Nellie's Cozy Place

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Thankful Thursday April 14, 2022, More Spring/Easter decorating

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living

hope through the resurrection of

Jesus Christ from the dead,

1Peter 1:3 NIV

Greetings Sweet Friends,

Hope this finds you joyfully anticipating

Easter Sunday. My major focus today is

making a grocery list for Easter Dinner

and grocery shopping, and also picking up

some goodies for lil darlings Easter gift.

Pictures today are more Spring/Easter

Decorating from our house this year.

And

Just so you know... I do know that Easter

is really all about Jesus and His dying

on the cross and Resurrecting on the

3rd day and that He lives still today!

And we love to celebrate that

He is Risen.........

But.....the little girl in me, just loves Bunnies and Easter eggs, think I might be making up for some things I didn't get to experience as a child.

So don't judge me!!! lol

So on with my Thankfuls.....

#1 and 2

Thankful for a good day seeing and schooling with lil darling and Thankful that my step neices (3 of them) who are older than Brooklyn finally were able to come over for a visit in the afternoon. We have missed them, and Brooklyn gets to see one of them at school, but hadn't seen the other girls for a long time (us either). Anyway, it was great to see them and hopefully next time maybe it will be with their parents too. Brooklyn was beyond thrilled!!

Thankful to finish up some more cards and get some work done that needed to be done, for the business as well.

Thankful hubby was able to do a tune up on our lawn mower and sharpen the blades and all, so she is all ready to go, just in time to mow again.

Thankful for a nice walk around the neighborhood and an opportunity to meet part of the new family that is moving a few doors down. We met the hubby and son. They are a young family and they were very nice. He even invited us to see their new home, and it is beautiful.

Thankful that we were finally able to connect with our Son-in-loves Mom and Dad. We met them after church for lunch. at Longhorn's in another city, and had a nice time.....time went by too quick actually, but I am sure we will do it again!

Thankful that after a 4-5 yr. search we finally found a white dresser for our bedroom. at a super great price. After we left his parents we decided to just drive around a lil and see if we saw any different furniture stores, than they have in the Orlando area, cause we have talked about going there to look, We actually found the furniture store where we bought a lot of the furniture we still have, about 20 yrs. ago, and they were open, so we decided to go in...........We felt like Chevy Chase when he saw the perfect Christmas tree in the movie "Christmas Vacation". We were ecstatic......and we were able to put it in the back of our van and bring that baby home. It makes our bedroom look so much brighter, and we are loving that!!

Thankful that we got everything changed over from our old dresser to our new dresser, and it made us have to purge some things that needed to be purged. Which is always good.

Here she is.....still have to find a mirror for her

Thankful that we got an extra day (Monday) with lil darling this week as she is out of school for Spring break. Always love any time we get with her.

#10

Thankful that we got an answer to something that happened to one of our plants. It was a small tree and I had cut it back about a month ago, and it was growing back well, and had a lil tuft of leaves on the top about maybe 4-5". Last week I walked out on the porch and that whole tuft of leaves was completely gone and we are used to critters eaten things since we are sort of nestled in the woods, but they don't usually mess with thing near the house other than racoons getting after the drip pan on the grill. So we figured it must have been a racoon that pilfered it. Last night hubby went out to grill some burgers, and when he opened the grill, he found something was building a nest, and here was our tuft of leaves mixed in with other stuff. Had to be birds or squirrels cause I don't even know how a bird could get in cause the opening is so small, but she even moved the drip pan over some. Critters are pretty smart I have to say. We love stuff like this... and get a good chuckle or two out of it, and it was nice to know what in the world happened to our plant. At least it let's the racoon off the hook. What can I say we are easily entertained. lol

#11

Thankful that hubby is about to put a new upgrade on my card making package which should make things run better hopefully. We are praying it doesn't cause us any problems, as sometimes new updates can.

#12

Thankful I finally got a few minutes to sit down and read some of Pioneer Womans New magazine, and I am not quite halfway through it, but am really liking and enjoying it so far. I say New....because it's new to me, not sure how long it's been out, but mine is the spring Addition.

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Well, that's it for this week at Cozy Place

Thanks for your visit

and

Hope you have a lovely Easter Weekend

Love, Hugs,

and Easter Blessings,

Nellie

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Sunday, April 10, 2022

Scripture Sunday

Happy Palm Sunday

Sweet Friends,

Here is the verses for today about...

what we call Palm Sunday.

1. As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,

2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me.

3 If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away.”

4 This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:

5 “Say to Daughter Zion, ‘See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ”

6 The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them.

7 They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on.

8 A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

9 The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”“Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

10 When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”

11 The crowds answered, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”

Matthew 21:1-11 NIV

This week He was Blessed,

the next week by Friday He was cursed,

But Praise God..... Sunday is coming!!

Have a Good Sunday,

Hugs,

Nellie

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Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Thankful Thursday April 7, 2022, Family room all gussied up for Spring/Easter 2022

You are my strength, I sing praise to you; you, God, are my fortress, my God on whom I can rely. Psalm 59:17 NIV

Greetings Sweet Friends,

How's You?? Doing well I hope.......Been a good, busy and fruitful week here. Needed to be, after our refreshing weeks of being away and then having the kids here and celebrating my birthday. Think we all find inspiration and invigoration after a rest and seeing new scenery and just having a change of pace. Think that was God's purpose in giving us a Sabbath rest on Sundays, and we can never get accused of working too hard on Sunday, we leave the working for Mon-Saturday.

Pictures today are our house all gussied up for Spring/Easter 2022. The header picture is our mantle. Notice the bunnies, I call them bunnies with an attitude. Check out their posturing and cute lil faces. It was hard to find any white bunnies this year, so was happy to find them. They wound up being perfect for the mantle.

Well, on with my Thankfuls....

Thankful to have all my Winter Decor taken down finally and packed away, as of Last Thursday)

Thankful to have my mantle finished. My Daughter gave me this really cute sign she bought from one of her coworkers who does these as a side job, and got the cute bunnies from hubby, we found them when we were out shopping in Charleston. Had everything else already.

Thankful that lil darling still loves the tradition of decorating the Easter tree together. We got her from school on Thursday and told her I had taken the Easter things out, and she said can we put up the Easter tree? and of course, the answer was yes!! and we did! Since she is getting older you never know when they will decide they are too old for that.

Thankful for a nice time out with hubby just going to Sam's Club to restock on meat. We also ran to Home Goods to take something back, and looked around for a lil bit but didn't have too long, since we wanted to go have dinner at Longhorns. I enjoyed it so much more than if we had gone Tuesday on my birthday.

Thankful for some yummy chocolate candy, some chocolate covered cashews and some Fanny Mae Turtles (both are so good) and a few magazines (cause they are 30-40% off there) Did you know that Pioneer Woman now has her own magazine? That was one I chose, haven't had a chance to look at it yet. So looking forward to that. I do so enjoy looking at magazines....love to throw my feet up and have a cup of tea or coffee, just so relaxing to me......and chocolate candy I don't know what it is with me and chocolate candy lately, I just seem to be craving it for some reason, but at least I am not overdoing it but I sure am enjoying it!! lol

Thankful I was able to make 6 new Easter cards, several printable's and a Congratulations card this week.

Thankful for an excellent sermon from one of our elders, who is a retired missionary from Africa (I think) but the sermon was on ways we hear from God. Loved all the personal examples he gave. Really Awesome.

Thankful for a lot of work we got done on Monday for our business, and we both enjoy it so much. It's not really work to us, it's fun.

Thankful my sweet hubby has taught himself how to make caramel frappe's, and they are sooo good.........They work well as a afternoon pick me up, when needed.

#10

Thankful for a new fragrance refill for our guest bath. It is called Beautiful and it lives up to it's name. Love the aroma every time I get near that bathroom. Heavenly!!

#11

Thankful that I am finished with

my Spring/Easter decorating. Just

need to pack a few things away

yet. Yeah!!

#12

Thankful for animal shows like the "Hunted" as they are just so amazing to me, and I am always amazed at the creativity of God in making all of the animals and Sea creatures. The one tonight was on the Sea, just so amazing what goes on under the sea, and the strange creatures. Totally fills me with awe.

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Well, that's it for our week at Cozy Place.

Thanks for stoppin' by.............

and

Hope you have a Super Duper rest

of the week.

Love, Hugs, and

April Blessings,

Nellie

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Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Hand Crafted Card Making

Good Morning Sweet Friends,

Hope this finds you all well, and thinking about Easter, since it will be here before we know it. I am still in decorating mode, and hoping to be done with that in a few days, then it will be on to figuring out an Easter Dinner table.

I decided to do this post, since Grammy's Grid has a linky party going about hand made cards, and my Daughter has suggested I do a blog post on it, as she has a friend who makes jewelry and about every 6 mos. she does a post about how she got started, so I decided to take her advice and this opportunity.

I make handcrafted Greeting Cards (that you see in the header picture) using computer graphics, and graphics of my own. I design all the cards inside and outside, and since hubby retired almost 4 years ago, he built a website for us, called "Nellies Cozy Shop", so that folks can print there own low cost cards at home, and they can also do something called a flip card which is an electronic greeting card that you can send via phone, instant message on face book or thru email. They are just like a normal greeting card, rather than a one page ecard.

Click here to view flip card

I have been designing cards for probably about 17 years now and if you would like to read the story of how it got started, which was really not my idea.....cause I was terrified of the computer............Click Here!!

Go to the 2nd page to read how we got started.

Also, if you would like to check out our shop you can click here or just go to my right side bar and click on the picture. We have Easter cards and cards for all holidays and occasions, and we are continually adding to our stock.

Also you can follow [Nellie's Cozy Shop] on facebook

and/or [nelliescozyshop] Instagram, if you so desire.

Thanks for reading about our divinely inspired hobby turned business Adventure.............

Love, Hugs, and

Happy Easter Blessings,

Nellie and Jim

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