Great video full of love and happiness!!! Purging is the best medicine!! The more you do it, the easier it becomes!! Same way with troubles and thoughts and unnecessary worry. I strive to live a simpler life. I’m planning on moving which helps the purge act!! You are an inspiration not only in your creativity but in your faith. God is always with us. God bless you Bonnie and your family!!
Sweet Sara!! So we have even more in common! Yes...I still need to wrap up that closet purge, I just walked by a stack and told Riley, 'It's time to just do it and stop waiting to Feel Like It!' Yes, I want to have that joy of a clean area...purged of the stuff I don't need anymore, or finding a place for those things to keep.
I've have been binge watching your quilting videos. Oh, how create you are. You're a truly a shining light on this earth. Your lpve for your family shows through. I'm trying to clean out my house. Seems I've spend my life collecting stuff, in my golden years I'm getting rid of most of the stuff..
Wow, thank you! It has been a hard project to clear out and let go of things we have loved in the past. I'm finding as I settle in our new home in Colorado, that I want order and not to be managing to much stuff!! I have a regular box to give to the thrift store. Thanks for visiting with me. I just posted a new video after a long time away.
Bonnie I needed to hear your messages today. Thank you for your vulnerability, I know that God is working through you for the sake of others. Your moms bears are precious. You are a special person with a big heart. ❤️
My mom was a boxer too…..I’ve gone through most of her boxes. Most was just junk paper, but I did find some treasures. It is so hard letting go of her things. Thank you for reminding me that the greatest gift she gave me was introducing me to Jesus. ❤️❤️.
I enjoyed this so much! I loved getting to hear your story & get to 'know' you while sipping my coffee & stitching...just like we're sitting together having a chat! 💗😊 So much to relate to...your channel is such a joy to me!
Bonnie what a lovely chat. Hugs to you my sweet stitchy friend. I lost my mom when I was young and then my dad a few years ago when you speak about your mom I can so relate and just want to send you some hugs. Blessings my sister in stitching and Christ 🙏🤗
I graduated the year before you and yes! Feathered hair! We had the best Friday night football programs that looked a lot like your sports folder. ❤️ I need to pare down a bit as my kids (an unmarried son and two daughters) want nothing of mine either. 🤷🏻♀️
As we get older I think we all go through some of these thoughts. I’m 68 this month and a quilter, cross stitcher, spinner and knitter. I lost my mother April of 2021 and going through her things made me think about all my collections and stash. I made bears and sold them in the late 80’s and early 90’s as well so I have a lot of my own and others. I have lots of stuff! It kept me awake for a couple of weeks worrying about my girls having to deal with all this when I’m gone and one day I decided to go through all the stuff and pass on the things that don’t give me a lot of joy but keep everything that still makes me smile and spikes my creativity. As I’ve been working at this I have come to realize that we have limited time here and we need to enjoy our time however long we still have. If that means being surrounded by special things we love and stash that makes us happy then so be it. I have always kept things organized and neat so it can be deceiving how much stuff I have. I remember reading once someone saying that we need to find joy where we can and if for me that is in creating even more things that will get left behind when I’m gone then that’s good. Just like I am doing this clean out for my mom, my girls we need to do it for me. It’s the cycle of life.
Thank you so much for sharing your heart!!! I'm so glad my sister and I have loved many of Mom's treasures. And, yes! Creativity is such a big part of my life and always has been. I love that Mom had such a detailed quilters journal, so she got to see how her quilts would be given out to us and who would be the grateful recipients of them. It helped her know that Dad wouldn't have to made all the decisions, as well. I've told the kids, that I want my friends to have access to my sewing room supplies that they don't want before they dump them. That way, the pressure is off of them to have to make that hard decision.
We have been in our home for over 50 years. We have three storage sheds and a container, but most of the stuff is real good so we have decided to let the kids hire someone to have an estate sale for the things they won’t want. I hope by then our grandkids will want some of the nice things and what isn’t wanted let the estate sale people deal with it and they collect the money.
You crack me up! I appreciate your sharing all your trials and tribulations. I laugh. I cry. But just knowing God is on His throne and in control comforts me. Love the pictures. They are a hoot to look at. I laugh at mine too. Thank you for sharing! ♥
Bonnie Joy! Will watch this video tonight but just wanted to take a second and tell you something. I was in Hobby Lobby a few days ago and I was picking up some things for Christmas ornaments that I make. All of a sudden “Bonnie Joy” jumped into my brain and off to the wooden boxes I went! You are correct….you must hunt and test before purchasing. I found a lovely little box that’s just perfect with a metal clasp. I know that I won’t get to it until after Christmas but I just wanted to say thank you again for sharing your lovely ideas with us. Many blessings…Beverly
Oh Beverly! How fun that I was in your thoughts while you were gathering your creative supplies for your Christmas ornaments and inspiring you to pick out a fun wooden box, I love gathering supplies to have on hand when the inspiration strikes to make that perfect project! God bless you, sweet friend, and thank you for being such a lovely part of my stitching family!
I love your walk down the bear memory route from the 80s. My cousins had a shop in various locations in the 70s and 80, but the last one was in Leesburg Va called the Country Bear. It was such fun to visit there and see all the different bears. They had them all over their house as well. Also in the 80s, my parents moved from the house we lived in for many years to retire out west. They wanted me to take all my stuff, but there wasn’t room in my apartment, so I had my dad take a picture of me with some of my stuffed animals that were pretty ratty, but that I loved. I was sad to see them go. I still love that photo, but am glad I don’t have the burden of those toys.
Kris, what a great idea, to have a picture of them. Yes, that's like my thought of documenting them and then allowing them to bless someone else. I'm glad I did. Thanks for sharing that!
Hi Bonnie it was nice seeing you and going down memory lane and seeing all your beautiful quilts and pictures. I enjoy spending time with you while I stitch and making me laugh 😂. Thank you 🙏 for this time. Have a wonderful evening 😊🧵🪡🤗🤩
Hi sweetheart! I so enjoyed your chat today. Your Mom was so talented! I have tons of things from both of my grammas. My love of everything is overwhelming at best, crazy at worst. You are so courageous to step out of your comfort zone and try to not burden your kids with your memories. We have 1 son and a daughter-in-law who are both minimalists. 🤦🏻♀️. They have told me they want nothing except my great-grandmother’s mirror. Our 2 grandsons are being raised to be the same way. I have just started this past weekend going through everything and I am trying to keep only the things that are the most precious. My niece and nephews never knew my grammas so they don’t have a connection to them either. It’s hard! Really hard! You gave me an idea to take pictures of the things I give away so I can look back at the pictures for the memories rather than the “stuff”. I love you dearly and you ARE TRULY A GODLY WOMAN! When I think of you, which is often, I always think: Bonnie is a woman after God’s own heart. 😘💗🙏🏻
Oh, Tanya!!! So you have that challenge of dealing with your treasures now and purging what you can pass on. Just reading this again (I read it when it came in!) gives me the boost I need to get in there and do some more work!!!!! God bless you, friend!!
@@logcabinstitcher7274 God bless you too! We’ll just continue to encourage each other, okay honey?💗 one thing I’ve decided to do is make a quilt with the hand embroidered things I have from them. The kids don’t want any of it and it would make a beautiful quilt to snuggle under while I watch tv. Take care of yourself honey!!💃🏻💗🙏🏻
Hi Bonnie, I had just journaled today that I don’t need any more things. Then up popped your you tube. It was a bit of a God moment for me. I will hold you to it if you will hold me to it. Let’s use what we have and bless someone else with the things we don’t really need anymore. Blessings Gail.
Gail, we are thinking alike!!!! It frees up the crazy cycle to allow our minds to dwell on the treasures we have and actually move forward doing something with all our lovely things, doesn't it!!
Hi Bonnie! So happy to spend time w you and hear about how you process. I'm dealing w "stuff" cluttering my space and head. I used to love to clean and organize. Now it takes too much effort. Listening to you helped me. You know when you are having those "I wonder " thoughts (deep unanswerable questions etc... and I might need.....) hearing you tonight I realized that's another way we to get answers, scripture. I need to stop thinking about this stuff and the struggle in letting it go and sit in the lap of my Savior and tell Him about it. Put words around it and sit there w Him in it. I tend to think I need to do it on my own. Jesus wants all of me. From the boxes in my space to the cobwebs in the corners. Don't be in conflict!! Jesus has the answer and He will whisper it in our ears and cradle our broken hearts in His healing hands. He loves us. Hugs
Thank you for sharing your memories of your past and of your sweet mom, your so precious Bonnie. My brothers and I are going to be going through my moms things at her home soon and it’s very painful for me. I have some embroidery pictures my mom inherited from my nana, and I haven’t hung them up on the wall yet, because I know my mom cherished those and it reminds me so much of my mom it hurts. I can so relate to you with the bears in a box and putting them in your closet because it’s so painful we miss are moms soooooo much. I’m a very emotional person when it comes to my mom not being here😕 So I know exactly what your going through. The one the I have to is her bible which I cherish. Loved this video. Big hugs my friend ❤️
I also Graduated in 1980! We really did have the feathering thing down pat! I recently asked my MUCH younger, hairdresser if she knew how to feather hair... she had that, HUH??" look about her and said no I don't think I do. immediately grabbing her phone(and she has this millennial thing down pat) looking it up on her phone, she asked, "what was that hair style called again? the microfiche department must have been closed.... I just smiled and told her maybe some things are better left to our past and to our memories.... lol lol, lol and about your organizational procedure? . I invented them!! My master closet is evidence of that. The very same closet that is a maze and a tunnel practically constructed. The same closet that my husband tells me we are dedicating a weekend to cleaning and organizing.... well why does this poor delusional man think 2 days will do that>> ROFL>>> more like two weeks, a month even?!! However he isn't wrong... it needs a whole of work. I will do it in my Fall/winter cleaning.. most do spring cleanin'.. I do too. but in the Fall.💜
If I weren’t two years older than you I’d swear we were separated at birth! I relate to EVERYTHING you said, from Tasha Tudor to heart shape diamond rings, mine fell out into the sink just weeks after we married. I heard it hit and saved it from falling down the drain! Then from teddy bears, to gardens, to quilts and Jo Morton books, and moms with Alzheimer’s and sorting through belongings and wanting to keep everything. 😢. A place in the woods I have not read so I paused this video and ordered it because my dream has always been to live in a cabin in the woods! Ask anyone who knows me and I don’t know why I never heard of that book! Then you talk about cleaning out closets and garages and the stuff we hold onto…..the memories, the emotions…..hello! 🙋♀️. Thank you for sharing, you’ve shown me I’m not alone.
Always fun to watch and listen to while I hand quilt! Thanks so much for this video!
Loving every minute with You pretending I’m right there with You 🌲❤🐻 !
Great pleasure to get to know you better. Bless you!
Your Mama's bears are beautiful! Just like you! Love you girl!!!
I found you!!!!!!
Great video full of love and happiness!!! Purging is the best medicine!! The more you do it, the easier it becomes!! Same way with troubles and thoughts and unnecessary worry. I strive to live a simpler life. I’m planning on moving which helps the purge act!! You are an inspiration not only in your creativity but in your faith. God is always with us. God bless you Bonnie and your family!!
Sweet Sara!! So we have even more in common! Yes...I still need to wrap up that closet purge, I just walked by a stack and told Riley, 'It's time to just do it and stop waiting to Feel Like It!' Yes, I want to have that joy of a clean area...purged of the stuff I don't need anymore, or finding a place for those things to keep.
I very much enjoyed "our visit"
I've have been binge watching your quilting videos. Oh, how create you are. You're a truly a shining light on this earth. Your lpve for your family shows through. I'm trying to clean out my house. Seems I've spend my life collecting stuff, in my golden years I'm getting rid of most of the stuff..
Wow, thank you! It has been a hard project to clear out and let go of things we have loved in the past. I'm finding as I settle in our new home in Colorado, that I want order and not to be managing to much stuff!! I have a regular box to give to the thrift store. Thanks for visiting with me. I just posted a new video after a long time away.
Agree with your plans and have experienced many of these same things - you did good!
Bonnie I needed to hear your messages today. Thank you for your vulnerability, I know that God is working through you for the sake of others. Your moms bears are precious. You are a special person with a big heart. ❤️
My mom was a boxer too…..I’ve gone through most of her boxes. Most was just junk paper, but I did find some treasures. It is so hard letting go of her things. Thank you for reminding me that the greatest gift she gave me was introducing me to Jesus. ❤️❤️.
I enjoyed this so much! I loved getting to hear your story & get to 'know' you while sipping my coffee & stitching...just like we're sitting together having a chat! 💗😊 So much to relate to...your channel is such a joy to me!
Thank you for telling me that because that’s my goal every time I push record. I want to be a joy and encouragement and have fun in the mix!
Bonnie what a lovely chat. Hugs to you my sweet stitchy friend. I lost my mom when I was young and then my dad a few years ago when you speak about your mom I can so relate and just want to send you some hugs. Blessings my sister in stitching and Christ 🙏🤗
So good to hear from you, Carol! I’m glad you’re stitching and trusting in our mighty God!
Very interesting, thank you Bonnie for sharing bits of your life with us, God bless you!
I graduated the year before you and yes! Feathered hair! We had the best Friday night football programs that looked a lot like your sports folder. ❤️ I need to pare down a bit as my kids (an unmarried son and two daughters) want nothing of mine either. 🤷🏻♀️
As we get older I think we all go through some of these thoughts. I’m 68 this month and a quilter, cross stitcher, spinner and knitter. I lost my mother April of 2021 and going through her things made me think about all my collections and stash. I made bears and sold them in the late 80’s and early 90’s as well so I have a lot of my own and others. I have lots of stuff! It kept me awake for a couple of weeks worrying about my girls having to deal with all this when I’m gone and one day I decided to go through all the stuff and pass on the things that don’t give me a lot of joy but keep everything that still makes me smile and spikes my creativity. As I’ve been working at this I have come to realize that we have limited time here and we need to enjoy our time however long we still have. If that means being surrounded by special things we love and stash that makes us happy then so be it. I have always kept things organized and neat so it can be deceiving how much stuff I have. I remember reading once someone saying that we need to find joy where we can and if for me that is in creating even more things that will get left behind when I’m gone then that’s good. Just like I am doing this clean out for my mom, my girls we need to do it for me. It’s the cycle of life.
Thank you so much for sharing your heart!!! I'm so glad my sister and I have loved many of Mom's treasures. And, yes! Creativity is such a big part of my life and always has been. I love that Mom had such a detailed quilters journal, so she got to see how her quilts would be given out to us and who would be the grateful recipients of them. It helped her know that Dad wouldn't have to made all the decisions, as well. I've told the kids, that I want my friends to have access to my sewing room supplies that they don't want before they dump them. That way, the pressure is off of them to have to make that hard decision.
We have been in our home for over 50 years. We have three storage sheds and a container, but most of the stuff is real good so we have decided to let the kids hire someone to have an estate sale for the things they won’t want. I hope by then our grandkids will want some of the nice things and what isn’t wanted let the estate sale people deal with it and they collect the money.
You crack me up! I appreciate your sharing all your trials and tribulations. I laugh. I cry. But just knowing God is on His throne and in control comforts me. Love the pictures. They are a hoot to look at. I laugh at mine too. Thank you for sharing! ♥
Oh, Janet!! So glad you got to enjoy a visit with all my rambling and stories!!!! Thank you!
I pray blessings on you…………………….
Bonnie Joy! Will watch this video tonight but just wanted to take a second and tell you something. I was in Hobby Lobby a few days ago and I was picking up some things for Christmas ornaments that I make. All of a sudden “Bonnie Joy” jumped into my brain and off to the wooden boxes I went! You are correct….you must hunt and test before purchasing. I found a lovely little box that’s just perfect with a metal clasp. I know that I won’t get to it until after Christmas but I just wanted to say thank you again for sharing your lovely ideas with us. Many blessings…Beverly
Oh Beverly! How fun that I was in your thoughts while you were gathering your creative supplies for your Christmas ornaments and inspiring you to pick out a fun wooden box, I love gathering supplies to have on hand when the inspiration strikes to make that perfect project! God bless you, sweet friend, and thank you for being such a lovely part of my stitching family!
I love your walk down the bear memory route from the 80s. My cousins had a shop in various locations in the 70s and 80, but the last one was in Leesburg Va called the Country Bear. It was such fun to visit there and see all the different bears. They had them all over their house as well. Also in the 80s, my parents moved from the house we lived in for many years to retire out west. They wanted me to take all my stuff, but there wasn’t room in my apartment, so I had my dad take a picture of me with some of my stuffed animals that were pretty ratty, but that I loved. I was sad to see them go. I still love that photo, but am glad I don’t have the burden of those toys.
Kris, what a great idea, to have a picture of them. Yes, that's like my thought of documenting them and then allowing them to bless someone else. I'm glad I did. Thanks for sharing that!
Hi Bonnie it was nice seeing you and going down memory lane and seeing all your beautiful quilts and pictures. I enjoy spending time with you while I stitch and making me laugh 😂. Thank you 🙏 for this time. Have a wonderful evening 😊🧵🪡🤗🤩
Bonnie, you had Farrah Fawcett hair, I did too along with every teenage girl back then lol. I graduated in 1979.
Oh my gosh! I was thinking back to those days and how we fried our hear with the curling irons!
Hi sweetheart! I so enjoyed your chat today. Your Mom was so talented! I have tons of things from both of my grammas. My love of everything is overwhelming at best, crazy at worst. You are so courageous to step out of your comfort zone and try to not burden your kids with your memories. We have 1 son and a daughter-in-law who are both minimalists. 🤦🏻♀️. They have told me they want nothing except my great-grandmother’s mirror. Our 2 grandsons are being raised to be the same way. I have just started this past weekend going through everything and I am trying to keep only the things that are the most precious. My niece and nephews never knew my grammas so they don’t have a connection to them either. It’s hard! Really hard! You gave me an idea to take pictures of the things I give away so I can look back at the pictures for the memories rather than the “stuff”. I love you dearly and you ARE TRULY A GODLY WOMAN! When I think of you, which is often, I always think: Bonnie is a woman after God’s own heart. 😘💗🙏🏻
Oh, Tanya!!! So you have that challenge of dealing with your treasures now and purging what you can pass on. Just reading this again (I read it when it came in!) gives me the boost I need to get in there and do some more work!!!!! God bless you, friend!!
@@logcabinstitcher7274 God bless you too! We’ll just continue to encourage each other, okay honey?💗 one thing I’ve decided to do is make a quilt with the hand embroidered things I have from them. The kids don’t want any of it and it would make a beautiful quilt to snuggle under while I watch tv. Take care of yourself honey!!💃🏻💗🙏🏻
Hi Bonnie, I had just journaled today that I don’t need any more things. Then up popped your you tube. It was a bit of a God moment for me. I will hold you to it if you will hold me to it. Let’s use what we have and bless someone else with the things we don’t really need anymore. Blessings Gail.
Gail, we are thinking alike!!!! It frees up the crazy cycle to allow our minds to dwell on the treasures we have and actually move forward doing something with all our lovely things, doesn't it!!
Hi Bonnie! So happy to spend time w you and hear about how you process. I'm dealing w "stuff" cluttering my space and head. I used to love to clean and organize. Now it takes too much effort. Listening to you helped me. You know when you are having those "I wonder " thoughts (deep unanswerable questions etc... and I might need.....) hearing you tonight I realized that's another way we to get answers, scripture. I need to stop thinking about this stuff and the struggle in letting it go and sit in the lap of my Savior and tell Him about it. Put words around it and sit there w Him in it. I tend to think I need to do it on my own. Jesus wants all of me. From the boxes in my space to the cobwebs in the corners. Don't be in conflict!! Jesus has the answer and He will whisper it in our ears and cradle our broken hearts in His healing hands. He loves us. Hugs
Hugs back to you, Pamela! Thank you for being in this with me wind listening to my stories and my struggles!
Thank you for sharing your memories of your past and of your sweet mom, your so precious Bonnie. My brothers and I are going to be going through my moms things at her home soon and it’s very painful for me. I have some embroidery pictures my mom inherited from my nana, and I haven’t hung them up on the wall yet, because I know my mom cherished those and it reminds me so much of my mom it hurts. I can so relate to you with the bears in a box and putting them in your closet because it’s so painful we miss are moms soooooo much. I’m a very emotional person when it comes to my mom not being here😕 So I know exactly what your going through. The one the I have to is her bible which I cherish. Loved this video. Big hugs my friend ❤️
I also Graduated in 1980! We really did have the feathering thing down pat! I recently asked my MUCH younger, hairdresser if she knew how to feather hair... she had that, HUH??" look about her and said no I don't think I do. immediately grabbing her phone(and she has this millennial thing down pat) looking it up on her phone, she asked, "what was that hair style called again? the microfiche department must have been closed.... I just smiled and told her maybe some things are better left to our past and to our memories.... lol lol, lol
and about your organizational procedure? . I invented them!! My master closet is evidence of that. The very same closet that is a maze and a tunnel practically constructed. The same closet that my husband tells me we are dedicating a weekend to cleaning and organizing.... well why does this poor delusional man think 2 days will do that>> ROFL>>> more like two weeks, a month even?!!
However he isn't wrong... it needs a whole of work. I will do it in my Fall/winter cleaning.. most do spring cleanin'.. I do too. but in the Fall.💜
If I weren’t two years older than you I’d swear we were separated at birth! I relate to EVERYTHING you said, from Tasha Tudor to heart shape diamond rings, mine fell out into the sink just weeks after we married. I heard it hit and saved it from falling down the drain! Then from teddy bears, to gardens, to quilts and Jo Morton books, and moms with Alzheimer’s and sorting through belongings and wanting to keep everything. 😢. A place in the woods I have not read so I paused this video and ordered it because my dream has always been to live in a cabin in the woods! Ask anyone who knows me and I don’t know why I never heard of that book! Then you talk about cleaning out closets and garages and the stuff we hold onto…..the memories, the emotions…..hello! 🙋♀️. Thank you for sharing, you’ve shown me I’m not alone.
Oh Renee! We do sound like twins! Totally! You’ll love that book! Her other ones are nice, but that one is the best!