FRIDAY SHOW & TELL at DOLLS DOLLS DOLLS

If you followed the butterfly on Tuesday you know what my Show & Tell is about this week. Of course, it's about Joy. To find out more about Joy and see additional pictures, you can click here. 

A LITTLE REMINDER: Spiritual Sundays is coming up again in a few hours. If you are not familiar with Spiritual Sundays, you can click here to go there. 

Vintage Birthday Parties

Thanks to The Apron Queen for hosting the Vintage Thingies Thursdays. Click here to go to her blog for links to lots of other vintage posts.

Since Sunday is my birthday - and by the way I will be John McCain's age then (who said he was old???) I decided to post a couple of vintage pictures of past birthdays.

This is my 5th birthday. You can get a clue by the number of candles on the cake. This year there would be 72 candles. Probably enough to burn the place down.

This actually is my cousin Jerry's birthday party. I'm the only girl in the picture. I thought it was a funny picture so I included it in this post. Jerry is the one to my left. No he's on my right. I forgot everything is backwards in photos. Maybe I should say he's the bigger one by me. He had on a sailor cap. I remember he always wore a sailor cap about that time. For some who have been reading my blog for awhile, he was my dancing partner in the tap dancing pictures.

This was my 11th birthday party. I'm the one in the middle in the dark dress. The girl with the blond hair holding her skirt out in the front row was a neighbor girl named Shirley that I played with more than anyone else although she was two years younger than I. She lived in the house right behind us and in those days we didn't have fences.  I remember that she always bragged that she was named after Shirley Temple. 

This isn't a vintage picture, but it is a vintage person. This is my birthday last year - picture taken at my daughter's house. Thank you for letting me share these birthdays with you.

MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE

I think this graphic is so pretty and I love the scripture it represents. I love to sing and I wish I knew how to play an instrument really well. I play the piano a little but not really well. I don't sing really well either, but I love to try.

CLICK ON THE BUTTERFLY

I've just been thinking it would be fun to do this. Kind of a "guess where this is going to take you" kind of thing. So if you're feeling real brave, click on the butterfly below and see where you go. I know you trust me.

MISSION 4 MONDAY

Since next week is my birthday, I was just thinking back about my birthday that I spent at the Kulpahar Kids' Home. This is a picture of me by the front entrance of the main building. I'm not sure if the Happy Birthday sign was for me or for Leah. Her birthday was four days after mine. I think maybe it was for both of us. 

An observation about India: Almost all the men dress in western style clothing. Almost 100% of the women dress in India style clothes. The above picture illustrated that. This picture of Hubby and me was taken at the Gandhi Memorial in New Delhi. It's mostly men in this picture, but do you notice how they are all dressed? As for the women, it seems they did not want any of their legs or ankles showing. They all wore sandals so feet were OK to be shown. The skirt I had on in this picture was not really very short, but I'll admit that in that society, I felt a little "risque".  I tried to pull it down and make it as long as possible. It's amazing how culture can affect how you feel about what you're wearing.

Leah gave me three outfits while I was there. Here is a picture of one of them. It was taken in the little guest house where we stayed while we were there.  The other two have already been shown in previous India posts. Looking back I wonder if she gave me these outfits because of the "short" skirt I sometimes wore. Of course she didn't say so, but she wouldn't. Those outfits like the one I have on above are soooo comfortable. It's kinda like wearing pajamas.  No wonder the women there love them. 

I'm thankful to Peggy at http://monday4missions.blogspot.com/ for hosting Mission 4 Monday. You might want to go there to see more posts on missions. It's not just for foreign missions. Everyone of us has a mission in life and that's what her blog is all about. Check it out. I just now visited her blog and she was talking about the terrible persecution and slaughter of Christians that is taking place in India. I'm so thankful that this has not happened in the area where the Kulpahar Kids' Home is located. 

Thank you for visiting my blog. 

A PRAYER

A Prayer by Ken Gire from his book Intimate Moments With the Savior

Dear Master who rules with such a calm hand, I pray that you would give me eyes to see that the true battle is spiritual not physical.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Help me to realize that no matter how violent their opposition, people are not the enemy. They are prisoners of the enemy. Help me to realize that you died to free those prisoners. And in that knowledge give me the courage, I pray, to penetrate their shores so they might be brought out of their tombs, delivered of their demons,dressed in their right mind, and given the privilege to sit at your feet.

Help me to boldly take a beachhead of Satan for the kingdom of God. To banish his forces. And to be brave in the knowledge that though they are legion, you are Lord.

Help me to realize that the true battleground is the human heart. It is over this territory that the forces of good and evil draw their swords.

Knowing that, Lord, on this day, this hour, I surrender my heart to you--my hopes my fears, my dreams, my desires, my ambitions, my anxieties, my love, and my loyalty.

May it be one more victory for the kingdom of God. And one less battle you have to fight . . . 

For more Spiritual Sunday posts, you can go to the Spiritual Sundays blog. Just click here.

PINK SATURDAY

I visited New Orleans back in 1989. This was such a fun trip - mostly because I was there with my daughter. She was there on business. I was there strictly for fun. Of course she had fun too, but it was not all fun. 

I bought this pink mask there. You do see a lot of masks in New Orleans. Of course I chose this one because it was PINK. This picture was made in the hotel room.

This scarf I have on I bought in New Orleans. I really liked it. Of course I did. It had a lot of PINK in it. But guess what? I never got home with it. I have no idea what went with it but I sure was disappointed because I really liked it. Oh well, at least I have pictures.

I just threw this picture in to give you a better look at those awful ugly glasses.  Most people really liked my 50's glasses that I posted a couple of days ago but everyone thought the 80's were ugly. This was my first pair of glasses that I wore all the time. It was either get bifocals or quit reading and I really didn't want to quit reading. This picture was taken on that trip also. The Kona shirt I bought in Hawaii.

Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly at How Sweet the Sound. Many people post pink stuff on Saturdays and link to this post. So, if you love pink like I do, you might want to go there and see more lovely pink things. 

AN AMAZING WATERFALL

A friend sent us the link to this amazing waterfall and I wanted to share it with you.

This intelligent waterfall welcomes people to Canal City Hakata. That Japanese shopping complex was built around an artificial canal. 

This fountain can actually make pictures and words with falling water. It's been described as working like an inkjet printer. Hundreds of nozzles create precise streams of water. Timed just right, images are created.

I'VE BEEN TAGGED

Carrie at Oak Rise Cottage tagged me to tell 7 unusual or random things about myself. Since she tagged me on my Dolls Dolls Dolls blog, I gave the answers there. If you are at all interested in 7 unusual or random things about me, you can check it out by clicking here.

VINTAGE THINGIES THURSDAYS

Can you believe those glasses? These are the first ones I ever had. I was working as a secretary in 1956 and needed them for typing. I'm glad I have this picture made back then. Most of the pictures of me back then were without glasses because I didn't wear them all the time. I'm so glad the styles of glasses have changed. I think they actually got worse before they got better. I like the styles now but they will probably look ridiculous in another 50 years or so. No, it won't take that long. Probably another 5 years. Don't you just love the glasses Sarah Palin wears? Makes me want to go out and buy a new pair. But I just bought a pair a couple of months ago, so I probably won't get another pair for another couple of years. 

I'm glad I kept those old glasses. Here's what they look like now. One of the rhinestones is missing. One of the arms doesn't match. I remember one of them breaking and they couldn't replace it with one like the original so they gave me one that was similar. The rhinestones that are left look terrible. They were nice and shiny 50 years ago. I guess they held up about as well as I did though, maybe better. 

For more Vintage Thingies visit the Apron Queen.

JUST DON'T

SOMETHING TO SMILE ABOUT

This reminds me of me!

I discovered a new blog a couple of days ago that made me smile.  It is called Smiling Sally's Blog. 

Here are some of the things there that made me smile. 

You should visit Sally. She will make you smile too. Here's her link:

http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/  You can just click on  Smiling Sally.