One of my favorite LDS Primary Songs is Faith by Beatrice Goff Jackson. I find her lyrics so powerful. The first verse goes like this: Faith is knowing the sun will rise, lighting each new day. Faith is knowing the Lord will hear my prayers each time I pray. Faith is like a little seed: If planted, it will grow. […]
I’ve been keeping a scripture journal since I was a teenager. For a while, my journal consisted of lists and lists of encouraging scriptures to send to the 18 LDS Missionaries I was […]
I was talking with an acquaintance not long ago and the subject of my creative habits challenge came up. I mentioned that I have been getting up early each day in order to make time to paint/draw every single day this year. The woman scoffed a little and said in a condescending tone, “There is no way I would get […]
Over the past few months I have had the pleasure of working with Heather from Women in the Scriptures on an amazing project. Heather is a scripture scholar and her blog has long been an inspiration to me. I was thrilled when she asked me to design the study guides to go along with her beautiful book, Walking with the Women […]
I really wish I could take all the credit for this idea, but it really belongs to my sister. We were chatting one day about some design work I was in the middle of (she’s one of my main sounding boards for the millions of ideas I have floating around in my head) and she mentioned the LDS Conference Journal […]
I am so excited! As many of you may know, I have been hard at work on a Book of Mormon study guide for children. It is a HUGE undertaking, and a definite brain-stretcher for me. I have decided to break the study guide down into smaller sections for a few reasons: it’s much less intimidating for me ;), they […]
One of the most frequent comments I receive when people learn that we homeschool is along these lines: “I don’t know how you can do that!” or “I would love to homeschool, but I don’t think I could do it.” I want to give you a glimpse of how we homeschool, not because what we do is the one right […]
I have a strong desire to fill my children up with beautiful words. Those words enter our home in many ways: read-alouds, personal reading, family scripture study, quotes and encouragements hanging on the walls, audiobooks, the lyrics of favorite music. One of my favorite ways to fill their heads with beauty is through copywork. (If you’re wondering what copywork is, this […]
Our very own copies (plus a couple dozen extra) of my new LDS Faith in God study guides arrived in the mail today. Despite all the proofreading, editing, re-proofreading, editing, and re-re-proofreading, I was terrified that they would be full of huge, glaring errors once I had a physical copy in hand. I am happy to say that was not […]