Well if that is true .. MAN I am blessed. !!! I cant sleep half the time ... so now When I am laying there awake .. I am going to say .. HEYYYYYYYYY someone is dreaming of me LOL or thinking of me .. Maybe praying for me. ...

Speaking of Prayer .. I just want you to know .. I can feel when someone is praying .. YOU know when your world is just falling apart and YOU somehow just GOT THIS !!! HECK lately I have coasted thru some STORMY things and Just like my one post said HEY if GOD gives us stony paths.. HE IS SURE TO GIVE US GOOD SHOES ..and he does.. something's just have a way of working themselves out .. Having said that I love a good prayer warrior .. They keep us covered like sweet blankets.. Thanks so much to all our prayer warriors.

Tonight I spent some serious time with my blogging friends (YALL) your blogs are amazing and just puts words in my fingers as I type. I want to discuss it all and or just soak it all in. Just another way GOD shows me that there are like minded (yoked) out there in blog land. I go to some of your blogs then I feel like I went to see a friend. I FEEL FULL.. or I see the grand kids or kids or someone talk about their Journey and I think GOD is so good. DONT you feel like that sometimes. IT is a great line of love and communication ..SO full of thanks after reading some of them. I get ideas on how to make things.. HOW to think or process something.. or a good scripture.. I just want to say thank you . I guess I just feel JOYFUL and full..

What I learned today is .....YOU never know !!! Meaning today is one thing and tomorrow might be another . I think if we put the armor of GOD on .. I think whatever we don't know ...might just be okay.. I don't really like the saying if it don't kill you it makes you stronger.. I think HARSH there just a little bit .. BUT What I do think is ...If you made it thru something YOUR blessed and you have been given an opportunity to share .

YOU know the old question what is your purpose... I know to Spread GODS love and word .. .. But do you ever wonder ... What am I supposed to be doing.. I am 45 WHEWWW NELLY Hold the fort ..Did I really say that outloud.. WHY yes I did .. AGE Is Just  number girls... 46 next Thursday GOOD GRAVY (already)  and I feel like I just was born or something .. I Have lots to do .. sooooooo future post will be BUCKET LIST ...and maybe one day we can all (next year ) OH near JUNE lol plan a cruise or something .. That would be soooooooooooo fun... anyways I started typing like I was talking and HEY got off track .. BUT what I meant to say is what is your purpose..YOUR gift and what do you want to do with the next SHIFT in your life or phase or chapter.. I say lets do something good......

GOD is so good and I pray your last thought tonight after you pray for all you love is .. HOW thankful you are to have life and GOD leading the way.... HUGS and I really do wish we were all just neighbors already ... TOODLES

Hi everyone... I wanted to say Thank you to SOUTHERN BELLE Magazine for featuring me in the magazine... Showing some of my attention to detail in decorating my home and my photographs (I love taking pics) ... Most of all for mentioning my blog.. The Rusty Pearl name ... YOU name it . I wanted to do jumping Jacks.. I felt proud and thankful .. I meet so many great people on this blog.. That I just want to love for the rest of my life.. SO I wanted to take a moment and say thank you to SOUTHERN BELLE for making my day !!! .. It is a great magazine and I love all the features !!!

---- Yall know that Wednesday is friend day .. I go walking at work with some friends and I met this lady walking ..>Each day she is doing something UNIQUE.. I would love to just sit and talk with her.. She would be walking she wears this Asian hat and you hear no music she is dancing to life sometimes I pass her she is smiling bigger than anthing and she keeps on moving waving her arms like doing the wave or she is shimming and dancing.. I snapped a pic of her.. She is my friend she just does not know it yet LOL .. LOVE her spirit and zest for life.. I just GET HER LOL

here she is below ...

That is her dancing and walking --she is always alone and HAPPY . .LOVE her ..

I have been on this kick where if you sit long enough (30 ) minutes something will happen .. Well I was looking at the sun the other day .. If you get real quiet you hear LIFE around you .. a hummm and its true.. GOD'S creatures they happen by .. Or you see a beautiful weed even in the garden that somehow just is beautiful and deserves to be there... saw this one walking into work.. I thought .. LOOK what it has been thru and its bloomed anyway and just beautiful .. It just deserved to be there.. SO I saw a guy that looked like maybe he was gardening.. I said Can you leave that one .. He said sure....SO now everyday I am looking to make sure its still there and if I have water left in my water bottle at the end of the day .. I water it ..

see below :

YEP that's my sweet flower LOL ...

Well I just wanted to close with .. we are on this journey .. Take out some time out of your day and soak it all in . Be thankful for it .. GOD is so good.. I see it so much in all I do . I feel so blessed and thankful.... Have a blessed week my sweet friends and thanks for giving me some of your time and love and inspiration . YOU really do bless me... HUGS --- I am so glad GOD crossed our paths in this life.. I am better for it ... TOODLES !!!!

Good Evening my sweet friends and family .. I am settled now and missing blogging every other day like I used too..SOOOOOO here I go.. First of all I love this picture don't you . I think I could be very happy there ... Little shanty on the beach.. Few linens to dry in the salty air.. And my music and noise the waves that crash.. Well crash to most ..Talk to me. .. (see me and that ocean ) we have a good relationship !!!

Love, Hope, Serenity ..

I was going to google the definition and I decided not too.. I think they say enough and Today I was reminded of those three words... My sweet friend and Co-worker Janie  (with the help of her little angels ) Gave me this sweet bracelet and gift. We have had a lot going on at our work and we have stayed quiet and strong and just focused on what is good and right . I am so very proud that in this journey GOD crossed my path with her...Also my sweet friend I will call her MeMe she is a living doll and her spirit and gift for GOD and doing good..She is  such a bright light. When I started this job.. It is hard being the NEW GIRL .. I would sit in my car at lunch and just read or something and one day my sweet friend TONI .. My very first friend in my new area .. She approached me and said come and walk with me at LUNCHES..as we did ... and we talk about GOD and faith and I found it ..Just what I needed.... Then she introduced me to GINA and she is a total inspiration and gives me some ah ha moments all the time. SHE reminded me .. Any negative Nellys ever come your way .YOU say Take that up with GOD... He gave me this JOB or this blessing ..SO my whole week .. I have been waiting on the chance to say HEY you take that up with GOD .. But needless to say .. Never had to say it. I just lived it and found that I have had one blessing after another. When your new its not always easy .>SO Janie,MeMe,Alexia, Patricia, Toni, Gina they have made my transition so blessed. I feel so thankful to them and the Path GOD has me on.

isn't that the TRUTH !!

SO I have been very blessed and this is with just a few sweet friends. There are so many that I have made.. I love laughing and Patricia gives the best hugs ever.. I am praying for another coworkers MOM and don't even know her .. But I am praying for Doris like I have known her my whole life.. Cant help myself. Alexia is  a doll and I just loved and trusted her from the Start.. Its awesome when  GOD puts really good people in your path .

Thought I would share those thoughts with you and what has been going on and how I can use it in my life. I feel like maybe ...JUST maybe Maturity is kicking in. Don't know if I Quite like being so dang wise LOL ....

I got a beautiful email today from my new friend Tam (HI GIRL) and she is from OH I think ..and I feel like GOD placed her in my life for a reason . She gave me the sweetest email about my blog and I looked forward to blogging all day because of her sweet words. She said she felt like I was a long lost friend.... She could not of bought me anything WORTH more than that for me. Those words mean so much . I think in life we all just want to connect and be loved...

Well , I had something else that I was going to blog about .. BUT this was my JOURNEY today..

HUGS and blessings and may GOD shine on you !!!

with love, Sherry (The Rusty Pearl)!!

 

 Well my sweet friends... BEEN so busy. I have MOVED to a new CITY .. and have a new JOB and lots of change.. BEEN hard, been fun, been blessed, been sad. YOU name it ..and its BEEN .. I feel Quiet.. cant explain it .. BUT I have not had the URGE to just talk too much.. Been listening instead.   ...I am now an hour from the beach maybe hour half... OMGOSH say it isn't soooooooo .

I am BACK and so thankful for my new followers.. I feel so blessed and cant wait to know and love each of you ... This is all for now... BUT just you wait.. I am working on some really cool posts and projects... HUGS .. Just wanted to say HELLO and even if I have not commented today I read all your great blogs... HUGS and my prayer is that your all so blessed that you need ten trucks to carry it all. ...

 

I have been on a Journey of Kindess and Peace.. I read this today and t thought I would share.. I am sure that you will love it too... It is one small sentence but I literally sat and just thought about it for awhile...

 

"Kindness is a language the blind can see and the deaf can hear."

 

Isn't that POWERFUL ..

 

We live in a RUSH RUSH world and I notice that people do not really take the time to HUG as much or Time to WELL smell the ROSES !!!

 

It reminded me of when I was driving in my car the other day and traffic was bad and this white truck nearly side swiped my car..

 

Doesn't he know that I am carrying a lot of stuff...Mainly the precious Cargo (kenzie)

Well needless to say I was quite ashamed of the words that came out of my mouth . I said
YOU IDIOT .. YOU could of killed us...

 Thankfully Kenzie was asleep ........................SHHHHHHHHHHHH

Then I was so convicted.. Because as you grow in the Lord you change your thoughts and your words.. I seriously thought .. YOU know what we invite GOD into our hearts our minds our souls and HE Is probably sitting right here beside me.... Then I felt like sinking into my chair . I said I am sorry GOD ..inside my mind and then I just thought about it all day. I thought we should walk thru our day as if GOD were sitting right here beside us.. We expect our children to conduct in a certain manner and We should be the same in front of our Father at all times....

SOooooo Later that evening I was reading in my JESUS  calling book and BAM !!! THINK IS WHAT I READ............. DONT YOU LOVE WHEN YOU JUST GET CONFIRMATION OF A THOUGHT ...........................

Grow strong in the light of my presence . Your weaknesses do not REPEL ME. On the contrary, it attracks MY power, which is always available to flow into a yielded heart. ..

Why this just was confirmation for me I DONT know ..BUT I was drawn to it and I am sure that GOD is pleased that I am passing along this thought to you ... SOOOO go along your day and act is GOD is right beside you .. HE REALLY is and He deserves RESPECT (we all do ) SO I humbly say I am sorry driver for calling you an IDIOT Mr Truck driver ... the old me says inside well He was driving stupid >>>OMGOODNESS what is wrong with me LOL .. BUT you get the point.. AND yes.. I am a work in progress.. HEY but I am honest .. ... HUGS and thanks for following.. I am blessed that your all apart of my life and journey ..

 P>S>  Jelly -Bean is behaving these days.. Nothing to report LOL SHHHHHHH don't want to say it too loud.. The last time I thought whewwwwwww finally Nothing broken in a week ..She had a party in the Pantry !!! Have a blessed week !!!!!!!!!

 

 TO all my new followers .. HUGS and look forward to being life long blogging sisters and friends.. If you have a blog I will be looking for it .. TOODLES

 

 

 

 

Hold the fort NELLY !!! Look at this design on a dime.. This beautiful table...

Can we say FREE 90 FREE and I purchased one just like it not long ago from a thrift store..

Just love it

 

 Came across this little WINE box it is the same and opens on both sides. The wine goes in the bottom and This little BEAUTY $7 I think that is a STEAL ... Love it and it looks good just about anywhere and I get tons of compliments on this little box

Then there is this little Jewel.. I picked this up at GW for $7.99 WHAT ? ? ? ? ?  I love it LOTS and the little kid'os in my life just love it .

and last but not least the pretty canister and topper... GOT for $1.00 at a yard sale.. OMGOODNESS I love a good yard sale...  I do break for a good yard sale and I am sitting in the car saying when I see people get out before me... I think to myself.. Don't take my treasures people  !!!

 I often say even if I was worth millions...That I would still love a good garage sale or thrift store.. HEY I would just have more money to do it LOL.................

Have you had any awesome FINDS lately... I got some old boat oars and I  plan on doing something fun with them ... 
I am so excited today .. Westin just called his Nauni (me) so I am headed to get him for a couple of days........................................ It is always so much fun seeing the world thru his eyes.. EVEN though he set me straight on the Easter BUNNY LOL ..

Toodle-Lou .... Have a blessed day and thanks for popping in

 

 

SHHHHHH It is late and I am up ... I see the flash of light outside the window. Lately I have been dealing with some  things and somehow the LORD has had me kind and looking up and focused. I feel like I hear better, see better, think better, pray better and most of all listen better.

( I blogged once on a beautiful something I read.. When the LORD gives you STONY paths.. don't worry he is sure to give you GOOD SHOES.................................... HE really does !!! MY smile is in away my GOOD shoes (symbolically) speaking ... : )

I am so thankful for so many things..  I went to the window and watched for a very long time. I thought of things that I had not thought of in awhile.. I am going to be moving soon and NO I am not bitter... I plan on leaving here Better... and I am so THANKFUL. I just felt this since of SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH inside of me. Not to dwell on it all. Then I thought WOW LORD there is so many people with REAL hurts in the world and I am so blessed. I just felt thankful.. SO I went out into that RAIN .. (that I love )

and just got in it . MOVED around in it and SMILED and loved it all.. ALMOST like a cleansing . I cant explain it . I felt amazed and when I got into the house .. I felt like IT was all just washed away .. The things I have been so quiet about . I don't know why I am so happy during a very hard time .. BUT I am good .. REALLY good. SO good in fact that I look forward to the FUTURE and what GOD has in store for me. I think once I put it all in GOD'S Hands .. at the end of the day IT was OKAY ................. SO the point of the post is .. The SUN really will come out tomorrow... ENJOY the RAIN .. .DONT be one of those that just gets WET .. DANCE In it .. I know tonight I DID just that .............................................. TOODLES