Two weeks ago I posted a Sunday Snippet: Hospitality Begins at Home… and I have been thinking about it ever since… If hospitality begins at home then where does it end? And I think that it is dawning in me that hospitality is not so much about opening your home and more about opening your [...]
Sunday Snippet: Hospitality – A Matter of Giving and Receiving…
May 5th, 2010 · 10 Comments
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Se7en Bazillion Gifts in a Jar…
December 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments
One of the first things I wrote in my diary last year was: “Write a Se7en Jars Post…” Well here it is, nothing like the present!!! We have been collecting jars for a while because I think this is the year where jar gifting really came together. The Thing about jars is that you can [...]
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Sunday Snippet: Giving and Receiving… The Parables…
December 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
It’s a couple of days until Christmas and every body is dashing around getting ready, which mostly means getting packages and parcels and gifts ready. Popular culture tells us that “It is better to give than receive” but what does the Bible say? The Bible is packed with the parables of Jesus teach us about [...]
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Se7en Do Christmas: Step 5 – Gift Wrapping…
December 4th, 2009 · 9 Comments
Our Christmas to Do List is moving along – and December is here… Step 1: Operation Christmas Box – We are totally done. Step 2: Christmas Cards – We have a photo, envelopes nearly all addressed, stamps – we putting cards into envelopes and posting ours off this weekend. Step 3: Plotting and Planning Gifts [...]
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Se7en Do Christmas: Step 4 – Creating Gifts – A Gift List
November 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Our Christmas to Do List is moving along – and I just discovered the truth that next week December arrives and that we need to get moving… Step 1: Operation Christmas Box – We are done… the closing date for Cape Town is this Sunday 29, November 2009 (pop into the link if you need [...]
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Se7en do Christmas in a Nutshell…
November 3rd, 2009 · 25 Comments
The thing about Christmas is that it happens just once a year and because of that everyone feels a desperate need to get “all” of it right. I mentioned in our GiveAway on Sunday that we spend the month of November doing all our Christmas preparation, it works for us!!! I think as a culture [...]
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Se7en Create Bead and Wire Flowers…
April 23rd, 2009 · 8 Comments
We needed to do an Earth Day project and so I looked around for some recycled goodies: Some flexible wire we had lying around and beads from all my little girls broken necklaces and yes the toy necklace elastic never lasts… and we were good to go. Now one thing we have in South Africa [...]
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