Posted in Faith, tagged animation, Christ, Church, Easter, Gethsemane, illustration, Jesus, last supper, Maundy Thursday, Passover, sand animation, Sand Bible, sandbible.com, sandbox on 5 April, 2012| Leave a Comment »
This lovely animation of Luke 22 comes from Sand Bible – they have sand animations for Easter and Christmas which are worth checking out. You can buy a set without the narration if you want to use a different bible version.
We’ll not be watching this at our Passover supper, as we already have plenty to watch and do. Will be showing it to the kids beforehand though.
Posted in Vicarage, tagged alterations, ceiling, floorboards, renovations, Vicarage, Victorian on 4 April, 2012| 2 Comments »
It has been a crazy day in the Vicarage. The lads upstairs have made some impressive progress on the attic. The Queen had a friend come over. A lovely friend came over to help me with the Passover meal and we made a selection of eclectic purchases at Morrisons. (Matzohs, strawberries, creme fraiche, spring greens, plain yoghurt etc – all in bulk). Our old MT from Wolverhampton days, Gambit, was here on a visit. The Vicar had a wedding rehearsal. Oh, and the Vicar and I had a lovely evening out at a comedy club, The Laughing Sole, that has just launched at The Public. A local monthly laugh night – we’re very pleased.
Anyway, here’s some pics of the upstairs at the end of today. It’s looking quite neat and organised, I think.
Posted in Vicarage, tagged attic, before, Passover, pictures, renovations, Vicarage on 3 April, 2012| 3 Comments »
This morning work officially began on our attic. Rocky has moved all his stuff downstairs to the spare bedroom and the space is clear for renovations. Thanks to a local trust, we are able to convert the four rooms into a much more usable Ministry Trainee space – two bedrooms, a living room/dining room/kitchenette and a shower room.
So the house was rather full today – four workmen in the attic, four kids (mine plus a bonus one) and then the Vicar, Rocky and me. Thankfully we were able to spread out on three floors. And after taking a few snaps so we can remember how it looked ‘Before’, I escaped out to fetch the lamb for Thursday’s Passover meal. The workers will be back at 8am tomorrow. Hopefully they won’t be drilling immediately…
Posted in Church, Faith, tagged art, catering, Christianity, Church, Easter, faith, Jesus, panic, print, resurrection, scripture on 2 April, 2012| 2 Comments »
In my search for help on the Passover meal I’m catering for church this Thursday evening (over 40 folk signed up – eeek!), I visited Ann Voscamp’s beautiful blog the other day. Through her I was pointed to Willow of Wonder, another artistic blog where there are free Easter poster downloads available at the moment. I’ve printed one out for our kitchen noticeboard this week – there is a selection of colours available. Willow has an Etsy shop with some great scripture prints for kids which can be shipped to the UK (and some can be downloaded).
I shall be looking at this regularly to help me keep my catering panic in perspective.
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