Love from my lovlies

Mothers Day was a sweet treat. 

Breakfast in bed...

where my little buba love found me and had my breakfast in bed with me. :)

Meanwhile the girls were rearranging the 3 bundels of flowers they had bought the day before and putting them in glasses all over the living room. :) When I came out they had placed flowers on every table and the floor all beautifully arranged in glass cups. I loved it!! I was also very proud of my husband for letting them be florist. ;)

Also I found this when I walked out..

Thank you family for loving me. 

I am unable to describe how grateful I am that I am the mother to you three.

It was a quiet and lovely Mothers Day morning where I was loved on and then the hustle and buslte of life began again, and I swung into high mommy gear!

~becky

Silly Sanck Saturday ~Flowers

Here is our Silly Snack for this week:

Works of art by my two girlies.

These pieces of food art include:

Banana pieces

Strawberries

Pretzels

Peanut butter

Have a great weekend and play with some food!!

~becky

DIY Fabric Bookmarks

An early

Happy Mothers Day to all of you dear Moms out there. 

As a Mom I love books and I love bookmarks so..

I thought thses bookmarks were a fitting gift for Mothers Day they only take about 15 minutes to make. Add it with a favorite fiction or Biography and tada a beautiful personalized gift. :)

I wish I could make for each of you however I hope the idea is helpful and inspires you. :)

This is part of my Sewing Simple series.  Even if you don't have a machine they can be hand done quickly also.

To make the Rosettes click here for a simple and easy tutorial.

This tutorial used fabric glue, I used my glue gun. You could also sew them together as well.

I used ribbon and fabric for the Rosetts. 
 Thick ribbon or thin ribbon works greats depending on the size you want.

Here are the 6 I finished and gave as gifts to some dear ladies. 

Personally the yellow one with the shabby fabric ribbon is my favorite.

It was also the simpliest.

I think I will be taking another go at ribbon bookmarks and some quilted ones at another date.

I don't know what it is with me and bookmarks. :) 

Here is the link of our Patchwork Bookmarks ~kids can do.

Tip: Even if you don't have lots of fun fabric just find a nice plain color and put a rosette made from a ribbon , you could also sew around the edge with a corresponding color of thread and

tada pure sweetness.

I found the Rosette bookmark idea here, which gives a great tut on how to make them for us simple sewing ladies.

much care and love to all

Thank you for following along! ~becky

Yet I sitll dare to hope..

"Yet I still dare to hope.."

The past month has been filled with some very stressful situations and those stressful situations seemed to have spilled out into our family. My husnabd and I talked about how we are dealing with the stresses we are facing and realizing that we need to learn to handle stress in a new and better way.  I don't know about you but when my kids aren't doing well and I see that the reason is a result of the way I have been reacting/responding to them it goes deep into that Mommy spot.  My heart has been heavy for the past few days and I have shared some tears as I have talked with the Lord about all this. Sometimes I allow myself to give excuses to my behavior because of the stress however truth is it only produces negative results that bring more stress or disappointment etc. 

I read this statement today "STAND in the midst of the junk".  I love it!  Hardship is ineviatble and often unavoidable and so instead of trying to hide from it or to make it go away etc,  I will STAND in the midst of the junk and trust that God is working behind the scenes to clear the way. (Eph. 6:13)

"Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The faithful love of the Lord never ends! ..his mercies begin a fresh each morning." Lam. 3:22,23

Topkapa Palace in Istanbul

I love the beginning of that verse "yet I still dare to hope .."

So today I dare to hope and instead of looking for an answser in myself I turn my face toward the living God this new day and ask for his help and wait quietly and peacefully for that help to come.

~becky

A button flower and two stems made out of foam...

Here are the sweet Thank You cards the girls made a few days ago. 

I have been wanting to have the girls make some thank you cards for some thoughtful friends. I saw a delightful blog post the other day of a finger print flower and so I tweaked the idea a bit and we came up with this. (my girls love buttons xo;))

I forgot how fun fingerprint art can be.  My girls came up with a few cute creatures from their own hands. 

Enjoy the finger painting fun.

So simple so sweet.

The girls wrote their own note of thanks inside and hopefully it will be in the mail tomorrow. ;)

These could aslo be a great homemade Mothers Day Cards too.

~becky

May's Silly Snack Saturdays

Hi there. I have a confession to make .....I like to play with my food..and so do my kids. 
As you know this could lead to issues if not handeled correctly. Good manners is important so here is my solutions to good manners and having fun with our snack times.

This Month every Saturday I will feature a Silly Snack that the kids and I have made together. Hope you enjoy this months Saturday posts as we highlight our Silly but nutriential Snacks!!
Here is our 1st one.

The Banana Family

Here is Jr. banan

He never really met his parents they were consumed before he was created.

What we used:

1 Banana

Almonds

Flavored marshmellows

Pretzels

Raisins

Hey it's Saturday so why not play with some food? ;)
Have a great weekend.
~becky

**I just wanted to put a plug in for a blog called Support Blog for Moms of Boys. If you have boys this blog is full of projects and ideas for our little men. 
She is featuring my Car pillow out of cloth napkins today over at her site.
Take a minute and give her some blog love click here **

Makeshift Home Theater

I am encouraged to 'use what I have' even if it isn't GRAND.  Our home has a long lasting will not die tube televsion.  No big flat screen here...plus here inTurkey electronics are 3x the price as they are in the States. So we are waiting that out. 

Meanwhile I wanted to have a bunch of the kids over from the neighborhood to watch a movie at our makeshift Home Theater. :)  So here are the pics on how we juiced it up to have a great time.

Now Playing

Toy Story #2

(in Turksih of course ;))

Our Ticket booth.

Made out of cardboard of course. :)

Cinema ticket

1 person

Time: 2:00 o'clock

Our ticket collector hard at work.

Lolipops and popcorn. 

I think this event cost me 7.00 lira (5.00 dollars) total.

I propped up the back seat with cushions so all could see,

 and totally rearranged my living room for good seating.

My kids and the rest had a riot and then we went to the park when it was finished. 

I think we may do this again especailly since we recently got a projector for our work.  It would be perfect.  So Toy Story #3 will be the next showing at our house...maybe on a rainy day.



Toy Story #2 now playing at an
apartment near you.;)



Well that's all for now.  Have a great weekend. :)  ~becky