Bambii and Dott: Encourage Letter Exchange

Ok, ok, ok, put your hand up if you do not like receiving encouragement or something in the post? If you put your hand up, turn off your computer go and eat some chocolate, then come back with a new answer! Ahem, well, the two above words of 'encouragement and post' have been combined in the wonderful creation of my mighty fine friend Sarinah at Bambii and Dott's Encourage Letter Exchange! Now, this round is for wives of those involved in church ministry (church planting, pastoring...) but Sarinah has said that this will be opened up in the future, so stay tuned! 

As a ministry wife myself, I find this absolutely encouraging! Sarinah is using her heart and love of encouragement and creativity and using it to bless others like her involved in church ministry with their husbands. I'm excited!!! Jump on over here to get signed up and have a look at Sarinah's blog Bambii & Dott for some other gorgeous creativity and encouragement. Oh, and make sure you share this with others you know involved in ministry who are in need of some encouragement! Applications close on 22nd August so get crack-a-laking! 

Meet the Neighbours

We have now been living at our home for almost 2 months and we haven't met most of our neighbours yet. It's so easy for us these days to just go about our lives and not actually meet the people who share our streets or apartment buildings. So since moving here we have really been wanting to meet our neighbours and hopefully have the joy of some new friendships. So I thought, why not do the whole old-school-cookie-introductions thing? 

With our little bundles of sugary goodness we set out to meet the neighbours! Well, unfortunately only 2 out of 8 people were actually home! Gah!!! But hey, hopefully we'll get another opportunity! 

I would love to hear how you met your neighbours! What are your creative ideas on creating community in our street or apartment buildings. Maybe you have annual Christmas bbq's or street parties? Share away!

The joys of pressie wrapping!

How great is wrapping paper?! No, really! I just love people's creativeness when it comes to wrapping presents! I often enjoy the wrapping as much as the actual gift inside and will reuse the paper or ribbons. And I get even more excited when the piece of paper I am reusing is the perfect size and needs no cutting! Score!!!

There is a video hidden in some box somewhere of my fourth birthday (or at least I'm guessing it was my fourth). My older sister and I are sitting on the floor surrounded by my wrapped birthday presents. My ever so kind and caring sister looks at me and say, "Ok, Amy. You can open the cards and I'll open the presents!" Wwwhhhhaaaatttt?!?! Well, it's safe to say I was no fazed by this at all! I was just loving all the bits of paper and ribbon I didn't even notice she was ripping into the actual gifts! True story!

So, yes, wrapping presents! Such fun! This is a little idea I saw somewhere using scraps of paper so I've adapted it a little using scraps of material. Do not, and I repeat, do not throw out your scraps of material! There is still too much fun to be had with the left-over pieces after whatever project you originally used it for!

Cut your material into strips about 1cm wide and however long you can get them. Cut out some circles of varying sizes from cardboard, I've used an empty cereal box (waste nothing!). Use a glue stick to hold the material to the cardboard and just twist the material around the circle. 

Here's some I prepared earlier! ;) No, really, I have been using these as 'bunting' on some empty wall space until it was present wrapping time!

Assemble the troops!! 

How do you like to wrap up presents? I would love to hear your tips and creative ideas! Or if you give these little guys a go, share how they turned out!