Royal Red Rose Kneeling Pillow NEW Design

 Here's the latest CCoatsOfManyColours! finished kneeling pillow design.
It's called the Royal Red Rose.
This design is unique with the satin red ribbon tieing above the red rose on the right kneeler, and the ribbon tieing below the rose on the left kneeler.  CCoatsOfManyColours! designs are typically symmetrical, but I decided to go asymmetrical on this design.
The link for more details on this design can be found in my Etsy shop at:   https://www.etsy.com/listing/208703312/royal-red-rose-kneeling-pillow?ref=shop_home_active_1

A Fav Quote

"If we work [hard] today we'll have a job for all eternity."

Dessert Night!

 A fraction of the HQ singles got together for a private dessert night on a rare Friday evening when we had no Bible Study hosted by Sarah Evans and Carolyn Coats.  Shane G., Tiffany W., and Joel Price are not in the picture, but they were also in attendance,.

The dessert served.  Sarah made a chocolate date torte, and I made a lemon white chocolate cheesecake.  Everyone said they came out delish.

 The guests fellowshipping.  We are so blessed here to be able to get together often.  Can't wait until everyone has this awesome experience.  One day!

Our dogs even came to get in on the fun.

 Photos of the cheesecake int he making.

 Grated lemon

 Ever seen a skinned lemon?  :-)  It's got zest!  :-)

A Fav Quote

"Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, if you capture it against it's will, you will kill it, but if you set your mind on other things, it might just come and sit gently on your shoulder."---Anonymous

Princess Sophia Pics and a New Design

It's good to be home with the family and friends!

Thank you, Melinda, for sending me the above pic from yesterday!  Love it!

Sophia did attend the FOT, but yesterday was her first service with the locals.  I love this pic of her sleeping safely and soundly in her daddy's arms.  She is wearing an outfit that I got for her.  Ahhh.  Her mommy told me that she was blessed during the FOT in this outfit too.  Girl is going to grow up with fashion being born into my family.  :-)  Her grandma, mommy, and Aunt like to style.  :-)

 My sister in law told me she hasn't gotten a lot of photos with Sophia herself since she's the mom, so I took two mommy/daughter pics today.

 Sophia seemed to be happy to have her Aunt back in town as her Aunt was just as happy to re-connect with her niece.  :-)

Below:  Sophia looks as if she's thinking, really mom and Aunt Carolyn, no photos of me today.  :-)

 Sleeping....

 Awakening.....

 Really, Aunt Carolyn, look how grumpy I look.....did you really have to wake me up?

 Now that I'm awake what is going on in the world right this second?....oh daddy is changing the water in our fish tank....fascinating to watch....maybe I'm glad my Aunt woke me up.  Don't want to miss this!  :-)

 I see you taking photos of me obsessively Aunt Carolyn.  I'm looking out of the corner of my eye....you know having great peripheral side vision does run in our family.  I see you!  :-)

 Before visiting Sophia, Aunt Carolyn took time to design a new kneeling pillow design for her Etsy Shop.  It's designed with soft and velvety crushed panne fabric.

Upon my Return Home.......

 An unwanted "Welcome Home" gift my car left me....a flat tire upon arrival to the AC campus when arriving back from the airport.  Just lovely.  

The ladies are so blessed here at HQ with some Godly, unselfish, and true men at HQ.  Thanks to Michael Cocomise for helping me with my tire, and going the extra mile to make sure I was okay.  I have to say, the Cocomise family is a great example for everyone.  Some real men and ladies in that fam!  Thanks again, Michael!

 A post feast blessing....when going to the tire shop to get another tire they charged me nothing...yeah.  I had to post the pic or else people wouldn't believe me.  Maybe b/c they saw all of my luggage in the car, they thought I lived in my car and felt sorry for me.  LOL, I know   Being serious, God blessed me and looked out for me.

...and it was great to come home to a lovely set of leopard mugs that my house guest who stayed in my home while I was away left for me.  I really like them, and will have to share them with guests!  :-)

Stone Mountain, Georgia FOT Adventures---Part II

 Wow, the time flew by!

ABOVE:  Our wonderful choirs; adult and children's choir combined.  Thanks to Cord Smedley for taking this photo!  :-)  Our music director, Antonius Hallmark was great, and we were pretty stacked with talented singers in our choir, the choir sounded fab.

God definitely puts us where we need to be every FOT.  I can't say much on my public blog, but I heard what I needed to hear here in the SE...motivation, encouragement, etc.  It really helps to focus on the right things without being selfish.  Can't wait until the entire world is living that way of give.  One day!  Loving digging into the new "FP" book.  WOW, so much for the brain to handle!
Now, it's all over and back to real life, but here are pics that I took the 2nd half for any family and friends who want to see our FOT adventures in Georgia.  It was a very active FOT, but the most important focus was obviously not the physical things, but we did rejoice over the past week for sure.  Great times, and I'm thankful that God blessed me with the opportunity to spend it with Jamie and Tiffany, and everyone in Georgia. No one is perfect and we all have our quirks that we're working to perfect.  It's all about family!  :-)

 The week before last Danielle and I had decided that we would get together for breakfast one day while we were in Georgia, but it was so busy, that finally on the LGD we found literally 30 minutes to share a meal together.  Jamie was also in attendance.  Great breakfast!

 Photos from the "Danielle breakfast."  :-)

Below:  Photos of Tiffany and Jamie on the LGD in our hotel room.

 Below:  Photos of yours truly on the balcony of our hotel room taken by Jamie.  Jamie loaned me a dress of hers.  I was surprised I could actually fit into Jamie's dress....she's way more slender and taller than me, so it was a miracle....well, not really, but weird I could actually wear one of her formals.  Thanks for the loaner J!  :-)

Below:  The Davison's at family day.

 Family Day Pics

 More family day pics.

Below:  The Strachan's at family day

Yours truly, Jamie, and Isabella Strachan at family day

Below:  The main singles dinner event.  The next few pics shown are those that sat at the table in which I was sitting.  We had a diverse and great table.

 Danielle at the singles event.

 More pics of the table at which I sat during the singles dinner

 The food at the singles event

Jamie, Tiffany, and I threw a little wine and cheese evening in our hotel room.  It turned out to be a nice "girls night" of fun and deep conversation in our room.  It was great.  We had invited a few of the guys, but they didn't show, but in the end, we had so much fun with just the gals.  It's nothing like gal pal time.

 Our spread

 Mrs. Holmes.  She is such a lovely lady.

 More pics from our gals wine and cheese night

 We took this pic after our last wine and cheese night guest left.

Below:  Rhonda and Marcee pose at a Jamaican restaurant that she took us too.  Thanks, Rhonda!

 Below:  At the Jamaican restaurant.

Funny how, once again, and totally unknown to us, how J and I are once again posing with our necks the same.  They say you become who you hang out with.  :-)  Rhonda took this photo.

More feasting at that fot.