Things that make you go, "Huh?"

I came across this site today from someone's link on facebook. I was instantly intrigued by their claim of calorie free peanut spread. Later when telling Jon about this calorie free peanut spread, Elizabeth asked, "Is it made of air?" Let's take a look at it, shall we?

Part of the description on amazon says this:
-Fat Free
-Sugar Free
-Calorie Free
-Cholesterol Free
-Carbohydrate Free
-Gluten Free
-No hydrogenated Oil
-Vegan

Just what does that leave us with:


I hate to say it, but I think this more qualifies as gutrot than food.

One of my new favorite fabric/pattern sites

I recently discovered Marie-Madeline Studios. I love all their fabrics and just recently bought the street fair skirt pattern and can't wait to try it out. They also have excellent customer service!! Check them out; they currently have one of their great give-aways going on for a fat-quarter bundle. You can also visit another great site Flourishing Palms that is giving away one of their patterns and the fabric to make it.

Some statistics on pastors

Came across these statistics today regarding pastors and was sobered by them especially when I consider that some of them are probably low since many pastors would not want to admit to such thoughts/feelings.

25% have been forced out of or fired from their ministry. 


90% feel inadequately trained to cope with ministry demands.

80% believe that pastoral ministry affects their families negatively.

45% say they’ve experienced depression or burnout to the extent that they needed to take a leave of absence.

40% have serious conflict with a church member 1x/month.

70% do not have someone they consider a close friend.

66% and their families feel pressure to model the ideal family to their congregations and communities.

20% admit to having an affair while in the ministry.

37% admit that Internet pornography is a current struggle.

72% stated they only studied the Bible when preparing a sermon

26% stated they felt they were adequately fed spiritually.

14% of pastors spend an hour or less in personal devotions each week.[2]

77% said they felt that did not have a good marriage. [3]

Littlest Cousins

Reading with Grandma

Reading to each other
At the splashpad
fighting over a cup...Finn won
making up by sharing his cup
then wiping his mouth

Silly monkeys ahead...

Give me five!

How about knuckles instead?
Why do they always want us to pose?


In the baby pool with buddy Jake
At the 4th of July concert withAunt Melissa


badminton anyone?

Dryland canoeing




Dirt! Dirt! Dirt!

First Ice cream cone

Thing that make you go, "HUH?"

We went to the movie this morning and they showed an advertisement that said(my paraphrase), "Kids these days don't know how to play with toys and use their imaginations in their play, so we invented the Toy Story 3 video game so they could do just that."

HUH???

Wordless Wednesday

My Etsy Shop

For quite some time, I have had a couple of friends that have encouraged me to open an etsy shop, but tiem can be scarce so I kept putting it off. My friend Heidi finally convinced me as she was wanting me to make binder covers for people to buy to cover their household binders that they create after reading her book Bootcamp for Lousy Housekeepers. Before continuing let me take a moment to put in a plug for her book. You don't have to be a lousy housekeeper to benefit from her book. If you would just like a little help organizing and figuring out how to get it all done this is the book for you. Check it out on her blog.

About a month ago I set up my shop, but hadn't blogged about it yet as I wanted to get a few more items in but it has taken me a while because life(literally) put it on the backburner. Anyway, I added a few things today and wanted to let you know what it there.

First are fabric storage buckets. These are probably my favorite thing to make right now.






Then a set of binder cover, bucket, and listtaker.
Then several binder covers that I have listed. Besides being great for a housekeeping notebook, I use these to cover a recipe binder, and my homeschool binders. Makes it very easy to find what I want on the shelf.





Then I have a few girls' skirts whcih let me try out new things every now and then.



and lastly one of my most popular items are reversible headbands and I only have one set left in the shop right now but will hopefully add some soon.

I have some other ideas that I'll be adding this summer including some fun applique and hand-embroidered t-shirts.


gasp...I forgot the link...my name is Patchykeen and the link is http://www.etsy.com/shop/patchykeen