MAY DAY IS LEI DAY IN HAWAII!

 It's MAY DAY!  LEI DAY IN HAWAII!!!  2022

I always loved May Day in school.  The preparation and practice for the dances we did, the new (maybe) muu muu I might get; the songs we would sing and the program where we would perform with our friends for our parents and community.  The fragrance of flowers, leis, the reprieve from school work... happy, carefree days.

2022! Year of the Tiger!

 So a year has gone by since my last post 😉but that's okay, it's a New Year with new opportunities and ways to 'get caught up'.

Maybe first I should look back to review & recap some about 2020 and 2021 to see where I/we've been.

As years go, 2019 ended great we had our newest granddaughter Kyle Kanoemakalii Rocheleau born in August.  My word for the year was DECLARE.

We looked forward in 2020 to multiple events: our 50th anniversary in August; Austin's graduation in May from my alma mater, Leilehua!  So proud that he led the band at the 2018 graduation when my classmates from Class of '68 (50 years) walked with the graduates of that year; my 70th birthday in November; maybe a class reunion? cause we like to get together; holidays where we did certain things, ate certain foods, saw and hugged certain faces...

 

Happy New Year! 2021! Thank you 2020.

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Just finished playing with the emojis on this blogspot.  Fun!  

Grateful to find that Focus on the Family video today, Monday, January 4, 2021 as I begin my new journey of getting organized, removing or finding potential no longer useful stuff that have crowded my nooks & crannies.  It is with eyes opened by the Creator of All that I now see beyond the obvious natural things-- now with supernatural vision (given by God)   It's so energizing!  

Working on rearranging my desk area for productivity and practicality.  It starts with one thing.  Moved the computer to the side and then put the displaced bulletin board on the wall.  Removed the small bulletin board which leaves me a nice space to have my guy make a custom to fit shelf for whatever I need.  So exciting.

Giving up Sugar, Tasting God's Goodness - Wendy Speake

Bible Journaling

I was looking for this YouTube and couldn't find it on Sandy Allnock's videos.  What a surprise to find it on the first post on this blog.  Only GOD...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5PQ_DIADPU

Called to Action

...been way too long since I've blogged...

 As of today, I've watched nearly 20 YouTube videos of people making masks. It occurred to me more than three weeks ago to share the first video that I watched but for whatever reason hesitated. I will share it now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueWkAuY3k6Y The Turban Project

I liked this. I could do this. So I tried and they didn't pleat well.

Then I watched Jenny who always has great tips and I like her a lot. Love it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kwFaRFHKhY Missouri Star Quilt Company   Same measurements.

So this youtube has the pocket & nose wire & I combined all three to make my masks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCJcE-r7kcg&t=308s Easy to Sew

 I'm good to go. Cleared off the dining room table of all the paper stuff that I had been making before.

Brought out my cutting mat, rotary cutter, flannel that I had 'collected' along with other random pieces of fabric. I began cutting. Praying all the while that I could make the process of making a mask simple, efficient:using what I already had. If you know me at all, I have no shortage of fabric or paper or paint or stamps or... Anyway, each time I made one, God showed me that doing it this way would be better.

So I concluded that I should:instagram/facebook, send out an email to my Threads of Hope/ Inspired Hands group in case they were interested in joining others to make masks. One response was a request for hospital coworkers. First assignment. Awesome. Finished 11 yesterday and had prepared last night 13 sets ready to sew.

Then I saw on facebook this morning another Mask youtube--different style altogether and she shared a lot of info about the right and wrong things to use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fySsaOojEVM&t=9s The Fabric Patch.

Will try the pattern and it may be easier, not sure. Got up this morning thinking about the old dryer sheets that I have a lot of but never used. What if I poured hot water over a bunch to get out the fragrance? Did just that and found that there's a whole bunch of something in those sheets. Rinsed the water, squeezed out the suds and rinsed again. I have them drying on a towel and I think they will be fine as an insert or 'interfacing' on the shaped masks. She also has another youtube that shows how you can use ties=grosgrain ribbon, twill tape, or even shoelaces if you do not have elastic. There's a shortage these days even on Amazon. I found a couple of hairbands that can be cut up. God will help us to be creative and use what we have.

I will post again tomorrow. (If I don't get side-tracked and watch more youtubes. I think I will stop for now. #gratefulgramma808

Happy New Year?

It's 2019!!! January for me was a BLUR-- Three days after Thanksgiving 2018, I stayed home, lazy, after the holiday, no shopping, just needing to be home, in my pjs. Inspire65's Christmas Party on December 7 went super great, ono food, happy guests, outstanding band in Champagne, door prizes, sweet message and we even did some line dancing. At the end of the night, I had a chest pain on the right side opposite from my heart and thought, "all I need to do is to drink some water". Wrapped it up early and went home but water didn't help. Through the night the pain stayed with me. I guess it went away and then I continued to prepare for the Italian feast we would have on Christmas day, crossing off sending Christmas cards--I just wasn't up to it. Made my caramel apples at least and distributed them in the neighborhood and for the famiy. Same thing happened on Dec. 26. No energy, lazy again and this time I had some aches. Well, didn't think much about it and spent 3 days in my pjs. Perked up for New Year's Day and then 3 days of feeling crummy. Our church-wide fast was to begin on Tuesday, January 8 and I had made a list of the things I was giving up for two weeks: chocolate, desserts, red meat, rice, crafty YouTubes, Candy Crush and online shopping for crafty stuff. Went to connect group and shared my Word for the Year which turned out to be DELIGHT and also added DECLARE. That afternoon, we picked up a heavy power sewing machine from Jessica Montoya who was leaving the Islands. And then the symptoms began--coughing without a sore throat, aches & pains, lots of Nyquil and I was down. Clifford finally made an appointment for me with an associate of our doctor since he was off that Saturday on the 12th. She listened to my symptoms and prescribed me a pneumonia antibiotic and a 'cough pill' which looked like a tiny vitamin e. I also had an x-ray which showed two spots (nodules)=one where I had had the pain and another on my left lung. Went to my regular doctor on Monday and he had some additional blood work added for our quarterly visit that Friday. At Friday's visit, he prescribed an inhaler and a CT scan (16th) and referred me to a pulmonologist. Meanwhile, coughing without coughing something up is a drag. I always felt better when I had a cold and was able to expel that congestion! But this time it was stubborn. The CT scan showed the same dark spots. The doctor (23rd) allowed us to see the results on the computer and it's a video almost and you can move back and forth to see the various organs--cool. Feeling better by the end of January. Thank God. This is what I learned: God was with me through it all and though I had planned to do so many things, I needed to seek His Presence in my life more than trying to do the next crafty thing, or buy that pretty paper. That His Word became real to me in those days when I meant to clean my messy sewing room and every other room. That I needed to rid myself of the unnecessary=thoughts, time-wasters, clutter, distractions. I need to be about my Father's business and that would be praying, encouraging people, asking Him who, when, where, how, what.. And you know what? Before Day 3 of the Arise Conference in the wee hours of Friday Feb 22, God reveals to me a new assignment for Threads of Hope and that is to make blankets again and enable others to do the same. We've made blankets before for our 'houseless' friends but this time it's expanded to teaching others--within our church and outside. It starts with one. And you must use what you have on hand or from your mom or friend or aunty or grandma And you must give it away.