tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17365389642817576482024-03-13T16:55:27.283-04:00BE gloriousA place for the owner of BEglorious to share creations be they art, crafts or food, life musings and happenings and in general my glorious life. It's a random place that I call home.Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15502950142316640988noreply@blogger.comBlogger947125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736538964281757648.post-27306822179370656452016-04-10T08:00:00.000-04:002016-04-10T08:00:04.159-04:00Sunday Song of Praise<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Beyond thrilled that the goddesses gathered last night in Dallas and today are headed out to sleep in a treehouse, visit Waco and Chip & Joanna, photograph the beauty of the Texas bluebonnets and wildflowers and so much more including silly, fun, glorious girl time. </div>
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These are my goddesses, these are sisters of my heart!</div>
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Thanks to my dear friend, Jane for introducing me to the Ball Brothers and It's About the Cross! </div>
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Morning, glories! I've been away the last 2 Mondays so I have a bit of catch up to do. The Chosen One and I celebrate our 30th anniversary in June and several years ago decided it would the year to hit Hawaii. He wrapped up 30 years with his company in December and was given a sabbatical until the end of March. We're excited that that is the date he starts a new chapter with another pharmaceutical company.<br />
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We've had a tremendous amount of together time over the last three months and I have learned something huge! We're good together lol, seriously we both wondered about that much togetherness and it has been such a gift. We now know that life after he retires will be glorious!<br />
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Since he had the time off we did the trip early and just wrapped up 2 weeks in the islands. We spent time on Oahu, Kauai and the Big Island, Hawaii. We did so many cool things, I'll possibly overwhelm you with Hawaii posts in the coming weeks!<br />
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I learned that because the Chosen One has a close and warm relationship with sleep and I do not, he adjusts to time changes much better than I do.<br />
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I learned that when your tour guide/bus driver sings beautifully the entire tour group can sound amazing serenading you for your anniversary with "Can't Help Falling In Love". This is an ad but it's our guy.<br />
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I learned that "The Eddy" is a huge surfing competition in memory of Eddie Aikau. The competition is only held if waves are up to "Eddie standards" so in excess of 20'. Hawaiians measure waves differently from the rest of the world, everywhere else they would be measured even higher. It was held on the North Shore of Oahu the day we arrived, the first time in 9 years. Winning is like winning best actor at the Oscars and a 16 year old won. Here's a cool video about it.<br />
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I learned that there are loose chickens and roosters on every island I visit whether Caribbean or Hawaiian but none have as many as Kauai. Hurricane Iniki in 1992 blew apart chicken coops on the island and they have been running wild and reproducing ever since. The roosters don't understand they should only crow at dawn and crow all day long.<br />
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SweetGirl had chickens as a child (I have a story to share about that another day) She still loves chickens and was very excited when we sent her pics. We found the perfect tshirt for her.</div>
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I learned soooooo many things but I'll stop with this last one (for today). The Hawaiians were having a problem with rats in the pineapple and sugar cane fields, a big problem. A really smart guy decided they should introduce the mongoose to the islands to eat the rats. Unfortunately the mongoose hunts during the day and rats are nocturnal so they never crossed paths. The mongoose didn't solve the rat problem but has done a great job of reproducing. The Chosen One was excited about seeing them, they looked like diseased ferrets to me. Evidently they are like raccoons in that they like to check out the garbage. Photo credit to TCO.</div>
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Memorandum Mondays are inspired by Sian of <a href="http://fromhighinthesky.blogspot.com/">From High In The Sky</a>. It's a weekly meme so click <a href="http://fromhighinthesky.blogspot.com/2016/03/memorandum-monday_14.html">here</a> to see what Sian and others are sharing; the things they've done and something they've learned in the past week.</div>
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<br />Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15502950142316640988noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736538964281757648.post-39438203966872076272016-02-22T11:07:00.000-05:002016-02-22T11:12:55.048-05:00Memorandum MondayMy blogging friend, Sian is running a Monday meme on her blog <a href="http://fromhighinthesky.blogspot.co.uk/">From High In the Sky</a> this year that has you sharing something new you learned or did in the previous week. I am going to try to at least occasionally join in while including highlights of the week past .... starting today! Blogging is very much a method of journaling and I have been much too slack and as I grow older I realize how much I love looking back.<br />
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Our week started out with our 31st Valentine's together followed by nasty weather, no snow but definitely ice. I was so glad it was gone quickly.<br />
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So that's the week and a few things I learned .... a new quick craft and a start on new lenses.</div>
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<br />Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15502950142316640988noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736538964281757648.post-54701368744936571062016-02-21T08:00:00.000-05:002016-02-21T08:00:01.693-05:00Sunday Song of Praise ~ He Touched MeThis hymn takes me back to my childhood, listening to my great aunt Hattie Mae sing it with her nieces and to the Gaithers sing it from her record player.<br />
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100,000 birds winter on Lake Mattamuskett in North Carolina. </div>
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Proof that people were doing selfies before cameras on phones! God bless these three, when I sent them off with my camera and requested that it come back with pics including at least one of the three of them together they always obliged. They took this on the way home from a fishing trip. I think someone at lunch remembered they hadn't gotten it yet ;)</div>
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<br />Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15502950142316640988noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736538964281757648.post-12219255664672307082015-08-15T15:18:00.000-04:002015-08-15T17:10:13.275-04:00Sharing on SaturdaysHi friends, I hope you are having a glorious weekend. I am feeling very crafty and inspired so here are some things I have going on and others that are on this week's list.<br />
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I am expecting 2 great nephews, one this month and one in October. They are my first and I am very excited. The shower for WHB4 was in June. Now, baby Sister and I are getting ready for the shower for HLB. <span style="text-align: center;">Today I am finishing the wreath</span><span style="text-align: center;">, his shower isn't for a few more weeks so you only get a sneak peek to which I am sure you are going to think "</span>ummm<span style="text-align: center;">, interesting" </span>lol<br />
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You want to see Deb's, right?! Notice, I very smartly showed mine first so you didn't have the gloriousness of hers in your mind lol You can read her thoughts on nature mandalas<a href="http://paperturtle.blogspot.com/2015/08/creating-nature-mandalas.html"> here</a>.</div>
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My friend, Melissa blogs over at <a href="http://melissagross.blogspot.com/">Daily Life: Bits & Pieces</a>. I love how Melissa's <a href="http://melissagross.blogspot.com/2015/04/sunday-musings-illustrated-faith.html">faith shines through</a> in so much of what she does and how she embraces life. She was the first person I saw to Faith Journal and I loved it. Now, I used to be one of those people that gasped at the thought of writing in my Bible but I have fully embraced it since those early years. My Bible is getting a bit raggedy but I know I won't ever replace it because of all the notes and highlights. I have been researching Faith Journaling and the bible I will use for that purpose arrived yesterday. <a href="http://www.illustratedfaith.com/">Illustrated Faith</a> is a great site for information and inspiration but I found Lauren's post <a href="http://www.thinkingcloset.com/2015/03/25/welcome-to-my-journaling-bible-heart-in-the-margins">Welcome to My Bible Journaling: Heart in the Margins</a> answered so many of my questions. I love that Lauren acknowledges (as do I) that there may people that cannot imagine writing much less doing art in the Bible. I love that several times she points out that we are all different and that's okay. Personally I know I won't be covering any of God's Word, I'll be sticking to the margins for any medium that would obscure the text. I also know bleed through would drive me bonkers so I'll probably gesso my pages. I don't want something like that to be a distraction from my study.</div>
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Saturdays usually mean brunch at our house. The Chosen One runs 7-10 miles so by the time he gets home around 10 The Pirate and I are ready to eat. Today I made a spinach, bacon, manchego quiche with hash browns as the crust. I'm in a cooking mood which the Chosen One always is grateful for. I might even get to feed all my boys tonight which always makes this heart happy.</div>
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This week I need to complete 2 commissioned pieces, design some invitations, finish up some note cards and work on getting my Etsy shop back up to speed. I am hoping to get my toes wet during my devotion time with faith journaling.</div>
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What have you been doing, tell me about it in the comments and if you have a link, share it? I also welcome your thoughts on writing and art journaling in holy books. But as Lauren says in her post <span style="background-color: white; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Bottom line: we can all choose to respect each other and our different schools of thought when it comes to this sort of thing. Let’s be kind to ourselves and to each other.</span></div>
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All these babies are grown now!</div>
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