I wanted to share these frames I made for two baby showers.  It seems I've been making a lot of these lately… lots of babies being made around here!  Anyhow, it's fun to take the colors the room will be, figure out what will make it special for the mom, and design it accordingly. 

Here is my latest frame, made for my sweetheart of a friend who is having a baby girl. I love working on baby showers.  This really shows off the color scheme we chose for this shower… lots of pinks, greens, but with some bright splashes of color thrown in.  I'm still waiting (hoping) to get pictures from the gal that took them to share, but we made a bunch of large tissue paper flowers and hung them around.  Very pretty 

Psalm 139: 1-18 is what I picked for another gal who actually had her daughter this past week.  I love this Psalm, it's a beautiful picture of God's intimage knowledge of us.  Verse 5 is probably my favorite because it really gives you a picture of being sealed and protected by God. It says "you hem me in." Other translations say "you enclosed me, behind and before" or "you are all around me – in front of and in back of me." How easy I forget this in the midst of a busy schedule!

Psalm 139

 ¹ O LORD, you have searched me
       and you know me.

 ² You know when I sit and when I rise;
       you perceive my thoughts from afar.

 ³ You discern my going out and my lying down;
       you are familiar with all my ways.

 ⁴ Before a word is on my tongue
       you know it completely, O LORD.

 ⁵ You hem me in—behind and before;
       you have laid your hand upon me.

 ⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
       too lofty for me to attain.

 ⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
       Where can I flee from your presence?

 ⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
       if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

 ⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
       if I settle on the far side of the sea,

 ¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
       your right hand will hold me fast.

 ¹¹ If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
       and the light become night around me,"

 ¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;
       the night will shine like the day,
       for darkness is as light to you.

 ¹³ For you created my inmost being;
       you knit me together in my mother's womb.

 ¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
       your works are wonderful,
       I know that full well.

 ¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
       when I was made in the secret place.
       When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

 ¹⁶ your eyes saw my unformed body.
       All the days ordained for me
       were written in your book
       before one of them came to be.

 ¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
       How vast is the sum of them!

 ¹⁸ Were I to count them,
       they would outnumber the grains of sand.
       When I awake,
       I am still with you.