The Names of God

Wow I just realised it's been so long since I last posted. Well, LIFE happens :) ! We had maneuvered a home move within the last few weeks and then only just had our high speed internet connected this week, so go figure! :) It has been a hectic time, but we can't believe how it all came together so easily and smoothly, and we are settling down wonderfully too. The move brings us closer to the boys' schools and cuts down significant travelling time, and we are also praying it will be a good move for us real estate-wise. More photos to come later!

In our church we have embarked on a study of The Names of God. It has been wonderful to learn the context of each Name in the Bible, and to bless His Name and to call upon His Name as we go about daily living and find Him so faithful!

Proverbs 18:10

New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)

 ¹⁰ The name of the LORD is a strong tower; 

   the righteous run to it and are safe.

In Exodus 6 God announced to Moses that His name is Jehovah, that is, 1) God who performs what He had promised, 2) God who perfects what He had begun, finishing His good work. (extracted from Matthew Henry's commentary), and went on in Exodus 6:7 to declare:

Exodus 6:7

New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)

⁷ I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

This verse really spoke to me, for we have experienced and know that He has taken my family for Himself, to be His people, that He is our God, and we know that He is the Lord our God, who delivers us. And I really wanted to make this verse a reminder and testament to His Goodness in our lives.

Remember I had a canvas work art done previously of Micah 6:8? We brought it along and it has taken its place in our new home, see below. (Notice my Project Life album in the bottom right compartment, and my photobooks in the the bottom left compartment of our new Ikea EXPEDIT shelving unit :P  )(please excuse the yet unpacked bags of scrapbooking stationery and stuff!)

  I have decided to make a new canvas word art featuring Exodus 6:7, this time in a longer horizontal dimension, to fit our dining display area. This is what I've come up with. What do you think?  I've done it at 40" by 8", but need to find out if the canvas printing company can even do this size. I'm liking it a lot now, not sure if I'll change it up or add more colors. Dark brown, sand, and white is our new color scheme now.

Anyways I've saved the word art to a size that will fit on your 12x12 layout in case you'd like to use it. The fonts I've used are Tiza, Papyrus, Viner Hand ITC, Bosshole and Tempus Sans ITC. Download it Here.

Scrapbooking-wise, I have finally completed the last few layouts for our 2011 Album, and will be setting it up in Shutterfly awaiting the next Discount coupon :)

Here's a layout to mark our trip to Beijing in Dec 11, a separate Beijing Album will be made later.

And here's CNY family photos from Feb 11, more than a year ago!

We made a trip (been many years since our last one) to our URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority) that had  models showcasing Singapore as it is now and the plans for the near future. Fascinating to see our country landscape so quickly change over the years.

And here's dh and I enjoying a truly lovely time at the Dreams & Reality exhibition, which is an exhibit of art pieces all the way from D'Orsay Museum in Paris - WOW.

For Project Life, here are my Feb layouts. Still having a good and easy time putting them together.

And because I have the daily photos captured in the digital layout, I only print out a few photos from each month that I really want to highlight or have special memories to document. These are my PL physical pages from February. (As I don't have a photo printer, I send them to be printed about once a month - March's are just being sent for printing now)

I like that I can put in some paper memorabilia, like I tucked the receipt of our dinner bill behind the photo above (bottom left).

  and like this paper  'sculpture' J made at his creative art class ...

If you look carefully you'd see that I got dh to help journal some of the cards, his are the ones where he stuck on the photos at an angle, strangely I like them straight for the physical PL pages, but hey, it's GREAT that he will join in our PL, I will love them any way they come :)  My next goal is to get the boys' thots on some of these cards! All of the Feb physical pages was completed in one afternoon under two hours - I love it!

And finally here's a simple 12X12 layout I made to capture a Shakespeare in the Park performance dh and I caught last year on date night. We studied Macbeth as our O'Levels Literature text as teenagers and it was such a thrill to sit on picnic mats on the Fort Canning lawn and watch it come alive again in this modern interpretation (with all original Shakespeare dialogue). Shakespeare can still be so enjoyable!

This is now available as part of Template Pack 7 in the store. Thanks for your interest!