddy plant seeds. The garden is at my husband's home place. She was so excited to find a "treasure", Preschoolers collect everything. As she was proudly showing us the ribbon I realized that it was a piece of cloth from one of her Great Grandfather's shirts, torn in strips to tie up tomatoes. I explained to her that Pal, nickname for Great Grandfather, used this ribbon to tie up his tomatoes. It is from one of his old shirts. She smiled and smelled it....she smells everything, and ask me to keep it for her...and I did. She will ask for it I am sure and I will show her where it is in her journal.

The Lady Bugs

The tag card comes out of the pocket where I have journaled about the ribbon and the Lady Bugs.  After finding the ribbon treasure she was siting on the lawn mower and a lady bug flew over and landed on her arm. She has been taught that the Lady Bugs are a friend to the plants and that we should not hurt them. I enjoyed watching her let the bug crawl from one hand to another until she got excited and the bug fell in the grass. ~ Sadness~  Now, she is not fond of bugs at all, so this was a special moment.

 When I was looking for supplies to use on the page  I found all of these cute ladybug stickers and decided to decorate the pocket with them to remind her of that fun "buggy" moment. And journaled with red Sharpie.

A Birthday

The day I worked in the journal just happened to be the first day of May, my husbands birthday so I decided to add a little note about that and used the page from the calendar reminding us of Granddaddy's birthday.

Heaven

I tag each page with a heading. This page is tagged, Heaven Is  Real. With finding the ribbon that "Pal" once used to tie his tomatoes , my thoughts were about him . We talked a lot about Pal and about Heaven that day in the garden with not a cloud in the sky. Only Carolina Blue. Pal was a big Tarheel fan.

The summer before he died he would sit outside in the warm sunshine and look at the Carolina blue sky and quote John 14:1-3 " In my Father's house are many mansions......I go to prepare a place for you....that is where I am and you may be also.  She knows that Heaven Is Real and that is where our Pal is .