Scripture Sunday, The 3rd week of Advent

Image compliments of https://pixabay.com/images/search/advent%20candles/

Merry Christmas Season

Sweet Friends,

Here is the scriptures for the 3rd

week of Advent.

"In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel 

was sent by God to a town in Galilee 

called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged 

to a man named Joseph, of the house

 of David. The virgin's name was Mary.

 And the angel came to her and said,

 ‘Rejoice, favored woman! The Lord is with you.' 

But she was deeply troubled by this 

statement, wondering what kind of greeting

 this could be. Then the angel told her: 

‘Do not be afraid, Mary,  for you have

 found favor with God. Now listen: 

You will conceive and give birth to a son,

 and you will call His name Jesus.

 He will be great and will be called the

 Son of the Most High, and the Lord God 

will give Him the throne of His father David.

 He will reign over the house of Jacob forever,

 and His kingdom will have no end.'"

 Luke 1:26-33

Merry Christmas

Blessings,

Nellie

Sharing with:

The Dedicated House

Our Home Away from Home

Life with Lorelai

Shabby Art Boutique

Oh My Heartsie Girl

Thankful Thursday December 12,. 2019, and Christmas in the kitchen 2019

But let all who take refuge in you be glad;
 let them ever sing for joy.
 Spread your protection over them,
 that those who love your name may 
rejoice in you.

Psalm 5:11

Greetings Sweet Friends,

Hope this finds you really enjoying
the beauty of the Christmas Season.

We are............it is definitely one
of our favorite times of the year.

Pics today are our Christmas

decorations for 2019.

Well, I am very late so I am just
gonna get on with my Thankfuls.

#1 

Thankful for a fun night out Christmas

Shopping and having soup and an

 appetizer at Olive Garden.  Shopping

and dinner was perfect on this cool

refreshing night.....

#2

Thankful our contractor came again on
Saturday.....all the soffiting is in now,
and they did more work on the doors,
they are working fine but still need
a few small things, they also took
everything out of the shed, wood and
tools etc., so we can at least put things
in it now.  Then it still has to have the
final painting.  So we are almost there.
Also have to put a rubber piece at the
bottom of the door, so no snakes, rats
or mice can get it.

#3

Thankful that our friend who has heart
problems and had been having a lot of
angina attacks for awhile was able to
go for a 2nd opinion at Shands hospital
and the Dr. said the problem was the
way he was taking his medication that
they gave him.  His Dr. had him taking
a nitrate twice a day, and he was only
suppose to be taking it once a day.
He was a bit skeptical that it could be
that simple......but he did it and he has
not had any more angina attacks even
when he walked the dog.  PTL for
such a simple fix.........


#4
Thankful for 2 sweet totally unexpected
Christmas gifts from 2 totally unexpected 
people at our church.  One was cookies 
given to my hubby and one was homemade 
candy in a pretty Christmas mug given to
 me along with a special something for lil
 darling. How thoughtful.....it was just
 a lovely surprise. She got to open hers
today and it was an adorable Santa
 door hanger.

#5
Thankful that we were able to put 
some things in our shed finally.
Not putting too much yet tho, as they
still have to put weatherstripping at
the bottom of the door to seal it.
But hubby was thrilled....and just
the lil we did put in there already
gave us more room in the garage.


#6
Thankful for all the Blog Christmas
home tours....they are so much fun
and inspiration every season of the
year.  Have to say I am having a 
time getting my mojo on this year,
Think it's the blue funk that my
daughter and I always go thru for
a few days after we have to leave
each other........... but hope it goes
away soon, since it is already 
the 9th!!

#7, 8, and 9
Thankful we get to see lil darling
on Tuesday this week, and again
on Thursday for her Christmas
program for school. Miss that lil
sweetie, and she is gonna be out
of school after Thursday, so hope-
fully we will get to see her more.

Thankful for a fun time making
some Christmas gifts with her
for her Mommy and Daddy,
and other Grandmother.  She
did a great job.

Thankful we will have more 
time to spend with her while 
she is out for the Christmas
holidays.....

#10
Thankful I finally go my MoJo
back and am almost finished with 
my decorating just have to finish 
the dining room and the tree
 now.  Getting closer!!  Yay!!


#11
Thankful to have run into our old
youth Pastor and his wife, while we
were out.  He was a youth Pastor
 when my kids were in High School 
and early college. It was great to see
 them and have a catch up a lil bit.

#12
Thankful to finally be done with
my Christmas decorating, now to
just enjoy it for the rest of the
season........whoo hoo!

Well, that's it for cozy Place
this week.

So glad you could stop by,
hope you enjoy these lil
smiling faces as much as
I do.....


Have a great weekend!


Love, Hugs and
Christmas Time Blessings,

Nellie


Sharing with:

Life with Lorelai

Shabby Art Boutique

Oh My Heartsie Girl

Between Naps on the Porch

The Dedicated House

Our Home Away from Home

Scripture Sunday - 2nd Week of Advent

Good Sunday Morning

Sweet Friends,

Here are the scriptures for the 

2nd week of Advent.

 A voice of one calling:

 “In the wilderness

 prepare the way for the LORD ; 

make straight in the desert a highway

 for our God. 

Every valley shall be

 raised 

up, every mountain and hill made low; 

the rough ground shall become level, 

the rugged places a plain. 

 And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, 

and all people will see it together.

 For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

Isaiah 40:3-5 NIV

Have a Blessed Christmas Season,

Hugs,

Nellie


Sharing with:

The Dedicated House

Our Home away from Home

Life with Lorelai

Shabby Art Boutique

Oh My Heartsie Girl

Thankful Thursday December 5, 2019 and ,Photoshopped pics from Thanksgiving Table

Come, let us bow down in worship,

 let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; 

 for he is our God and we are the people

 of his pasture, the flock under his care.

Psalm 95:6-7 NIV


Greetings Sweet Friends,

Hope this finds you well and happy
and enjoying this Most Wonderful
time of the year!

We are still working on decorating
the house,  but will take a break to-
day to deal with some other things
that need to be done, and picking
up lil darling from school and then
will probably go out shopping 
tonight after she goes home with
Mommy............so looking for-
ward to the day.  Hope you are
looking forward to your day
as well...............

Paint Daubs affect

Pictures today are photoshopped pics
 from our Thanksgiving table.  I like to
 play around with that once in awhile.....
I find it fun and interesting..............
Hope you enjoy them.
If you missed the normal pictures, 
 you can catch that post here 
if you so desire!

Remember you can always click
one picture and it enlarges them
all for better viewing pleasure.

Posterized Affect


Now on with my Thankfuls...........

#1
Thankful again for a truly Wonderful 
Thanksgiving with the family.....
Always wonderful when you have
everyone together at the same time.

#2

Thankful for all the Thanksgiving
 leftovers, that have made it easy
 peasy for eating....as we are focused
 on taking Fall things down and bring-

ing out the Christmas decorations.

#3

Thankful to have all the Fall things

down and packed away for another
year.

Posterized affect

#4

Thankful to have our tree up.

It's still a work in progress.
Usually the last thing I do,
cause it is my least favorite
thing to do.....lol

#5 and 6

Thankful my daughter, son-in-

love and Bentley made it home

safe and sound on Sunday and

thankful that had a great time

with her hubbies family on

Friday and Saturday.

Colored Pencil affect

#7

Thankful for the guest speaker

we had at church again as our

Pastor is still away.  The man's

name is Marquis Laughlin and
he does a dramatic presentation

of the Christmas story all the
 way to the Easter story....

All from scripture right out of

the bible.  It was phenomenal

and such a blessing to hear.

What a memory this man has
and what a way he has with
presenting it all.  Amazing
and Powerful, he just makes
the word of God come alive.

Just in case you might be
interested.....here is a link
https://actsoftheword.com/
If you click on performances on
 the top bar.....you can see some!

#8

Thankful hubby got all our
Outside Christmas decorations
finished, and I got some inside
things done.....lots more to go!

Soft Omni affect


#9

Thankful for the men who pick
up our refuse weekly.  What a
wonderful service that is to every
one....imagine if you had to haul
your own refuse away every week,
or if there was no place to haul it
off to....like when they have those
strikes in cities where it just piles
up everywhere.  Yikes!

 #10
Thankful for being able to use our
fireplace for the first time this year.
That is very early for us here in
Florida.  Course today it is gonna
be 70 degrees and up for days
after...
That's Florida living!!  lol

Photocopy affect

#11
Thankful for answers to pray for
a friend of ours Mother.  She is 82 yrs.
old and got pneumonia and has been
on a respirator for a couple of weeks,
but is now off the respirator and is
breathing with a mask, still sick, but
 is improving more daily.
update: By this afternoon she is now
breathing on her own and doing 
even better.  PTL


#12
Thankful for a quote we heard 
yesterday on the "Better Together"
program.  I don't remember the
name of the man who said it,
because I have never heard of
him or the quote before, but think
 the quote is true.....
One of the ladies on the program
told it.  The quote was:

God always answers our prayers,
but he answer them with the 
knowledge that HE has, not the
knowledge we have!

Isn't that good!!

Hubby told me I left part of it
out, but this is the gist of it,
and I actually like this quote
better.  lol

Equalized and Posterized

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Well........that's it for Cozy Place
this week.


Thanks for stoppin' in..........


Have a Fabulous Friday and
Weekend.


Love, Hugs and
Merry Christmas Blessings,

Nellie


Sharing with:

Bloggers Pit Stop

Life with Lorelai

Shabby Art Boutique

Oh My Heartsie Girl

The Dedicated House

Our Home away from Home

Thanksgiving Table 2019

Morning Sweet Friends,

How are things at your house??  I would

 imagine you are probably doing the same 

thing we are....decorating for Christmas!!

Am I right??

Have all the Fall things down and tucked

away,  and hubby has done the outside

already.  The first thing I do is put up my

nativity set, so that is done and then I did

the mantle.....the tree is in progress but has

a ways to go.  I am sorta stuck right now

trying to figure out what to do next.....

Do you get stuck like that???

Thought while I am trying to figure out

it might be good to get my mind off of

it and do a blog post, then maybe my

brain might be clearer when I go back

to it...........hoping so anyway!!  lol

So since I had pictures of our Thanks-

giving table thought I would show you

those before we get to far into the

Christmas season.  So here goes.....

It started with using this lovely tablecloth

 my daughter gave me a few years back. 

 I am in love with it really, I think it is so 

beautiful and versatile as well.  I also

wanted to use the pitcher with the berries

on it, cause loved the look of it too!

Here's a picture where I was trying it out

a few weeks before Thanksgiving to see 

how it would look. I just started pulling

pumpkins, candles and berries from

 different areas where I had used them, 

in my Fall decorating, then just started

layering them in and moving them

 where they were most eye pleasing.

It was an easy and fun and 0 dollar

 centerpiece to do....

My white plates looks the best with 

this tablecloth, so used them and

 decided to use my Fall napkins that

 have 4 different colors, green, gold, 

brown and rust, as they pull out 

many of the colors in the table-

cloth and are complimentary as

well.

Always like to put a candy of 

some kind at each place.

2 overviews

Each end of the vignette

Place settings with place cards

that I made some years back.

Just rolled on end of the napkin

and set it on the rolled area.

These shots are of the opposite side 

of the vignette..............

Thanks for visiting with me today.

Hope you have a great time decorating

and enjoying the Christmas Season.

Love and Hugs and

Blessings,

Nellie


Sharing with:

A Stroll thru Life

Bloggers Pit Stop

Life with Lorelai

Shabby Art Boutique

Between Naps on the Porch

Oh My Heartsie Girl

The Dedicated House

Our Home away from Home

Scripture Sunday - beginning of Advent

Welcome to December 

Sweet Friends, and to the

 beginning of Advent Season.

Here are the scriptures for today!

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; 

on those living in the land of deep darkness

 a light has dawned.

Isaiah 9:2 NIV

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given,

and the government will be on his shoulders. 

And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,

 Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 

 Of the greatness of his government and peace 

there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne

 and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding

 it with justice and righteousness from that time on

 and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty 

will accomplish this.

Isaiah 9:6-7 NIV

Wishing you all... a lovely and

meaningful Christmas Season!

Nellie


Sharing with:

The Dedicated House

A Stroll thru Life

Bloggers Pit Stop

Life with Lorelai

Shabby Art Boutique

Oh My Heartsie Girl