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Our friend Michelle Bisesto and her sweet daughters have a lovely online business called Six Sisters Beadworks. Not only do they sell personalized jewelry for grandmas, mamas, and babies, but they have great ideas for gifts for every occasion, even including gifts for the bridal party. If you go to the Christmas page, you’ll see some sweet earrings for little girls as well. Happy shopping!

Hello dear readers of Femina. I feel that an explanation for our long absence is in order, but I’m afraid it is not a very glamorous one! We have been busy. That’s it. Period. Just like all the rest of you. So I am not going to make an announcement that we are “back” just yet. Bekah has been keeping this place afloat with the last couple posts, so I don’t need to explain her absence; Rachel is looking beautiful with numero seven on the way (keeping her street cred); and I have no excuse to offer other than full days and lots of hay on my fork. However, I have been thinking of ideas for blog posts, so you’ll be seeing one from me shortly. No promises from Rachel. But, here’s some good news: in her free time (does it exist?) she is working on a new book.

Here’s a little tale of moral uplift for you. I shall start by saying that the above pic is from my booth at market years ago when my first fabric collection debuted. I had designed the lanterns as a way of showcasing the fabric, but also because the company I was designing for wanted me to market some sewing patterns as well. So I made up a little sewing pattern and I hung the sample lanterns in  my booth.

Fast forward. Along with a number of other random props from the booth, the lanterns ended up in my attic. And you know how attics are. They accumulate sedimentary layers of random, cast-off possessions that you don’t want to look at anymore but for some all-mysterious reason you don’t just burn down or throw away. Read More

To celebrate the arrival of our new blog look, I came down with a bug that kept me in bed all week. But I now I peek out from under the covers to say hello and especially to extend a belated thank you to all of you who came to the Grace Agenda conference. We enjoyed getting to visit with old friends and meet many who were new to us. And of course we couldn’t do it at all without the many friends from our church community here who attend, help, and encourage us so much. Each year we are blessed and surprised to see how many come from across the country to obscure little  Moscow for our conference. So thank you!

If you didn’t make it this year, and you’d like to listen to the audio tapes of the Grace Agenda conference, the church leaders’ seminar, or the Femina Girls’ talks, you can now find them all for free on the Christ Church website.