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Lena on June 1st, 2011
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Because it’s the first day of June, I decided that this would be a good “release” date for my new blog:
For His Glory
I don’t have a comment system up yet, but considering I’m not sure how many people actually still read my blog, it probably won’t matter too much right now. And as you will see if you go over there, I’ve already posted more in the last two weeks than I have in the last 1.5 years. On the whole, I find Tumblr way more easier to manage and less time-consuming than WordPress and as the time it took was 90% of the reason I didn’t blog, I’ll probably post much more frequently.
~Lena
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Lena on May 16th, 2011
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to my dear sister, Greta!
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Lena on April 15th, 2011
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Lena on February 16th, 2011
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Lena on February 16th, 2011
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What’s left: Sew the batting and backing on; bind it; and quilt it.
~Lena
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Lena on February 3rd, 2011
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So, I said I’d update when I knew what I was going to be doing – well, I know but life has been so busy I haven’t had time. I’m still trying to get organized and structure my days so that they are profitable all the time instead of just part of the time.
However, one of the things I’ve been doing is spending time each day working on different projects: you know, the craft kind, versus papers and quizzes and vocabulary. I have to say, most of it has been fun: despite the challenges – but hey! I figure I’m learning!
Anyway, here are two that are in the current process (I have a few more that are also in that state, which means that by the time I finish all of them I’ll probably do a slew of posts all at once. 
We have this really cool book that has a host of projects using fat quarters – and a quilt in there caught my eye a few weeks ago, so I went “shopping” in all the fabric we have lying around the home and came up with these. This morning I finally finished sewing most of the front (yay!), and to celebrate I’m posting a picture. When finished it will also have a border made up of contrasting fabrics. My current plan is that after I finish putting it all together, I’m going to be a little ambitious and try quilting this by hand, I’ve never tried it so, we’ll see how it goes.
And finally, I went to Craft Warehouse when they were having a sale and found this fabric, which, I confess, is definitely “me” – so I bought it and made a bunch of potholders. They still aren’t finished yet because I need to quilt them in some way, which I’ll do either by hand or machine:
~Lena
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Lena on January 13th, 2011
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I know… all my blog post titles are so original. Seriously though, I consider the fact that I even update once a month to be commendable. If nothing else, it just means that I’m so busy “living” life that I don’t have time to write about it. (Although, actually, I journal regularly – you know, the book kind.)
Anyway, 2011 came before I was even aware that it was upon me. From reading other people who update more frequently than I do, I know it wasn’t just me that thought 2010 was barely here before it was gone again!
My parents and I are still figuring out what my focus is going to be this year (hey! It’s still January – it’s not too late!) so although I have ideas of what I’ll be working on, I can’t reveal anything definite yet. I tentatively will try and do an update when I do know, however.
So that being said, I’ll say that I am so looking forward to sunny, warm weather! Sorry to all you snow-people, but sun is so much better! It’s a little funny because I used to love the rain and stormy weather and although I still like it, when I started cycling: the sun became even more attractive than before. And to tell the truth, after riding rollers for 2+ months, I’m looking forward to spending more time on the road then in our garage. As far as our plans for cycling, well, Lydia, Karl and I plan on doing at least one century ride this year and unless plans change at least one of those will be the RACC (Ride around Clark County) on May 7th. So, we’re riding every non-rainy day that we can (which right now doesn’t seem to be too many!)
However, honestly, that’s only a small facet of my life right now but it’s also almost the only one that I can state with any definitiveness. So, I’ll go back to praying and planning and update ya’ll when I know more!
~Galena
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Lena on December 9th, 2010
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Initial plans:
The gingerbread:
The candy:
The before:
The after:
Lydia’s grave: (the sight of so much sugar was too much for her)
(j/k – she actually had 1/2 of the decorating ideas and had a lot of fun doing it)
The front:
The back:
The side:
The garden:
From the top:
The gate:
All in all, we had lots of fun, despite working with all that “poisonous material”.
Except for the first three: photo credit goes to Daniel.
~Lena
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Lena on December 8th, 2010
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As some people know since last May my life has mainly been focused on school courses – and yesterday I finally took my last exam and can say that “I’m done”! Needless to say, I’m happy and so looking forward to Christmas break!
This evening Lydia and I (and others) are celebrating by making a gingerbread house, which is one of our Christmas traditions – I’ll post pictures tonight or tomorrow: and at least, if nothing else, they’ll be proof that vonderLufts do indeed use candy!
For now, here is a picture of one that we did in 2007: 
~Lena
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Lena on October 4th, 2010
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~Galena