feed my starving children

Last night we went to a packaging location in Eagan MN for Feed My Starving Children and volunteered an hour and a half of our time to make a small difference in our world.


It's an organization that packages food and ships it to starving children in third world countries.


One bag of food has 6 servings. They send in enough food to a given location or orphanage to feed the children there for a full year. It costs 17 cents per meal.


The meals consist of chicken flavoring [which has a perfect supply of minerals and nutrients for malnourished children], dehydrated veggies, soy, and rice. A simple meal, but a meal that saves a childs life.


And theeen, we came home and ate homemade chocolate gelato. A blessing we take for granted. The kids that get these packages of food we made up for them don't get anything more than that. They eat the same meal everyday. If they don't receive this food, they often don't have anything to eat.

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thanksgiving in minnesota

an epic new project

I have decided to make a quilt. Oh dear.

It is going to have a black background...

...with a pink star...

...a yellow star...

...a green star...

...an aqua star...

...and a purple star!

^ [my inspiration] ^
I will also use all those colors to make a bunch of little stars to place throughout the quilt as well. The image below is a rough sketch of what I plan on doing.

My original colors were red and aqua, buuut... I knew that would change once I got to the store and started picking out fabrics, and of course it did. But with these colors now it's kinda like the night sky. I'm excited. I think it will look cool when it's done, (or at least I hope it does).

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I finally got some bags made to post on my Etsy account.
Check them out.

i'm in!

Yesterday afternoon my mom got the mail from the mailbox and was looking through it. I saw it in her hands and asked, "Is there anything for me?" She flipped through a few envelopes and replied, "Yeah, Jackson Hole Bible College," and then handed me a small package. Up to that point I hadn't heard anything from that school. Both the other 2 schools I applied at had notified me and said they received my applications. But since I had emailed Jackson Hole and never got a response from them I didn't know what to expect from this envelope. So I opened the package quite anxiously. Inside was a few brochures, a student hand book, and a letter. I proceeded to open the letter and read the first line typed on the page: Congratulations on being accepted into the 2010-2011 class of Jackson Hole Bible College! I got a huge smile on my face and was all jittery inside. Actually, right when I saw 'congratulations', I got really excited. JHBC was my first choice, but I also felt that it might be the hardest to get into because [I think] they are even smaller than the other two schools, which only have about 60 students themselves. The most exciting part was the fact that I never heard from them and then, bam, I'm accepted. I wasn't expecting that, and especially not this soon. Getting a letter of acceptance to a school is more exciting than I thought it would be.

from the garden

oh, sorry

Believe it or not, I didn't bring my camera with me this time.

Yes, it's the truth.

I honestly just didn't feel like spending a fun weekend at camp for the retreat looking through a camera lens. Also, I didn't think I would need it that much while I was up here in Rice Lake again. There was about three times I wanted to take a picture since I've been up here, but I can always borrow a camera if I really need to shoot something. Since I have a lack of images to post on here, I have also been slacking on posting. See, I prefer to post pictures rather than words, and if I don't have a photo to share, it's just not as fun for me to post.

Perhaps in the near future I might have some pictures to post again.

See you then.