A Glimpse at My Heart

I love crafting of all kinds, but seldom get the time to craft. When things get particularly stressful I have a strong desire to create something. It's like I need to make order out of something. (Unfortunately, I don't feel the same way about house cleaning.)


This Illusion Heart Wash Cloth seemed like it would be a lovely thing to make.  It requires two contrasting colours of yarn and knitting and purling while following a pattern.  When you look straight down at the wash cloth it is striped. When you look at more of an angle you can see the heart. It was there all along -- disguised by the stripes.


As I was knitting (and watching the heart start to appear), I realized something.  There are times when I 'wear my heart on my sleeve', but most of the time my cheerful facade hides my heart -- protecting it from the prying eyes of onlookers and casual acquaintances who feign friendship.

Of course I can't be the only one with self-preservation techniques like smiling...

And so I was reminded to take the time to 'look more closely' at others.  If I do, maybe I can get a glimpse at their hearts...

~❀~ Chelsey ~❀~

Handy Bags

Since I was talking about having bags for a variety of purposes, I thought I'd show the bags the kids and I "made" for taking to Awana and storing everything in during the week.



I found canvas bags at the dollar store and got the kids to "personalize" each bag with their own hand print in acrylic paint. Here is a picture of Elijah ironing his bag (with my vintage TOY iron) after being inspired by my ironing the bags.



Here's another picture of Desiree and Elijah modelling the bags before using them to hunt for Easter eggs in the backyard. (Note: they picked out the sweaters themselves because they thought the stripes on the sweaters looked liked the stripes on decorated Easter eggs.)



These bags are great for organizing the Cubbies and Sparks books, Desiree's Bible and Awana bucks. Elijah even uses his bag to bring along his stuffed elephant which he named Ernie elephant after the elephant in his Cubbies book (and I suppose after daddy too!).

~❀~ Chelsey ~❀~