What I did this Week: A Shirt Story

  This past week, I did not take enough pictures to make a worthwhile What I did this Week post. So instead, here is a shirt I made over the course of this past week.

  Monday, I cut out my fabric.

 

   Tuesday, I sewed in the pockets.

 

  Wednesday, I sewed the front and back together and Thursday I sewed in the sleeves.

 

   Friday I hemmed it.



 





  Today I sewed in the placket and collar.

 

   And since we all know plaid was the color of the nineties, here's a lovely, grungy self-portrait.

  And there's another plaid shirt for my clothing arsenal. 

 

And that seems like a great Segway into what I am going to say next. DC Talk was hands down the greatest band of the nineties. They never should have taken a hiatus, end of story. Well, this week TobyMac released a song featuring his fellow, former DC Talk members. And it is good, so listen up.

  

I Still Need to Be Saved

  Christ did not die so I can save myself. I still need to be saved. For some reason though, I find that thought uncomfortable. I will be the first to tell you that I am an imperfect person. At the same time, I do in some ways consider myself a good person. To a certain extent, that could be considered true. In many ways I am a stereo-typical southern Baptist girl. I do not smoke or drink or sleep around (but I am not really southern-Baptist and I do listen to rock and roll). But that is not what saves me. And that is frustrating sometimes.
  Part of my want to think the good things I do merit God's favor and He overlooks the bad. He does not though. He is too good and too holy for that. Because He knows I cannot live the perfect life, He sent His only son Jesus Christ to live it for me. Because He knows I deserve death, Christ died for me. And by His own death, Christ conquered death so I can live forever. In Christ I am a new person. The old me is passing away and all things are becoming new.
  I still fail though. The poison of my sinful humanity still drips in me veins. As long as I am living on this earth, I cannot conquer it on my own. But I do not have to. In me, Christ is destroying death with each rotation of the earth. Christ is still saving me everyday.

What I did This Week: "We have a Lift-off!"

  Fall has officially started here in Houston. Well, it has been in the eighties for the past week, and compared to summer, it feels like a blizzard has come through.

 

  This week I tried to work on different projects with my little brothers. On Monday I started a piñata with my brother Paul. The first day went okay, but there are no pictures of the finished project because when we tried to put on the second layer of paper-mache it collapsed. 

 

  Then I made clay models with my little brothers. I made this abstract cat while the rest my brothers made some unidentified resting objects. 

 

 

  Then on Thursday we got to go to Mission Control at the Johnston Space Center and watch the launch of the Soyuz capsule for Expedition 41. One the elders at our church, Barry Wilmore, is an astronaut and so we were invited to watch the capsule's launch from mission control. It was surreal to say the least. 

 

  And now I leave you with this music video for one of the songs of my childhood. Here's to DC Talk's reunion!