Advent's here!
Tempted!
Those of you who know me well will know that I love stationary - I know, weird right? I just love how you can be creative with it, how it helps organize you and how you can personalise it. I love doodling and anything remotely creative and stationary is just one of those things that I've always been drawn towards. I collected rubbers as a kid and loved organisers such as FunFax. As I got older I've gone from FunFax to Filofax and have stumbled upon a community of people who understand my love of stationary and filofaxes.
Philofaxy is a community of Filofax lovers and I LOVE reading the posts, the web finds and the hints and tips. One of the posts I was reading mentioned that Home Sense has filofaxes in stock at the mo. Well Home Sense is literally at the bottom of my road and so today I took a wander down but without much hope cos previously they've never had many. I was in heaven! They had more filo's than WH Smiths or Rymans does in town and they were different ones, ones I've never seen in the flesh before. As I took them out of their boxes I could feel and smell the soft leather and found that I liked ones that I'd presumed that I wouldn't.
My favourites were the Chameleon and the Finchley. I'd have loved to have seen a Malden tho!
I was so proud of myself, much as the prices were great and they were all lush, I walked away. I couldn't justify the money or work out what I'd use it for if I were to get one. I currently use 2 A5 filofaxes, one as my diary and one as my journal. My journal needs a lot of work but I love my diary set up. I've debated for a long time using a Filofax as a wallet but have never taken the plunge.
While I was so good in walking away I have since failed and have spent the evening googling filofax wallet set ups finding mixed reviews. Oooo it's so tempting!
Philofaxy is a community of Filofax lovers and I LOVE reading the posts, the web finds and the hints and tips. One of the posts I was reading mentioned that Home Sense has filofaxes in stock at the mo. Well Home Sense is literally at the bottom of my road and so today I took a wander down but without much hope cos previously they've never had many. I was in heaven! They had more filo's than WH Smiths or Rymans does in town and they were different ones, ones I've never seen in the flesh before. As I took them out of their boxes I could feel and smell the soft leather and found that I liked ones that I'd presumed that I wouldn't.
My favourites were the Chameleon and the Finchley. I'd have loved to have seen a Malden tho!
I was so proud of myself, much as the prices were great and they were all lush, I walked away. I couldn't justify the money or work out what I'd use it for if I were to get one. I currently use 2 A5 filofaxes, one as my diary and one as my journal. My journal needs a lot of work but I love my diary set up. I've debated for a long time using a Filofax as a wallet but have never taken the plunge.
While I was so good in walking away I have since failed and have spent the evening googling filofax wallet set ups finding mixed reviews. Oooo it's so tempting!
Summer
What kind of person do you want to be?
Today with the younger youth we’ve been discussing resisting the devil as part of the Youth Alpha course we’ve been doing. Spiritual Warfare isn’t something that’s always discussed and the idea that we’re in a spiritual battle seemed to be quite new to them and led to lots of questions. We looked at how the devil manipulates us and how we can resist. Not an easy topic but a really important one.
The above quote was one we discussed!
Breakfast on the Beach
Day 2 at Lea Abbey and the day started with breakfast on the beach! The sun shone (unlike yesterday) and we sat on the rocks on the beach, did a bible study, sang some worship songs and shared communion all the time enjoying God's amazing creation. The sun, the sound of the waves lapping and the seagulls squawking. One of those moments when you want to enjoy the moment and hope it just goes on and on. And then to finish it we fried fish and shared that ... mmm breakfast on the beach - bet Jesus didn't cook it in quite the same way!
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