Custom Canvas Giveaway Winners!
Monday, January 30, 2012 Thanks for sharing so many great quotes...a few of my favorites:
From Gillian:
“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all. Shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things will fill from behind, from beneath, like water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.” --Annie Dillard
From Julia:
“You say grace before meals.
All right.
But I say grace before the play and the opera,
And grace before the concert and pantomime,
And grace before I open a book,
And grace before sketching, painting,
Swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing;
And grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
-G.K. Chesterton
And from kottley:
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last,
"what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.”
― A.A. Milne
Great, great words. I might be calling my friend Holly for three more canvases. :)
And now, to the business at hand: with a little help from http://www.random.org/, we have 4 winners!
First, the Custom Canvas Winner: Lindsey
Lindsay’s comment:
"For now we live between already and not yet, memory and hope; we live between the times. Until the promised future arrives, we will always be in transition...faith is faith precisely when it points away from itself toward its object- toward the God who is love, and therefore toward the promised future. Faith lives by the promises of God , and we are saved in no other way than by hope" Karl Barth
January 24, 2012 | Lindsey
Lindsey, please send me a message, so that I can connect you with Holly, and she can get to work on your custom canvas!
And the three Valentine’s Day canvas winners are Anna, Jessica, and another Anna, with these comments:
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case you fail by default. J.K. Rowling
January 24, 2012 | Anna
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"Living Water, swallow me
Deepest River, wash me clean
Jesus Savior, more of Thee
Jesus, more of Thee
Come and ruin me with Your love
So no other is enough
Come and leave Your mark on me
Jesus, more of Thee
Deep is the stain inside of me
But deeper the River that washes me clean
I've been the one who cries in the night
But You've been the Friend of my life." - Watermark
January 26, 2012 | jessica brazeal
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It is never wrong to do the right thing.
January 26, 2012 | Anna
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For you three lucky girls, send me a message with your full name & mailing address, & Holly will send out your canvas in time for Valentine's Day. :)
Lots of good things coming up here: this spring we’ll do two book giveaways from friends I can't wait to introduce you to, if you don't know them already—Untitled from Blaine Hogan & 7 from Jen Hatmaker. I’m reading both right now & can’t wait to share them with you.
Later this week, I’ll post the white chicken chili recipe I made with my sisters-in-law last night, and next week, a few of my favorite baby things.
Until then: love, grace, good books, hard laughter, and lots of time around the table. XO
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For all of your kind comments, emails and orders, I thought I'd pass along
a deal for 20% off any orders through Valentine's Day.
{use the code shauna20 for any items currently available in my etsy shop}
Evermore thanks,
Holly
http://www.livingstonandporter.etsy.com