What's in my makeup bag?

Lauren (@redheadphd on Instagram and RedHeadPhd on YouTube) asked what's in my makeup bag today.

Mirror, lotion, purse brush (where's the powder?), oil absorbing sheets, Travelo with Flower by Kenzo, Baby Lips lip balm (I wouldn't recommend it.), Mac Hot Tahiti lipstick, Mac Fanfare lipstick, Revlon lip butter in Pink Truffle, a little sample of Buxom lip gloss in Dolly, Urban Decay 24/7 lip gloss pencil in Glinda.

 

Too many lip products! I end up bringing them down from my vanity and putting them in my purse and I only remember to bring them up once a week or so. When I clean it out, I leave just the lip balm and tiny lip gloss in there for lip products. I need to find a spare powder to put in there. I ran out a while back and never replaced it.

Tomorrow, maybe my vanity makeup bag?

 

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Selling Drawings for my Brazil Trip

I hesitate to call what I do with a pen and paper art. But it does help write God's word on my heart. When I was thinking of ways I could raise money for my Brazil mission trip, I thought of selling some drawings based on my journal drawings.

 

These are two of my favorite designs. I have already done a few different versions, changing up the words and colors, and fonts. It's feels nice to excercise the creative part of my brain again. Speaking of which, my journal has been crazy creative lately.

 

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RBC Summer Missions Trip: Brazil

I'm going. I'm excited, and a little scared, but mostly excited. This Sunday, as I was leaving church, I stopped to talk to a friend whose family is involved in the summer mission trip, and I was asked to go as an adult leader for the teens. This video is a few years old, but this is the same group of people I will be involved with:

Brazil Mission Trip

I've wanted to do a short term mission trip for three years, every since I started going to the Reston Bible Church Missions Conference. Our church does this kind of amazing thing where about one third of giving goes to global missions. I just looked up the exact number for 2012: $1,760,347 to global missions. Mind boggling. So because of all this giving, they hold a conference and missionaries on furlow will come and speak, and we have brunches and special small groups, and it's just kind of the best thing ever. So combine getting fired up from that with our church's special heart for Brazil and you have me going to Brazil this summer.

Whoa.

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Onward.

"The question is whether she is a grumbler or a grumble. If there is a real woman, even the trace of one-still there inside the grumbling, it can be brought to life again.” C.S. Lewis

I focus on the Light. On making myself useful. If I let go of those things, I might just let go altogether, and become a trace of myself within a grumbling, and then eventually a shell of myself that can't be brought back to life. I focus on the Light.

People say "I wouldn't have known you were depressed." I reply, "Acting!"

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Beach with friends

Everyone is sleeping. I am up late, like always, reading a little, watching some videos, enjoying some time to be by myself and with God.

Sometimes I wish I could just lie down and fall asleep like a normal tired person can. But my mind needs to process the day, whether I want it to or not.

Today was spent at a relaxing beach, where I finally went in the ocean again after a rough tumble last summer. After coming back to our friends' beach house, we picked up some pizza then went to a bonfire with just my kids and that was nice, when Julia was where she was supposed to be.

Like I said, I need to process the day.

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Pool day excitement!

Today was our first real pool day of this summer. I couldn't figure out why we hadn't gotten to the pool, until I realized we would get nothing done all morning and then I couldn't justify a pool trip when I had stuff to do. I decided if I was going to do nothing in the morning, that was the time to fit the pool in.

This one was pretty excited. Not that you can tell. It's her thinking face.

Joe was pretty stoked that I found the swim masks, and he looks crazy handsome in it.

He was pretty keen to "practice swimming" and there was this cute girl who was all kinds of keen to give him swimming lessons. She also latched on to me, which made me kind of sad, because I could tell her nanny was kind of dismissive with her. I did let the nanny know that she was a very good swimmer (after two lessons!) and that her mom might want to consider swim team next summer. So sweet girl and Joseph were playing, and all of the sudden Joe wanted to "show me something". Then he went underwater, and started swimming! Then the stupid whistle blew, so of course we stayed an hour longer so he could practice. So so proud of him!

 

In other news, I have no idea what I am doing for dinner. Yay.

 

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Actually writing notes

This month, I am writing a note for someone each day. Not an email, or post it note, but a notecard.

Some might only get a drawing.

 

A bunch will get the the card I designed with a cool paper from Paper Source, with a note inside.

 

Some might get a haiku. Or a combination of all those things.


A written note is possibly my favorite thing ever. I have a stash of all the lovely notes I have received in recent years. When I felt like no one notices me, or I am sad, I can pull them out and remind myself in a tangible way, that people do notice me.

So I want to give the same gift to other people.

 

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