I was so excited I just had to share!

I just found out that I have received a scholarship!

It's $1,000 each semester. :D

Will post more later when I find more stuff out

Praise God! :)

Random thoughts...

How can we see and experience everything in this world, the things that God has made...
The birds, the trees, the flowers, ants...all of it...
and not fall to our faces in wonder and amazement of Him?
These things around us are so beautiful....that I can't even begin to think how wonderful it all was (and will be again) before it was cursed.

I love being creative, and when a project I'm working on goes will, I'm extremely proud of it. But the things i have made are NOTHING to the marvelous things God has made for us to enjoy.
Whats a pretty skirt, to an Old Oak tree with leaves turning colors, each one just as beautiful as the other?
Whats a drawing, compared to a majestic blue mountain?
Whats a poem, to God's Word: a beautiful love story meant just for us?

I can only imagine how much love He has for us, his most precious creation.

Then I think of the times I have began a project, and it just won't turn out right. I get so frustrated that I give up on the project.
Thank God that He does not act the same way!
He created us, and although we have messed up big time, He has not (or ever will) given up on us. How amazing is He, that He was willing to go through so much trouble, for us who are so un-deserving... just so that we could spend eternity with Him!

I'm not sure why I have written this... I am just feeling particularly overwhelmed with God and His Love! (:

^"8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹not by works, so that no one can boast. ¹⁰For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

Ephesians 2:8-10

[and I just have to share that I found this bible verse after having written this, during my bible study. I thought it went along perfectly. Isn't God great? (: ]

A good friend and I recently took a trip to a near by arboretum to take a hike. It was very muddy, but very fun. (:

Here's some pictures I took along the way.

This was a lovely old farm house. As my little brother calls it, its the "Clue" house. ;)

Busy Little Creative Bee.

I have been feeling particularly creative lately,and have taken to re-purposing a lot of my clothing. It's so much fun taking something that I maybe didn't really like, and then putting my style into it, and making it something that i never want to take off! Also I have been taking clothes that weren't so modest, and using scrap fabric to change that. I might post some before and after pictures later.

Getting the Idea from this blog, I've been making these cute little fabric flowers. I've been using them for my hair, but could use these to put on clothes, bags, etc. Just love the idea.

I cut out some "flower shapes" from fabric...


and then put the edges of the flowers just above the flame of a candle, so that the heat curls the edges...
Then sew them together with a few beads in the middle and ...Viola!
Here's a few I have already made...


I love 'em.(:

Winter Wonderland.

Here's just some pictures of the lovely snow we had a few weeks ago...

Goliath.(:

Scholarship.

This Saturday I find out if I have been picked to receive a full theater college scholarship. Full as in pays for everything... classes, dorm, food, everything! How much of a blessing would that be?

I'm not extremely confident that I got it... just because on the day of the audition I had trouble because I was just getting over being sick and feverish. I had trouble remembering my monologue (which by the way I loved, it was an excerpt from Funny
Girl which you can read here) but I explained why, and they completly understood and let me just read the monologue instead of saying by memory. Although I had a lot of things going for me: they absolutely loved the fact that I play the piano, and that I had done puppets for so long, and also new how to make them.

I am wanting to be in theatre because i'm leaning towards Evangelical Dramas. I would love to either be in a group that does that, or create one. I really feel a calling to focus on youth, and I feel that they respond more to dramas, because they reflect their own lives.

But I'm confident that God's in control and that if this is in his plan, I will get the scholarship ( which will truly be a Miracle be cause of the sad shape I was in. :P ).