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2 Comments» Continue ReadingWe are savoring the down time and making time for the most important things. I hope you’ve had a blessed Christmas celebration, and are preparing your heart and mind for 2012. It’ll be a bit quiet around here this week, but I’ll be back for the New Year!
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» Continue ReadingWe began this Advent series by wrapping our thoughts around the waiting, the anticipation, the preparation of the coming of Christ. It’s a condition of the heart more than it is a bustling of activities. It is my hope that you have been encouraged this month–both through the guests here on GraceLaced, as well as those at Annalea’s blog–to embrace the warmth of this season for the significance and the joy it is to celebrate Christ at Christmas. To conclude this series, I’m re-posting the post I wrote originally wrote for Annalea’s blog at the beginning of the series (in case you missed it!) From my home to yours… I can vividly recall years gone by, when my greatest intentions for a Christ-centered Christmas was disappointingly squelched by the hectic and frantic chasing after the “magic” of Christmas. That promise of warmth, cozy, festive, good-will, and joy…if you do, make, […]
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» Continue ReadingHello there lovely GraceLaced readers! My name is Heather from Life Made Lovely and I’m excited to share a new tradition my family and I have begun just this year. During Advent we do all kinds of things to share God’s light with others, but for me that’s only a small portion of the season. I want my kids to connect to Jesus so that they can embrace the light He placed inside of them. I want my kids to feel bonded to Jesus in a way that is real and tangible to them. One way I’m trying to nurture that relationship is through our new nativity scene tradition. You see, I’ve been struggling for years to find a nativity scene that was special enough, and then I happened upon an empty wooden stable in the dollar bins of Target. Perfect!! I decided then and there that we would […]
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» Continue ReadingChristmas Break is for…. …trying new things… …”new” to some of us! Hope you are having a rad week!
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» Continue ReadingMy guest today is Annie of Clarity and Grey. She is a Christian, a mom of two (with another one on the way!), a fellow woman of Chinese descent, a lover of photography, and all things simple and sophisticated. Visit her at Clarity and Grey and say hello! ******************************** Reading through the posts that have already been featured in Ruth’s Advent series, I see many of the same traditions being celebrated here in our home: The stacks of Christmas books… The Advent countdown calendar… And Newbury, our happy holiday elf that moves around the house every night. In years past, if we travel during the holidays we don’t get a tree…and then there was that year we were home, but just decided to be lazy. Ha! This year though, we have a tree…and oh, it’s a glorious one that smells of sweet Oregon pine. It’s been three years since our last […]
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» Continue ReadingMotherhood is the most challenging job I’ve ever endeavored to do. The most rewarding…but the most difficult, indeed. I’m posting on the third chapter of Feminine Appeal today, the book I am studying with the ladies of my church. I hope you’ve chosen to read along with me month by month as we discuss one chapter at a time here at GraceLaced. When I was young and in school, I never aspired to being a mother, much less a mother of five…boys. I thought of children as “fun,” and little versions of us as parents. I thought of parenting and motherhood as being about ME, and not about Christ. I did not understand the high calling of motherhood when I was first initiated in 10 years ago. I have a much better understanding now, but continue to grow daily in the cultivation of a godly pursuit of my mission in motherhood. […]
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» Continue ReadingSponsors make it possible for me to have this little piece of cyber-space. I am so grateful for these local and web-based businesses to choose to advertise with this blog, and to support GraceLaced. If you are a blog, an etsy shop, a web-based business, or a local business and would like exposure to the GraceLaced readership, please contact me for more information about sponsorships. I am so pleased to introduce the sponsors of GraceLaced for the month of December. Please take advantage of the discounts that some sponsors have offered to GraceLaced readers for this month. ******************************************** Please visit the website here. ********************************************* Please visit their website here. For in-store purchases, please save and print above image for $10 off purchase of $50 or more in the month of December. ********************************************* Please visit the website here. ********************************************* Please visit the website here. Mention this post, and enjoy 10% your total purchase in the […]
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» Continue ReadingHello everyone my name is Rebekah and I blog over at A Bit of Sunshine. It is such an honor to be here today sharing with you about Advent and what it means in our home. My husband and I both LOVE Christmas. We put up our tree the day after Thanksgiving every year after a big brunch around the dining table. Chris will read from scripture and we talk about the birth of baby Jesus. Then we begin the wonderful job of decorating the house for the season. I love to pull out our Christmas Spode and vintage Putz village. The Santa head mugs and pitchers come out and, of course, the nativity is unwrapped and placed so it can be admired by all. We put on Christmas music, make hot cocoa and will most likely end the day with a family Christmas movie cuddled up on the […]
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» Continue ReadingI have a confession: I really dislike making Christmas cookies and treats. A roast or a stout stew, yes, but a couple dozen cookies can easily slay me. I marvel at the amount of cutely and carefully packaged homemade cookies, bon bons, brittles, and mini-loaves of breads that arrive at my house this time of year. It’s always a glorious outpouring of love in little tins, boxes, and baggies. If it were possible for me to put a bow on some seared ahi tuna, I may be in business, but cookies and treats….I just can’t seem to pull them off. Despite all this, I am enamored with the “idea” of holiday baking and sweets. A friend of mine made this comment the other day on her Facebook status: “Sometimes [reading blogs] makes me feel like every other mother is frolicking through the kitchen with laughing babies following behind and they […]
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» Continue ReadingEvery family develops their own special traditions and memories. No two families are alike, but there’s always something in another’s family that can inspire your own. I hope you are enjoying the Advent In The Heart and Home series. I’ve been so blessed already! Today is no different. My guest today is Anna from The Sweet Nest. Be encouraged…her simplicity is truly…sweet! Merry Christmas, friends! It was with great joy that I accepted Ruth’s request to share with you, some of our favorite advent-season traditions. Over time and through much trial and error, I have realized that any traditions we have grown to love have been ultimately rooted to two things: Expectations and Simplicity. Expectations can be a killer. It can drain joy and smiles and leave behind a colander full of disappointment. It has been my experience that deciding ahead of time what will become a treasured moment … doesn’t […]
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» Continue ReadingChristmas is just two weeks away, but it isn’t too late to bring a little handmade to your Christmas list. I’ve been on the receiving end of such significant creations, as well as the giving of lovingly handmade. Regardless of what side you are on this Christmas, handmade just feels lovely, doesn’t it? My talented cousin, Grace, is here today to share a fabulous tutorial with you for a necklace that would make any girl swoon. the pearl statement necklace tutorial grab your jewelry-making supplies and get ready to craft this gorgeous pearl necklace! if you don’t have any, grab a friend and split the materials, because the jewelry findings usually come in large quantities! what you will need: + jewelry pliers (here) + your choice of ribbon (i used 1/2″ cream colored ribbon) + about 40 antique bronze finish headpins at 35-40mm in length (here or here) + […]
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» Continue ReadingPhoto credit In ministry, you have the privilege of walking through the greatest joys in another’s life, but sometimes the greatest heartaches. Four years ago, our dear friends who were attending our church at that time, lost their baby girl at 8 months in utero. I will never forget that day–the day we received that call, the day The Preacher drove down to the hospital to share in a grief he has never known. Grief, loss, mourning…a journey of the heart that trudges through the treacherous waters of doubt and crosses the rivers of emotion. It’s a journey that, for our friends, have seen bitter tears, desperate hearts, and ultimately, a greater tenacity for the fullness of life in Christ. It’s a process four-years in the making, and it’s a heart’s cry that has now been penned into song. I want to share it with you today. Please click over […]
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