Winter Season Sampler

Hi Stampers!

Another of my classes presented here today is this lovely Winter Sampler.

 I learned how to do this at one of Ronda Wade's Creative Escape Weekends. Someone was doing it there and shared it with us. I wish I could remember her name to give her credit. It has been a great addition to my Christmas events for the last several years.

Winter Season Sampler

The winter season is quickly approaching and time to nestle down in our cozy comforters and sip some hot chocolate.

I love this time of year, the decorating is part of the fun!

Enjoy making your own beautiful winter season sampler. Makes a great gift!

Size 8-1/2 x 11
All supplies included
(frame not included)
Cost:$12 or bring a friend, $10 each
Seats limited to 6 per class

Class Schedule:

All classes require a 24 hour reservation notice to give me ample time to prepare
Tuesday, October 15th 10am
Thursday, October 17th 10am
Tuesday, October 22nd 10am
Thursday, October 24th 10am
Saturday, October 26th 10am
Tuesday, October 29th 10am
Thursday, October 31st 10am
Tuesday, November 5th 10am
Thursday, November 7th 10am

Lots of opportunity, sign up today!

**Disclaimer: My home is not handicap accessible due to steep entry steps, therefore I am available to teach in your home (or other venue) upon request. Just book a time and date on the calendar, invite 6 paid friends and your class is free!

Thanks for stopping by! Be on the look out for the rest of my classes!
Deb B
The Crafting Fool

Stamp a Stack Christmas Card Country Class

Hi Stampers!

Stamp a Stack Christmas Card Country Class
For the Country Lover with jugs, pitchers, paid and boots!
You will make 2 cards each of 3 designs of these country filled cards, a total of 6 cards for $18. That's a $24 value! Bring a friend and each pay $15.

Class Times and Dates:
All classes require a 24 hour reservation notice to give me ample time to prepare
Monday, October 14th 10am and 6pm
Friday, November 1st 10am and 6pm

**Disclaimer: My home is not handicap accessible due to steep entry steps, therefore I am available to teach in your home (or other venue) upon request. Just book a time and date on the calendar, invite 6 paid friends and your class is free!

Thanks for stopping by! Be on the look out for the rest of my classes!
Deb B
The Crafting Fool

In the Word Wednesday: Genesis 35 Israel

 Hello Everyone!

I know it's been awhile since I have done a Bible Study entry for you, but rather then skip ahead, I would like to continue where I left off. So here goes.....

We continue in Genesis 35 with the trouble the boys have caused by murdering Shechem, son of Hamor, for raping  their sister Dinah, as well as the entire city of men. Then plundering it and taking the women and children. 

Jacob, being a man of God, goes to Him, 35 Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”

So Jacob tells all his people to rid themselves of any foreign  gods they posses. To purify themselves and change their clothes. He reminds his people how God has always been with him and helped him.

So they did as they were told. They gave him all their foreign gods and earrings. Then Jacob buried them under the under the oak at Shechem. Then they went on their way. Note that the Bible indicates here that  5.  "... the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them."

So Jacobs obedience, praying to the Lord, seeking His help and wisdom. gave him protection, again.

I wanted to know why the earrings so I dug into that a little and found this commentary which I found interesting:

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Earrings.—Earrings seem to have been worn not so much for ornament as for superstitious purposes, being regarded as talismans or amulets. Hence it was from their earrings that Aaron made the golden calf (Exodus 32:2-4).

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 4. in their hand] i.e. in their possession.
the rings … ears] The rings mentioned were probably not simple earrings as in Genesis 24:22, but rings worn as charms, and amulets, having symbols of heathen deities. Cf. Hosea 2:13.

Then it goes on telling of the travel Jacob took stopping in Luz, of Rebekah's nurse, Deborah dying and being buried outside of Bethel.

Then it goes on to tell us how God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and Blessed him:

  9" .....God appeared to him again and blessed him. 10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob,[d] but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.[e]” So he named him Israel. 11 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty[f]; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants. 12 The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.” 13 Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him."

Again for Israel's(Jacob's) faith and obedience God is giving him great Blessings. How wonderful is that. And as it was with Abraham(Abram), He changed his name.

Then they moved on from Bethel. While still traveling to Ephrath Rachel gave birth to a son, but it was with great difficulty. With her dying breath she named him Ben-Oni which means son of my trouble. However, Jacob named him Benjamin which means son of my right hand. They continued to travel to Ephrath and buried her in a tomb, on the way, marked by a pillar.

Still traveling a stop was made at Migdal Eder, more trouble brews here with one of Isreal's boys, Reuben.

Reuben decides to lay with one of his father's concubines, Bilhah. Not much else is mentioned about that. Other then Israel heard about it. (I wonder how?)

More genealogy is given:

22
"......Jacob had twelve sons:
23 The sons of Leah:
Reuben the firstborn of Jacob,
Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.
24 The sons of Rachel:
Joseph and Benjamin.
25 The sons of Rachel’s servant Bilhah:
Dan and Naphtali.
26 The sons of Leah’s servant Zilpah:
Gad and Asher.
These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram."

Then finally Jacob gets to where he was going.

Jacob came home to his father Issac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron). It tells us Issac was 180 years old and that Jacob and Esau buried him.

Some good lessons learned here. Obey the Lord! He is always with Us! Children can be troublesome! (Why?) It seems you can always go home!

Thanks again for coming by! I love these studies. I hope you do too!

Deb B

The Crafting Fool

Stamp a Stack Snow Class

Hi Everyone!

Stamp a Stack Christmas Card Snow Class

Simple, Snow, Bold! Yup!

You will make 2 cards each of 3 designs of these Nature loving cards, a total of 6 cards for $18. That's a $24 value! Bring a friend and each pay $15. Limit of 6 attendants per class when held at my house.

Class Times and Dates:
All classes require a 24 hour reservation notice to give me ample time to prepare
Friday, October 11th 10am and 6pm
Monday, October 28th 10am and 6pm
Monday, November 4th 10am and 6pm



**Disclaimer: My home is not handicap accessible due to steep entry steps, therefore I am available to teach in your home (or other venue) upon request. Just book a time and date on the calendar, invite 6 paid friends and your class is free!

Thanks for stopping by! Be on the look out for the rest of my classes!
Deb B
The Crafting Fool