Thursdays Three!

I hope to create a post every Thursday about three links, photos, or subjects to share about. I hope to be able to do this weekly and will see how this develops. I am both a simple and a complex person!! so the subject could cover just about anything lol but I will try to keep it inspirational and interesting ;o)

so without further ado I will share with you todays Thursday three......

3 ultimate displays of craftsmanship and awesome detail

1, Queen Marys Dolls House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7YjePpdXVQ

A school visit to Windsor Castle when I was around 6 years old had me standing in amazement as I entered the room where this dolls house stood. At the time I didn't appreciate it for the craft-manship but rather for the size of it which made my little dolls house at home seem like a tiny shed!

But when you spend time looking into the story of this house and the immense accurate tiny detail of every single object in it which has been handcrafted you can only, like me, stand amazed at such craft-manship. I cant put up a photo as they are all copyrighted but just google my title or watch the video link. I think I want to go and see this again one day through adult eyes!

2, The Sistine Chapel

I have never seen this fabulous work of art in real life but looking at photographs I am overwhelmed again with the craft-manship, the attention to detail and the ability of the artist to even imagine such a vast piece of art and then to create it! to be able to paint a passable portrait would be a real joy for me to achieve I can paint flowers LOL! but look at the vastness of this, and this is just one sample photograph of this awesome work.

3, The Human Being!

In my opinion this is the greatest sample of craft-mansip and attention to detail we will ever see! ok so a baby is not actually "made" by man really, although we do the sexual deed we did not create this masterpiece, only God himself can take the credit for that miracle of life.

looking into the detail we realise what an awesome masterpiece we are!

If you look at the many images of the human body in books or on the internet. The inner workings, the muscles the skeleton the organs even the blood and the cells you have to admit that the human body is absolutely awesome. Then you must add into the picture that each person is different in character in mind will emotions, in physical looks and abilities etc each of us is totally unique.

The bible says...

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body

and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

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Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!

Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

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You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,

as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

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You saw me before I was born.

Every day of my life was recorded in your book.

Every moment was laid out

before a single day had passed.

psalm 139:13-16

God breathes life into His creation and grants us life

and the amazing thing is he gives us the choice to know our creator or not

amazing and awesome seem to be the word for me today

I pray this has blessed you today

Ethan... nanna's little treasure box

I had an amazing phone call yesterday with Michaela my future daughter in law, she was so excited....she was at the hospital with my 8 year old grandson Ethan. He had an appointment with the cardiologist! he has been seeing the cardiologist since he was born, he had a hole in his heart and a heart murmur, well the exciting news is that Ethan has been discharged as the hole in the heart cannot be found in scans and the murmur is gone too......now thats something to praise God about.
Ethan was born with charge syndrome and has been a patient under many different doctors since his birth. His major problem at birth was that he didnt have an anus hole! and had bowel problems inside which prompted an operation at 1 day old.  He also had a large head because of cysts in his brain. But the only thing any scans showed before birth was a renal infection!

Ethan aged 7 paddling in the stream near Scourton, Lancashire

Well God healed his brain cysts and the renal problem almost instantly after birth. he also had other defects... a problem with his eye as his pupil was not formed properly, it looks like a keyhole! he had an extra thumb and rib (the thumb was removed when he was toddler). He had dislocated hips and a hernia which were also fixed in the first operation. He also has a spinal problems where some of his vertebrae are malformed. He is waiting for major surgery for this. He suffers with back pain and cant walk very far without getting tired so uses a wheel chair some of the time. unfortunately this has caused him to be very overweight too.

There is a strong possibility that Ethan is also some where on the autistic spectrum but the diagnosis is still up in the air at the moment. He is extremely clever, he learned to read well before the usual age and picks up tunes and plays them on his keyboard very easily,

We understand that although charge syndrome has given him many battles in his life he is blessed! proving the doctors wrong in as much as we were warned at his birth that he may not hear or see or walk!!! oh but if you could see him now a little live wire full of love and a fantastic sense of humour, he is his nanna's little treasure box and I love him dearly, he always makes me smile and I thank God that He is still doing a healing work in his life.

Introducing Our Lulu

Our Lulu is a 6 year old West Highland Terrier (Westie) she may be a small dog but she has a massive character!

I said in 2003 after my dog Judy died that I would never have another dog! it just hurts too much when they get ill and die. I wanted to save myself from that awful pain but in doing so I also starved myself of the immense pleasure a four legged friend brings too.

Well in august 2009 we were offered the opportunity to adopt Lulu as someone needed to re-home her. We had never had a small dog before but she melted us. We are so happy that we changed our mind and became her mum and dad, she is such a major part of our family now and we love her to bits.

God has shown me that when I close my heart to the possibility of pain I also close my heart to love and joy too. I have learned a valuable lesson to not close my heart again and my heart sings now.

just for fun we opened a facebook page for Lulu and to our surprise she has over 1070 friends all across the world most of which are pages for doggies! we have had a lot of fun putting on comments from her. If you have a doggy who wants to be her friend then search for Lulu Berrsley and send a friend requset. Its just for fun but why should life be too full of the serious stuff?

Welcome to my Blog

Welcome to my new blog

But whats it all about?

This is the first post on this blog so I thought it best to share with you what this blog is about......

ME!

that may sound very selfish but

ITS NOT WHAT YOU MAY THINK...

Its about the many different things that make my heart sing, not all of these are actually "things" some are people even my God! but I am a complex person, I can hear my heart singing when a robin sits close by on a tree, when I look out to sea just pondering, when I sing a worship song to my God, when a friend wins a battle, when I spend time with my husband, family and friends or even my dog! but also when I get into my creative flow...

I LOVE CREATING STUFF!

Primarily I am a creative person, I was born into a family of clever crafty artistic people. I have been involved in many crafts along the years from pyrography to paper-crafts cross stitch to patchwork quilting and crochet to knitting I don't confess to be a master of any craft but my heart sings when I create things, especially when they bless other people. Just recently My hubby bought me a knitting machine, something I had back in the 80's and have regretted letting go of, so I know I will be sharing about that too!

My posts may be about my most recent craft endeavor, it may be about what God is saying to me and my walk with Him, it may be the joy in my heart from something connected to family or friends or it could be a myriad of other subjects like colour, nature, my dog etc but one thing is for sure it will be something that has touched my heart.

thank you for reading this first post, please come back and read more as time goes by