Tag: thankful

  • Mini Gratitude Journal

    Mini Gratitude Journal

    As we start the holidays let’s start a fun and easy project with no rules. Let’s make a mini gratitude journal.  We’re going to prep the journal and bind it.  Then we can  take the rest of the month do doodle and document our gratitude for all the great things that the Lord has provided…

  • Inktober Flip-through and November Gratitude Mini Journal

    Inktober Flip-through and November Gratitude Mini Journal

    In this post I wanted to share my Inktober completed doodles and share my vision for November’s Gratitude Journal. If you have been following my daily posts on Facebook or Instagram with my Inktober posts, I thought you might like to see a quick flip through of all 31 days and get a little insight…

  • Count Your Blessings – Day 11 Happy Veterans Day

    Happy Veterans Day! Do something nice for a veteran. If you don’t know  a vet then write a veteran. You can write to any solider at Operation Gratitude here: https://www.operationgratitude.com/writeletters/ We have a friend overseas so we’ll be sending  care package. Count Your Blessings – day 11 My spiritual gift is service, to that makes…

  • Count Your Blessings – Day 10

    So far this has been the hardest page. Do I pick people I know or famous people who did courageous things? I admire Malala the Pakistani girl who was shot, but continued  to speak out about treatment of women in Pakistan, or famous people like Eleanor Roosevelt or artists I love like Mary Engelbreit? I…

  • Count Your Blessings – Day 9

    Day 9 – Have you ever been in the belly of the whale? Did you feel alone? We spent 9 months in the belly of the whale. Our oldest son got a rare abscess in his kidney when he was 7. It took the doctors a few weeks to figure out that it was an…

  • Gratitude Monday

      Here’s a page from Abundantly Blessed, a gratitude journal. This was a fun page to do. I used finger nail polish for some of the colors along with water color pencil and color pencils. How’s your journal coming? I’d love for your to share how it’s going. You can also visit our #365Gratitudes Facebook…

  • Doodle Devo Friday Gratitude 1 Thes 5:18

      Worked with borders to doodle around the verse 1 Thes. 5:18. How’s your gratitude journal coming along? I will be posting more pics from my journal starting next week. I am finding that I am so much more aware of the little blessings. Last week I was touched by the kindness of strangers. I forgot…

  • Happy 2016! #365Gratitudes Starts Today!

    How to start a Gratitude Journey: Grab a sketchbook and a pen Follow me on twitter @blessinks or join my Facebook group:  #365Gratitudes  for a gratitude prompt a day Write two more gratitude’s in your journal for a total of three a day. Tell your friends and have them start the gratitude journey with you.…

  • Announcement: 2016 Word of the Year

    Every year Pantone  announces the color of the next year in early December. They should be announcing the 2016 color of the year later this week. Can’t wait to find out what it will be. Look around and you’ll see the color for 2016 in popping up all over the place on fabric, on dishes,…