“Creative You” Planner Stickers and Stamps at Walmart

"Creative You" Planner products at Walmart

I’ve been telling my Facebook group that I would make a flip-through video of the new “Creative You” planner/journaling products available at Walmart.  I finally did the video today!

The price on this line is great! Each sticker pack I reviewed in the video below was less than $3. (I think the stamp set was around the same price, but don’t remember for sure).

Please overlook my lightly issue in this video.  The best lighting in our house is in the kitchen by the sliding glass door and my husband and son were home, so not the best time to shoot a video in the kitchen. I did this in my craft room with the normal lighting and an Ott-Lite  that’s great for working on crafts and sewing up close, but not so great for shooting videos 🙂

If you want to see just a close-up of the stickers and stamps with less chat, fast forward to the 19:25 mark.

Also, please give me a thumbs up and consider subscribing to my channel.  I’m pretty new to my own channel on YouTube and am improving all the time. Enjoy!  —>

 

Mindful Moday Devotional – Just Stand

Ephesians 6_13

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.  For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.  Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.  Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place,  and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.  In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.  Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”  – Ephesians 6:10-17

Its been a really busy weekend for me, so this week I’m just going to share some videos and scripture that’s on my heart and hope that it encourages you and helps you to remember that when you’ve prayed your hardest, done all you can in your own strength, we need to “just stand” and trust the Lord to take over.  If you’re in that place too, this is for you…  God bless!

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” – Matthew 6:33

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Freebie Friday -Country Thanksgiving Planner Printables

Freebie Friday Country Thanksgiving Planner Printables

Whew! With this post I will be totally caught up after the migration crisis of the last three weeks or so with both my blogs. All seems to be working fine, finally (knock on wood) 🙂

This week we have another set of Thanksgiving planner printables. Next week I hope to start offering Christmas sets.

These are sized for the brand new Happy Planner classic, so if you use the new Happy Planners, you’re all set to go.

Print these out on full-size sticker paper.  I use these here.  They’re priced great and you can write on them easily. They are good enough quality for my needs.  If you want a top-quality sticker paper look for these or clear ones here. (Though not all pens or markers will write well on the clear ones). If you don’t want to use sticker paper, you can print them on card stock or regular printer paper and glue them down.  Honestly, the sticker paper is the best way, however. Regardless of the type.

If you’d like this printable, click on the image below to pull up the full-sized PDF file for printing.  If you use this kit, I would LOVE to see how you use it! Please comment below so I can see ?

Please remember this is for PERSONAL USE ONLY!

Going through a lot of ink printing out planner stickers?  Do like I did and enlist in the HP Instant Ink program! I’ve saved so much money on ink since I did a year and a half ago.  They have different plans, but the one I’m in (the most pages) is that I can print up to 300 pages worth of ink for just over $9.99 per month. You can choose lesser pages for a lower rate, but I do a lot of printing between coupons, planner stickers and other things.  Click on the image here to check it out! –>

HP Instant Ink

Click on the image below to pull up the full sized pdf file of the FREEBIE for viewing and printing —>

Page 1 of 2Freebie Friday Country Thanksgiving Planner Printables

Click HERE for the Silhouette Cut File

A portion of the graphics are from clipart-library dot com

Calvary Crafters Etsy Shop

Page 2 of 2Country thanksgiving planner printables 2Click HERE for Silhouette Cut File

I’d LOVE to see how you use this set in your own planner! Please leave me a comment below if you use this 🙂

Mindful Monday Devotional -Never Too Far Gone

Mindful Monday Devotional - Never Too Far Gone

 

I’m so very thankful that God is not like me. Nor you.  While we give up on each other  all the time, (though at times after a lot of effort and time), God never does.  He gives us till our last dying breath to come to Him. He is steadfast in His love for us all. In my youth I backslid from my faith for about 9 years and was so afraid of what God thought of me.  Though I was in a lifestyle of sin, it was really hard to understand how He could still love me as much as my most faithful day to Him before then, but He does.  Let’s hear what Priscilla Shirer has to say in this week’s devotional:

 

Never Too Far Gone

When he was in distress, he entreated the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 2 Chronicles 33:12

To say Manasseh was an evil king is like saying the Grand Canyon is a hole in the ground. The Bible says he “shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another” (2 Kings 21:16 csb). If any one monarch’s abominations were to blame for God’s abandonment of Judah to exile, it was this king who had “done wickedly more than all the Amorites did who were before him” (2 Chron. 33:11).

 

Gratefully, God is not a stoic being who deals with humankind in a manner devoid of emotions and sentiments. “The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness. He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him” (Ps. 103:8–11).

Even when we’ve chosen unwisely, even when we’ve relished our stubborn resistance, He remains eager to express these beautiful elements of His character to us. He longs to receive the rebellious back into His welcoming arms. He loves seeing His grace exalted and watching it change us into His image. Nothing we’ve done, no matter how devastating or devious, can push us too far out of His love to reach us, rescue us, and restore us. When we call to Him, He hears us.

Just like He heard Manasseh . . .

For when the Lord sent the armies of a foreign nation against him, “and they captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon” (2 Chron. 33:11), judgment fell like hailstones. But in his distress, Manasseh “humbled himself greatly” (v. 12) before the Lord. And God “was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom” (v. 13). After such bountiful restoration, Manasseh received his kingdom back, and the remainder of his life (vv. 14–16) looked a whole lot different than the first.

When we respond to our Father’s discipline by humbling ourselves with the “godly sorrow” of true repentance (2 Cor. 7:11), He will pour out His mercy on us. It’s never too late, and you are never too far gone, to receive the restoring power of the One who loves you.

“And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.” –2 Chronicles 33:12 ESV

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” –Romans 5:8

Check out Priscilla’s new book, Awaken, here:

Awaken by Priscilla Shirer

 

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End of the Age Prophecy Updates for 10/29/17

End of the Age Updates for 10-29-17

I feel like it’s been months since I posted a prophecy update post! The Lord is teaching me patience in a big way while waiting for my web host to finish fixing my blogs. But this one is up and running, so I’m sharing this week’s updates right here 🙂 Here we go!

Pastor J.D. Farag:

 

(Pastor J.D.’s Video List Here)

 

Amir Tsarfati:


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Freebie Friday Thanksgiving Planner Printables

Freebie Friday 10-27-17

Hi everyone!  Forgive my blog for being down the past few weeks. When I posted my last Freebie Friday so many people visited to snag it, that it crashed the site! lol  A good problem for a blogger to have, but getting the correction taken care of was longer than expected.  I upgraded my blog host to a business account so I’ll have a server all to myself instead of sharing it with other blogs.  So, we should be good to go now!  (My CalvaryCouponers site is still down – still waiting for my blog host to get the problem fixed).

So, to make up for missing a week of Freebie Friday, I’m sharing a two-page set!  I hope you take advantage of them and let me see your creations you come up with using them!

 

These are sized for the brand new Happy Planner classic, so if you use the new Happy Planners, you’re all set to go.

Print these out on full-size sticker paper.  I use these here.  They’re priced great and you can write on them easily. They are good enough quality for my needs.  If you want a top-quality sticker paper look for these or clear ones here. (Though not all pens or markers will write well on the clear ones). If you don’t want to use sticker paper, you can print them on card stock or regular printer paper and glue them down.  Honestly, the sticker paper is the best way, however. Regardless of the type.

If you’d like this printable, click on the image below to pull up the full-sized PDF file for printing.  If you use this kit, I would LOVE to see how you use it! Please comment below so I can see ?

Please remember this is for PERSONAL USE ONLY!

Going through a lot of ink printing out planner stickers?  Do like I did and enlist in the HP Instant Ink program! I’ve saved so much money on ink since I did a year and a half ago.  They have different plans, but the one I’m in (the most pages) is that I can print up to 300 pages worth of ink for just over $9.99 per month. You can choose lesser pages for a lower rate, but I do a lot of printing between coupons, planner stickers and other things.  Click on the image here to check it out! –>

HP Instant Ink

Click on the image below to pull up the full sized pdf file of the FREEBIE for viewing and printing —>

Peanuts Thanksgiving Planner Stickers FREEBIE FRIDAY

GET THE SILHOUETTE CUT FILE HERE

 

GET THE SILHOUETTE CUT FILE HERE

The Peanuts portion of the graphics are from clipart-library dot com

Calvary Crafters Etsy Shop

 

November 2017 Scripture Writing Plan

Hi everyone! HOPEFULLY I’m back at least here at SincerelySapphire.com

I paid my host, GoDaddy, to migrate my two blogs (this one and CalvaryCouponers.com) to an upgraded account helping my blogs to not crash anymore when a lot of people access it at once.  Both of them were supposedly fixed and ready to go, but then both of them were down and needed the programmers to correct them again.  This blog wouldn’t let me upload images, so this post will test to see if that is fixed 🙂  Calvary Couponers wouldn’t even load (you’d have thought they would have “test-driven” it to know before telling me it was ready!)  So that one is still messed up and I’m still waiting to hear back from them that that one is fixed.

Anyway….just in time to get our bullet journals and whatnot prepped for November, here I present to you our Scripture Writing Plan for November!  Let me know if you use it and how it’s going by leaving a comment below! 🙂

Click on the thumbnail image below to pull up the full-sized PDF for printing –>

November 2017 Scripture Writing Plan

 

Site Crashing Should Be Fixed!

UPDATE 10/25/17:  It really SHOULD be fixed now! Arghh! 🙂 After a week of trying to figure it out on my own and giving up, I paid my web host to migrate my two blogs so it would be done right. Then after they told me that both were ready to go, neither one was (this one wouldn’t let me upload pictures and CalvaryCouponers wouldn’t even load -I’m still waiting for them to get that one right!) But I just posted a new post here (the November Scripture Writing Plan) and it seemed to work fine, so please pray the other blog gets fixed so I can be back to business on both of them! 🙂  The whole thing was to upgraded to a better account so when a lot of people visit my site at once it won’t crash like it did a few weeks ago.

It's Fixed

I discovered after sharing my Freebie Friday post the other night that so many people wanted my freebie and was accessing my two blogs at the same time and it crashed my blogs.  A good problem for a blogger to have but at the same time frustrating for the blogger and her reader both!  Saturday morning I reached out to my web host and upgraded my account to a business account and the bandwidth is supposed to be unmetered, so I hope that fixes the crashing! 🙂  Hopefully it should be a thing of the past.  Yay!

Please please let me know if you have an issue with it crashing, freezing, or lagging. ( In this one issue I hope I don’t get a reply lol)

Mindful Monday – Needful Rest

This week’s devotional is from one of my favorite Christian women speakers, Priscilla Shirer.  It’s about rest. A topic we many of us feel guilty that we do too much of or get way too little of.  I seem to go from one extreme to the other. I run full tilt till I burn out and lay low out of frustration and despair.  

   That’s one reason I’m really into utilizing a planner these past few years. I’m seeking balance. I’m trying to schedule what needs done and where I need to be and find a healthy balance. I’ve improved but I still have a ways to.  

    I’m way too, “all or nothing”, and I want to find a happy middle ground.  I need to remember the passage from Priscilla’s devotional below, that Jesus commands rest. It’s not just a good idea. He knows best!

— Day 3 —

Come and Rest

He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while.” Mark 6:31

Rest is becoming a lost art in our modern culture. We’ve exchanged its old-fashioned value for a hectic, fast-paced, breakneck speed of life, which has slowly disintegrated our fervor and passion while simultaneously elevating our blood pressure. Packed within each twenty-four-hour time span is an unsustainable number of tasks we’ve placed upon ourselves, as well as demands we’ve allowed others to deem urgent enough to place upon us as well.

And based on our fatigue and frustration, we’d give anything to offload the burden.

But rest doesn’t seem like a viable option anymore. Have we forever passed up any kind of reality that dares to include rest as part of a typical day? Or week? Or . . . month? (Or . . . year?)

When Jesus sent His disciples off on a specific ministry assignment in Mark 6:7–11, He didn’t shield them from the fact that their journey would not be particularly easy. People would refuse to listen to them, much less give them hospitality. Any cause for excitement would be counterbalanced by any number of legitimate reasons for quitting and discouragement. They would be empowered to preach, heal, and spread the news of the kingdom, yes, but would also be exhausted on every front— physically, emotionally, and spiritually. And even after finally coming back home from their tiring journey, people would still be “coming and going,” enough that the disciples “did not even have time to eat” (v. 31).

So as their first order of business upon returning, Jesus greeted them with clear instructions: “Come . . . rest a while.”

It wasn’t a request. It wasn’t a friendly suggestion. It was Jesus’ command. Here’s what you’re going to do, guys. They’d been through a lot. And much more remained to be done. But for now . . . rest . . . come and rest. At least for a little while.

Do you ever feel guilty for taking time away to regroup and recharge? Are you saddled with a sense of wasted opportunity if every space on your calendar is not filled? Are you afraid your world would stop turning if you disengaged for even a few moments? Are you concerned about losing your competitive advantage if you’re not converting every moment into maximum achievement and efficiency?

Then hear the voice of your Savior welcoming you into a place where grace flows, where the Spirit refuels, and where mercy fixes what’s been strained and stressed by the accumulation of life’s pressures. This is the space where priorities and relationships that have been pushed out of alignment and are in need of repair get patched up and recalibrated.

Quiet time is not an excuse for the lazy but a wise investment for the diligent. It is for those who are committed to being active servants and followers of Jesus Christ instead of slaves to the tyranny of urgent busyness and activity. By prioritizing rest for ourselves and those we love, we may just rediscover the joy we thought had been lost forever.


From “Awaken'”, by Priscilla Shirer. Check it out! —>

Awaken: 90 Days with the God who Speaks