Happy Tuesday Everyone!!!
We had that awesome arts and crafts show this past weekend
and now I need to get busy crafting again.
I need to build up my stock for our next show. Where will we be next? I am glad you asked. We will be at Melrose Plantation near
Natchitoches, LA in April. If you live
in that area or plan on coming through town, I hope you’ll stop by the arts and
crafts event at Melrose. The two photos included here are of Melrose.
I love the quote below when it comes to crafting. You know why?
Because most of my work is IMperfect.
I like it that way. I have heard
to artists and crafters who purposely place an imperfection in their
pieces. (Or if it's done accidentally,
they just leave it.) Well let me tell
you ... mine will be imperfect just because there is an imperfect person making
it!
Now, what some people call an imperfection is just simply a
distressed effect. I love distressing
the crafts I work on. I like the
shadowing and smudged, worn look it gives things. To me it gives those things I love some
character. I love the look of corners
that are rounded, edges that have lost their color, areas around knobs or pulls
that have nicks and worn places from all the years of love and use. This is why you’ll see things in my Etsy shop
or in our craft show booth with distressed edges. I remember when my dfil and dh worked on
staining an unfinished trunk. They did a
beautiful job staining it. After they were
done, I wanted to get a chain out and go after the trunk with it. Or, I wanted to go after the edges with some
sand paper to give it a worn look, Well,
I haven't done it yet but I think I will one day. I just can't bring myself to do it *quite*
yet! One day, one day.
This makes me think about how we as people are often
distressed, but distressed people is not a good thing like distressed furniture
an décor. Sure, we are all imperfect but
distress is not something we want in our life.
We don’t want those sandpaper days (or people) who wear on us and make
us feel discouraged or dragged down at the end of the day. However, it is often our imperfect state that
leads to the distress. Since we can’t live
in perfection situations and things people say leave us feeling troubled. Sometimes it’s hard to leave all the
difficulty behind. However, there is one
who will carry it for us, IF we would only turn it over to Him. Jesus says in Matthew 11:29-30:
28 “Come to me, all who are
tired from carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest. 29 Place my yoke[a] over your shoulders, and learn from me,
because I am gentle and humble. Then you will find rest for yourselves 30 because my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Are you feeling distressed and
stressed? Want to find a place of
rest? You can find it with the One who
will take over your load. How about a
fresh start this week? Easter is the
perfect time to start over. First
Baptist Church of Houma will offer 3 services each weekend starting Easter
weekend on Saturday at 6:00 PM and Sunday
at 9:00 and 10:30 AM. If you would like someone
to pray for you, you can just leave your name in the comments below or email me
at customcoastersbycindy@comcast.net.
My family and I hope we’ll see you down the
road or around town in Houma, LA. Let us
know how we can serve you with our products.
God bless,
Cindy
