Capri Sun Reusable Bags

A few months back while in Vegas at a WholeFoods, a lady who worked there complimented me on my Capri Sun reusable grocery bag. She told me i needed to sell them at farmers markets. 

I placed the box of tea so you can see how big the bag is.

After months and months i finally finished 3 of them, 2 large and 1 small lunch bag

One of them, i am saving to take to ‘Kashi’ the lady at wholefoods as a gift, I wanted to mail her one, i even called wholefoods to talk to her, she told me she would rather thank me in person so next time i was there bring it with me. It has been like 6 months, hopefully we can make a trip soon.

The new feature i added, is an inner pocket for smaller items.

I also added my ‘A Simple Sparrow’ labels to show they are 100% handmade with love by ME!

Kool-Aid Jammers bag, made with Love for Kashi

Mini Lunch Bag

 

Mini Lunch bag, or purse or whatever you would like it to be bag

SALE!!!!!!!!

 

Large Capri Sun bag $15

Mini Lunch Bag $10

 

To order please contact me through my blog, or email me at asimplesparrow@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

We have officially completed our second week of homeschooling in the Korv household and what a week it has been.

I am pretty sure i have had every emotion course through my body, from excitement, joy, panic, fear, confidence as well as failure.

Thats quite a bit to feel in a matter of two weeks.

I am so thankful my husband is 100% into this decision with me, cause i know i couldn’t do it without him.

Even though i am not new to the whole homeschooling thing, it is new to us as a family, I am so happy that God put Heather Crawford into my life, to be there for me and i for her in this journey. Its nice to have someone to bounce ideas off of and learn from each others mistakes.

 

Heart of Confidence

I was pleasantly surprised this morning when i glanced at my phone and noticed

I had a sale on my Etsy shop!!!

SCREAMS FOR JOY!!!!!!!

This beauty has flown the coop and has found its new home in Libertyville Illinois

I SO appreciate the love

The Korv’s Grand Adventure

LIke i said awhile back Rudolf and i decided to pull the kids out of the public school they have been attending since Adia Started Kindergarten. This was a HUGE life change for us. Our plan was to wait till they got out for summer, and begin in August. In January right before i started my collage classes, i felt maybe i should take them out early, and myself not take classes this semester, but i chalked it up to me being excited to start, and i just needed to hold off.

Last week during a worship conferance at church i felt the need to talk with Rudolf about taking the kids now, spring break is coming up, so they would finish this then and not go back. When i told him, his response was ‘lets ask the kids’ it was unanimous  ’YES’

So here we are, 1 more week left. I am a tad nervous, but yet very excited.

I have been pinning on pinterest like a mad woman, tomorrow i am going to a friends to snoop through her homeschooling books, and need to make a trip to Parker to go through my Mom’s and Sisters books as well.

I am not really sure how i should start

• Should i just start in the next grade they were going into?
• Take it easy the next couple months, then start?
• Should i go along with public schools calendar, or wing it?

PLUS we need to get the kids their own computer, i really want to get an older iMac since all we have are macs, and i need to get the dining room turned into a school room.

AAAAHHH so much to do, not enough money or time.

The one thing i DO know, this is what God wants us to do, so all will work out fine.

I feel we are going to appreciate being able to be with our kids, teaching them, and seeing them grow into mighty men and woman of God.

If ya think about it, shoot some prayers our way, for wisdom and financial needs.

Tea from afar

In December I happened upon a blog where the lady was doing a tea swap
(I’m posting on my phone so I will put the link to her blog later) of course I signed up. Yesterday I received my cute little package of yummy tea from a sweet girl Jitřenka from the Czech Republic. I am loving the tea she sent, I’ve already drank 2 cups. It’s so neat to meet new people from all over. I so enjoyed her letter and hope to continue to keep in touch.

A New Year

2013

Here’s to new beginnings, changes and fresh starts.

This year is going to be a doozy of a year for the Korv’s.

Let me start at the beginning. For the past two years i have felt a tug in my heart to begin homeschooling my 3 amazing children. For those of you who may not know, i myself was homeschool my entire schooling years. But yet i never felt i would ever homeschool my kids, then i thought well maybe when they hit Jr. High. When i first felt that tug, i mentioned it to R. he was a bit skeptical about doing it. One thing about homeschooling is both parents HAVE to be on board or it will be un – successful.

I kept praying about it, going on the pro’s and con’s with the kids, preparing their hearts for it as well.

2 years later, the shooting at Sandy Hook happens. I was in parker, R. calls me and tells me we are pulling the kids out in August. my response. ‘YES SIR’

I must mention that i DO NOT live in fear, but that shooting added one more Con to public school.

As well as feeling the tug to homeschool 2 years ago, both R. and I have felt that God was preparing us for something, What, we have no clue, but non the less something. and we feel this step is part of that preparation. Isn’t God good that he prepares us slowly, instead of waking up one morning to BAM your doing this NOW! not sure if i could handle that. Unless He told me to move to Oregon, Cali, or pretty much any place ‘GREEN’ my bags would be packed in an hour.

My heart is so full with Thankfulness to my GOD who provides all my family needs, takes care of us, keeps us healthy, & gives us wisdom. 2013 is going to be a GREAT year.

Days gone by

Today is a day that i have a heart full of mixed emotions,

Its the day of my husbands birth, he is 33 years old.

with each year he amazes me more and more.

 

Also 17 years ago my Grandmother Elva Francine Patterson went to be with Jesus.

 

 

 

I did not get to spend a whole lot of time with her as a child, and like everyone she made mistakes, but i loved her and still do.

I cannot wait till i see her again in Heaven.

Sometimes in our minds i think we have an idea of what a person would think or be like after their gone, i suppose  almost like a graven image. In my mind i think my Grandma would be proud of me, what i have done with my life, my children, things like that. I am not entirely sure about this, but in a way, i like to hold on to those feelings.

I wish she could have lived to be at my wedding, see her Great-Grand Children be born, and for them to go to her house in Fontanelle, ride horses and pick raspberries in her garden. Memories i cherish from my childhood. Its up to me to make memories like those for my children.

 

The last two days i have had 1 or 2 children home, with fevers and coughs. I have been pumping them full of Kombucha, and hot tea with honey. I hate when my babies are sick.

 

I think i might do a little sewing today…we shall see what the day holds.

 

later taters

An Early Christmas Gift

 

Here it is, it has finally arrived.

The gift that was at the top of my list, next to a wall in my garage.

Here is January in all its glory.

Miss Kelly over at UmberDoveStudios is AMAZING!

If you want to check them out head on over to her shop or come to my house and see mine!

Hope you all have a very merry Christmas.

Over here the Korv household we will be sleeping in, going to watch the hobbit and laying around ALL day!

At Last

This morning was my first morning that i am free from classes, what a liberating feeling it is. Going to school has been one of the hardest decisions i have made. But i have finally finished my first year. sigh of relief.

Many times over the course of this year i have wanted to give up, throw in the towel and call it quits. i am sure i will think those same thoughts many times over before i complete my AA.

So today i decided i was going to work in my shop ALL day…haha, well that didnt happen, oh well.

My good friend Christina text me bright and early to see what i was up to, and how could i resist a morning of baking biscuits and drinking coffee with a friend.

I finally made it into my shop around noon, and finished up a necklace that i all but destroyed last week, i really thought it was doomed and might have to be scrapped, but my silversmith teacher Mark saved it from its untimely death. I chipped the stone while i was setting it. a stone i cut and polished myself. But all is well again, smoothed and fixed.

It will be up for grabs in my shop later today or tomorrow.

My day has flown by at an incredible speed, i wish it would slow down and let me enjoy every minute but alas it is already time for me to go pick up the kiddos from school.

My tea sipping was so short lived, until we meet again

I have discovered a new appreciation for other Artists work. I think once you yourself

start diving into the world of being artistic and stepping out into the unknown, it makes you

take a second glance at what others make, and what amount of effort it took to make what ever it is they made.

I am at that place i want to show the world the gifts inside of me, but how do i expect others to invest in me,

when i don’t invest into others.

I want to surround myself with art from people i know, people i just met, and from total strangers.

SideNote……Today is my baby boy’s SEVENTH Birthday. How the years have flown by, i miss my little baby, but i’m so proud of the mighty man of God he is growing into.