by Robin on September 2, 2010
Hey Friends!
My daughter Emma was admitted to the hospital yesterday at just over 31 weeks pregnant. She’s been having major timed contractions among other things…
They are giving her steroids to help Baby Lucy develop at a quicker pace.
Her doctors are hesitant to give Emma meds to stop the contractions because the side effects are dropping blood pressure and racing heart. Emma has extremely low blood pressure all the time and has SVT, which causes her heart rate to go sky high when she’s just sitting still.
Emma says Lucy is busy plotting her escape 
.
If you think of us, please say a prayer that Baby Lucy Jean stays right where she is.
Love to you my friends…I’ll try to post an update later today…
xo
by Robin on September 1, 2010
It’s September the FIRST! WooHoo! This means that one of my 2 least favorite months of the year is ovah!
Please don’t judge. I try not to talk too much about it until after August is done, but I am not a fan. Remember where I live…the deep south. In August if feels like me and my neighbors have settled in a sweet little town smack in the center of hell.
But enough ’bout that! It’s September and Praise Be, autumn is on the way!
In the celebratory spirit of autumn I’m going to show you my little version of the Faux Mercury Glass Pumpkins that are sweeeeeeping through blog-land!
Here’s the gorgeous inspiration…(Image: Pottery Barn)
Lots of Mercury Glass looks a bit splotched with light brown…(Image: Bassett Furniture)
This is what I was going for…I like the brown.
Now I tried 2 ways one was super easy…
Start with a little punkin and some spray paint…
I sprayed the punkin (primer first then metallic silver) and then used light brown craft paint and a stencil brush to splatter …
Cute but I wasn’t tickled…and I like to be tickled.
So I got The Husband involved…the 2 of us came up with this:
After spraying with Primer and then Metallic Aluminum The Husband flipped the tiny sprayer off of the ‘Brushed Satin Sesame Shimmer’
Then he showed me how to use fine point tweasers to gently press the release button allowing paint to sputter out…
Okay…this is touchy. And messy. For the love of Pete wear disposable gloves and practice a few times on some paper before attempting it on the pumpkins. BUT, even if you mess up…you can always spray some more silver to correct your mistake!
I liked these better!
I’m not done with this faux mercury glass Peeps…I’m going to try a few other techniques…stay tuned!
xo
I’ll be linking…
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by Robin on August 31, 2010
“Teach us to number our days…that we may gain a heart of wisdom. “Psalm 90:12
I heard an Andy Stanley message on this last week. (It’s first in the series: Time of Your Life. Listen HERE.)
The message was great but it’s the scripture that I didn’t remember that so impacted me. I’ve been looking for a scripture like this ever since my mom left this planet 5 years ago. I wanted a verse to help me understand what’s been happening in my heart.
It was a subtle shift… becoming more focused on the end of my life.Realizing that my ordinary days are in fact not so ordinary.
I tried to wrap words around the change… living today, the legacy that I will one day leave.
But perhaps what God’s been teaching me is simply…to number my days.
*****
Do you ever think of your life with the end in mind and if you do does it make a difference in how you live your moments?
~Just wondering…love to you my friends~
