3 August 2016

They’re here! These brand new board books arrived filled with delightful stories by Amy Parker and darling illustrations by my sister Breezy Brookshire!

This series of three board books features an elephant, an owl, and a hedgehog:

“How Far is Faith?”

“How High is Hope?”

“How Big is Love?”

(And there is a devotional available for pre-order, which will release November 1st: “Faith, Hope, and Love Devotional”!)

While I’m probably Breezy’s biggest fan, I’m also her visual editor. That basically means that I handle the digital side of her book illustrating – once she has finished each painting, it goes through my hands as I scan, edit, and prepare it for the publisher.

It’s amazing to hold the fruit of countless prayers and many months work by a great team with B&H Kids. From manuscripts to thumbnails, to sketches and watercolors, to scans and PDFs. *happy sigh*

There’s a calm to seeing a project come full circle, completed and ready to share with the world. Faith. Hope. Love. That joy of knowing it’s finished… and now it’s going out in an effort to encourage and inspire many little people, just like when “Audrey Bunny” and “For Such a Time as This” released.

“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.”
—1 Corinthians 13:13

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1 September 2015

This morning we harvested our concord grapes and tomorrow we plan to cook them on the stove-top before turning the juice into jelly. Our home will be filled with the heavenly aroma of these beauties!

September, I’m so glad you’re here to stay a while.

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23 April 2015

Meet Ping and Pip! These two little duckings were just added to a friend’s homestead. Once grown, they’ll get to hang out with her small flock of happy chickens, but in the meantime they’re the epitome of adorableness with their yellow fuzz and friendly curiosity about everything.

I’m looking forward to seeing them grow up, but I doubt I’ll recover from the cuteness of this duckling stage anytime soon.

“You have given him dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!”
—Psalm 8:6-9

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31 December 2014

Every year we like to welcome the new year at midnight with the clanging of pots and pans, laughter, and eager anticipation of the days to come. How quickly one year ends and a new begins! But the best part of it all? That our God is all-powerful and ever loving, good, and faithful.

Looking back with thanksgiving and forward with hope, I found the following both beautiful and humbling: A Prayer for Year’s End from “The Valley of Vision.”

O Love beyond Compare,
Thou art good when thou givest,
when thou takest away,
when the sun shines upon me,
when night gathers over me.
Thou hast loved me before the foundation of the world,
and in love didst redeem my soul;
Thou dost love me still,
in spite of my hard heart, ingratitude, distrust.
Thy goodness has been with me another year,
leading me through a twisting wilderness,
in retreat helping me to advance,
when beaten back making sure headway.
Thy goodness will be with me in the year ahead;
I hoist sail and draw up anchor,
With thee as the blessed pilot of my future as of my past.
I bless thee that thou hast veiled my eyes to the waters ahead.
If thou hast appointed storms of tribulation,
thou wilt be with me in them;
If I have to pass through tempests of persecution and temptation,
I shall not drown;
If I am to die,
I shall see thy face the sooner;
If a painful end is to be my lot,
grant me grace that my faith fail not;
If I am to be cast aside from the service I love,
I can make no stipulation;
Only glorify thyself in me whether in comfort or trial,
as a chosen vessel meet always for thy use.

A joyous New Year to you all!

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25 December 2014

A very happy Christmas to you all!

Rejoicing in this good news…

“Who, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
—Philippians 2:6-11

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8 December 2014

Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway Day is here!

It happens just twice a year and it’s a brilliant way to find other creative blogs, ideas, and shops. Popping up on the internet from all over the world are giveaways of handmade goods and sewing & craft supplies. Now’s the perfect time to enter for the possibility to win something wonderful, discover your next project, or even find a new favorite fabric or blogger: find them all here and here.

With all that said, yours truly is joining in the festivities!

I’m giving away One Complete Embroidery Kit from Clementine Patterns – and the winner gets to choose which one!

Included in the embroidery kit is:

• Pre-printed Cotton Fabric Pattern
• Cotton Panel for Stability
• Embroidery Floss
• Embroidery Needle & Needlebook
• 4″ Embroidery Hoop
• Pattern Instruction Sheet
• Illustrated Stitch Guide

All you’ll need to complete the embroidery is a pair of scissors!

Use the Rafflecopter below to enter, it’s easy and there are several ways to add your name to the hat! Giveaway ends Friday, December 12th at midnight EST and the winner will be randomly selected and announced here the following day. This giveaway is open to US and International entrants alike.

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As a happy bonus (because everyone likes those), SAVE 15% on all orders through Saturday, December 13th, by using coupon code SEWAWAY at checkout!

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1 December 2014

Our Cyber Monday Sales are here!
Shop now through Tuesday, December 2nd and Save:

Embroidery Patterns & Kits at
Clementine Pattern Co.
Use coupon code GRATEFUL at checkout for
20% off your entire order through December 2nd!
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Art Prints & Notecards at
The Breezy Tulip Studio
Use coupon code GIVETHANKS14 at checkout for
20% off your entire order through December 2nd!
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Children’s Books, Coloring Book, & Paper Dolls at
Noble Rose Press
Save up to 35% percent on all our products through December 2nd!

Included is “For Such a Time As This” by Angie Smith and illustrated by Breezy Brookshire – a gorgeous book filled with stories of women from the Bible, retold for girls!
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“But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession,
and 
through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Him everywhere.”
—II Corinthians 2:14

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8 November 2014

Our newest embroidery pattern is up in the shop as a pattern or complete kit! Featuring 1 Corinthians 13:7-8, this embroidery is the perfect gift for weddings and anniversaries. And, really, it’s good for all of us – a beautiful reminder that love never ends.

“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things. Love never ends…”

And today is the third anniversary of launching Clementine Patterns! It’s been a wonderful three years of designing, cutting, stitching, wrapping, folding, assembling, packaging, and shipping off orders to so many wonderful customers! So to celebrate: Use coupon code HAPPYSHIP at checkout for free shipping on all domestic orders through November 10th!

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1 November 2014

This autumn we planted three varieties of garlic. Now we get to wait for the summer harvest to find out which we like best and add home-grown garlic to some favorite dishes – it’s perfect in steak sauce, mashed cauliflower, fermented green beans, and a host of others.

As if its vibrant flavor wasn’t good enough, garlic is full of anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal, and anti-oxidant properties, which make it an especially good thing to have on hand.

Before breaking apart the garlic heads.

Burrowing the garlic clove into its winter home, pointy-side up.

Cloves ready to be covered with a blend of dirt and home-ripened compost.

“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
—Genesis 8:22

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